Imagine if there was a bug while you were on The Hellscream rollercoaster
Snaxxramus, Iām dying.
Sorry friend your ilvl is not high enough to ride this ride.
A really huge parking lot and you have to park as far away from the fun stuff as possible and spend the first month or two navigating the parking lot and cleaning up 100 pounds of six kinds of trash to get exalted rep with enough amusement park personnel. Then when you get to the main gate, you have the option of sitting there playing bestfiends or candy crush waiting for it to open, or going back into the parking lot to clean up trash in exchange for paragon rewards.
Then theyāll open the gate and if you have enough of your own friends to fill up a roller coaster, you and your 24 friends can go ride the roller coaster. Everyone else has to wait another few weeks until they say itās okay for people without friends to ride the roller coaster with other pathetic saps lacking friends. Now if you cry or puke on the roller coaster, the other riders can vote to throw you off and disallow you from riding rides for 30 minutes. You can spend that 30 minutes roaming around the main gate, or maybe collecting trash out in the parking lot to pass the time.
So on and so forth.
Then sometime after everyoneās lost interest in the amusement park and ridden all the rides and collected all the trash and moved on to other fun placesā¦ Blizzard starts issuing jetpacks to park visitors where they can fly all around, skip the lines, hop on and off roller coasters in motion!! And generally just have a romping stomping good time.
Then blizzard will take all the fun stuff out of that park except the jet packs, move the fun rides to a new park and paint them a different color, and make everyone start from the far end of the parking lot collecting six kinds of new trashā¦
Iām sure there would be a lot of fun rides and entertainment.
Can picture walking in and heading to an area and as you go to get on the ride, thinking youāre going to be first in line, people phase in right in front of you.
You then head to the stand that sells āMurloc on a stickā, pay for it and all of a sudden it disappears. When you bring it up to an attendant they tell you that there were others that needed it more and had to balance it how they serve patrons.
You look around for the rides and thereās a sign saying āRide these 6 rides until they are worn out and come back ride 2 brand new rides then youāll finally be able to ride the Tram all around the park!ā
Oh yeah. It will be a blast!
Take my money!
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Died laughing. How succinct and terribly accurateā¦
Honestly though, I could see MGM maybe reproducing the Antorus raid given all the transporation we had to get around that. Or some other immersive story ride like the old Questor or Back to the Future or Pirates of the Carribean rides. Microsoft has a patent on a large group VR experience akin to the holodeck and might someday be able to make a group VR raid experience. If they can ensure raiders donāt accidentally punch each other out or run into each other while playing itā¦
Pay to enter. Pay for tickets for each ride. Forget that you have to wait in line for six hours just to buy the tickets. Then be told you can only do 4 rides per day.
But seriously Iād like āthrow rotten apples at incompetent blizzard devsā or the dunking booth where the āwaterā is sticky smelly slime that takes time to clean up.
I forgot about phasing and shared loot vs unshared loot. I can imagine every time I reach for a cotton candy, it fades away because someone else had actually grabbed it a few seconds earlier and it just took a few seconds for the image to update. Then I reach for a soda, but it fades out of existence too. Then I scan the horizon and see people running around grabbing everything and realize thereās pretty much no way Iām going to get my hands on anything unless I come back at 3amā¦
Only 4 rides per day, forgot that one too. Also some of the best rides might need you to wait for a weekly reset. But thereās always collecting trash out in the parking lot! Also forgot PVP, Blizzard might consider it a value add proposition to allow patrons to just beat each other up for amusement in exchange for xmog recolors and getting their name on a big scoreboard. (To be fair, many patrons DO enjoy beating each other up endlessly and donāt trouble to do the other content. They actually get mad when Blizzard tries to make them ride the roller coasters.)
Slot Machines.
Iā¦I would ride that. Repeatedly.
It probably would look something like this
Youād never be able to ride any of the rides because youād always be in combat.
RNG the Roller Coaster.
Pin the chin on the Gallywix
Bumper Mechano hogs (all riding on Horde Bias tires)
Darnasus BBQ and Sāmores booth
Female gnome/goblin mud wrestling.
There is a Blizzard theme parkā¦ just not officially owned or licensed by Blizzard. So more like Blizard theme park I guess? Itās in Korea or something.
Gating, lots and lots of gating.
Oh yeah, before you could ride ANYTHING, you would have to explore the entire park and gain revered with the vendors.
Needs more Nightmare, Nazjatar and Shaā¦
Donāt forget to try the new ride, I is supposed to stop suddenly after the ride starts . Then start up again and then derail .
I think they call that one Working as Intended
Dunno:
But one thing I do know. Waiting in line for a ride will be called time gating. And everyone will be mad at blizzard because they created limited amount of seats for that ride in a single go.
A bunch of rides that donāt work, and another bunch of rides that work āsome of the time, but not very wellā and the food would all be microwave crap.