This so much
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Blizzard is so far out of touch with their player base.
Also this was clearly a puff piece.
Here is an excerpt of the article
âBlizzard has done a great job making each of WoWâs different pursuits, like raiding, PVP, and dungeons, feel rewarding and fun. Players seem to be having a great time with it so far.â
Yep, thats SL⊠rewarding and fun.
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Same here.
The bullshi*t heâs peddling here is astounding.
Replace the Game Director for WOW. Two trash expansions in a row.
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i was amazed at how one dimensional the article was
there is nothing wrong with an industry journal touting a companyâs success but to simply ignore blatant failings is an epic fail
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Nothing will be changed for months, probably after 9.1 releases. So short term, the issues still persist. Its nice he acknowledges the problem but I dont think they have any concrete solutions right now they are going to consider.
I wouldnât be opposed to Valor Points⊠but I just feel the Vault already serves that purpose. Adding another weekly chore to do is also⊠very exhausting to think about.
Because you know they will make it so you need to do Heroic Dungeons or LFR to Valor Cap and not make it be able to be earned in M+ or Raid.
It didnât work in the past though. It encouraged spamming the easiest/fastest dungeon ad-nauseum, and allowed you to target BiS pieces early.
If the best way to do something is also the least enjoyable, thatâs bad game design.
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Kinda like every decision they made in this expansion?
Everything except pvp gearing is the least enjoyable its ever been.
Has there ever been a formal petition to have Ion removed as the game developer?
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They would never allow it. The millions of votes would be overwhelming.
Queues into Heroic âDark Heart of Pandariaâ Scenario for the 5th time in a row 
There was a petition I think, would need million + sigs to even be heard.
posts like this are beyond irresponsible
like weâve seen evidence that ion thinks, câmon
Ion is fine as a game developer.
He just doesnât need to be the lead developer. Ion is a numbers guy, and the game needs numbers guys. But the lead developer of an RPG should always be a story guy above all else.
We currently are lead by a guy who was a lawyer and got hired for his bad math about a raid in Vanilla⊠spent several years as a raid designer and was thrust into lead dev. He has no idea anything that happens in wow outside of his raiding life.
He reports to the President⊠Mr. âYou think you do, but you donât.â Almost completely unfathomable, but someone who is actually more out of touch with their customer community than the lawyer turned developer.
Legion wasnât a success⊠it was a fluke.
When he tried to take away our flying immediately after being promoted to Lead after the launch of WoD.
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Leave ion alone
As someone whoâs friends refuse and have refused every expansion to do pvp, Ranked is out of my reach. (Despite my wanting to do it) I havenât ever tried out of fear I wasnât good enough, though I have been doing BGâs since WoD.
I wish I could get the same gear, the same exact gear but it would just take me longer to get it. Thats fine. But locking it ENTIRLY off is horrible.
The article is a joke. They think we are happy getting less loot. What!
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You never lost stats on a reforge. So for me, if I had a piece that was:
50 crit
50 mastery
I could change it to
50 crit
30 mastery
20 haste
Which is absolutely an improvement. You never lost stats on reforge, you just shuffled them around. It still wasnât as good as having the full value of your best (or 2nd best if it already had your best) stat on the piece, but it could make up a bit for issues where, say, there were 0 haste cloth boots in a raid.
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