Slow re-spawns, low drop rates, overcrowded zones, /general full of racist, misogynist and homophobic insults wedged between the non-stop grieving about politics, the random vulgar whisper for some offense real or imagined while swarms of boxers sweep through areas like locusts tagging everything in sight.
It’s World Of Borecraft, dozens of people frantically fighting over the same murloc, hoping the last eye you have been farming for 45 minutes finally drops after dozens of mobs killed, just to move to the next area rinse and repeat.
Nobody at blizz plays this game on live servers anymore and it really shows. They don’t know what happens unless it’s reflected on a spreadsheet or after frustrated players leave and it’s too late to correct.
Trial accounts are usually free for so many days or levels. Returning players login and find they are paying for a trial when they used to return and play normally feels like a bait and switch scheme.
Any account that can be flagged for these restrictions should also have this noted when they are subscribing. This is not a difficult ask.
And yes, decent companies inform customers about the product they are purchasing.
Tbh I just wish they would consider better implementations as at the core I am not against what they are doing just how poorly they went about doing it.
Accounts should have a clear disclaimer when they would be under these restrictions and I could get bogged down in the minutiae of it.
Instead my focus and greater intent was to provide tangible feedback/suggestions on ways they could achieve the net same result without also destroying the experience for new/returning players
In my OP I instantly came up with those suggestions so I find it hard to believe that Blizzard themselves couldn’t have thought of more elegant implementations. Not to mention I identified a gap as well. I know probably nothing will change but I would rather stay delusional and optimistic then the inverse
We played the damn game for years in unstable private servers were your whole progress would go down with a lawsuit or someone deciding to unplug the server. You’d get feared in the walls n fall into grounds all the time, but we survived that till we got classic in 2019.
Now you can’t play the damn game with all the feature minus trading for 26 days, which is literally a genre in hardcore classic, and call yourself a vanilla player ?!
Not your OP, not your lawn. Mailing and trading are a part of basic inventory management in this game. This is like not being able to put an item in a chest in Minecraft, Skyrim, or any other game of the sort.
I mean…minus the general chat, this is what classic andies want.
The dads that just can’t keep up with retail while they work 15 jobs and support their 6 wives and 32 children wanted Vanilla.
So…we have vanilla, for the fourth time. At least this time GDKPs wont be rampant. That’s about the only difference.
While I agree that a disclaimer or a pop up should occur when you resub, you people would still complain anyway, either that it’s happening at all (so like right now) or that it affects you.
Honestly at this point I’d just start reporting Futbuk, for his own sake. A forum vacation will be way better on his mental than continually throwing a fit here
All I’m going to add here is:
If this game is as bad as people think it is- Don’t play!
Of yo I enjoy the game and experience- Play
All of this sniveling and whining doesn’t do anything but annoy and aggravate.
Go touch some grass for a while, it does wonders.
And yes, I’ve been playing since 2004, and yes, it has been intermittent.
But, instead of getting upset of changes, it’s called adapting.
So, either adapt, or find better things to spend money on
What is going to be funny is in in 27 days we will get the rants on the AH economy is borked.
And it be legit. All the older accounts have had 30 days to have ful access. I get richer as I can sell even my LW items over vendor. I get 30 days of +20 copper over vendor every sale. Prices going up as I get to the later gears of 40+, ofc.
New accounts will have to compete with this crap. Empathy is there. Hell no mail no trade means tailors can’t even free make bags. I know from my server several old account tailors…are zooming through their tailoring leveling. Give them mats and thread…they will make bags all day long.