False. I said it erodes the world immersion.
I object a little to the idea that we assumed no one would care. The reason we brought it up the day of the announcement was that we knew it would be a departure from expectations.
— Brian Birmingham💙 (@BrianBirming) April 25, 2022
I’ll admit the scale of the pushback has surprised me, but we wanted to get feedback. ❤️
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I think there are better ways to get feedback than sending people into panic mode. Seeing that wasn’t a good expeince for me along side all of the drama that followed.
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Blizzard: what should we do to prevent people from quitting our games?
Devs: We need more power to get rid of bots / gold sellers.
Blizzard: We can’t do that, those are costumers they pay monthly fee!
1employee: i suggest we remove LFD wouldn’t this make everyone happy?
Blizzard: what do you think about that devs?
Devs: we have no idea since we haven’t get in touch with players since we released classic 2019 but let’s announce about it.
Players: canceling subs…canceling subs…canceling subs…canceling subs…etc
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Removing bots also removes subs.
Using sub count as a reason to keep RDF is a bad one.
It’s not about trying to chain dungeons back to back, it’s more about breaking up the monotony of questing. Every so often you end up with a stack of dungeon quests.
Mid to late phases you’re going to have a tough time finding people to do those dungeons and even looking takes time away from leveling. The convenience of just queuing up while you’re still running around in the world cannot be overstated.
You don’t need extra rewards when you’ve got five dungeon quests that are going to give you blue-quality weapons and armor that are helpful now.
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But that’s all it is. A convenience.
Even with everything else stripped the automation and teleportation is the root of it’s evil IMO.
Most people know that,but it breaks the tedium and has nice rewards.
It’s never good to cater to any side. Like it would be insane to cater to the hardcore.
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What is exactly bad about convenience? Not everyone craves the masochism of late 90s mmos.
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It’s a pretty big damn convenience, though. All an airplane does is get you somewhere faster than any other method of travel. So for anything further than a few hundred miles or over sea it became the default method of transportation.
I don’t even care about the teleportation, my favorite part is that system automates finding group members so that I don’t have to stop killing mobs to negotiate which dungeons, who is healing, etc. automate the boring parts. I’ll run to the summoning stone.
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Not adding RDF isn’t catering to hardcore players, unless everyone that’s played Classic and TBC is hardcore to you…
Harbors lazy culture. Especially in a video game.
But that’s all. It doesn’t solve anything other then poor effort.
You can do that now.
Thank you. I’ll be there waiting for 1 more too.
I am playing a couple of non-mage characters (excluding my priests who’s PvE exclusively) and IMO i do believe you are right; leveling in world feels faster.
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Never said they catered to the hard-core. I simply stated catering to one side or the other is bad. Nothing wrong with lazy and it allows servers with a very small populations to actually do dungeons… Without lfd I imagine the folks on the smaller servers will dip.
hes surprised because hes so out of touch
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Yet another person who clearly has no idea what a casual is. No casual in the history of WoW ever obsessed over efficient leveling speed.
That’s the entitled crowd of which you speak. The crowd Blizz has been catering to for nearly two decades, forsaking both true hardcore and casual players.
removing LFD removes real players, increasing the ratio of bots to people
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Demonstrably false. Every time I open a chat box to type a message to someone I have to stop casting spells while I type “I’m a tank, I need a healer and 2 more dps” or whatever message. Automating the group formation lets me keep on doing everything seamlessly. The convenience is the key. And it is wonderful and does not detract from “immersion”. At all.
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As opposed to the tbc culture that buys mage boosts? The culture is already lazy.
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So you’re always casting spells? Never drinking, flying, running, or doing anything but casting spells?
There’s downtime. Use that.
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