because that leads to unfocused design that tries to accommodate everyone and ends up pleasing no one.
I’m not really going to pick a side on the “casual vs hardcore” debate, but I will say that people tend to forget that wow was originally for “casuals”, it was the casuals Everquest.
“Get a life. Realize that not everyone makes this game theirs.”
Sorry, I didn’t mean to insult anyone with those words. I take them back, mostly.
It was meant as a “wave of the hand gesture” to ward away the absurdity in the aggression in his post toward people who like fishing, or whatever, in this game, and who also want cool epic stuff.
I’ll never stand by (or understand) the frustrations people have with “casuals” and the content they choose to obtain items. Or their reasoning behind thinking that a MASSIVE corporation like Blizzard simply does not have the resources to appease these peeps.
If you wanna fish ten thousand bass for an EPIC set of gear over item level 9000 with flashy animations and then use it to kill boars all day GO NUTS.
While I do have the capacity to sympathize with his efforts, I will always support the underdogs in life.
Always.
Eh, only when they try to do it all at once. Some times they might be better if they focused more on 1-2 areas for a patch, but something else for the next. Like even if there is a raid every patch, why not provide a dungeon or 2? or a healthy chunk of world content. Or if there is a lot of world content, why not put in a harder mini-raid for those who have been doing mythic of the current raids. This would be “something for everyone” ideas, but the patch focuses on another area.
what do they do to cater to us top 1%ers i’m actually curious to hear your opinions vs the reality of what’s happening (in our eyes)
I think the issue is those that just fish likely don’t really care about the gear, but those that claim to be in such a group or use the label come in and ask for such things when they don’t really want or need them, they just want to raise a fuss.
If the kind of player that wants to fish and get gear from it actually exists, the kind of player the OP is calling out would be more they get the gear just to stand around fishing more. Though if that is what they want, I could see them getting an epic fishing set, like a pro fisherman look.
It’s a simple solution.
Bigger playerbase = more funding for game development.
Smaller playerbase = free to play, no development and dead game maintenance mode.
Game needs to appeal to the larger playerbase to be healthy as the neck beards are a fraction of it.
battle pets.
archaeology.
glyphs.
scenarios.
warfronts
unfocused design leads to dead or poorly maintained systems. Blizzard has already shown they can’t accommodate all types of players.
in a perfect world, yeah content that appeals to everyone would be amazing, but that’s near impossible. They need to decide what they want wow to be and focus on that identity, be that casual or hardcore.
So the very clear and obvious solution, if said people exist, is to make the most incredible gearset of all time. Just for fishing enthusiasts.
It is that, or he’s screaming and violently stabbing his greatsword into the wind because these fishermen were never there to begin with.
If an entire forest of trees (or fisherman) in the woods fall, and no one is there to hear, do they make a sound?
Poorly maintained systems lead to dead or unfocused design.
There is that 3rd option, they exist but don’t care (and as such don’t post on the forums) though some think that small% is under represented and speaks up for them.
We all know the dark truth that people advocating for this potentially small group all just want to sit around talking and fishing too.
And that would NOT be good for the health of Azeroth.
Kill tedious monsters or be exiled to toil in the real world.
Which is worse? We’ll never know for sure.
So many paragraphs in this thread. Sheeeesh
There is also the “if you give a mouse a cookie” argument, it is not that Blizzard can’t accommodate all types of players, but when they do accommodate some types the loudmouths of those types want/ask for/demand more.
Using an ice cream analogy: accommodating would be getting ice-cream for everyone, dairy free for those allergic to dairy or can’t have it for another reason, what is going on would be more akin to the ones who want more ice-cream or toppings with theirs at the cost of some losing their ice-cream.
If nothing else, Blizzard, and us players, need to remember: you can please all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time. This is why I think Blizzard would be better served with at least mini-patches (x.x.1 for instance) to provide content for the smaller minorities.
love thy games casuals, they could be ur neighbor
This thread’s message is “If you don’t like our end game systems. don’t buy dragonflight”
The vast majority did not like Shadowlands endgame systems. I am confused as to why certain “players” are trying to drive the majority of the playerbase away from the game.
I think it’s because they’ve sensed that the game is dead, and like the infesting carrion they are, they seek to claim what remains of WoW’s rotting corpse for themselves.
Or we’re having a lot of fun doing living in the game, not as heroes but as vagabonds looking for treasures and adventures that don’t involve spending weeks learning how to dance. Some folks like the endgame anchor points of WoW while others of us like the open world that connects those anchor points.
It’s all good. I feel my subscription is money well spent.
hobos and gypsies is a way to play
Sill one of the top MMOs out there. Even between releases with not much going on there are people everywhere on my server doing quests.
Odd for a game that’s dying.
i don’t think it is dying, it is just diminished
age does that