This dev team can’t even get Joyous Journeys, a single multiplier added to xp, to function. LMFAO 
It’s pretty obvious they are sabotaging Cata to push retail, but some of these bugs are just laughably bad and easy to fix. They are either introducing bugs intentionally to frustrate players with Cata or they really suck at their jobs…because this is not even changing a line of code to fix the problem, it’s literally adding a " xp + (xp(.5)) " parameter to how the game calculates xp…
careers.blizzard(dot)com/au/en
there you go bro, fix the game yourself!
If only they hired mentally stable people based on ability
Ah yes, imagine me a person who wants to use old style dnd and mmorpg skills to innovate and to try and balance classes and pve and pvp. Imagine I want to make new content while keeping the essence of the old. Imagine I want to be COMPETENT at my job…. Imagine….
Yep. I watch usual game commentors on the internet. Some are getting whistlblowers saying dude…you are tearing apart out games.
You aren’t wrong. And you only know half the story. Let me fill in that other half.
then they explain some internal drama’s at some AAA. Some devs are rebelling if even quietly to keep jobs for now and going we want to do better. But…some people in power make that really really hard.
And its not like blizzard is immune from this.
Hell blizzard did their diversity division lead hire. who then found out they really shortchanged her on salary. I give her credit. She left that crap show fast.
A company so dumb as to to screw them over on salaray when they will by the nature of their job see all salary data is never a good place to work for lol. If they are dumb enough to do that…its a tip to an ugly iceberg possibly.
Is it? I mean, maybe they are; what do I know?
But, I’d be loathe to say it’s obvious that they are.
FWIW, until the past week or so, I’ve been mainly playing Cata Classic during my WoW game time, which has been fairly regular arena queues across 4 max level characters, dailies on at least 2 every day, and sometimes 4. Weekly raiding on 2 characters, regular use of the auction house, professions, including fishing and cooking, some dungeon queues (exalted with all tabard factions on most toons), and very little, if any engagement with seasonal quests/events.
There’s nothing about the state of the game and/or (lack of) developer engagement that stands out to me as requiring attention or action.
What does stand out to me though is that there are so many other offerings as well. The most interesting or engaging part of dailies for me has been as Alliance on Faerlina, because there is a possibility of some wpvp, which makes it fun. Though, that too is only so fun in that it’s fun to be in full PvP gear/Spec and some lower geared PvE rogue tanks you, then you kill him and his equally PvE geared feral Druid friend. Repeat 2-3 times, then 15 other people notice and you have to move on to something else.
Arenas are pretty fun. Raids are OK. The content is stale, but if you have people to hop into discord with once or a couple times a week and catch up a bit, there’s a compelling reason to at least raid log.
Oh right, and with my dailies, and selling the odd thing here/there on the ah, I’ve been regularly getting at least 1-2 tokens/month from the AH or dumping 20-30K into a someone’s gbank.
If I wanted a Classic leveling experience, I can hop into HC or Era and get it. If I want that but with a ton of catchup mechanics and experience boosts (and “balancing” like asking for buffs for feral, for example) there’s SoD.
If I wanted to lean into the automation, but also actually enjoy some difficulty in dungeons, then there’s no comparison between the new slow-mode, boring dungeons in Cata and dynamic, engaging M+ in Retail.
As one poster said, PVP in Cata is fun. If you can find people to queue with who you enjoy playing with, I think that is quite true. Of course, if you just want to easily find similarly rated people to play with quickly, there’s always Retail (but of course, you’ll have to learn the new class abilities and contend with whatever that player base brings to the table).
You type a lot but never really say anything.
I suppose that just mean it’s uncontentious.
Instead of hiring people capable of keeping Joyous Journeys working they hire people who steal breastmilk from employee fridges, its very sad.
wtf lol
This is not a bugg JJ has always been active for a period of time leading up to the next phase. With Firelands coming out and the new phase starting that means JJ is over.
They never communicated that. In fact, they are still advertising JJ as being active in the launcher with NO END DATE SPECIFIED.
Imagine Blizzard not repeating their usual pattern for each JJ release and then getting upset when they adhere to it. It’s just not possible. common sense isn’t so common.
This might come as a shock to someone like yourself but not everyone plays Classic 24/7 and keeps track of Blizzards “Patterns”. This has nothing to do with “common sense”. The reality is, when they activated JJ the last time they never specified an end date. It doesn’t matter how they’ve handled it in the past. Work on your social skills, please.
Your mad because I was informing you of how things have always been. This has nothing to with my social skills. Maybe if you actually paid attention, you would have seen the pattern. JJ always comes out around the end of the phase and last till launch of the new phase.
Joyous Journeys is new to Classic, so not sure there really is “a way it’s always been”
Don’t engage with the Blizzard shill, flag and ignore
You know telling others to report me is actually a violation of the ToS.
You are right but its been around since WoTLK and has not changed. It is also in SoD and has not changed there.
And it came around the time of the 20th wow b-day.
So admitttedly while not 100% solid, some like me were assuming we get at least this like retail. So it be here till January at least.
Considering we get jack crap for the 20th, this to me is a double burn. This was the low hanging fruit taken away.
I mean we can’t even get the world boss pinata outside caverns of time. that be fun a for daily for some I’d wager. And its lore friendly. Its a boss from tbcc lol.