LFR canceled for Dragon Soul

[Williamferal-whitemane]

LFR would negatively affect their #1 customer base, gold sellers.

[Rescueduwu-sargeras]

Shame on no LFR. Was planning to run splits through it in guild to funnel tier before prog but i guess thats potentially not an option now. would have been pretty nice to run 20 guildies and vote kick the 5 pugs since the content is easy enough.

[Ziryus-pagle]

I’m not super surprised they weren’t able to get LFR working.

Disappointing but about on par with what I expect from this dev group.

[Ltdán-faerlina]

@Shadows-grobbulus

No LFR means one less reason to play Cata and just to wait for MoP instead.

I think its more of a reason to play Cata. More time spent in real raids.

[Ziryus-pagle]

@Ltdán-faerlina

@Shadows-grobbulus

No LFR means one less reason to play Cata and just to wait for MoP instead.

I think its more of a rea son to play Cata. More time spent in real raids.

You can do LFR and regular raids so no.

[Ltdán-faerlina]

Yes, but it provides more free time as I am not wasting time in queues or in LFR, therefore I have more time available.

[Xyrtran-medivh]

They dont want to invest the resources that involves fixing and make LFR stable for this and future mop. It’s a massive excuse that they are “listening” to the feedback… who’s feedback to begin with? Anyone with two functional braincells knows that not having more things in game leads to less alts and less playtime in general. It’s another raid log expansion all over again. But by all means people that hate LFR celebrate it I guess…

It’s that bad how they dont want to invest anything but the bare minimum for main expansions.

Not sod = no resources, no atention.

[Angsla-faerlina]

Just remove the lockout on normal/heroic sharing and never put LFR in.

[Zaalg-ashkandi]

This wasn’t due to listening to feedback. This was them trying to alter how LFR worked and creating a buggy and broken mess. At least they’re not just putting that in in that state.

But…they could just implement it as it was and stop breaking 15 year old systems by “improving” them.

[Ltdán-faerlina]

@Xyrtran-medivh

Anyone with two functional braincells knows that not having more things in game leads to less alts and less playtime in general. It’s another raid log expansion all over again. But by all means people that hate LFR celebrate it I guess…

While it’s true that having more content can lead to increased playtime, it’s important to consider the quality of that time. Without LFR, players will have more free time to level alts and participate in real raid content if they choose to do so. This means less time spent in queues or running LFR, allowing for a more focused and rewarding gameplay experience. Additionally, this is Classic, not Retail, so Blizzard isn’t going to add any new “real” content. Blizzard did state that they are exploring other avenues to implement LFR gear. So you can call that “new Content” if you want.

@Xyrtran-medivh

people that hate LFR celebrate it I guess…

It is not needed in Cata. Bring it back for mop where it serves more of a purpose.

[Feywaif-atiesh]

@Ltdán-faerlina

@Zihkari-bloodsail-buccaneers

None of these are valid, as they do not pertain to why it actually is needed (to allow people to play the game when they want).

This statement is proven false by common sense and examining the last five and a half years of classic WoW or the last 20+ years of WoW as a whole.

It’s proven correct when you examine the last 20+ years of wow as a whole most of which has lfr

@Ltdán-faerlina

While it’s true that having more content can lead to increased playtime, it’s important to consider the quality of that time. Without LFR, players will have more free time to level alts and participate in real raid content if they choose to do so. This means less time spent in queues or running LFR, allowing for a more focused and rewarding gameplay experience.

The player gets to choose what is quality play time for them. As usual you want blizzard to force the player to play the way you want them to play. You want to decide for them what is quality play time.

[Shadows-grobbulus]

I farmed DS normal on 2 characters back in OG. I’m perfectly content to just do LFR this time around.

[Ltdán-faerlina]

Well considering that they “paused” LFR and are looking at alt routes to add LFR gear i doubt that LFR will be added in cata.

[Cäpslöck-proudmoore]

@Shadows-grobbulus

How is forcing people to continue doing the same dungeons they have been doing all expansion better?

Because dungeon currency eliminates the RNG of ‘did it drop’ and then ‘did the person who caused 2 wipes or was AFK get it’?

[Shadows-grobbulus]

Which means they are adding more work for themselves for no reason. Just do a staggered release of LFR and be done with it.

[Ltdán-faerlina]

This might be the case but the amount of work to add a vendor or add the loot to a H+ is less then trying to fix LFR.

[Schnizzle-whitemane]

As someone who is playing both SoD and Cata, it’s crazy to me that SoD continues to get significantly more development cycles and content than Cataclysm when there is no monetization in that version of the game outside of the subscription. It doesn’t have WoW token, boosts, or MTX and yet Cata Classic continues to get the short end of the stick.

Somehow I feel like the classic devs are much more passionate about SoD and convinced the suits that SoD is worth prioritizing. They’ve shown that in what they’ve decided to release and when. Cata has gotten basically scraps.

[Zaalg-ashkandi]

Cata is a game made by the ‘old devs’.

SoD is the Classic Team’s baby. That’s where they can showcase their amazing design and development skills. Think of it as padding their resume.

Cata is just kinda there to milk whales.

[Lazershock-frostmourne]

@Zaalg-ashkandi

That’s where they can showcase their amazing design and development skills.

roflmao, have you considered a career as a standup comedian?

[Ivixia-atiesh]

To be fair they did try new things.

And found new issues. which happens. But yeah…this is why you don’t fix what isn’t broken. Or is broken in a known way.

Like I worked on a comm van system in the Marines. It eternally had a red fault line on. For a very good reason. It was a non essential system that effected nothing.

If we fixed, the light went away. But…several other things broke in the process. even the high priced contractor a god on the system said dudes…don’t fix this. Its just that simple.

blizzard did fix warrior domination in era sod. by making uber paladins and shamans lol.