When have foks refused to have a civil discourse? When did blizzard ever ask us and then respond to civil discourse. You can only be directly ignored so many times before the disrespect of that makes it clear that asking your opinion was a hollow request.
Discourse is a 2 way street, even if the devs bothered to say this is why we do not agree and here is our reasoning for not doing it that way, that could be considered discourse.
In reality what happens is a request for feedback is made, 100’s if not thousands of folks reply in thoughtful intelligent ways. All of it is ignored, the change no one wanted happens without ANY discourse from blizzard as to their reasoning why they choose an obviously disliked decision and folks quit.
Can you blame us for no longer wanting to play this pointless game that is nothing more than a pretense. A marketing ploy that works for a little while and fools some folks into believing they are dealing with a company who hadn’t already made it’s mind up what they were going to do.
Upon further analysis it becomes clear that blizzard benefits from the changes and the subscribers get less and less. screwthat.
I’ve never got a survey from blizzard in all my years. I wonder what the “requirements” are to getting one. It’s probably completely random or maybe you unsubbed and they sent you one?
It’s a new thing. I never marked my issue resolved because the computer I bought specifically for MoP is now a brick.
I can’t play and I sunk about $400 into BFA, character realm moves, character changes and name changes…
Except it really didn’t, because it meant that the majority of zones were useless except for tiny areas of each one that were designed for max level players. Take Mists of Pandaria for example. Once you hit level 95 you had no reason to go back to any of those zones except for daily quests in a tiny, tiny portion of the zone which meant everyone and their mother was packed into one space, killing the same mobs etc. It was a mess.
Level scaling has ensured that we can use all the zones for end game content, expanding the amount of places Blizzard can offer quests, expanding the areas where Blizzard can create new content. ilvl scaling ensures that you are still able to get some entertainment out of combat instead of roaming around and being able to one shot everything without putting in any effort.
If I go into a classic zone at level 120 the mobs will be level 60. That’s as high as they’ll go. If I go into a BC or WotLK zone, they will be level 80. That’s it, etc, etc.
Additionally, while zones may scale up to a certain level, they also have entry barriers, so you cannot walk into the Western Plaguelands at level 20. You will be killed. You can’t walk into the Burning Steppes at level 30. Again, that will kill you. If you want to survive in a given zone you must meet the level requirement for that zone, but the zone will scale with you so you don’t outlevel it before you’re finished with the storyline, allowing you to wear full heirlooms and still get the most out of each zone, rather than feeling forced to move on just to keep the XP gain smooth.
I used to get a lot pre-cata. Turn on ‘Receive News and Special Offers from Blizzard Entertainment’ in account settings to opt into getting surveys in your email.
To be fair, they’ve fixed tons of problems. Now, are the problems you’re referring to opinion based? Seems like most are at this point. Because if that’s the case they’ll do what they want to. They already said they’re doing an azurite gear/heart overhaul, they already reworked islands, they already said they are bringing out more engaging/harder warfronts, and they already changed how you obtain azurite gear from M+. M+ isn’t going anywhere, flying isn’t going to come out earlier than 8.2, and titanforging/warforging isn’t going anywhere. Not sure what else you could want, or how all the changes they are making don’t scream “we’re listening”.
Hmmm…I got one. My sub has been active since the start of Legion (before then I’d been ‘on vacation’ from mid Cata until then so maybe that was why?).
I think the kinds of questions they asked on it were telling though…especially ranking the different aspects of the game from ‘not important’ to ‘extremely important’…and dividing those up by essentially pvp (rated and unrated battlegrounds, warfronts, warmode, ect) raiding, dungeons, leveling/questing, and RP. They even asked about mount/pet/transmog collecting.
Needless to say I rated RP as extremely important and anything to do with PVP or the faction war ‘not important at all’ XD XD
That is to say, you can’t really say what you feel or they don’t really ask questions based upon public outcry. Like the survey (though I’ve not read this one) would give you a choice like
Actually it seems it’s the other way around, Hots died because they tried to make it an esports game first and an actual good game second, contrary to how it started.
I’m a bit worried about who they are sending these surveys to and what kind of feedback they actually listen to, remember when some people wanted an ability prune?
Oh and, if you care just a little about the game, please say no to everything related to microtransactions , thank you.
They didn’t ask anything about microtransactions, at least on the one they sent me to take. They pretty much just asked about what areas of the game you enjoy the most and to rank the different areas in terms of how important you think they are. They also asked which WoW ads I’d seen, which of them had interested me most in playing the game, how I preferred to get my WoW news, and if I’d recommend WoW to a friend or not.
Edit: Oh yeah, also what types of games I play in general, what type of games I’d prefer to see more of, and which games outside Wow i’ve been playing (ESO , Blade and Soul and FF was mentioned)
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