Blizzard is like hey guys we released the patch in a completely broken state with massive bugs, lag and countless other problems, followed by server shutdowns for maintenance every day but don’t worry!! here’s a new $35 store mount! we hope you enjoy it.
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The art and gameplay teams aren’t the same people. The people working on fixing the event aren’t the ones that made the mounts. It’s not like time and resources are being taken away from one to give to the other.
They’re working on the event. Relax. The mounts literally have nothing to do with the event being broken.
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It’s a pack not a single mount. 
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Promotions tend to be scheduled well in advance, this was going to appear in the store regardless of what happened with the patch.
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i can imagine the people that plan the dates for these kind of stuff already cringing at the backlash its creating because they think the dev team is making good content to sit this on but all they are doing is adding salt to the bug filled wound lol
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Yea if you look at any other business out there, businesses compensate for mistakes , but i guess it dosent apply for game companies
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You don’t know this, even remotely. Using it as a defense is disingenuous at best, and malicious at worst.
They’ve had it planned for well over a year, they shouldn’t be working on it live. They should have a damn QA team. Stop making excuses for the piss poor quality we’re receiving.
Do you think the art team submits to build for their mounts to appear in game too? What are you even saying.
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Sometimes, I wonder if this is more of a Microsoft thing. I know companies need/want to make money, but since the acquisition, it seems sales have ramped up even more.
Shareholders at Microsoft saw how lucrative early access was + $90 store mount and likely wanted the team to quadruple down on it to make the revenue number go green.
We’ll see more and more of it, at the expense of quality and polish. Because what do shareholders not care about? Either of those since people will happily slurp up this slop of quality without complaint.
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Siameren is right. The issue we are seeing in the game is not caused by bad graphics. That’s a different group entirely.
No, it’s a Business 101 thing. Any company who can sell a product that makes money will do so. Why wouldn’t they?
And people will rush to buy it. They know their audience.
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link it…I dont see it in the store
Well, more so this question was based on past experience with how Blizzard operated. Yes, they sold stuff, but since they were sold it’s seemed to increase. Either way, I don’t care.
I wanna say the Brutosaur was similar, a while back.
Remember the title bugs?
There were certainly a bunch of bad things happening when they released that $90 mount.
TWW is one of, if not the glitchiest expansion I’ve ever played.
Which is a shame because the art and content within is actually pretty cool.
But yeah. Blizzard is just perpetually tone-deaf.
Probably even moreso now under Microsoft.
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It’s been on record that they make more on cash shop microtransactions than actual subs at this point, so makes sense I guess.
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I see this type of comment all the time and yes they are different teams, but to say one doesn’t impact the other is wrong.
If there are 500 people working on the game and 100 working on mounts… but the game isn’t working then it is time to shift the budget. Perhaps allocating some of that money from the design team to the team handling bugs would help.
I don’t want anyone to ever lose their job. But considering they had recent layoffs perhaps more of the programmers should have been kept.
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Yes, something was going on during the Brutosaur release as well. The defenders at the time said “well they had it scheduled to release on that date before they knew about the bugs.”
Okay that is probably true but if you know you are about to drop a real money mount, but you notice people are complaining the game is in horrible shape, then maybe someone higher up calls an audible and says “hey let’s hold off on the Ravens for a week.”
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Just wait until you learn how many different teams there are that have zero involvement with each other.
This is like complaining that you didn’t get pepperoni on your pizza in the middle of a tmobile store.
That’s not how big companies work at all.
If anything, they pile more on vs say “let’s hold off”. The big guys sitting at the table on top floor are completely disconnected from what is going on at the level bugs and such would be in.
Tbh the only thing that would get their attention would be a bad quarter.
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Oh it’s not. Blizzard is aware of most of the bugs we see, they likely have them in a bug tracking software that is submitted by their internal testers (or what remains). They then prioritize the issues based on a triage system, where prio 1&2 are highest priority, ship blocking if 1 usually. And then everything behind it is “nice to have.”
The dev teams are likely underwater with the next 2 expansions they’re working on, and they are having arguments about whether or not this stuff truly is mandatory to “ship” the patch. They don’t see polish, performance or quality as “mandatory” to ship, they’re an afterthought.
They simply do not put any emphasis on quality. Rush the product, let the consumers act as your QA, push out a mount or 3, gg
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