No they don’t. They just think that acting like they do will get Blizzard’s attention.
If you’re investing time and money in a game you truly hate, something is seriously wrong with you.
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The honest issue is, Blizz has had chances in the past few months to show better communication, they haven’t, they ignore and hope it goes away.
Season 4, they could have made it great for everyone with a simple ilvl bump to open world content, and/or kept the XP buff, they didn’t, they instead only made it worthwhile to 3 pillar players.
Fun side events could be easily updated, they continue to neglect them.
Most of us have a hard time trusting them when they say one thing, then do another. I want to believe they are going to change in Dragonflight, but after some of the recent design choices, I really have a hard time believing it.
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Look season 4 was handled by a very small team. And they don’t have the resources to do anything else.
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Of course he SHOULD step down if he cares about WoW at all. But who would reject that paycheck? The only passion he ever had in wow was raiding and kinda doubt he even has that anymore. He isn’t the right fit for the job yet he took it for $$$. Our best hope is microsoft fires or demotes him seeing as the last 3 of 4 expansions have flopped with him at the head. And legion did get in spite of him not because of him.
Only speak for your self next time
Yes, because it takes so few resources to update all the raids, and update a bunch of dungeons, and increase the ilvl of all the gear associated with that, but they couldn’t update the ilvl of WQ gear. Stop defending this crap. Oh, let’s not forget they updated PvP gear. So I honestly don’t believe they couldn’t update the ilvl of WQ gear. They just didn’t want to, which then makes me question whether they will care enough to update open world content in Dragonflight or if it will just be left behind as always because this current Dev team can’t see beyond the 3 pillars.
They are basically saying to open world players “screw off this season, but please come back for Dragonflight, we promise we will give you something then.”
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Yea I feel like updating the gear should be really easy to do
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Yes and that was a good idea. It’s how most software development groups do their last point release before going on to the next version (or in this case expansion).
So telling a portion of your customers to screw off but then ask them to please come back next expansion is a good idea. Your basically telling them that they don’t matter enough to you right now, but then asking them to trust that they will matter to you next time. Either they matter as much as everyone else or they don’t, can’t keep saying they only matter when it’s convenient for you.
blizz actually needs to put a new game out a brand new one and show they can actually make a good game lol. they have had so many failures it’s laughable i don’t expect much from them nowadays so i’m never disappointed really. i really ain’t excited for dragonflight what exactly are they doing thats new and innovative absolutely nothing and you can’t say flying if you played gw2 . these are all new devs were is the hey we can make great things this is brand new to wow and it’s awesome. i don’t what there is to really get excited about it’s just wow again the same old stuff basically.
Trust is difficult to earn, but easy to lose.
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No, what you are telling your customers is that ShadowLands is done, we just need to clean up the last of the bugs while we get ready for the next expansion.
With every software group for a major project I’ve ever worked in, the boss always tells us that for the last bug fix release, don’t change anything, don’t break anything.
It’s standard software practice.
Except this isn’t about bugs, this about updating content for certain groups of players, and nothing to other groups. They updated Raid, Mythic+ and PvP, but couldn’t be bothered to just update the ilvl of WQ gear, and give open world players even the slightest bit of something. That is telling the open world players to screw off this season, but please come back for Dragonflight, we will change we promise. Why should the open world players believe them.
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Even if they earn a slither of it people will still mock them and bully them and put down the game developers who operates World of Warcraft.
It’s a final bug release. Yes they tossed out a few things to keep people busy but if they really put a major effort into this final release it would delay the next expansion and almost no one wants that.
I doubt you want that either and if they did do exactly what you wanted them to do you I bet you would be howling like crazy when DF got pushed back to spring.
Season 4 as in its entirety was an experimental season in terms of instance content but Dragonflight will massively improve the outdoor content and I don’t care if you believe me or don’t but there are evidence out there that Dragonflight will have content in the open world and also earning armor set and gear.
Because updating the ilvl of WQ gear would have taken so much effort, but updating raids, mythic+ and PvP, along with the ilvls of all that took so little effort. I’m not asking for a whole new zone or anything like that, just updated ilvl of current WQ gear. That apparently would cost too much time though.
Again, that’s not the point, point is, they are telling open world players, we will get you next time, but we couldn’t put the slightest bit of effort in to bump the ilvl of WQ gear and give you even the slightest bit of something. And they then want those players to believe they are going to change and do good for them.
That’s why the survey if for example blizzard put " when should flying be available " a) beginning or b) at end . If it came back at 75% a and 25% b well .
in all fairness blizzards history proves their future… just like every other company has. its why certain groups spend so much on publicity campaigns to try to spin doctor their actions. when as the good book says. judge by actions not words.
I’ve been in so many software development groups where some manager or someone from marketing has come in and told us the software feature he wants shouldn’t take any time at all.
The one thing these people have always had in common, they are always wrong. I can’t count the times have I heard someone ask for software that would take 3 people six months but they want one person to do it in two weeks.