I was referring to azerite gear. That was them doubling down on legion legendaries.
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So why not split them?
That doesn’t explain why it’d be worse to split them.
To use your friend example, instead of just having one circle of friends, you now have two circles of friends. One they’re pretty much all the same except for a superficial level. In the other, they each have distinct and significant traits. You now have one group that it’s pretty much interchangeable and still have the one where you have a favorite for a reason.
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Probably because it wouldnt achieve much and would cost too much?
If both choices are as restrictive splitting them achieves nothing other than the rare case where you like one ability yet like a different covenant, and the money spend on remaking these abilities visually to fit all covenants isnt worth the small advantage like that.
Time to get ignored by Ralphs new forum alt.
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Well, while I agree with you on premise. We do have refuting evidence in that the cost would actually be rather low because they pay their employees in Peanuts.
Yeah, they learned from that last mistake
I think a lot of the issue here is that a large portion of the player base can identify the issue, give good reason as to why it’s going to be an issue and then give feedback then blizzard fixes it way after its already had an impact
For instance in legion we worked out pretty fast that getting hard locked into a spec wasn’t exactly a good thing then later on they just pretty much removed all the work so we could boost through our weapons to unlock everything
In bfa we had the azerite armour issue of getting upgrade that we couldn’t use for ages because we didn’t have enough AP and then blizzard made us explode through AP like no tomorrow effectively rendering another system null
Now we face the covenant swapping issue where we are saying it’s going to impact players in a similar way and just want to get that growing pains period dealt with before it goes live
Imagine if Cadillac decided to make trucks instead and only trucks.
Imagine Coca Cola decided to make fruit punch instead of Coke.
Imagine the next Souls game were a card game.
Even less impactful I remember when Cadillac rolled out its new XTS design to replace the DTS and it had a sporty feel and touch panel design. Cadillac fans HATED the car.
I think you see where I’m going here. There are things in retail that only the devs wanted. Things like the GCD change. Things like the AoE cap. Things like taking away our rep tabards.
Then the things only a part of the community wanted the devs forced on all the rest of us.
“Degenerate play” is codeword for mudwhimping. You know what that is, right?
That’s why BFA is unpopular and why the game has been losing popularity over the years.
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Like no doubt I’ve had some conflicting opinions in the past but nothing to this level
I thought bfa was pretty okay at the start and wanted to give it a chance and ended up getting let down
But yikes
I feel like they likely start collecting data the moment they hear about the issue then start problem solving the moment they can confirm it’s an issue. I don’t have a ton of experience in development beyond simple RPG maker projects, and making Mods for conan exiles. But with my limited experience I know that development of anything can take considerable amount of time. How much time can vary depending on how complex the issue is, and of course the engine and code itself. Given that we always see them eventually react to the feedback, I can only conclude that their engine is crap or the issues are complex. Because we rarely see an actual full on fix unless it’s in the following expansion. We just see bandaids. Which to me suggests it takes a considerable amount of development time. Which means they really need to start trying harder on measuring twice and cutting once. Because they need to get it right the first time.
While it’d be the best way to do it you wouldn’t have to remake everything. You could do something like have an NPC from each faction that you pick your power from and then have a blurb about how all your soulbinds/etc from the covenants are channeled through them. It wouldn’t be ideal but it’s be a significant improvement over the present “sucks to be you, nerd” setup.
It’s age is why. More competition is why. Or can you name other games in the genre that has lasted over 15 years without losing a considerable amount of it’s playerbase? Entropy effects everything.
Unpruning is a stupid move.
Don’t @ me.
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I find it funny you mention POE. when much what they do is stuff Blizzard gets criticized for
Peas in a pod.
I’d say PoE deviates a little by having more freedom in how you play the game. WoW has almost no allowance for that anymore.
Here he actually says they only use 50% effort.
I think you’re trying to say that players asked for change, however, the changes and updates delivered were dissatisfactory to said players? That doesn’t follow that players asked for what was delivered and that which they’re disappointed with. Does it?
Please correct me if I am misunderstanding.
What does this have to do with what we’re talking about?
He’s talking about content updates or bug fixes in that clip. I’m telling you that PvE over the long haul isn’t sustainable. P2P is.
I’m just saying, the players did ask for specific things to change and Blizzard tries to give us those changes. So when people say nobody asked for it, it’s not actually true. The issue is people was too vague with what they want, so when Blizzard tries to make their own vision of what the players are saying what they want… They get it wrong.
In short, they give us what we want to the best of their ability without knowing exactly what we want.
Actually they do.
Nope. They look at their vision for the future of the game and create that. Player complaints only become a concern after massive numbers of players leave over an issue.
They don’t try to do that.
The issue is they don’t care what players want. If they did, they would do what any responsible company would do before investing many millions of dollars into a product their customers will need to want to buy to make it profitable, and invest in marketing research. But they don’t. They don’t know what we want beyond what some intern keeps track of by reading the forums, and they don’t care until the accountants tell them subs are dropping.
Yep. Because you guys keep telling us we asked for “player agency” and covenants give us “player agency”, when actually people were asking for the ability to switch specs without penalty and play alts without massive regrinds.
None of which covenants will bring us.
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