A different subject, but I’ve argued the deserter debuff shouldn’t apply to people who are removed from content by others.
Then the “regulars” come in and start spouting off nonsense about people “holding others hostage” in other expansions and what a “nightmare” it was.
It’s not a good look what’s happening now. My daughter wanted to learn this game and she was learning it… with a lot of help. Took her through quite a few dungeons myself. Then she decided to do a few time walkings solo and changed her mind about it all, got booted twice… and told me “This game is dumb”. I honestly couldn’t defend what she experience that well and completely understood why she came to that conclusion. She was trying her best, but it wasn’t “good enough”.
All that random vote kicks and 30 minute deserter debuffs (especially “unjust” ones) actually do… is kill the desire for (a decent amount of) people to want to participate in queued content. I’ve done way less LFR than previous expansions and haven’t touched time walking in months.
I’ve been saying that for…well, forever lol.
With the fact that we can just put in “lel” for the vote kick reason? Unacceptable. I know they can’t really do anything with that, but it’s totally unfair that it can happen. I’ve seen people, literally, just put in “Ugly mog lol” and the person got kicked.
They were gearing and didn’t have mog at all, and anybody who went through the leveling proces knows that gear never matches when you level lol and its not worth the money to mog it. But that’s enough to kick people.
And its not rare for crap like that to happen.
yup. This isn’t a game for new players. My partner joined wow and was running M+5 and up after about a month of playing mage and resto druid…and just got sick of all the drama in dungeons. “Oh, one person died? better just leave and brick somebody elses key”
And in heroics and timewalking, I know exactly what you mean. The players are rutheless because they are so used to playing with their guild and other experienced players for the past 10-20 years…so when a new player comes along, they just react with rage.
All they need to do is just let folks see if it’s a raid in progress again on the queue pop-up (the way it was originally).
Then people can decide if they want to join it or decline and go for a full run.
It was an odd change. The good news is that wings are generally shorter now, three of the four Undermine wings are one or two bosses. If this happens, and you’re looking to run more afterwards, sticking around for the second boss only takes a few minutes.
Not any longer than queueing into a partial run, and having to requeue again to get the boss(es) you missed, which in turn just generates more people leaving part way through.
Yep, because for some moronic reason Blizz couldn’t comprehend why people wouldn’t want to do partial runs /facepalm