Rearranging and Removing Portals

anon1268335 · March 14, 2019, 4:00pm

The other thread on this topic has more views than any other topic by 25,000 views and is the 6th most posted in thread.

Getting past dead horse beating time I think.

yeah. you can sort the forums by column by clicking on the top title banner.

anon38033770 · March 14, 2019, 4:04pm

I just find it hysterically pathetic that even my little joke forums get more traffic than this forum with tens of thousands of potential posters does.
Ive told the uppers around Blizzard that they need to make changes in personnel around here if they want this forum to actually be used.
Apparently theyre as interested in that as they are having their game grow in subs again.

Pyromor-shandris · March 14, 2019, 4:06pm

Ok,let’s look at the word immersion according to webster immersion is absorbing involvement .so you are doing just that.You are playing this as all of us on this thread including you.

As for driving them off ,no.WE have several solution to the portal being excluded if you read through the thread.

Bodacia-blackhand · March 14, 2019, 4:07pm

Right? I mean, good lord, how many times have we saved the world? I am loving this idea of a teleportation helper. I am intrigued by your ideas, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

anon38033770 · March 14, 2019, 4:12pm

Oh, Ive been around here.

Verdre-silvermoon · March 14, 2019, 4:14pm

How many times? BC, Wrath, Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria, Warlords, Legion and shaping up to be BfA.

So every expansion since Classic first launched.

Spanko-kiljaeden · March 14, 2019, 4:14pm

Did you expect to hear from them about this issue? I didn’t to be honest. I was still going to post about it regardless, but I had no hopes at all they would even talk to us about this.

Psylocke-proudmoore · March 14, 2019, 4:18pm

I farm Sha every now and then. Getting what we’re farming. That’s the only goal. That’s why people farm items or mounts. Not for the traveling experience, or some ridiculous sense of the size of the game. I’ve played WoW since BC launched. I get it. I know how big it is. I have what’s called a memory. Adding massive amounts of travel time feels like you’ve suddenly moved the goal post a huge distance away. I think that’s why a lot of people are quite upset. You’ve essentially moved the goal post without warning. This definitely wasn’t handled well to begin with. It was very much a bait-and-switch up until the very last moment. For those of us who haven’t downloaded the PTR, for months, we were told we were getting this amazing, rad, cool, brilliant, awesome brand new portal room. Patch hits, and without even a word, you’ve removed all portals everywhere else. It’s the very definition of bait-and-switch.

anon38033770 · March 14, 2019, 4:19pm

Nope. Not after what ive seen from them in my time playing this game.
I expected them to keep irritating me until I quit.
Which I told my wife a while back that I was quite certain they’d end up doing. We were betting as to how long it’d take before they pushed me over the edge and i’d quit.

I dont care about talk. Look at the OP here. Talk is cheap and meaningless. ACTION is what matters.
Even if they talk again, it’ll just be to blow more smoke.
I dont need that.
What I need is for them to remain entirely silent and undo this stupidity that isnt helping anything or anyone.
I doubt theyd have lost a single sub over not screwing with the portals.
They have, however, lost our numerous subs when they expire and from the responses both in this thread and around the web, a long list of others are leaving as well.

One bad decision too many.
Its been the death of more than one company who thought they were invincible.

Elenedhel-moon-guard · March 14, 2019, 4:19pm

Not to mention the absolutely STUPID placement of the Horde portal room.
What genius thought that was a great spot for it? The Alliance is going to camp the hey out of it and I don’t blame them!
Good job, Blizzard.
Flips hair

Jopsy-grizzly-hills · March 14, 2019, 4:19pm

Looking at the content of both of yesterday’s hotfixes… they’re probably still too busy putting out other fires to even notice this one.

They’ll resume dodging the issue more actively soon, I’m sure.

Verdre-silvermoon · March 14, 2019, 4:23pm

And until that time comes, how many other people will you talk to about your bad experience?

Happy Customer tells 2-3 people.
Unhappy Customer tells 5-10 people.

That number was from some ten years ago. Social Media has only made it Easier to tell More people, but I’m sure the ratio is still the same (though it could be worse). If its the same, we’re still talking a ratio of almost 3 to 1.

That’s not good business as that affects your Reputation and the amount of work (and thus money) you have to spend to get new customers and retain current customers.

Spanko-kiljaeden · March 14, 2019, 4:24pm

Yeah, I can’t wait for them to continue to not listen to players. What a great and wonderful strategy.

Verdre-silvermoon · March 14, 2019, 4:25pm

I may not main Horde but I heard it was placed in a bad spot. Of course, Orgrimar itself isn’t exactly what you call well laid out either.

anon38033770 · March 14, 2019, 4:29pm

That time is already past. Just riding out subs till they expire. Havent actually played WoW in 10 days or more.

Verdre-silvermoon · March 14, 2019, 4:31pm

PRetty much same here. Going to be renewing my sub with FF14. While it may have its own warts and flaws, at least the devs there care and the community likes their devs. I mean, they throw virtual birthday parties for the devs.

I think the only way the players would be happy about something happening to a dev here is if one of the much hated devs left the company.

Hocksy-emerald-dream · March 14, 2019, 4:35pm

Googlymoogly:

Xintao:

Yes WoW currently is being micromanaged to death. A game is at its best when it has more freedom of choice.

No one is saying WoW should become a sandbox MMO as that is not what it started as. But at this point they have taken many RPG aspects out.

This is very true. But you have to admit, when WoW first came out, it was much more of a “sandbox” style MMO than it is now. Does anyone remember the old WoW commercials with the different celebrities, where they asked “What’s YOUR game?” Because everyone played the game differently back then. People still play the game differently, but there are definitely a lot more rails now. Players with different play styles are being funneled into narrow play styles now. The devs, especially Ion, have become so controlling that they ARE micro-managing this game into insignificance.

They have already admitted to designing the game that THEY want to play (M+, raids, e-sports), we are just invited along. If your play style isn’t like theirs, they don’t care about you beyond how much money they can get out of you. Sad, but true. The Blizzard North talent left the building a long time ago, and they left these devs in charge to suck the fun out of the game bit by bit with their control freak tactics.

Spot on.
Loved those commercials.

Eremel-caelestrasz · March 14, 2019, 4:37pm

I haven’t posted on this thread yet, as I’ve been skimming my way thru it. You people type faster than I can read the backlog.

I don’t often farm older content. Occasionally I will get the urge and fly out to SoO or Serpentshrine to pick up one piece of mog or try for one pet that I still haven’t had drop. Or one of my friends will ask for an assist on M PAragons because he has the worst luck with them bugging out. I use portals mostly for the Holiday bosses, and as I main Alliance, the Dalaran Crater is my most used portal for that purpose.

What I do know is that the times I go farming something are going to be fewer as I now have yet another hurdle in front of me. And in an expansion where long time players are struggling to combat boredom, adding more hurdles is not a good thing.

My guild achieved AotC for every raid HFC-Antorus. We did not get AotC for Uldir largely because of attendance issues in November/December caused by massive burnout. We just barely managed to pull together a raid group for BoD, and our weekly attendance is down 20-25% from the start of Uldir.

I want to keep enjoying the game, having started in BC, but Blizz keeps pulling this “ask for feedback/ ignore feedback/ bury topic” tactic. They did it with the camera changes in Legion (people quit because they started getting ill), the Druid class ‘mount’, several class changes in BfA, etc, etc. It’s getting old.

Verdre-silvermoon · March 14, 2019, 4:45pm

And that’s the frustration. Too many questionable decisions and not enough transparency or communication (that they promised us would improve).

Jopsy-grizzly-hills · March 14, 2019, 4:51pm

My urge to farm old content grows as I run out of useful current content to do. It tides me over until new content comes out.

I, personally, don’t mind the loss of the Karazhan portal because I’ve ‘finished’ both the old and new versions so thoroughly (mounts, pets, toys, transmog, achieves(afaik)) that it’s not a place I go anymore. Flying from Honor Hold takes longer, but it’s a penalty I’ll feel very rarely.

Caverns of Time was something I mostly only did on my main who has the rep for the shorter path. My rogue was still working on the legendary daggers questline but doesn’t have the rep, and will probably give up because of the extra wasted time to proceed.

As Horde, I often forgot to use Dalaran Crater, and usually went by way of UC or Twilight Highlands if I needed to get somewhere in northern EK.

What chaps my hide is MoP. Still some bits to get from ToT, HoF, ToES, MV, and MoP world bosses, so I’ll still be going out there regularly. I will probably never use the Jade Forest portal, it’s just absurdly out of the way. I’ll use my engineering Wormhold Generator: Pandaria and see where it randomly drops me.

At the very least, Exalted with Shado-Pan (or Sunreavers Offensive) and Lorewalkers (preferably all the rep Quartermasters) should sell a toy that lets you teleport TO the quartermaster in Seat of Knowledge, etc, like how Shaohao offers a trinket to teleport to Timeless Isle.