Rearranging and Removing Portals

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I’m not so sure they did. Remember how they kept referring to Caverns of Time even as they announced all those portals would disappear and why would you go to Caverns of Time anyways? Priming. Restoring that portal gives the impression that they’re listening when it was planned all along.

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11293

I went to Thousand Needles before it flooded as a twenty-something. I was after sungrass and iron, the coyotes and cats were after my sweet sweet nub blood. Fond memories.

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11294

Oh, and I forgot to mention:

Their most recent quarterly report indicated that their metrics are once again DOWN across the board (by 8.5%).

The lesson here is simple devs:

STOP. TRYING. TO. PAD. THE. METRICS. BY. GUTTING. QUALITY. OF. LIFE. FEATURES.

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11295

It’s a basic tenet of negotiation: ask for more than you really want, so you have room to give the illusion of giving in to the other party. In this case, Blizzard took all the portals, but undoubtedly already intended to give in on whichever one the players seemed most angry about. They got their way - removal of easy access to wide swathes of old content - and got to give the illusion of listening to the player base. Now they can counter player complaints with how they “listened” and “compromised” on the topic.

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11296

It is kind of weird that the company feels they need to “compromise” with paying customers. I believe they gave up on this xpac and probably are just using it to get rid of the stuff they dislike the players having. Do it now when there are no players so that come next xpac the complaints will be long gone.

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11297

But they’re not restoring it. They’re adding a CoT portal that will have level locks on it like all of the new portals.

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11298

More of their one sided compromises where they take and barely give. A real compromise implies both parties are sacrificing something. The only thing the devs are losing here are their customers…

Along with a lot more of their playerbase.

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I’d like the portal to Kara back please and thank you.

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11300

Its almost like car company who thinks I’ll want to drive their car MORE if they remove the auto transmission and AC. :roll_eyes:

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11301

Won’t your car feel more alive if you’re forced to roll down the window to cool off? Won’t you feel more engaged in the driving experience if you’re forced to manually shift gears? We want to reward you for being a more attentive driver!

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11302

Whoa there, I drive a manual by choice. So I would like you to not use that example. :stuck_out_tongue:

I 100% agree with all other analogies

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11303

By choice is key there. No modern-day auto manufacturer is announcing that all new models going forward are going to be exclusively manual because they value your preferences over everyone else’s. The manual option is offered to enthusiasts like you, but not at everyone else’s expense. That’s as it should be.

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11304

Are you getting that ActiBlizz? Are you hearing what we’re saying here? You want to increase time played, stop gutting the game and ADD TO IT! Make content that isn’t a re-hash of an old story, make more of it too, stop gutting classes to dumb them down, add to them. Can anyone but demonhunters tell me what ability their class gets after level 100? If the answer is nothing, that’s a problem.

The above-mentioned problems are not all the problems, not even the biggest ones, truth be told, the biggest problem is ActiBlizz’s and the dev’s attitude toward their customers, stop telling us we don’t know what we want in the game, it’s insulting and arrogant beyond comprehension.

We do know what we want in the game and we do know what we don’t want in the game. Which is more than can be said for the dev team/ActiBlizz.

Semper Fi! :us:

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11305

Their design goals certainly seem to have put them in a very adversarial position with the players, either because their “vision” has changed the game in directions that many don’t find fun, or because the financial team has mandated cutting corners even at the loss of subscribers. Time will tell, I suppose.

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11306

My money is on this. The game used to be about fun for everyone. Now it’s about fun for raiders.

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11307

Beyond ‘world first’, not even that. All that’s left is Mythic+.

Everyone I ran Uldir and previous raids with have completely lost interest in raiding since BoD showed up. And they’re not even pushing keys anymore because that was only to gear up for raiding, which they’re not doing.

:frowning:

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It’s not even fun for raiders. They removed tier gear, and created raids that are difficult to do unless you have a large group. I love to raid but it is frustrating that I cannot get the gear upgrades from raids that are needed for proper progression. Now it is required you do WQs and M+ and hope and pray you get some good gear (which doesn’t happen – I have a bag full of 415 gear that is worthless).

They have abandoned this xpac and are just going to let it limp on for the next year, hoping that classic will bring the subs they are bleeding back. It is WOD all over except worse : /

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11309

The theory I’ve seen that makes a certain amount of sense is one that speculates that the ulterior motive behind the removal of portals was to discourage players from engaging with old content in order to artificially increase current content participation.

It’s certainly a distinct possibility considering that higher ups in the company may be placing a lot of pressure on the WoW team to ensure that the costs going into new content is justified by high player participation.

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11310

Backfiring for them, then, with my sub expired I will live in the very oldest of noncurrent content…

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11311

It costs a ton of money developing content. If the current developers cannot produce content that people want to spend time in, then why would anyone continue to give them a paycheck? If I owned the company I sure wouldn’t.

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