If you play 10 hours in 1 sitting, you’re a fringe case and the only changes you can expect regarding your playstyle is for Blizzard to make changes that encourage you to log out for your own health. Its been that way ever since idiots literally killed themselves via gaming marathon, and its not going to change back. Your cause is a lost one.
Just be glad Blizz didn’t go as far as some of the Asian companies back in the day and put actual hard limits on how much you could play. I used to hit those on Aion and get booted.
That makes me a ‘‘Snowflake’’ because I was negatively affected by a half butt change that didn’t really even do what it was intended to do? Weird. Guess I should just pull myself up by my boot straps and level another 60? right? lmao.
I’m no casual. I play 40+ hours/week for stretches and have logged my share of 12+ hour days.
Level how you want. I’m just suggesting that some people might have a little more fun if they did some quests and experienced the RPG part of this MMORPG instead of just mindlessly killing the same mobs over and over again until max level. And if the game has some “guard rails” in place to encourage people to do just that, it’s not worst idea in the world.
In fact, I think steering the rats down a more enjoyable path is a hallmark of good game design. Players can often be their own worst enemies and ruin their own game experience due to compulsivity.
Less of a fringe case than you think. I played for 48 hours at a time on classic launch for the first week sleeping for about 12 in between sessions. And even if it’s fringe why must I be forced to be casual.
Lol if you’re a try hard you’re racing to 70 trying to get attuned. Get that prebis and start running kara as fast as we can. There’s no time to stop and level alts lol.
Huh, well TMYK. I even tried to double check on Google.
Still doesn’t help when TBC just launches, but there you have it. Maybe it’ll help later. Almost certainly a backlash from people who got locked from raiding on their main.
For one, Blizzard won’t stop you from no-lifing. Only discourage it, at this time. So you won’t be forced to be casual.
Secondly, because most companies feel like their product should not kill addicts, since the Bad PR from killing people is worse than minor annoyance of a small group of customers, a few standard deviations outside the mean, when they can’t kill themselves.
I’m in good health. Also, it’s not up to blizz to determine my health. I pay them to play the game and that’s it. I don’t see bad pr if someone dies playing a game. Just a moron who didn’t know their limits. And I’m not addicted to wow.
People like that won’t bother with pre-bis aside from the pieces they pick up on the way to 70 as they’re already naxx geared. They’re going to go in, stomp kara and HKM then maybe farm abit before attempting magtheridon and Gruul.
It’s also not up to a comically microfraction of the playerbase to dictate to blizzard what the game should be. You pay for access, nothing more, and they are not beholden to your wants and desires.
