The Evolution of Creative Content in World of Warcraft

[Slimm-moon-guard]

@BlizzardEntertainment

we also gathered a great deal of feedback from players on practically every aspect of the game. The player feedback influenced many gameplay improvements we’re working on for patch 9.1.5

how about the years of almost all Worgen players asking for tails, can we get this finally?

[Lilock-kilrogg]

@Grymetime-zuljin

perfect opportunity to update that type of armor and make those items look the same way they do on male characters

i agree with this. should have the option which appearance you want - same as male or original look.

[Benko-senjin]

in what universe is the “big love rocket” punching down?

i’m pretty amazed at how willing blizzard is to show off that they do not understand appropriate boundaries. no wonder the studio’s name is synonymous with “hostile work environment.”

to clarify:
-mild crude humor in a game is acceptable
-making crude/inappropriate comments to coworkers is not acceptable

i suggest the devs study the above bullet points before posting any more. embarrassing.

[Aerisala-illidan]

Why don’t you act on the feedback you’ve gotten in recent time to you know, not do many of these things? Honestly in the past 16 years how many players have complained about the things being changed in the game? They’ve been in the game this long and for someone like me who has been here since the beginning its cool to still see certain art and elements in the game. To now see these things changed after all this time is just a total disappointment and just further pushes me away from the game that has been part of my life for a very long time. This year may very well be the last one I continue my journey in WoW. I don’t like the path the game is taking now. It makes me worry about WoW’s future, not become excited for it.

[Greenguy-zangarmarsh]

@Autai-moon-guard

Please consider adding more revealing male armor pieces btw.

Curious to know if that’s one of the things they’re inferring when they said this while talking about player expression:

@BlizzardEntertainment

You’re going to see more of it soon in 9.1.5

[Keori-moon-guard (Keori)]

@Sentenzah-sargeras

Bro, you need to stop pretending this is a clap-back. Alex Afrasabi and Jay Allen Brack have been fired. The Cosby Crew has been gutted. You’re three steps behind the conversation.

Actually that’s bare minimum. Obviously you haven’t kept up with the ongoing investigations and the things that have been stated by current employees of what’s been going on.

Nice try bud.

[Autai-moon-guard (Autai)]

@Greenguy-zangarmarsh

Curious to know if that’s one of the things they’re inferring when they said this while talking about player expression:

I’m hoping dude. Folks have been wanting more revealing male options for years. It’s nice that we can hide everything, but it’s better if it’s revealing armor.

Like that’s pure fantasy stuff.

[Averyx-quelthalas (Averyx)]

Would be nice to see more opposite gender demons and creatures for more stuff TBH.

@BlizzardEntertainment

Still, we want to remain mindful of whether certain elements of that world are welcoming to all players. In short, we want our jokes to be inclusive and not punch down.

While I see this is a good sentiment. Please be mindful that not all elements and not all jokes need to be for ALL people at the same time.

There’s some jokes or elements that might not be for me, that I don’t get the punchline, and that’s fine.

Something that isn’t directly offensive and doesn’t bring down anyone, but isn’t necessarily funny for everyone is not a problem.

Of course that implies that there should jokes for different people in different scenarios, rather than try only “one size-fits all” ones.

Please be mindful of this and don’t go overboard.

[Hamspamson-frostwolf]

@Aerisala-illidan

Why don’t you act on the feedback you’ve gotten in recent time to you know, not do many of these things? Honestly in the past 16 years how many players have complained about the things being changed in the game?

@BlizzardEntertainment

our internal feedback identified some in-game content that is inconsistent with our goal of building an inclusive and welcoming game world.

They’re doing this not for the players but as damage control for their employees, current or potential.

[Mute-dragonmaw]

I saw the edit pretty funny. I think were done here. Just like the twitter machine you are far too gone to be reasonable anymore. You love your corporations more than your fellow human beings and that is okay that is the way society is trending right now. Get those crumbs boy!

Normally within a scandal environment especially within a large organization leadership usually will lay out a game plan of what they are going to do before they actually go ahead and do it. Unfortunately we as the pay pigs we are are not privvy to this information beforehand, so basically if that organization wants to do something they do it.

So this is there Think and Act. Then they observe. If feedback is quiet they simply do nothing. If it is loud then they make a statement, because they practice do now and apologize later approach. This is something common that some businesses will even do with shareholders most of the time.

Anyway I know its not going to make much sense to you because you obviously haven’t been part of a business as anyone actually important so you don’t have the same mindset to actually see how things actually are because of the blizzard veil obscures so much.

I for one just don’t want to see wow become the new abandoned project like HOTS. Again as someone who pays for their sub on multiple accounts and also has stock in Blizz/Activision (don’t worry I let them know how I feel off the forums too they know full well how I feel.) it is okay for me to say “hey some actual communication beforehand would be great instead of just doing it and then asking for forgiveness.” and after a time if I become unhappy enough I would just stop paying. This is how the consumer/company relationship actually works.

Again you should also be okay with people voicing their opinions on how blizzard decides to communicate with their consumers at a time like this. It looks like all you do is pvp which pvp is in the worst state it has ever been (minus the hour long matches season) however there are some people that do all facets of the content and are unhappy with how blizzard communicates. It is either tone deaf or too late.

This whole " think and observe the situation before you speak. " when applied to blizzard. They take too long to think. They take too long to observe. They take to long to speak. You can’t even argue against that.

Again sorry. I know you are far too gone to actually be reasoned with and I know you barely even know what’s going on you just wanna play your little game every now and then and not have to think about much else.

I will leave you to your simple life collecting those crumbs.

[anon58034915]

@Mute-dragonmaw

I will leave you to your simple life collecting those crumbs.

Gonna use those crumbs to bread my world famous fried pork loins.

Breaded Pork Chop

[Superasyl-stormrage]

@BlizzardEntertainment

Nonetheless, we believe these changes are worthwhile.

Well you’re wrong in that belief. W R O N G.

This is nothing less than sanitization of the game for dumb ideological reasons. Noone, absolutely noone, in your actual playerbase (you know, the people that actually matter, not the feelings of your new and sad, sad employees) wants these changes. In fact, most are against these changes and want them reverted. The only remotely positive thing in this article is that you said you wouldn’t be removing cosmetic content. We’ll see if you actually stick to that (I sincerely doubt it).

You’ve done such a great job listening to what the players want in terms of gameplay for 9.1.5, why are you going backwards everywhere else?

[Aerisala-illidan]

Internal feedback? What the hell does that even mean? What about my feedback? What about the feedback of the millions of people who play this game? I’m so sick of this.

[Eternosus-galakrond (Eternosus)]

I’m fine with all the changes myself, but a part of me is imagining some employee sheepishly going “I was being sarcastic, I didn’t realize anyone was actually going to seriously read these surveys”

[Mute-dragonmaw]

Hey now that’s something I can get behind. If you do have an actual recipe. Post it. WELL DANG AS I WAS TYPING THIS YOU ACTUALLY DID! Thanks!

[Hamspamson-frostwolf]

I agree with you. This is literally just empty posturing to rope in the current day’s general consumer base and appease the feel feels of the newer employees.

[Nicodemùs-stormrage]

@BlizzardEntertainment

An example of a post-9.1.5 improvement is the creation of an incubus demon, which we can add to places where succubus models currently appear. We’re also planning to make the incubus a glyphable option for Warlocks when they summon that classification of demon.

I’m very excited for this! Just… for the sake of parity, please make sure the incubus looks attractive and alluring. Please don’t make it some hideous roid-raging neanderthal. I suggest looking to Blood Elf Demon Hunters for inspiration on what an attractive incubus might resemble!

[anon58034915]

@Mute-dragonmaw

If you do have an actual recipe. Post it. WELL DANG AS I WAS TYPING THIS YOU ACTUALLY DID! Thanks!

If you’re actually up for it this recipe is way better, it’s good as hell.

Tonkatsu (deep fried pork) Recipe - Japanese Cooking 101

[Jibblës-dalaran]

The worst is the people acting like we’re against the victims. Mostly everyone was in favor of Mccree and Afrasiabi being scrubbed from the game.

It gets hard to support when you’re removing decade old pixel paintings and removing “Jeph’s Cafe” because god forbid someone could come forward in three decades and say Jeff was a really bad guy. But that hasn’t happened yet. Preemptively removing references and renaming and restructuring decade old “lewd” pixels and pun rocket names is crazy. You should think it’s crazy too.

[Mewtwo-lothar]

The Onion bought out Blizzard.