Absolutely. Pretty sure my compositions suck, but brilliance wasn’t the point. It was an exercise in understanding harmonies and chord progressions. It’s just an aside to my piano lessons. Still, I find it very helpful in understanding music in general, and maybe it’ll lead to some good improv one day.
Now I’m trying to think how I can make music theory relevant to guild permissions.
I do think guilds are the backbone of WoW, and having the tools to run them well is imperative to their function. It’s like, you can get by with just triads and basic I, IV, V7 progressions, but music is so much richer when you have access to all the possibilities. It’s the same with guilds. People are getting by with the way permissions are now, making things work however they can, but it would be so much BETTER with more options. People play WoW for the experience, and making that experience as rich as possible should always be the priority.
I’m not a coder’s pinky but I think I know what the problem is;
Ion doesn’t give a tuna about keeping his word and blues no longer visit GD as they only care about the Community Council forum.
I wish the options were like before, In my guild we once used Officer Chat as our " in character" chat channel, now we cant do that because of the linked permissions.
I know we could do community and whatnot, but thats a whole lot of bothersome steps when they had it right the first time.
I get so tired of being ignored. I know this issue doesn’t seem like a big problem to many people, and it isn’t, in a “game-breaking” sense, all on its own. But it’s a straw, just like the proverbial one on the camel.
Ion said the permissions change wasn’t intentional, and he said they were working on a fix. Five freaking years ago. The problems with WoW aren’t fundamentally about game play or the story. The problems are the attitudes of the people in charge.
So hard to keep up my enthusiasm these days. I used to think I would never tire of WoW. I can’t claim any one thing has turned me away. It’s more like many, many small things. The guild permissions are kind of the tip of the iceberg for me.
Returning our granular permissions won’t fix all the problems, but it would certainly signal that someone actually has been paying attention all this time.
Yeah. Okay. It’s not going to happen. But I’m still going to keep asking. At least until I give up on WoW completely.
I feel like this issue will go on until Blizz pulls the plug on WoW. Even though Ion said the change was unintentional and they were working on a fix, it’s clear they really don’t see it as a problem and aren’t going to devote any resources to it.
The only way I can see granular permissions being returned is if Blizz does a major overhaul of the guild system entirely. Only then would fixing permissions seem to them worth the trouble.
Pettiness is taking a tire iron to a working system everyone was happy with but that you couldn’t figure out how to monetize to your satisfaction, installing your “Discord Killer” on top of it, making it the only option for internal comms by forcing some things to run through it, and then showing the whole project off while proudly proclaiming “Of course it’s a success and everyone loves it! Look how many people use it!” with no irony or shame.
I hate that this issue isn’t important enough to anyone at Blizz for them to pay any attention to it.
There are multiple other things wrong with the game that aren’t getting fixed, either, like the character statistics. You might not be aware, but those statistics aren’t correct on some characters (maybe all, I don’t know.) I put in a bug report and a ticket a couple of months ago and was told it would soon be fixed in a patch. So I reopened my ticket the other day (since no fixes came) and was told there was nothing they (the folks who answer tickets) can do about it and I should put in a bug report.
I think just like the Druid travel form feedback they said they’d listen to… we got lied to and the ship sunk long ago.
They can’t even bother to actually refresh holidays when they say they’re going to. I don’t expect a revamp of coding to fix guild permissions. They’ve just given up on the game’s functionality at this point, imo.
I sincerely wish we’re wrong, but it doesn’t feel that way.
I still find ways to enjoy WoW, but not nearly as often or for as long as I used to. I doubt fixing the permissions would make a big enough difference to turn things around, but it would show that the culture is shifting back to the excellence Blizzard once had.
Well good news, Phil Spencer our soon to be corporate overlord absolutely wants to bring back the golden years of WoW. The question is whether he keeps his word on building back WoW and Blizzard’s other IPs back to their peaks.
I just now discovered you can buy Trader’s Tender from the Shop.
“Technically” you’re buying a tansmog, but tender comes with it. I feel like Blizz has stooped so low, it’s hard to even pretend they’ll ever do anything about our issue here. Maybe they can put granular permissions in the Shop?
