I think they were halfway to being accurate in how they felt about it.
There was value and a sense of identity in being soft-locked to a covenant. What they missed entirely was the value of that was diminished immediately and almost entirely with drastic imbalance between the 4 covenants for each spec/class. Had they been balanced well, or say you raid and this covenant is slightly better 5% or so, and you m+ and this is 5% better than the raid one, the choice feels meaningful. But when it’s, if you pick this covenant you’re 20% ahead of the other ones in ALL content. That all went 100% out the window.
I wasn’t saying you personally. I saw you repliked to Briselody who told someone else that. The person said they were genuinely angry and when you get to that point, it really is time for a break. Random people on the internet should never make you mad for their opinions.
So much what OP says. Just like Nya, eventually they cave to player pressure, but they always do it in the most asinine way possible. Back then it was a vendor on rotation, now it’s not making covenants per spec. I’d be very surprised if there isn’t a “catch” with this, it’s in their nature, and it’s in their history. I’ll be shocked AF if you can just run around the room in Oribos switching factions back and forth.
That’s what I thought. The changes are great, but the fact is that these systems should’ve never made it live in the state they did to begin with, and the way they defend their decision to keep covenants that way for over a year doesn’t make me confident that they’ve learned from their mistakes.
It’s a pretty reasonable doubt, since they have been cranking up the discomfort and friction these systems arbitrarily introduce into the game just to be “fixed” at the end of the xpack since Legion.
I don’t agree to it. People on here have proven time and time again that no matter what they get, they’re not happy. They could issue a genuine apology but then it’ll be come “unless they send me a personalized signed letter at home and offer me free game time…”.
They admitted they were wrong. Just because they’re not groveling does not mean they do not know they messed up.
“When it comes to the limitations on Covenant-switching, millions of players experienced Shadowlands for the first time through the lens of their Covenant of choice, and that would have not been possible had the choice carried less weight from the outset.”
We love this game and just want it to be good. I feel like they just want to fight us instead of working with us. They SHOULD know better than we do. It’s a problem when we have to tell them how to make the game good. So frustrating. Then they pat themselves on the back for finally doing what we asked a year+ ago…
It’s like they don’t even know how their own game works. The renown threshold mentioned earlier solves that “problem”. It’s like someone added that remark in after everything was written to try to justify themselves
Theyve had over 15 years as a COMPANY to figure this out.
At this point you have to chalk it up to being unable to learn from successes and failures…or being more interested in making money for investors and Kotick in the short term than making a good product in the long.
I think it comes down to incompetence. Obviously not all the devs, but whoever the final decision makers are, have no clue. You could blame it on Ion, and as lead dev he does hold responsibility. But he alone isn’t at fault.
They did admit they were wrong. You are repeating BS. People like you drive me nuts because you don’t even form an opinion yourself. You just blab and repeat information you have no clue about.
The only one that needs to move on is you. How many years you been dooming the game on the forums all day almost every day?
lmao…how many subs lost in half a decade son?
The ones who need to get a grip are the clowns who cant make a game because theyre too busy groping female coworker and drinking on the job, lmao
