They said Dracthyr would get to pet battles too fast and yes Im serious.
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Yes, they’re doing what they usually do (catering to the casuals).
Their reasoning was just bad. They literally said they dont’ want folks to have an advantage in collecting transmogs from instances (where it can’t even be used as it’s disabling in instances, they don’t want folks to have an advantage in Pet Battles (lol what??) and they had an advantage in travel (portals exist).
Their reasoning felt like they don’t even play their own game.
Probably but going faster is more fun. The solution to their reasoning was to just bring Dragonriding to Azeroth.
The result is that Dracthyr have a drastic efficiency advantage over characters of other races when doing non-Dragon Isles content, whether that’s Chromie Time quests, clearing old raids for transmog, pet battling, etc.
Word from word.
It’s extremely weird they even mentioned Chromies Time because the Dracthyr start at 58, when Chromies Time is effectively over.
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Casuals dont do pet battles. Nobody does pet battles. Pet battles are dumb.
Rude.
Im not saying we should all bombard the @Warcraftdevs twitter account about Soar. I would never ever suggest that.
If they want to make less money, then you’re right.
Well, it slowed down so much that I ran out of reasons to log in and I canceled all 5 of my 6-month recurring subscriptions for the first time in 18 years.
There comes a point where even addicts have had enough. If every time you took a drink, Jack Daniel’s himself showed up and punched you in the face, you’d eventually switch poisons or break the habit. This routine abuse by Blizzard got old during WoD and at this point, they’re just repeatedly kicking their most loyal customers. But through unprovoked malice, even loyalty can be shattered.
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Good because you shouldn’t.
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Look, if I wanted to do pet battles Id emulate Pokemon Gold for the GBA.
Your problem is the fact that people tend to have short memories and Blizzard is banking on this. People complain, yet they will still stay subbed. And in blizzard’s mind, if you drop your sub, to bad so sad, there are plenty others who will not.
It is like the slime cat issue. Blizzard did nothing about it because they know people will stay subbed.
All the sunken cost fallacies in the world wont convince to keep letting ActiBlizz give me wedgies every afternoon.
I don’t have any problems here anymore. I’m no longer subscribed and see zero reason to come back. If I don’t see something impressive, my money goes elsewhere from now on. 
I am still holding a grudge from the broken Dance Studios promise from Wrath.
Somehow, I don’t think it’s going to work out for them this time.
Well, I didn’t have any significant complaints until this expansion, and I have not stayed subbed as a result. If Blizzard can keep enough subs to stay profitable while completely ignoring casuals, then I guess there aren’t as many casuals as I thought. It’s one thing to be angry and then let it go. It’s quite another thing to LITERALLY HAVE NOTHING FUN OR ENGAGING TO DO IN THE GAME FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF WOW.
Understand, this is not more of the same. This moment is unprecedented. Shadowlands marks the moment when Blizzard decided to focus 100% on their “Three Pillars” community at the expense everyone else. That is potentially the worst thing they could have done.
I don’t care about Blizzard’s mind, but I can tell you this - if you’re cavalier about losing money, you’re going to lose a lot of it.
Well, I didn’t. Not my monkeys, not my circus. I’ll be back if they ever figure out how to run an MMO, but as it stands, my money is better spent on Steam.
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Doesn’t change anything I wrote. One would have thought that Blizzard would have learned something with the exodus to ffxiv, and they acted like they cared for a little while, but then reverted back to their same ole same ole. So it demonstrates they are following the “customers will continue to buy the product no matter what” model.
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May they follow it faithfully into oblivion, where they are never heard from again.
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Hey, they reap what the sow and yada yada. They keep punishing players for not playing as the ActiBlizz “vision” demands so we’ll all eventually leave to play a game that doesnt treat us like hamsters on a treadmill.
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Yes, most people will stay subbed. For now. But, some have unsubbed over these decisions, and my question is: How many new subs did they gain from the slime cat and soar decisions? Not one. Who is still subbed now, who would not have been had they put slime cat in LFR and left soar alone? My guess is also probably none.
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I still don’t understand why they went this route. They had a homerun.
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Again, I super do not advocate for posing these questions to the @Warcraftdevs twitter account.
Oh it’s not that serious where I would make a Twitter account.
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You dont hate yourself enough to use Twitter? Lucky~