Introduce a fill-in for gear as a ring with unique stones that have unique status effects.
The community flips out on impulse on it being both worthless because it has no secondary stats AND that it’s not must-have, yet treat it like it’s Azerite gear.
Rain gear tokens for alts that are raid-level in ilvl from easy-to-zerg bosses in the open world.
The community still isn’t satisfied and demands open world tokens to be better than the actual raid gear because ‘muh Forbidden Knowledge stacks lul’.
Introduce an optional, yet simple Vault system that is engaging enough to ride out the rest of the raid tier with cosmetics, mount, and lore.
The community cannot comprehend the word ‘optional’. Proceeds to complain about the puzzles in the tower my four year old managed to figure out because ‘it sticks out like a sore thumb’.
Can’t help but think all of WoW’s woes are not just with Blizzard.
Hello, I see you posted a thread about poor development implementations. Most of the complaints were centered around the fact that we were specifically told that these things were supposed to be BiS for the majority of specs but when they released, they most certainly were not, haha! They are a little better after they buffed them, good enough for people with mediocre gear at least! I’m pretty happy they aren’t BiS actually because the content is boring and the last thing I wanted to do was farm that junk for gear, haha!
The game has somewhere in the range of low millions of subscribers. When you have this many people, every single possible opinion will exist. WoW community never changes because it is protected from change by size. It is a numbers thing. Human nature drives us to rarely post when we are pleased, and post frequently when we are displeased. This combination of facts means that basically every reasonable complaint about any particular system is likely to be posted here, whether it is commonly irritating or not.
If you want an honest take, the ring is too gimmicky. Being able to build the ring’s stats and then picking a single additional effect/proc/ability as a capstone would probably have gone over better than what we got. Also, didn’t the devs say the ring would be BiS for most if not all specs and hold them over till the next patch? When you make a statement like that, people will expect the ring to be significant.
My issue with the vault is that it should be treated as a self-contained system. This is mostly because of the inventory issues I noticed after two trips to the vault. The vault should come with its method of storing items instead of flooding my bags with items. I basically said “screw this” after two runs because of this.
This one I’ll grant you if people are really complaining about that. Though it is grating to get everything but your armor type dropping from these mobs. My hunter got plate tokens dropping. My warrior had leather and mail drops. I get that it helps with alts, but I can’t help feel that there should be a trade-in system or something.
Back in the day (way back) we’d discuss the game with the dev’s directly via IRC.
We would be asked about game mechanics, spells, lore, you name it, we were a part of the process.
This became the norm, but the players got more aggressive, ideas became demands and now we’re here in 2023 where the dev’s avoid the community like the plague.
What do you expect from this so-called community most of them only sub just to whine on the forums and complain non stop wasn’t this bad back during Wrath or MOP.
This part was based on a topic about changing the forbidden knowledge to BoA instead of BoP, for those that do content on multiple characters or get a lot on those that have a lot but don’t need. Like I have 6 on my paladin, he does not need (I also have a DK and Warrior so I can deal with the mog while upgrading those 2).
More or less, the argument here went down like this:
Pro BoA ToFK: We want to be able to use the work we put in game on any character to benefit our other characters
Her: nope, sorry, you have to put in the work on each character individually otherwise you are lazy/entitled.
Some of us would rather put in the individual work in content and use systems like this as a way to supplement, like I am taking as many characters as I can through the weekly 4 mythics as I can, but am using the reach to fill in (while in queue). My time on each toon, in world content, is low but is it wrong to want our time and work in game, regardless of which character we do it on, to benefit all of our characters?
I think alot of wows playerbase on the forums/reddit play the game more out of addiction than anything else and are past the stage of burnout into some sorta super burnout. 90% of this games problems melt away if you take regular breaks to do something else.
WoW isn’t runescape simply put. Back early in its life cycle they kept trying to make a broader and broader audience since they were the only real show in town.
Now that it shrunk it has a highly factured community that hates different parts of itself.
Dont get me wrong i like runescape but if i wanna play runescape, i play runescape. Besides, i cant even imagine the bloody murder people would cry on here if account progress was locked behind stuff like agility, underground pass, or the solo players nightmare: shield of arrav.
Yeah with complaints of so many you would think that they would actually try to do something about the issues instead of just turning a blind eye to it and still making it as it was for them y’all don’t get it y’all are in for a big surprise about this pay to win to really have anything in that game without having to to rely on the let the guide system they have which is about useless the ticket writing I can remember when you wrote a ticket and all sudden this ghost would pop up in front of you and ask you to give him a few minutes and he’d introduce himself and he would take care of the issue that hand that you wrote about you don’t see that no more it’s because they don’t want to deal with you they want to get you in run you through this stuff and get you on your happy way