This shyyte is long but it makes more sense than anything I’ve ever read on a WoW forum thread.
" The central problem is the level of entitlement on display here.
No doubt there are many executives from whom you could hear the same opinion. Though they would direct it at their enemy, us.
But no, the real entitlement here is many times more massive than what you can see from cranky gamers wanting their most hated class nerfed. The real entitlement is from the shareholders and CEO of Bilzzard, thinking that they can cut costs and corners to maximize profits on the psuedo-relaunch of a 15 year old game they own the rights to.
They’re right of course, they can legally do as terrible a job as they want and collect our $15 a month plus the naked cash grab for mounts and boosts. Though, as the video of Steve Jobs making the rounds on the web teaches, the product suffers massively.
I wish I could say that I couldn’t believe it when i heard that blizzard was going to run TBC entirely on one patch. Does anyone remember their little PR story they put out about the hunt for the original WoW code?
A segment of it made reference to the fact that in the case of TBC all the original data was still intact in archives, but not so lucky for vanilla.
They could have made this re-launch a near exact replica, but it would have been “hard”. Aww, poor little multi-billion dollar company just doesn’t have the resources or experience to bring us a patch by patch recreation that they KNOW is what we actually want?
They certainly could have, but to accomplish this feat they would have to pay many more programmer hours and that means less money for their shareholders, and that just isn’t acceptable no matter what their customers want right?
“You think you do, but you don’t” They massively overloaded these servers and allowed transfers to make imbalances even worse.
This never should have been allowed to happen, but no matter how many times we begged/threatened/asked for information about TBC classic release, they fended us off until when they finally did release some details, it would have been too late to refuse their cheapa$$ version of TBC classic all on a patch that frankly wasn’t even the best patch to choose.
We bear much of the burden of blame, we only spoke as one for a few months to get this entire dog and pony show to happen. Since it’s been created we’ve divided amongst ourselves in so many ways we no longer have the leverage we could wield to force shareholders to accept less money for a better product.
Horde vs Alliance, OGs vs retail andy’s, PvPers vs PvEers, MrNiceguys vs Trolls
I don’t know if it’s possible to squeeze a great WoW experience out of this greedy company anymore, but I do know the ONLY way it’s going to happen is if we all swallow our pride and communicate and compromise with each other to speak with one voice and dictate terms to these once gamers consumed by avarice.
It would be presumptive of me to tell you what we should do next, and barring a miracle not enough people will even see this message. But i’ve recently made a couple threads and read thousands of your replies, I’ve heard you and I hope you will hear me out and spread the word. We need a figurehead with a platform and a voice, the easiest choice would be Asmon, but more difficult to achieve; we need to come together and decide what we want to demand for our dollars. "
