And you just confirmed my suspicion I made in an earlier post. You are the type of person who wants Blizzard to create a warped version of vanilla that you think vanilla should be.
I am saying with sincerity, classic WoW is not for you. Retail WoW might be for you, or more likely Cataclysm classic but not vanilla classic because you don’t appreciate what makes classic great. It’s not about the loot or gameplay. You do not love or appreciate the world like I do or true classic players do. Do not play on any classic servers including Season of Discovery if you don’t understand what makes those servers special in which you obviously don’t.
I have to be aggressive because players such as yourself and Crudlord are not harmless. Blizzard has caved into your demands before which resulted in the determinant to my experience.
There are so many other games that pander to your demands, including other WoW servers, but you have to come here and force blizzard to make changes to the game that I enjoy.
and this proves you are not an MMORPG player.
You are not that important and you unsubbing won’t hurt the game in the slightest. You were never meant to be here based on your previous posts.
“Others have noted I should just stop playing WoW because I don’t like wasting my time like this. That’s definitely an option and it’s one I take periodically when the game because less fun for me.”
And then when somebody does get frustrated and unsubscribe, these same mouthpieces act like that some kinda victory. When Classic started in August 2019, it literally had 1/100th of the playerbase at its high point. There’s a fraction of as many players (back then); very likely Anniversary Fresh won’t beat the numbers of Q3/Q4 2019. Players unsubscribing is more deleterious to the long-term prospect for Classic servers than, say, Summoning Stones.
If someone isn’t having fun with the game, they should stop playing the game. Makes complete sense. We also shouldn’t be acquiescing to people that are going to unsubscribe anyways because they don’t like a major aspect of the game (The WORLD in the World of Warcraft).
I realize you said this because you think this is some clever rhetorical display, but it’s not.
Summoning Stones still require 2/5 players to ‘WORLD IN THE WORLD OF WARCRAFT’
I play all three versions currently, and have dabbled in Classic SOD, as well as Diablo 3 (and a little IV but didn’t like that). I’m not an idiot, and I understand what’s out there, that’s why you come across as condescending. The perfect version of WoW doesn’t exist for me, but that won’t stop me from giving my suggestions to Blizzard on what makes the game the most engaging to me. WoW, with all the things I don’t like is still more fun than anything else I have found, so this “play something else” doesn’t mean anything to me. What game has the combat system and loot of TBC WoW, with all the QOL updates of Retail?
And I don’t understand why this angers you. You still have Era. I’ve never suggested Blizzard change anything in Era. That’s for people like you who like being stuck in 2004 time capsule. I’m good with that.
Figel has admitted he would happily replace flight paths with instant teleporters too.
The irony is, the entire purpose of summoning stones is to quickly get a group into content that is detached from the world
How is this ironic? You’re saying you want to spend less time in the world and more time in instanced content. Instead of walking in the world to the instance, you would rather skip the world part and just do the dungeon.
Y’know … because I’m rational and capable of doing the whole “see through someone else’s eyes” shtick, I would totally be okay with Summoning Stones requiring a player to ‘touch’ the stone to be capable of being summoned to said stone.
but that is assuredly more coding than Blizzard would consider even as a doofy compromise
Agreed. I’ve always been curious how much Blizzard cringes whenever they see some of their players telling other players to quit playing and unsub. To that end, why would Blizzard decide to side with the players who are telling the other players to stop playing.
The problem with Era is that those servers have a low population now. The other problem is that there is nothing to look forward to since there won’t be any new content. This is why I am defensive of Season of Discovery because Season of Discovery is vanilla with the possibility of new content.
It does anger me to see classic versions of the game I enjoy get warped because players like you who are not true classic players want to change it to the way how you see fit.
Well you have to choose between what version of WoW you enjoy and learn tomake compromises. The only thing you are right is that the perfect MMO doesn’t exist but you have to learn to make compromises and appreciate products for what they are.
I sometimes enjoy retail because I love the huge world, wide array of races, classes, graphics, and other characters I can interact with. I don’t like RDF and other QoL features, and I don’t prefer the faster combat but I accept them because I know they are what make retail WoW retail. I don’t make demands on the forums to shape retail into a game that I think retail should be.
Just how you shouldn’t expect Blizzard to warp classic WoW into a version of WoW that YOU want.
Does this not tell you that your opinion is the minority? You think if Blizzard forces everyone to play as you want to play the servers will be full, but they won’t. They will just unsubscribe and play some other company’s game.
Literally nothing changes beyond the time it takes to get to that instance
Nothing changes except you completely skip the journey to the instance. You skip all of the players you would encounter en route to the instance. You skip any pvping that might have occurred en route. You skip any mining nodes or herbs you might have found. You skip any rares you might have found. You skip any mobs you could have killed that would have dropped cool items. You skip any quests you may have discovered. You skipped any new discoveries about the world you might have found.
You skipped the WORLD. Sorry, I have yet to see any irony in this statement.