if you think having a community council is for player feedback, and not so blizzards bad decision making can be pinned on them, you’re straight up delusional.
blizzard has had all the feedback they have needed every single expansion, and they ignore it, check the twitter thread below, which goes in depth about the previous community council:
and go look at that community council video on youtube, it wasn’t even uploaded by the main WoW channel, it was uploaded by a burner that had less than 100 subscribers. sorry to ruin the copium huffing, but its best to not get your hopes up with this company.
I’ll stick to R1 arena players that are well adjusted and understand the game from a PvP perspective better than a random “epic” bg player any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
Anyway I hope there is a good percentage of BG players instead of just arena players on the council . For far too long Arena has been favored .
Edit:- I know this was put forward earlier but I am not in favor of templates . Instead they shd make gearing possible via unrated over time . Give the hamster the cheese in front so that you make him run on the wheel .
they already did this for SL’s design and that’s why the game is in the poor state it currently is, indicating that was in fact the wrong thing to do. designing the game around the top 1% leaves the other 99% out in the cold, and that rejection by the devs is why many are playing FF atm roleplaying cat girls in player housing. players wanted more social casual stuff to do while locked up at home, and blizz gave them more esports and segregation from friends.
that’s not a direct question, you are leading the conversation flow to your desired outcome instead of asking honestly.
they didn’t have a council for SL, but the design is unquestionably elitist, working mainly for top end players only. you also have to remember that they already hired a bunch of high end players, they are working on torghast abilities and did some work on dk and rogue.
they have enough R1 knowledge to last a lifetime, but none of that helped SL. they need what they lack, which is casual perspective.
Unfortunately, going by at least some of the posters here, the problem is compounded by the human nature element of as you mentioned elitism. (And in some cases, it’s questionable, considering some of the rated opinions here are from “average” rated quality players)
It seems like having a variety of opinions / possibilities for some is trumped by their overwhelming desire to look down on anyone who doesn’t fit their vision even if having multiple perspectives would probably be great for PVP overall.
The devs have got it into their heads that ppl shd do rated . So they have made it easier and easier to get upgrades via rated . They can’t seem to understand that a large chunk of their players ( probably the majority ) don’t want to do rated . They just want to have fun in unrated content
No, what you said was intentionally misleading. So basically, you just made that part up? And yes, it was a direct question. Unfortunately for you it was one you dare not answer.
How is this “elitist”? If anything it was done out of greed by Blizzard. High end arena players didn’t ask for this change.
At the end of the day, it’s an MMORPG, gearing is part of it and I don’t want to be cheated out of character building because people are too lazy to gear their characters.
So? Random bgs are my favorite thing too at times. You can go in to random bgs and get curbstomped because you feel like playing 12 characters or you can get enough gear on a couple of them to be useful. The choice is yours.
I disagree here, especially in 9.1.5. What is the ilvl for 1200 rating? 242? I’m sorry but if you can’t play 2s for an hour a season and hit 1200 then I have no sympathy for you.
This is straight up a laziness issue. You don’t lose rating, at all up to like 1400. This gearing for PvP is amazing. Hope they stick to the 9.1.5 version.