Any time anyone says, “who asked for this” regarding content I immediately disregard any criticism they have because nobody permission to build content or what kind.
Games nobody asked for:
Minecraft Dungeons
New Vegas
Undead Nightmare
Half Life Alyx
Before the Storm
Portal 2
World of Warcraft
There are plenty of valid opinions about Plunderstorm but that ain’t one of 'em.
That was literally a point I made several posts ago. If the game as actually in a good state no one would care that they devoted the time to doing this, but there is so much attention the games needs right now. Especially in PVP that this just feels like a straight up insult.
It should have been added as a separate game, like HotS or Hearthstone or Diablo. Want to play it, download it and play it. Putting it as part of Wow, including rewards like pets that transfer to standard WoW and are basically unobtainable by those unable to do PvP, is pretty sucky imo.
Kinda a dumb take since i have actually gone pretty in depth into my opinions on this thread but ok. Thanks for the input.
If i’m trying to stay objective here and remain at least somewhat rational, I think a majority of the disdain comes from the fact that this feels like a side project for something entirely different than WoW.
Obviously it has the WoW branding attached to it, but when have we, to the best of your recollection, gotten a patch, even a x.x.x patch, that wasn’t directly tied to the game itself? This quite literally, and in your own words, has nothing to do with retail, and when you hype even an x.x.x patch up by withholding information only to release a complete side project its incredibly disheartening. There’s actually no logical and/or rational excuse to miss the mark this bad. I refuse to believe the devs that actually play this game at any level other than logging in for an hour to pet battle and do world quests/daily tmog runs, looked at this patch and thought, “Wow! What a new and innovating idea! A BR inside of an MMO! What great fun this’ll be!”.
I don’t think anyone is opposed to “new ideas” however, so long as it’s actually tied to the game they’ve actively logged hundreds if not thousands of hours into. No-one wants this, it’s not good to a majority (which is what Blizzard should be focused on appeasing), and even if no-one was opposed to the idea (which isn’t the case clearly), its poorly implemented/designed BR.
Thank you for so eloquently explaining what I have been trying to say.
It feels like a side project, because it is. This is the best time for them to experiment with new concepts or ideas, on the last patch before a new expansion. We lost a daily hub for this, 
who asked for this? not WoW players.
who actually asked for this? some guy at blizzard assuming this will hook newer, younger players instead of their actual playerbase.
To say no one wants it is false though. The people who are enjoying it are playing it and those who don’t are either continuing with their game as they would, or just not participating. This small patch a few weeks before season 4 is nice and I am glad for once that they are trying something new. I don’t think its fair to say the majority don’t want it considering most people do not come to the forums to say whether they do or don’t and that you have nothing to back that statement outside of the forum posts.
Also, why does a ‘side project’ bring such disdain? Does everything think the entire WoW team was taken away from their regular jobs and thrown into 10.2.6? Let’s be real here. Nothing says they have not still been working on WoW. I can see what you mean about the hype of the patch etc, but I still don’t agree that the level of anger/annoyance/whatever is even slightly necessary. It is fine to be disappointed, but the straight up negative posts overtaking the forums by the loud few who hate everything Blizzard does are actually too much.
Agreed.
I like that they’re trying something new, but this should just be a free promo op to get people into WoW. Instead, we’re getting nothing for Season 4 and there are actually glaring issues with the game - from leveling & the new player experience to PvP balance; etc.
While I’d agree with the timeline of experimenting, I just think that this side project should’ve had a team in itself to develop and release at a later date (perhaps during the lull of season 4?) while the rest of the wow team actually dedicated time and resources to things players have been screeching for for months/years, and sticking to the norm of releasing things that are going to directly impact wow players now.
I tried to play it for the rewards, but if you die early you get little to none of the rep or plunder! As the game is right now it is not worth my time or effort to play it! Sorry but this gives us nothing to do outside of pet/mount hunting and achivments!
Virtually no one wanted as seen through the many anger filled threads* (there i’ve corrected my vastly incorrect statement)
Several weeks from season 4*
Wildly inaccurate comment, that’s literally what the forums are…people saying its bad/good/anything inbetween.
huh? Where you going with that one pal?
Because it’s only correlation to wow, for a wow (game specific) patch, is the fact that you get cosmetic rewards. Why did this take months to develop and require months of silence? Release things specifically for wow and release side projects as, i dunno, a side project.
Noone has even mentioned that from anything i’ve seen, but feel free to correct me.
From every forum post i’ve seen people aren’t “hating everything Blizzard does”, they are voicing legitimate concerns about something unecessary that took the place of what could have led/been a solution to what people have been asking for for months/years, and missing the mark so badly that it feels like this level of oversight was deliberate for whatever reason.
Some of the content creators seem to like it, so its bound to be considered a success by Blizzard.
Content creators and minority > outspoken majority. Typical Blizzard fashion
There is no lull for season 4, the whole of season 4 is the lull. It last like 3-4 months at most, so the whole fated raid/dungeons should be enough to tie us down until the new expansion.
Psure this is a failed project resignified into WoW to test some new backend stuff they plan to implement in the future.
Lets be real, season 4 is just a recap/way to catch up mains/alts for the new xpac and get those last minute achieves/mounts from things like fated raids and/or m+. Most of which will be accomplished within weeks/end of the first month or two. The remaining months of needlessly grinding until war within is what I was referring to as the lull.
You didn’t understand what I meant by that. I know that is what the forums are for, what I am saying is that its a very small minority of people that play WoW that actually visit the forums for -any- reason, including how they feel about the game. So basing your statement of no one wanting it on the forum posts alone is not a good indicator of the actual full player base.
What was it that you didn’t get? I think I maybe cleared that up in this post?
So your issue is with how they handled telling people about this patch (by NOT telling people) and not the game mode itself? Would you have still been upset if you knew that this game mode was coming a few weeks ago? Would it change your experience that much?
I mean, maybe it wasnt on this post, but I have seen plenty of people complaining about how they took resources from WoW to work on this, as if they don’t have teams that work on different things.
There is always a lull. So, agree. I don’t have the answers to what they should be doing in that timeframe instead, but I usually use the lull to take a break, play other games, build up my energy for the xpac release. Though, I understand that for many WoW may be the only game they play.