It feels very strange that this tool was so heavily fought against and you even went so far as to create these brand new design pillars of ideology to justify not including RDF. You had all of these forum, reddit, and twitter posts explaining why this was something that had to be kept out to nurture and protect all of these classic beliefs but then immediately walked it back for the last phase of the expac? Will there ever be a dev reason given? My gut feeling is that you always intended to do this to try and buff player count for ICC.
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Or they were just too lazy to implement it earlier and used the âmuh socializationâ bs as cover.
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Well considering Brian Birmingham was very much against it as the Classic Lead Developer and he doesnât work there anymore, thereâs your answer. As for the time, it takes a while to make large decisions and developments like that especially considering Classicâs small team.
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no weâll never get a definitive answer as to why they changed their hearts cause all they will officially say is that âthis was the plan all alongâ and we should just ignore that they stated it would never come to classic at all
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It was finally getting 1,000 likes on my comment:
âI agree â add LFD/RDF to LKClassicâ
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Itâs not likely that they will be honest about it, but there are plenty of legitimate reasons to introduce it right now despite what theyâve said previously.
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âEngagement with 5-man content has been lower than we expected, despite new incentives,â
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âWe have seen an unanticipated drop-off in the use of the LFG tool that has resulted in a âgear desertâ for new and returning players,â and of course
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âOur philosophy was to adhere to the spirit of the original version of the game, which never truly precluded the possibility of releasing this controversial feature during the same patch in which it was originally introduced.â
Or a combination of those.
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âWill we ever get a cut and dry answer on RDF being added?â
Has now become
âWhy did they add it? will we get a reason?â
Both have had answers.
Didnât they originally say âWe have no plans to add RDF⌠at this time.â
It is no longer at that time. It is a different time.
I know I took that as meaning that they had it up their sleeve to add during icc.
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More so the follow up ââŚso plan accordinglyâ blue post.
Took that as superseding their ââŚat this timeâ phrasing.
though if the plan was to add it with ICC I donât see why that couldnât have been announced as such. Points towards RDF being held back, potentially by Brian, and is now being added in his absence. I donât really think it was their plan all along to add it while Brian was in charge.
The answer for including it was in the recent dev interview video. Paraphrasing obviously but ââŚdifficulty with finding groups while levelingâŚâ Or âBrain left so we did thisâ
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no, it was literally we arenât adding it at all
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WotLK is never and was never truly Classic. LFD slots right in with it where it wouldnât in vanilla.
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classic is anything older than current
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Wow⌠they didnât release RDF until the point where it was actually released in WotLK. Truly a mystery. Iâm still wondering why they chose to release ToGC after Ulduar. I just donât get itâŚ
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This is hardly the first time blizzard made a bad design decision and only walked it back when it had major negative consequences in game and via feedback.
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No, because that would require them admitting they fâed up by refusing to add it initially
Wow⌠they didnât release dual spec until the point where it was actually releasedâŚoh wait
Wow⌠they didnât release cross realm bgs until the point where they were actually releasedâŚoh wait
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Brain dead forums. Almost to the level of general.
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Iâm just waiting for the WoW token from WODâŚoh wait.
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We literally knew RDF would come out with ICC.
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Iâm just glad they did, they 100% saved the end of WOTLK and possibly Cataclysm classic if they release it, if Cataclysm did not have RDF it would have been dead on arrival.
WOTLK/Cataclysm isnât (Classic) anymore Classic Era are there if you want no RDF and an actual active community and retail is there too if you want more modern type QoL and gameplay.
WOTLK and possibly Cataclysm are a mix of the two, they are both Classic and retail in a way and have QoL from Retail but a similar gameplay and feels to Classic era which is what make them appealing to me.
I think its good like this so now people have three version of WoW to play.
Classic Era servers
WOTLK/Cataclysm/progressive servers
Retails servers.
All three offer different experiences.
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Sure ya did champ!
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