I would rather wait a few years for a.) Blizzard to clean house internally first, and then b.) work really hard on a new MMO, incorporating some on the newer ideas the other MMOs are implementing now, rather than get another round of World of Systemcraft.
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I am not wishing harm on anyone.
I am saying let the game die. I am not saying fire the developers. That is Activision-Blizzard’s fault.
Otherwise you may as well take responsibility for the many developers who lost their jobs because you chose not to play MMORPGs like Wildstar and what not.
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Maybe it can pull a No Man’s Sky? When that game launched people got super upset about the state of the game, but Hello Games doubled down and poured everything into the game and the state of the game now (imo) is fantastic.
I’ve felt that Blizzard has put WoW on the backburner and isn’t properly devoting resources for it. Let it go into proper development with a full team and full resources and make something worth playing.
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Interesting the topic being about Wow development stalling, and all the little side arguments about asinine BS because people are pulling threads just to have something to argue about. Does anyone ever just come and read posts and 90% of them are people arguing off topic? O.o
On topic: It’s a shame that there are innocent people who have to suffer in this. However, if this is even remotely true, it needs to be exposed and the company needs to be retooled. That doesn’t mean people need to lose their jobs, unless they were directly involved. The stalling of development trickles down to us. The devs are always behind as it is. This will be a trainwreck for them to come back from. I would not want to be in their position right now, regardless of who did what or who is guilty of what. The fallout is going to be awful 
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You could be crazy and say
“Should have thought about that before they chose to be silent about a massive douche culture in the work place.”
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No Man’s Sky and Realm Reborn can only be pulled by dev team with intense amount of passion.
Morale within Blizzard is very low right now, they’re not going to pull it off.
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I’m happy if the people not involved in this get a chance to decompress and recharge a little.
I doubt this really changes the direction of the game unless a bunch of lead people end up resigning.
I think some people want the game to die along with the company and I don’t think it has anything to do with the allegations, more than likely greed and politics. Vultures smell blood and they are waiting for the patient to die so they can pick the flesh from the bones.
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It absolutely can. Activision-Blizzard is one of the largest video game companies. Given the time, money, and creative freedom, WoW can 100% have its NMS or FFXIV moment.
However, I don’t think WoW is in as bad of a state as those games were. WoW’s foundation is still there. It’s still a competent game, but there are a lot of things they keep putting in that ruin it. Personally speaking, I think Shadowlands would be a lot more fun if they got rid of the timegating, covenant limitations, and absurd number of systems. It wouldn’t solve everything, but I find this game to be abysmal to play when I can only do so in small bites and the only content are grinds.
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I am sorry, I am neither greedy or have any reason for this to be politically charged. I stand to gain nothing from WoW dying out.
Well, maybe I do. We would probably end up seeing good games being better supported, rather than one bad game wasting resources that could be better spent elsewhere.
I guess good games is a benefit to me, I like playing good video games.
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I don’t buy that, it’s okay if you don’t agree. The game does not need to die off for it to be better, all kinds of ideas have been discussed and people like you are simply dismissing them because you just want the game to die. I think it’s a little weird.
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Oh certainly.
WoW won’t be any better if it is dead. it would be dead, shut down, no longer playable.
It’ll just means that the playerbase would flock to other games, potentially other MMORPGs which will then see a larger population, more support so that they can be better.
We would see the death of a bad game, and the rise of better games.
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I don’t want WoW to die, but I think failure is a good teaching lesson. When failure happens with a video game, one of two things can happen:
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The game gets rebuilt and restructured with feedback in mind.
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The game dies out, and the people left in the rubble move onto better games that allows those games to be better supported.
Neither are necessarily bad. If WoW dies, it would be tragic, but it would allow for more games in the MMO genre to succeed because of the chokehold this game has had on the genre for nearly two decades. Similarly, if WoW fails and gets rebuilt, it could be the game everyone wants it to be and then everyone is happy.
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Please no. Just stop.
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How does sticking around make the game better? Out of the huge number of positive suggestions people make, maybe 1% of them actual make it into the game.
Its really not about the players, its about a big corporate harassment culture designed to keep people/players down while they follow their own agenda which has nothing to do with the average players enjoyment from the game.
I do like alot of the game and alot of the game is just stupid too. Just, they never seem intent on making it better and I guess its because they deem inferiors as not worthy enough to listen to their complaints.
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Why is it that Human trash has to come crawling out of the woodworks to punish innocents?
If you’re fighting harassment with harassment, you’re part of the problem.
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Imagine having the privilege to do this. People who are abused like customer service reps can’t just stop working because of something bad happening in the workplace.
Byebye, WoW!
If wow dies there is no game to take it’s place, no game has the things I enjoy in wow because no one focuses on things like raiding and mythic+ anymore.
So if WoW were to ever die, guess it’s Pservers for me, but it won’t die, not over this.
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I’m sure companies like Amazon would be pleased if World of Warcraft would just hurry up and die so their game can claim World of Warcraft’s playerbase.
They already have a plan to maximize profits in the coming years… the systems they put in place is ment to keep people logged in more and logging more often.
Activision has a big hold on the eSports markets and that is the direction all assets will eventually take.
They dump more money into affiliates, marketing, and competitions then they do with QA and development…
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