Exactly, if true balance was ever achieved they would no longer require a balance team. They’d save some bucks, which they are normally all about. Keeping it imbalanced must make them more money.
or maybe you’d have major problems when it comes to player housing.
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People want QoL stuff to their housing. The reason of Garrisons were hated was they provided EVERYTHING to players. It also gave QoL stuff. Player Housing would need to have something cosmetic but also QoL things to help people. Without it…it would be be an overglorified dollhouse (even SWTOR has that stuff so folks could create RL guild halls or stuff)
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Housing locations and limitations.
One thing folks need to know is how would housing work? You’d need a specific spots as well as whether they be instanced or phased. Not only that but you’d also have to have some form of limitations (imagine the whole logistics of instanced areas and imagine all of them being in one zone). Folks love to use FFXIV as an example of player housing, while ignoring that the housing “market” in that game is basically poaching plots from inactive accounts. -
The Furinture situation
this is the big thing that you need to think on with that situation. From what the TC here wants is just free stuff that drops or he can make (not worried about professions) but you got a ton of work to implement various furniture acquisitions (unless it’s all default Alliance/Horde things). That and I don’t think Raiders would love getting chair drops instead of purple loot.
Good points Chal! These are things blizz would need to work through. Super difficult? Yes, but i don’t think they should shy away from bold ideas.
I’m thinking professions could make it and if housing stuff is dropping from raids…That is exactly what I don’t want blizz to do. That isn’t accessible and fun for everyone.
It’s instanced theme park MMO, this really isn’t the platform for player housing.
Most of the items in the game are just Icons. Most of the armor is just alterations to characters. Not independent objects to decorate with so without a major level of effort it wont be much.
And most of the player base doesn’t have this interior decorator fantasy where the server will be lined up outside of your house to see what a beautiful job you did choosing which furniture scheme to use.
If the employees had redundant jobs no longer needed…should they have kept them around?
MUH LORE is probably one of the main reason we can’t have X or Y.
Like can we have more Paladin race options?
MUH LORE.
Can we have this cool armor or weapon?
MUH LORE.
Can we have a Quality of Life change?
MUH LORE.
Like go back to being flavor text on a grey item, no one cares.
All other MMOs:
Where are the subs?
This is an MMORPG, so why should we not ask for more RPG features? The argument that “It would cost us a raid tier.” is quite frankly nonesense. If Blizzard doesn’t put more money into development, it’s because they don’t want to, not because they can’t.
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Here’s a thought, other smaller game studios do both so why can’t this billion dollar gaming company?
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I bet a ton of people would love it if it wasn’t tied to anything. It would pay off and keep people playing like me. Transmogging is extremely popular. People spend tons of time and energy chasing after a new mogg or look. I for one am more motivated by that than player power. You don’t want to know how much time I spent lining up swords and helmets in Morrowind lol. Had a blast doing it. It doesn’t have to be like that just an example.
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I’m not saying there aren’t players, just that the ratio is probably close to the RP Server / Normal Server ratio.
And that the garrison is probably the best you will ever get with the foundation this game is resting on.
My point wasn’t that they were needed, it was that mentioning the fired employees and acting like it had anything to do with money, when the company had actually turned a profit, in a discussion about whether or not Blizzard can afford to do both, is ignorant at best and disingenuous at worst.
The implication was clearly that they were fired for monetary reasons which is patently false. The company didn’t need to let people go to stay afloat, they could have kept them all and still profited from the year.
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more money put into a game = more money you expect to make back. Unless your goal is to sell your expansion/feature at a loss. You wanna know a secret in how other games do it? They put their furniture on the shop. It’s why SWTOR relies on Cartel market, everyone will sink 30-50 bucks just to give their digital dollhouse a cantina bar or a guild bank
You might be right. Who knows? I am only going on my own experience here. Hoping there are others that love wow yet feel like something is off. At the end of the day it might very well be that I need to take a break.
But why would a company pay someone to do nothing?
I dunno.
Weird point to make.
Dude just copy wild stars housing, done.
Super simple and you don’t need to recreate the damn wheel. Stop complicating an issue that’s not complicated.
Instanced housing is better than in world housing. FFXIV and ArchAge proved that.
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That wasn’t my point. Why are you acting like it was? I pretty definitively just stated what I was trying to say man, I don’t know why you’re trying to shift the goalposts now.
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wildstar was a complete failure why would blizzard copy anything from them
they weren’t a failure because of housing so stop correlating that with its failure. the game failed for other reasons but the housing wasn’t one of them.
love how you’re reaching for straws.
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Saying that wow can’t learn from failures of other mmos is kinda narrow don’t you think. Not everything about a failed mmo is bad
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