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(Video) Open Letter to Blizzard Entertainment from Mark Kern
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Some good points for sure, but if it never happens not really a big deal, at least to me.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Originally posted by Scagweed22
is it the graphics? the repetativenesses? i mean what is the point? you could be so much more productive in real life
Real life brings repetition and pointlessness too. The only thing real life offers is Great graphics. Its kinda expensive too and way to dependent on the cash shop. Totally pay to win as well. No thank you. Ill stick to my games.
I'm not saying that everything is worse now in WoW, just that "new" != "better".
smells like 8 more years of O___a hehehe
On a secondary note, I find it fascinating that Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street, as, if not more, influential as Mr. Kern had this to say on the issue, the emphasis italicized:
What is your opinion on the Nostalrius situation and legacy servers with world of warcraft as a whole? Would you be willing to voice your support for the petition alongside Mark Kern to create legacy servers that allow players to return to the game that they actually enjoyed?
I don't think it's appropriate for me to get involved here. I'm not just a normal player. I'm someone who worked on WoW for six years, so I feel like my voice would carry more weight than it should, more weight than someone who actually has skin in the game.
In terms of my thoughts on the topic, a lot of players keep asking, so I'll just quote myself on Twitter here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/NostalriusBegins/comments/4g5gpo/greg_ghostcrawler_streets_official_response/I've been asked this a lot. I'm not going to pick a side about who is right or wrong because it's probably not that simple
I definitely feel for the players who lost something.
But I'm sure Blizzard had good reasons. Maybe they had to protect their IP, because you can lose it if you do not. IDK.
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now that's cute, but you won't compare those 10 somesish k to the actual ammount of playing users, or?
not sure how high it is, but i'd bet it still is around 4 million.
so maybe stop claiming that blizz ain't listening to it's community, this is was democracy was founded on, suppression of the minority. ^^
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
I am curious, however, about why other former Blizz devs, and I'm sure there are lots, haven't weighed in on the issue regardless of pro or con vanilla servers.
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- Albert Einstein
Ultimately, WoW today is differentiating itself by accessibility: There are very few MMORPGs someone can sit down and play for 10 minutes on an odd beaten morning to go run around ungoro or something and mine ore, or get a few good quests in without a diatribe of dialog getting in the way. That being said, The game had this even in Vanilla. What has changed is the leveling curve and too much emphasis on the individual instead of group endeavors, which is what makes an MMO an MMO. Couple that with an extreme linearization of progression with few alternate paths to explore when leveling alternate characters, and we end up where we are today with Warlords of Draenor.
They have made many great systems that used to be external mods that current players will loath to be without, so getting something like legacy servers will be difficult, but I think it would be worth it in the long run.
Last week it was that Blizzard wasn't even going to bother responding or commenting on the issue.
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Even if they did open them why would you want to give them the money when people have asked for it and they keep saying NO i know i wouldn't.
Wow is the biggest mmo there is, certainly the biggest p2p mmo. There is nothing that has even 1 million subs aside from wow. The next biggest mmo down from wow is L1.
Wow at it's weakest point ever is still the biggest and most powerful mmo on the planet, I think they will be ok. So what if legion does sell lower, it's still a monster. For a small comparison, the private wow server had more players than XIV has worldwide (and that game cost an obscene amount of money to make...twice)
You guys are so caught up in yourself you don't see the bigger picture. Saying legion will sell low is like saying a footballer will get 2 million less this year when they are pulling in 100 mill a year. Wow is doing fine, Blizzard aren't worse for it doing less well because it's not even their most prized IP anymore (even though it's still the biggest MMO on the planet)
I played Wow for a year, I didn't even get to cap. I don't even like Wow but even I can see ex players who have the "I wish my ex gf would get cancer mindset". No amount of nay saying is going to stop wow being the most powerful mmo that exists. Chances are you're still going to be complaining about how wow is dying in 20 years.
No LFR or LFD
Instances that require CC and to pull a pack at a time
Dungeons where you can loose yourself in not a liner path through the Dungeon.
No instance ports to the dungeons
Raids that take longer than 3 to 4 weeks to do. Think Kara, or ZQ, or MC, or any of these Raids
Crafting that matters again. I remember using crafted gear in Vanilla and TBC because it needed to be used.
Some changes people will accept
Today's LFG or FFXIVs Party Finder Tool
The Raid Calendar
A few more flight paths
Being able to Save any instance's progression so we can come back later with the same people
EXP while gathering
Less mobs in instances as long as you still need to CC\Kite\Off Tank some of the mobs and focus DPS in a kill order
None of these things which are consistently talked about break the community of WOW or hurt what the game was. These tools also facilitate getting people together in a community which is what Vanilla WOW and TBC WOW was. Today LFR\LFD killed off the community.
I am game too.
You sound like a person that cries about this and that on TV. I will tell you like I tell them, if you have such a problem with it, change the channel.. Or in your case, don't log in to the server.
I just don't think they want to shoot themselves in the foot by releasing new content so close to the launch of Overwatch...
Is it not possible to turn that statement around with the same effect?
World of Warcraft has moved on. If and until Blizzard shows proclivity to open classic servers, the continued salvo of insults launched by supporters of 'classic servers' to those who are perfectly content with the game as it is today could be construed, to use your own words, as "so ***** ignorant to their own selfishness".
It is ill-suited for either "side" to demonize the other. In fact, we all represent two sides of the same coin as we all love WoW in any one of its many iterations.
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