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Hazzikostas Talks World Quests, Tuning the Leveling Experience & More
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Hazzikostas Talks World Quests, Tuning the Leveling Experience & More
Ion Hazzikostas took part in a World of Warcraft Legion Developer Update with Jesse Cox to talk about some of the things coming in the expansion but, prior to talking about that, Hazzikostas revealed that alpha is ending over the next 24 hours and that there will be a full server wipe, a huge new wave of beta invites will be sent out and that beta will officially start on Thursday at 2 pm Pacific / 5 pm Eastern barring any strange build issues prior to that time.
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Yeah for some reason it seems that Blizzard are misunderstading the whole point of vanilla servers... It's not about the slow leveling, but basically everything else. Be it talents, dungeons, raids, professions, items... everything back then was completely different from now and that's what people want. Not just slow leveling. Truth be told I don't mind leveling being sped up a bit, but everything else has to be as it was. That's the point.
WoW was at it's most popular in WoTLK when 5 mans were all AOE fests and you could finish heroic UK in less than 10 minutes. I don't think having "hard" 5 mans is going to bring back Vanilla players who quit. Cata had hard heroics when they were done at appropriate gear levels. 5 mans now have way more challenging mechanics than anything in Vanilla. Legion is adding infinitely scaling 5 mans that will be hard. Requiring slow pulls and CC'ing trash doesn't suddenly make the game more fun or better.
Let's not turn every discussion of WoW as it is on live servers into another discussion of vanilla servers. Please stick to the topic at hand and the article as presented. Once Blizzard meets with the admins of the now-closed private realm, there will be plenty of time to reopen the discussion. In the meantime, there are a ton of other threads to post in.
Thanks.
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if tauren rogue dont make sense, then why there is tauren monk?
It's just the people on the forums complaining about vanilla servers. I want one, so do 100k or however many people signed that petition. But a majority of my friends who have played since vanilla who have quit or still play want WOTLK servers the most. That was when the game had the most subs, and the most people actually enjoying the content. I know that was my favorite expansion by far. I do like the game in it's current state though, and I hope blizzard realizes they do have some fans that still enjoy the game. I liked their post about not being able to cater to every single crowd, and how it's split up, it let me see the situation a bit better.
Originally posted by Arskaaa
"when players learned tacticks in dungeon/raids, its bread".
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/20742816197
If its truth through, would mean that Blizzard learned there lesson from the WoD release....god that was brutal, but they did give away about 2 weeks worth of playtime.
What happens after a year when everyone is decked out and have nothing left to do on a vanilla server? It's not a sandbox...
Blizzard releasing content too slowly is not the problem. Content consumed too soon is. Give me the modern WoW with classic WoW pacing and i'll stop crying for legacy server.
IH: That’s been a passionate....................level up in a few days and then am left in my garrison.
Surely IH means ....... Order Halls? Those absolutely, not at all, despite what they appear to be, and did I tell you that our metrics indicated that lots and lots of people used their garrisons .....
The unsaid bit:
...... but I don't expect us to ever be given the go-ahead to spend the money since this type of revamp simply doesn't bring people back and consequently our devs will always be directed to work on the next expansion.
Arghh! I used that garrison word again. I didn't say the quests were random though. Well I suppose I did but at least I said people would have a choice of which random quests to do. At least I didn't say that going out into the world to collect order resources would be like apexis crystal farming. Phew.
I on the other hand love WoW. All my friends love WoW, and yes we all know they fucked it up. But the first 3 months of WOD I had massive fun. And this interview seems to cater to the people who already had fun. To me it seems that they are finally listening to all the negative feedback and decreasing the game pace. I remember running Blood Furnace with 5 friends on HC, that was a nightmare because we all had full greens. That's the dungeon running I love. CC, hard bosses, actually having to communicate to progress. It seems they will bring this back with the scaling dungeons.
In before everyone flames me. I find this interview to be one the most constructive and "admitting they were wrong" ones out there. Normally Blizzard answers with: We know how you feel, but we think you should feel like "insert random gamechanger"
The problems I have with this though are two-fold:
First putting it through a corporate filter. As others have said this is not Blizzard of old. This is big corporate AB focused on the bottomline - and there is nothing wrong with being focused on profit but there is short term and long term; the latter can give you greater profit over time especially at the start of a products life but short term shows up quicker. And any "in the future / over time changes" are long term.
Second we have indeed had other replies, as recently as last week, which do indeed say "we know best", "we have the metrics to prove it" etc. so ... who were those lies? I don't think so. I see both as being "true" but one is telling it as it is and IH is telling it how it might be, one day, in the future, just stick with us and who knows.