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World of Warcraft Portal Removal in 8.1.5 Sparks a Firestorm of Controversy - MMORPG.com
SBFord
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World of Warcraft Portal Removal in 8.1.5 Sparks a Firestorm of Controversy - MMORPG.com
While World of Warcraft v8.1.5 adds a lot of new content, it also will be removing things from the game. In this case, many of the portals that get players around Azeroth in a timely fashion are being taken out to keep "the world having a meaningful size". However, this design decision has sparked a massive backlash with the community, with several threads topping the 5,000 response mark. A new dev post acknowledges the outcry but essentially says, "Sorry, not sorry. We're sticking to it."
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The "sorry, not sorry" type responses are what I find interesting... Why? They just had a bunch of people lose their jobs due to underperformance. So if portals are a "thing" to some number of subscribers you still have... way to go. I'm sure the investors are happy that development is trying to lower their dividends even more.
You want to remove the portals. Just remove them and keep them removed. No need to stir the pot unless you want to be unemployed too.
Removing the Portals is a first step.
Soon they will start adding Quick travel potions to the Cash Shop.
Mark my words. This is just the beginning! ActiVision hired physcologists, etc a while back to form a dedicated Monetization team, purely focused on how to max monetize their games!
Have people already forgotten about that leaked document that sparked quite the outrage?
This is all ActiVision now! First get rid of the old garde at Blizzard, to pave way for their new greed focused practices going forward.
You can bet they going to milk World of Warfract to death with a heavily expanded cash shop and when the sub numbers drop significantly enough, they just make it fully F2P.
There are soo many things to cry about in the game rn but they are choosing this one cry. I will never understand the WoW community...
While I get what you're saying, the problem really is that removing a way to get to old content is just stupid since max level players mainly use the portals to expedite the search for pets / mounts / mogs, etc., something a LOT of players keep their subs up for.
Removing portals won't increase world PvP. It won't make the old zones more relevant. It only decreases the reasons why a lot of players bother staying subbed to WoW.
But even more than that, there is just so much more that needs actual developer attention. Fast travel isn't one of the top 100 issues facing WoW today.
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Blizz announced months ago that this portal room was in works and it was just wating to be added in the game. Other than that do you actually believe removing couple of portals from the game is taking developers attention from the real problems? Trust me "time" is not their problem rn. It's just the mindset issue. The problems you, me and a lot of people are facing are not real problems in the eyes of the developers rn. I mean I'm not even playing the game anymore but crying about something like this for whatever reason is just silly...
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Personally I've done literally everything in the old zones, so I have no reason(not really playing for like 4 months now but if I played)to go back, HOWEVER A LOT of people don't have A TON of stuff from those old zones. They are already struggling with keeping players with their current crappy content, yet they are basically limiting older content... Tell me if someone has 1 hour, hour and a half to play and he has to spend a good 20 minutes flying around to get to old content would that be a good decision? I bet that player with limited time wouldn't be thrilled.
This is dumb beyond any reason. It's illogical to make older content "harder" than new content, because let's face it, the current difficulty of everything apart from Mythic raiding is to actually get your character physically to the place you need to be. Once you get there you just faceroll it and are done with it.
To me this just looks like another poor decision(attempt) to keep players playing online longer. The idea behind AP in Legion and BfA is that, to keep you online longer and now since a lot of people don't want to do that they are trying to get any extra minute online from the playerbase from wherever they can.
FYI I'm aware of at least over 100 bugs that are still in the game. Simple bugs that should've been fixed before release, yet it seems like they won't ever address them.
Up until like 1 month in BfA release I was among the people who was defending Blizzard(WoW more particularly) the most, but lately I'm starting to be among the people who feel like they should really just end it. It's ridiculous how many bad decisions one after another are being done.
Also how many times have they said "you think you do, but you don't" or "we understand, but we don't care"... Seriously listen to the damn feedback from the community.
Could this change - this change alone - cause some people to leave? I suspect so; for some it will be a major QoL hit, impacting potential short play sessions etc.