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Blizzard Wants Your Feedback on Accessibility | MMORPG.com
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Blizzard Wants Your Feedback on Accessibility | MMORPG.com
Blizzard wants to know if accessibility has become a barrier for you to play their games, and they definitely want to hear from you.
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the sub includes all the previous expansions except for the current one and you can pay for your sub using gold if you make enough.
As for the current game, my problem is that it lacks direction. Ever since legion, the game has felt disjointed and more like playing just a series of patches instead of playing the entire game. Each patch raises the ilvl across the board, creating this dynamic where you'll just be regrinding the same gear you had the patch prior just at a higher ilvl with a couple of graphic changes here and there. The entire expansion needs to matter again and actually EXPAND the game, not just funnel people from area to area.
On top of that, they need to cut out this moba seasonal design for classes that they are obviously taking cues from as well as diablo. Every damn expansion, they think they need to re-invent the wheel for a class with the design philosophy of giving and taking away the same damn things you've had in the game for years. Prime example is of the Legendary effects in Shadowlands. Half of them are from Legion's legendaries and half of Legion's legendaries were from the glyph system. They need to go back to actually developing the game, instead of patches that dont even synergize anymore.
Do you have a link to this video? I would love to watch it! I agree with what you said too, e-sports in a MMO was a dumb.
That's not what anybody meant. They mean that the current retail wow gamellay, gear mechanics, leveling ck test, etc, is so far from what it originally was that other than the skin it is almost unrecognizable.
When SL dropped i 100% solo'd horde, i didn't even run dungeons at all, and i admit i was very impressed, great content, amazing zones, world to explore, completely different covenant and quest lines for alts. Basically shit loads to do for a solo player and could not be more pleased, this isn't even including mount farming, trans farming, which everyone interested does, solo or not.
Having switched over to Alliance to play with my boys, i'm now playing a completely different wow, literally, it feels like a completely different game and won't argue with the esports vibe. This is the higher end of the game, completely revamped my UI with ElvUI, no more recount, details all the way, raiderio, SIM, training dummy, run lfr for rotation practice, run heroic so i know what i'm doing in higher M+ keys dungeons, Normal raid may as well say 10/10, and high probability i'll get 10/10 on heroic raid since i'm half way there.
And surprise, surprise, i'm loving this side, i will openly admit that i had no idea that skill is as important as your gear score, having come from the mind set that just get high score and skill doesn't matter, i mean we are talking fraction of a second decisions and rotational in's and out make a massive difference, knowing the dungeons, knowing the boss fights is integral and a humongous weak point for me atm as i did none of this until a few weeks ago.
There is a game in there for every type of player, but not the type of content some prefer as in the late night dungeon crawl game does not exist if ever really did in wow anyway compared to EQ2 2004 to 2008. If you're a solo player you're set, and if you want to do higher end content there is nothing stopping a solo player from pug'ing, but meeting the right people to play with will make all the difference in the world. I never thought i'd like all these tools, stats, totally revamped UI, getting all microscopic about my spec.
Especially the UI change, i was very reluctant but now i understand why, the OG ui is serviceable for that type of content, a revamp is almost critical as it can deliver the plethora of information you need to get really good at your class, the old ui doesn't cut it with that sheer volume of information which is there but the average player never knows about. Overall I doubt i could go back to playing all solo again, this is way too much fun, and the right people to play with make it so much more than just a game to play.
But if we're talking about accessibility in terms of understanding and playing content then the game has quite a bit to work on. They need to explain via the UI client how Keystones work. They need to offer a practice dungeon that has various common mechanics you can practice.
Sorry I don't have the link nor remember the title of the video I viewed. I do remember it was 1 of those Bellular WoW videos & was within the last week. Hope that helps.
I looked a bit more & found the one I viewed:
and another older one focusing on the topic too: