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Also a summary of Blizzard's trajectory.

I think we can safely assume two things: 1) they have fewer than 20 people on WoW Classic 2) most of them are dumber than even amateur private server staff so definitely worthy of a shitty evaluation

Probably because the more familiar a story becomes the harder it is to keep making it scary.

Praying for factors outside your control to align so that your number on a third-party's external website might increase is the pinnacle of successful gameplay in the World of Warcraft.

Your naive notion on the benefits of showcasing moldering stock to drum up business aside, what you're describing only accounts for a quarter of the most recent aid package...

So what you’re saying is that it’s ackshually only tens of billions squandered, not tens of billions. Hang in there, Zelensky, your fleet of 600i Executive-Editions will be arriving soon.

Other defense contractors going to be green with envy when the US government starts buying virtual spaceships from RSI to send over there. Guessing there's a big overlap among SC backers and the #SlavaUkraini crowd who'd cheer their tax dollars being used toward this end.

Yes, WoW has a long history of individual tweaks, bugs, and bug fixes alike causing disproportionate shifts in the class meta across all aspects of the game. Or were you just confused as to why we're discussing WotLK in the World of Warcraft: Classic thread? Either way you're retarded.

Funny how small mechanical changes reveal how fragile the meta stability is in shit games like WoW.

Doubt that was significant even back at the original release.

Not only does the existence of snapshotting reveal the lazy, half-assed way so many mechanics were implemented, it leads to even greater degenerate behavior in the already hopelessly degenerate activity that is DPS parsing.

Modern-day gladiators lol

Title sounds like an apt description of the entire industry.

Doesn't sound like the studio is closing up shop, they'll probably just be pivoting back to a perpetual dev fundraising state to swindle a new generation of idiots.

Yeah they're just so fortunate to witness every silly thought better left to the domain of the imagination be realized to generate some more shitty crossover consoomer content.

This guy just died. https://www.wowhead.com/news/former-world-of-warcraft-and-diablo-developer-travis-day-has-passed-away-328301

Because they're too risk-averse to change what they don't understand in the first place.

Jokes aside, they did that years ago with shitty mobile puzzle games like Candy Crush.

Because that strategy is working so well for us in every other area touched by this contagion, huh.

https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/news/social-contract-added-to-wrath-of-the-lich-king-classic-beta-327895 pathetic

Yeah, a team of zeroes.

Because mutual self-congratulation is the order of the day among our modern "creatives"; no back is left unpatted and by god it won't go unnoticed either. The fact that half of them also made dedications to their dogs further illustrates the sad sort of people in the game dev business.

A person's opinion on something isn't dependent on their performance at it, dummy. If you want to hold another generic asian grinder in high esteem because you think you're a pro at pressing buttons in it that's fine, but don't assume the inverse holds true.

More like they're realizing games are shit now, and this one is no exception.

Then wonder why in a world where nearly all entertainment media ever made is at one's fingertips, anybody would waste their time watching the trash that Disney produces in the first place.

The difference is that many of those were still good in spite of (and in some cases even because of) their flaws. They had a charm that can't be explained by novelty or nostalgia alone. Nowadays with all the lessons of the past to guide them, designers are so confident they "know" exactly what...

yeah, looks like a George Floyd monument to me also

He probably asked one on a date; that constitutes violence against women these days.

Probably because the game is shit and encourages it at every turn.

Don't excuse this bomb on those grounds. What kills these "little" developers more often than not is the fact they plain suck fucking eggs at making good games.

Disease-causing organisms thrive in stagnant water. The same holds true in decades-old MMOs as it does in nature.

Live-action is dogshit by definition. Can anyone name a single example that isn't? I can understand fans being desperate for a continuation of a favorite story but...notlikethis.gif

They've been too busy addressing the real issues: https://tbc.wowhead.com/news/spit-emote-removed-on-burning-crusade-classic-ptr-323613

Game is barely in alpha after at least 5 years of development. MMOs no less complex built by smaller teams on smaller budgets and without the benefit of off-the-shelf engines and middleware were already released in less time than this. Eternal crowdfunding sure as hell doesn't light fires under...

Pretty bold strategy to go all-in on crafting, by its very nature the least fun, most tedious, and ultimately unsatisfying aspect of any MMO ever made.