World of Warcraft: Classic

lost said:

if they didnt listen to the loudest autists on the forums already, hiring holly windstalker from EQ TLP failbreak games will ensure that

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So when Daybreak launched the first new progression server in years, Ragefire, they let people vote on the forums for the rule set. The server ended up with six-month unlock timers per expansion with the timer starting when an expansion is cleared PLUS the need to pass a vote to unlock the next. People freaked out. They wanted longer unlock timers. The server was so packed they had to launch a sister server, Lockjaw.

And then the reality of six month unlock timers sat in. They changed them on Ragefire to three months. Lockjaw kept six months and was a single guild private server one month in to Kunark. Daybreak has never had a forum poll to set TLP rules since. The people that actually use a game's forums are a tiny minority of the playerbase and the heavy heavy users are a tiny minority within that tiny minority. They can all get fucked.

It's funny because from what I gather Old School Runescape has a pretty good voting/polling system to get feedback from the players on what features they want and don't want to get added into the game. I think the big problem EQ's TLP voting faced was that a large chunk of the voters are people that hadn't played the game in 5-10+ years and didn't really grasp the full picture. Though, the people running the show often show they also don't really grasp it either so it doesn't really seem to make anything that much better. EQ has also implemented polling through really fucked up practices though, I believe Quarm was the result of an in-game poll that would pop up immediately on all servers when players would login, if they closed the window it would just default vote for a choice and that one ended up being the winner (this recollection may not be completely accurate).

I'm still betting on new WoW "progression" type servers to release 2021, which I hope have a shorter timetable for update releases than what we've seen so far.

I guess it’s because I’ve never made a raid kill video before but does the software everyone uses automatically add the shitty techno soundtrack and you have to pay extra to remove it? I assume it’s the same with pvp videos and the 2001 nu-metal songs they all have in them, correct?

Even back in 2005 we always assumed Lethon would take 250% to kill due to the rest of the server (25%, heal to full, 50%, heal to full, 75%, heal to full, 100%)

Having quadrant baiters and tanks that could 180 him to limit shadowbolt damage was a must.

That was one thing (amongst many others) that TBC vastly improved.

I’m still sitting on half of my lotus stockpile from the server launch, and since my raid no longer has a shadow priest or a third lock for CoS I don’t bother flasking and trying to improve on any parses at this point. Should have more than enough for AQ and Naxx so I’m debating selling a stack or so now in case Blizz actually does change their spawn mechanic somehow. It seems unlikely to me though.

Will someone tag me, or let me know when Whitemane starts accepting characters again, or.. as I saw in discord, the guild moves to a less populated server. Thanks

We've got about 5-6 serious horde guilds and probably 4x as many alliance. We went to Felwood launch day and traded attempts with an alliance guild on Lethon until we killed on our third attempt. Then Emiriss spawned, and alliance pulled first and wiped. Then we pulled, got him to 15% and wiped due to a couple of dumb errors and alliance sniped. The nerd rage was palpable.

Man seeing all you guys bitching about the management of the game now I shouldve posted during the beta run when it was absolutely clear they only had 5 people working on this and of those 5, only two actually cared (the Omar guy and there was one other, cant remember his name)

Sad thing is the game was actually fun then because at the 30 and 40 caps it was at least somewhat different than the past and not meta-gamed out from a decade of pservers

Also about the "no changes" crew you have to realize at the time absolutely no one trusted blizzard to do anything, I think this all changed fast once they saw what a shitshow leveling was with the group dungeon grind and everything else getting found out 2 seconds after it was discovered. I think most of those people have backtracked by now but even if they hadnt been influential it wouldnt have mattered because blizzard wouldnt have put in any resources required to change anything. It took them like 2 months to fix the AV pvp zerg when everyone knew that was going to be an issue from day 1