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World of Warcraft: Current Year
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Mist
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Fucker
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It is rather alarming how easy it is to program people....and how many people don't even know that it is happening.
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My guess is they're not 'letting them', but some people are just too stupid to know when to shut up.
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Lunis
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The systems in modern WoW are just terrible, full stop. You have like 6 different currencies with 6 different grinds and 3 different 'talent' systems that are all borrowed power.
Here's the giant reductio ad absurdum of the whole covenant system: in order to keep them somewhat balanced you have to make them completely uninteresting with mostly flat damage bonuses. And even then they are still not balanced.
Here's the giant reductio ad absurdum of the whole covenant system: in order to keep them somewhat balanced you have to make them completely uninteresting with mostly flat damage bonuses. And even then they are still not balanced.
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Malkav
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Isn't that when HR should step in? Oh wait, I guess they don't have HR anymore lol.
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Bubbles
2022 Asshat Award Winner
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in this situation they can't do shit. Any attempt to restrict their employees would have "but muh free speech" written all over it.
Blizzard just fucked fuck at the start when they were signing contracts. They should have made sure middle management just can't go off one social media. In this day and age you can't have your employees put that vague disclaimer which says something like "opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer" and think people would actually differentiate between personal and corporate. Any blizz employee making any tweet is seen as company line
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Xelnath (designer for the MoP warlock changes) was fired from Blizzard after he publicly stated in an mmo-champion thread that he was overruled by the design team about the impact of chaos bolt, and that he thought that decision was wrong.
Clearly something has changed regarding public communication policy in Blizzard since then.
Chris
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They need to stop designing systems, they have enough.
Here is what I would do:
Gear drops from boss or bought with badges as a guard against bad luck. Your systems are enchants, sockets and glyphs. Define what each one is for.
I'd go enchantments for long term item customizations, medium cost via enchanting and not designed to change between raid bosses. So mostly large stat buffs. This is already designed and implemented.
I'd go sockets for prestige stuff like beating higher difficulty levels like the same item level gear drops but with sockets instead of increased item level. High cost via jewelcrafting and not designed to change between raid bosses. So small stat buffs. Maybe you get a legendary gem for beating end bosses. This is already designed and implemented.
I'd go glyphs for talent tree style stuff, designed to be cheap via Inscription and easy to swap out between bosses if you want to minmax. While this is already designed and implemented, they never got this one right so make a nicer UI for it based on what you learned from talent trees, artifacts and soulbinds.
FF14 only has sockets, this is an area where WoW should be crushing them, but they made it a detriment somehow.
This was all working well in early expansions, particularily Burning Crusade/WotLK - go back.
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They can't make a new jack and shit as one as they have people who
A. hate their own playerbase
B. Don't play or love the MMORPG genre
C. Aren't PC focused gamers
The next company who want's to make a bajillion fucking dollars needs to make a VR persistent world, EQ made a breakthrough turing MUD games into UI games, now some new Brad faggot needs to make a UI game into an occulus rift game.
A. hate their own playerbase
B. Don't play or love the MMORPG genre
C. Aren't PC focused gamers
The next company who want's to make a bajillion fucking dollars needs to make a VR persistent world, EQ made a breakthrough turing MUD games into UI games, now some new Brad faggot needs to make a UI game into an occulus rift game.
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Rhanyn
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The best thing to come out of this potentially, would be them finally making a new god damn game. Get off this old engine, pick a different era, jump into the future, or do an alternate time line, modernize the game, and pray that they don't fuck it up. They can hope a lot of the heat dies down in the years of development, so they don't get spit and roasted right out the gate. I mean it's doomed to fail, with the modern day woke hiring pool, but one can hope.
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Thats true. The real gamers that made those games are all fucking gone now, either retired or at some other company making real games. Allt hats left is the wanna be game developer virtue signaling cunts that infiltrated that company under the guise of diversity.
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Zindan
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Zindan
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Modern WoW's engine seems pretty good though? I guess you might have an issue with the art style / direction (fuck the shoulder armor...still).
