Kaines
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Yes, Metzen is missing because he's working on Classic +.
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World of Warcraft: Current Year
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That picture alone would be enough for me to never buy a single thing from Blizzard.
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Fucking biggotThat picture alone would be enough for me to never buy a single thing from Blizzard.
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TJT
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Look faggots. We know Blizzard is full of actual faggots. Even if Ion is a corporate parasite who knows how to play the game he is also still an OG. He is as OG as it gets.
If they want to milk money off of the Classic crowd queer faggotry is how you don't get that money. Annoucning a Classic Plus meant for queers is how you don't make money. They have to know that. If they are so retarded that they can't then that's that.
I am hoping to be pleasantly surprised on Saturday.
If they want to milk money off of the Classic crowd queer faggotry is how you don't get that money. Annoucning a Classic Plus meant for queers is how you don't make money. They have to know that. If they are so retarded that they can't then that's that.
I am hoping to be pleasantly surprised on Saturday.
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Animosity
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Big Phoenix
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Caeden
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I’m there too. Just keep splashing myself with cold reality
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Foggy
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No. Ion joined Blizzard in summer 2008, when WoW was around Sunwell in BC. His "claim to fame" was "mathematically proving" with his Elitist Jerks buddies (who also joined Blizzard) that C'Thun was unkillable. That's it.
He wanted to be an encounter designer, and now he got Peter Principle'd way over his head, as the only thing he is interested in are his raids and world first races. Where he nerfs and stealth nerfs unkillable encounters, because obviously (and unlike FFXIV, where the hardest raid encounters are playtested by an internal team with mixed skill) Blizzard has no actual internal balancing tools and an actual QA testing team.
There are no OG's left at Blizzard, as the OG's all knew that the core design of WoW was to make an EverQuest without the pain points. The current crop of WoW leadership and designers have no actual idea where the game actually came from, and have zero connection to the genre--well, except maybe Holly, but her track record at SOE isn't stellar.
And this is how you get shit like "We wish we wouldn't have called it Warcraft back then", and players clamoring to abandon "tedious shit no one wants to do", like ... leveling. While we are at it we can also remove "tedious shit" like travel, outdoor zones and gearing as well? Are you sure you want to play an MMORPG and not some lobby multiplayer game?
The lesson you should learn from all this: Don't hire your fans.
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Grim1
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Unfortunately, as we have seen the last 7 years or so, seemingly intelligent people can believe incredibly stupid things (men can be women, etc). And when confronted with reality they don't adjust, but instead double down on stupid. I live in CA, and see this every day.
I hope you all get something worthwhile. And maybe your OG dev is still true. But the rest of Blizzard is an ocean of self inflicted stupidity. I doubt he can fight the tide.
Caeden
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That one tranny who I think ran the rogue or some other big time dps spreadsheet at EJ got hired there too.
Broken record - but this is why I have problems with Blizzard now. None of the OG are there. So I’m paying people to play someone’s life work. And they didn’t earn it and they almost assuredly weren’t mentored by the OGs. If Kaplan, Pardo, Tigole, etc were still there advising? Sure thing. Maybe. They’re not.
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As if. They can't easily add new zones, as the old world was handcrafted to hide the seams, as there was no flying and it had scenery for all possible flight paths. For example, if you fly into Stormwind in Classic and pay attention, you can see that the cathedral and castle are basically a few polygons of scaffolding in the background, because Stormwind itself consists of multiple separate subzones.
Also, that rumor floating around that they are rebuilding Classic+ with a modern client ... makes no sense, as the current Classic is basically the Classic zones ported to the Legion client to utilize the new WoW server infrastructure.
If they really add zones they will probably look like ugly bolt-on tits where the women wanted a size way above her pay grade. Sure, they are still tits, but they just aren't as nice as big natural booba.
Fucker
Log Wizard
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They will change the name at some point. World of Wowcraft has a certain chime to it.
Kuro
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This is modern blizzard, if we get bolt on tits instead of a wrist-meat psuedo-penis we are lucky
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