Some things are just beyond parody
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The "mind reading" dialogue has got to stop. I despise it.
Hey everyone. There's been something bothering me about this expansion's dialogue that I couldn't place up until now, and once you notice it you won't ever unsee it.Every single scene with dialogue has this "mind reading" trope that shitty TV shows always use with twins, where they finish each others' sentences. It has gotten to the point where the dialogue is so bland it's basically a character standing there, vomiting exposition, but to not give one character all the protagonism , every other character basically continues what the first one was saying.No regards to what other characters' personalities are, no change of vocabulary from one character to the other, it's basically the story writer sitting down, and telling you the story but each part is delivered by a different character for some mind boggling reason. For example, the Maw Intro:Jaina says: Denizens call this realm "the Maw." From what I have gathered, it was intended a...
The original voice actor for Arthas was offered less money than his first contract to continue the role. He rejected on his agent's advise and Blizzard had to recast the role.
Patrick Seitz is amazing but character voice actor continuity is also nice. Thoughts?
End of 9.2 Prediction
You have just defeated The Jailer in battle with all of the leaders, except Baine. He is still sitting in Oribos. The Jailer falls to his knees and looks at you and Sylvanas, which has gone through a totally believable redemption arc.Suddenly everyone gets frozen in fear, including The Jailer. Out of the dark the most terrifying creature appears.Hogger in his 2004 model!"Master!" Zovaal says in cold sweat. "Why are you here? Everything is going accor.." Before he can finish his sentence Hogger kills him. Hogger turns he sight to you.The last thing you hear is the gnoll aggro sound as he charges you and your screen goes black.After a few seconds the light starts to come back. "Hey, you. You are finally awake".
These prices for the highest iLvL legendaries are getting more ridiculous by the day...
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Former Blizzard Developer and ArenaNet, Undead Labs Founder: "We Need Unionization"
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Test servers and data mining are a huge part of WoW's downfall over the years, you come into a patch already knowing what happens, what grinds there will be and what you have to do for each encounter
No point in telling any story when the culmination of it is known months before the buildup. It is like watching a season of a show after seeing the season finale.No point in any new system and progression when it is solved and calculated before it comes out. No experimentation by the community, no trying out stuff by yourself. It is like doing a crossword puzzle or sudoku by looking at the solution someone else wrote and copy pasting it in.No point in any dungeon and raid when you already know all the moves the boss does while addons yell at you and tell you exactly what to do. The difficulty stemming from the "he/she/they fucked up for everyone else" or item level. It is like learning stuff by cramming instead of understanding while praying that the slow person doesn't fuck it up for everyone.We are not playing anything, we are just executing tasks given to us on a platter.
Pyromancer (ex WoW lore streamer and YouTuber) heated rant about the game and Blizzard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXwGJNI7L1w
Creepy letter to a female employee, allegedly from John Polidora, surfaces on twitter. Artist Betty Jiang (among others) speaks out.
https://twitter.com/MichaelaHMN/status/1420829211237838848?s=19
Discussion: Having daily chores doesn't make players subscribe longer.
You can find the following comments so often on reddit posts and I just don't agree with that way of thinking, but maybe I am missing something so please lighten me up.- Blizzard makes you spend more time in a day by forcing chores upon players to get more "sub money"I don't know about you guys, but I doubt that the game-design regarding having daily or weekly chores like Torghast makes people subscribe for longer? Also having a higher playtime daily doesn't make blizzard earn more sub money or incentivize keeping your subscription rolling.What I DO understand makes players subscribe longer is timegating content, so please don't misunderstand me here. I am strictly talking about comments saying things like "The longer it takes you to level, the more money blizzard makes from your sub", "making your clear x number of m+ per week gives blizzard more money for your sub", etc... uhhh no, it doesn't?If I have to play MORE hours in a day or ...
IGN: Blizzard - Men would walk into the breastfeeding room and just stare
A Blizzard source points to the World of Warcraft team as an example of this dynamic at work. “WoW makes money, so the people at the top of WoW are untouchable, which means they get away with lots of shit. Also if you were there a long time, which most of the WoW team leadership was, you were ‘in the family’ and pretty much untouchable, which is the breeding ground for behavior like this.”A woman formerly in one of Blizzard’s hourly service roles talked about the agonizing process of trying to get time off approved by her manager in order to go to the doctor. When an ultrasound raised the possibility of serious medical complications for her unborn child, she was told she had to return in two weeks to check again, only to be told by her manager that she couldn’t. She said she remembers "crying in the waiting room" trying to explain that Blizzard wouldn't let her go to the appointments even though she had paid time off available.A source who has since departed Blizzard tal...
Blizzard considers 9.1 a "satisfying" resolution for Teldrassil
https://uk.pcmag.com/pc-games/134161/world-of-warcraft-devs-talk-the-new-raid-and-mythic-score-coming-to-the-chains-of-domination-expansi“There are really satisfying answers that come to the fore when you play through that quest line and we get to see Tyrande have something of a resolution with that power.”Sorry Blizz, but this has been anything but satisfying. The fact that the Night Elves still don't have anywhere to go and that we still never reclaimed Ashenvale aside, in 9.1 alone we:- The Night Elves failed to get justice against Sylvanas, their quest for justice has been framed as vengeance and Elune withdrew her powers in the most crucial moment- Elune now decides that Tyrande has to choose between renewal or justice while having already denied the justice part, those 2 are also not mutually exclusive- (Most of) the Night Elf souls are still in the maw as of the cinematic since they never made their way to Ardenweald- The Elune reveal and Elune's plan for her children c...
I really hate when NPCs have unobtainable weapon models. It’s real cow poo, tbh…
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How does WoW even remotely have a reason to be subscription based at this point?
We’re literally sitting without content for sometimes over a year and the one time we’re getting a big content drop it’s another paid 40 bucks expansion.What exactly is it what we’re paying monthly for at this point?I mean it’s definitely not the privilege of not having an item shop anymore like we once told ourselves when talking about f2p.Just something I had to think about atm.EDIT: I actually can't keep up with all the comments anymore but I'm happily reading all the discussions this triggered. Glad there are still people that want to hold a dialogue! Thank you guys.
Blizzard made the same mistake with shards of domination that they did with the Heart of Azeroth, and it demonstrates how out of touch the development team is. More inside, TL;DR Pay for art assets you cheapskates, flavor sells, numbers don't
So basically, we had Legion, right? It had one of the most popular systems in recent years, being Artifact Weapons. Sure, they had their issues, but they did a lot of things right - most importantly, being incredibly flavorful and badass.The developers saw the popularity of artifact weapons, and wanted to get the same reaction from BFA - hence the Heart of Azeroth.But you see, there was just one problem with that.Artifact weapons took time, care, love, and art assets - unique ones for 32 different specs. Assets with no class overlap - each one is only for their class, nobody else. No double dipping.Whether or not it was time constraints, or different priorities, the Heart of Azeroth fell flat - it had none of the flavor of the artifact weapons, and instead of feeling somewhat unique, EVERYONE had the same one. And, at first anyway, they changed nothing about your rotation, didn't give you any exciting new options for your class - just passive numbers increases.It's fucking laz...
Post-Shadowlands is the perfect time to hit the reset button the lore, scale back the cosmic existential BS, and bring us back to the world we all fell in love with
I am not a lore guy really at all. I mostly play the game with a quest addon and a TV show on another monitor when I am not raiding. I have played since Vanilla but have only played like that since Cataclysm. The reason was the obvious short comings in the story telling of WoW as the game progressed.However, after Shadowlands seems like the perfect time for the story team to bring us back to Azeroth, to scale back the craziness of the story, and show us a living world again (literally and figuratively).Think of it like this, every single faction leader (to my knowledge) has basically fucked off into another realm of existence. For all intents and purposes, the for the majority of the population of Azeroth, they have been abandoned. There is no government, the most powerful warriors in the world (the players) are gone, a major war has ravaged the landscape & economy, and life still HAS to go on for people.It's the perfect time for The Cult of the Damned to start recruiting and ...
I got told to go die of cancer by a random pug today, while currently battling cancer.
I (23M) was putting together a pug group for a 14 spires today. I was the tank and I hadn’t realized that I accidentally invited 4 DPS to the group. So I had to remove one of them. I decided to remove this Druid from malganis. He was in the group for at most a few minutes and we didn’t even summon him to the dungeon yet. After removing him, he whispered me saying, “I hope you die of cancer r****d”. Then he immediately blocked me before I could answer Now a few months ago I would of just shrugged my shoulders and moved on, but just a couple months ago I got diagnosed with a pretty aggressive bladder cancer. I just had surgery a week ago to have more biopsies taken after the 6 weeks of treatments. I’m in a pretty shitty spot mentally being this young dealing with what I’m dealing with. But this one just kind of hurt me to my core. This happened about 6 hours ago but it’s still ratting around in my head. At the absolute WORST, I wasted 4 minutes of this guys time. Maybe. And he gets so u...
Aren't you tired of ever scaling cosmic story?
So, all this cosmic stuff, "Titan++" reality-shaping entities, alternate dimensions... aren't you also tired of it?It gets messy quickly & cuses multiple retcons.It invalidades/diminishes past accoumplishments (Having defeated the Legion doens't look that big of a deal anymore. Having defeated the Lich King already feels minor).It doesn't leave much room for actual character development and character-focused stories, since all relevant characters are less "people" and more "entity"Personally, I think BfA would have been much better if it was really about faction war. No Nzoth, no Azshara, no Death realm setup... just plain faction war. Maybe we could have gotten a really satisfactory deveopment/conclusion on the Night Elf story, and Saurfang, and Sylvanas and Nathanos, and Talanji and so on. Maybe instead of "visions of Nzoth" patch 8.3 could have been about actual all-out war all over Azeroth. Maybe that could lead to deep in-fa...
Reminder that you are not being a good person if you take part in witch hunts, no matter what some people are accused of doing. Get your freaking act together on social media. Please show restraint.
I'm obviously not saying that we should accept sexism, misogyny or sexual harassment. Some of these reports are disturbing, and a lot of people need to face legal repercussions over this.But over the last couple of days, a lot of people are evidently finding it difficult to stay within the realm of reason.Someone appears in a picture or group chat, and all of a sudden people nail them to a freaking cross.I know a lot of this stuff looks shady as hell from our point of view, in 2021. But please remember that we humans are really primitive beings. It's easy to go from "Person A literally assaulted somebody, this needs to be investigated" to "Person B was in a nearby location, burn him!"Please take a chill pill when it comes to people who haven't actually been shown to commit any crimes. Otherwise best case scenario, you might feel a little silly afterwards when it turned out that they were innocent. Worst case scenario, you might cost somebody their caree...
The narrative team is ruining World of Warcraft
After watching the latest cinematic with Elune all I can say is it’s obvious these people are just digging through all the old lore trying to create Game of Thrones Season 8 “wow surprise” moments that nobody actually wants.I’m so sick of it and it just keeps getting worse.These people have just as much a hand in ruining World of Warcraft as any of the game systems designers.
Blizzard has destroyed everything the Night Elves stood for
In Legion they lost Ysera, "mother" of Cenarius, Queen of the Emerald Dream. A highly revered figure in the Kaldorei society.Then in BfA, they pathetically lost an unprovoked war, despite being universally known to be savage fighters, exceptional archers, one with the nature, and on home turf. Oh and did I mention very good at stealth, especially during night, where it's canonically almost impossible to see them? Not to mention, they're a civilization that has fought during many previous wars, and are lead by the most powerful Druid and Priestess of all time? But all that Druid did was hold back against one undead chick with a bow, eat an axe in the back, and entangle a random Orc in living roots. And the most powerful Priestess to live did absolutely NOTHING during the war either.Then, they have their World Tree burnt down by the Horde. Horde, who had an uprising against a similar tyrant who did a similar thing, not too long ago. How did they burn a giant tree that ...