More content, more often™
Anyone remember that statement?
6.1 was not a content patch. There was no content in it. Bug fixes and class tuning improvements are not content. Twitter integration and screenshot tools are not content. UI elements are not content. The heirloom tab, while it was a welcome quality of life change, is not content.
Yes, it's shameful.
Yes, it should be much better.
Yes, people will still defend the most dreadful content provision we've ever suffered with this game.
That should be the question put to Chilton and his cronies at every opportunity; are you actually going to give people some content for their subscription money, or just keep cutting corners to make your shareholders rich?
I reckon most people probably know the answer, but it'd be fun to see him try and answer it.
Expansions are indeed no content patches but every straight patch (1.0, 2.0 etc) is free for all. You dont need to buy the expanison to get the pre-patch. So technically, yes indeed they are content patches. More often then not really big ones as in many mechanics change.
The pre-patch is nothing you will get because you already paid for it either for the last add on or via subscription fee. They need it to prepare for the launch for the next content.
And in the last 3 years you got less for your money than ever before. Compared to BC or Wrath WoD was a scam and compared to the content drought in MoP, this one now is way worse.
As somebody already mentioned, they think we should pay for every content patch and we will get less and less, because it is them who deserve more money, not we who deserve more content or a better game.
Blizzard wanted to release a new expansion every years since... guess what... 2006 with the launch of BC. Don't believe me? Just read what their CEO wrote back then.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=19280
Originally Posted by GIBiz article
New World of Warcraft expansions every year - Blizzard
Ellie Gibson 15:41 24/08/2006
Sams still confident of winter ship date for Burning Crusade
Blizzard COO Paul Sams has told GamesIndustry.biz that the company plans to release a new expansion pack for multi-million selling MMO World of Warcraft every year.
Speaking in an exclusive interview, Sams said, "Starting with The Burning Crusade, every year thereafter we plan on bringing out a new expansion set - so every 12 months."
The Burning Crusade is the first expansion pack to be released for WOW. According to Sams, details of the beta will be announced in the near future. As for the release date - "We're still quoting very confidently winter and we will be more specific on the timeframe quite soon."
Although the code on the show floor in Leipzig this week has already been shown once, at E3, German consumers don't seem to mind - with Blizzard's booth almost impossible to navigate on the first public day of exhibition.
Visit GamesIndustry.biz tomorrow to read the full interview with Paul Sams and find out which next-gen machine he prefers, and what his thoughts are with regard to bringing WOW to consoles.
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GamesIndustry.biz removed the news last year, don't know why.
So they plan this for 10 years now and always failed.
Atoms are liars, they make up everything!
It really pisses me off everytime I hear it. This game is being run into the ground by a bunch of idiots
Current alpha is farther along than any brand new beta for previous expansions. When are you guys going to get that through your heads? Have you even watched any of the alpha content?
Blizzard has never before testing mythic raid bosses and challenge modes in so called alpha. The current alpha is beta in every way except for name.
I love the implication that they are providing less content so that they can get more money and get rich. That's not how game development works people. They are still paying designers tons of money to work on and produce these games, and less content means less people paying for your product. It's pretty simple. If they wanted to make more money they would make more content and just charge people for it.
Call it incompetence, call it stupidity, call it whatever you want, but it's definitely not some internal money making conspiracy.
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The bigger team was created when they started making Legion, not when they were making WoD.
And being on the Alpha, I know I will be playing it alot. Great game play, great zones, alot of stuff to do, Artifact quests / aquisition of artifact power, new stones to put into the weapons/shields and what not.
Im not sure about daily quests yet, because they havent added them yet. But I think it will be a MoP sorta thing, where you do quests each day and go through a story/history lesson about the faction your doing the quests for.
And the order halls are nothing like the current Garrisons are.
Blizzard said a 2 tier expansion was a mistake. So either Legion is going to bet a 3 tier expansion, or they meant that the opposite way of what we're thinking and it will be a 1 tier expansion.
Ultimately it won't matter of legion is amazing, but another WOD will kill this game
Yes, 6.1 was a content patch. Expansion release was a content source too. As for Legion, September 21st is the latest release. As for the next content patch, well, 2017 will have one.. maybe even 2016, depending on when/what.
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Wouldn't a pre-patch count as content?
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No this is how it works. Ever expation "cycle" Starts at X.0 Which last for lets say 2 months then comes the 2nd path at the relase of the expation, then a 6 months in comes X.1 and then 6 months later X.2, Then is a wait period of 1 year and 3 months which totalt count as legit content cus they are adding store mounths and Doing stuff in the alfa so we can not complain about lack of stuff in the main game, cus they are doing stuff for the alfa.
I don't understand why they don't do 3 tiers, 3 arena seasons that each Tier/season is 5 months long then a 6-8 month break before the xpac. There is no excuse. Their team is large as hell and other MMOs with smaller teams can pump out content way faster. There is no excuse now for these stupid droughts that they kept saying would be shorter and shorter and have gotten longer.
I know but you know what I mean. They can easily do that model that I've suggested and you know they've wanted to avoid droughts since Cata and they have failed. I'm waiting to see the raid layout for Legion before I make my final decision because raiding is a big thing for me I do admit. If it's 2 or less tiers then I won't bother.