Easy.
Example 1 (Note, this is an EXAMPLE)
1) Blizz sends C&D, Nost shuts down
2) Blizz reaches out to Nost team, wants to talk
3) Blizz makes an offer to Nost to do something, and if they agree they meet up at Blizz HQ to hash out fine details.
4) Nost announces they're meeting with Blizz soon.
5) People go crazy, want to know what's going on.
6) Blizz says 'you can say this much before the papers are finalized'
7) Nost says they'll be making an announcement, pre-meeting.
You stand out by being the best of the best, not limiting the pool of players by arbitrary restrictions like months-long attunement quests.
Also, as somebody who had those special Tailoring recipes in Vanilla (I had the MC ones as well as me grinding out the Timbermaw and Cenarion Circle recipes) along with maybe one other person on the server, the prestige is really highly overblown. If anything it was fucking annoying that everybody kept coming to me. Even if I got to overcharge because there was nowhere else to go. Sure, it was nice in that regard, but once again I think there's a difference between being important because you're good at the game vs being important because the pool of people in competition with you FOR that importance was so small.
I wasn't skilled for spending hours and hours after high school grinding out Timbermaw reputation. Nor the Cenarion Circle one. Nor being just given the MC ones because I was the Warlock class leader in our guild at the time. That didn't make me feel good.
The latest example of me feeling skilled was keeping up with our Fire Mage in Blackrock Foundry despite them being overtuned. I was normally #2 or 3 on every fight, and even #1 on cleave fights. THAT made me feel like I was doing well.
People still know the best raiders in this game. They earned that through skill. Not because only <1% of people are raiding.
I would have agreed with you about the ninja looting problem but there are so many features in the game now to curb that, that honestly if it happens to you at this point, it's your fault. So that point isn't even necessary. Also because if said ninja looter was in one of the bigger guilds, then nobody gave a shit. One of my most vivid memories of Vanilla was running BRD for...something. And my friend was playing his warrior and he rolled need on a gun because he was using one from ~30 levels previously, while another guy in the group was a hunter and needed it despite it being a slight upgrade. My friend was kicked, and I was blacklisted from that guild for doing nothing but defending my friend. The party leader essentially abused the group system to steal the rifle for the guy in his guild who wanted it.
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I stand out just fine by not being a douche and doing raid content many others aren't able to get without doing a purchase. Stand out by being part of the Friendship Moose movement and helping others out. I feel plenty good about that, don't need people slobbing my nob to feel that.
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Never once disputed that something may not of been planned, which is where the confusion is here. Only stating that the meeting that is to take place at Blizz's quarters is not confirmed to of happened yet.
Going to play the WoW South Park episode on a loop while grinding all day everyday.
Do you honestly join lfr and enjoy being in it? Knowing that no matter how bad it goes you WILL eventually kill everything?
Even 5 mans from earlier in wow history didn't have this mentality. you would form a group and you MAYBE would clear the dungeon, and not clearing it was a perfectly acceptable outcome.
I personally feel like when I'm doing LFR i may as well be watching a cut scene or watching a movie. I'm not playing a game.
No, and in turn I don't do LFRs, I get my heroic dungeon gear, and I go to raid. I enjoy that someone I've known for 10 years and had an accident that caused them to be on pain meds that do enough to them that they can't focus as well as they used to still gets to do LFR to see the story of the expansion while I'm able to do the harder content.
If things do work out for the best for all parties involved I look forward to returning to a WoW classic world that isn't a destroyed, ruined, convoluted mess. It will be nice to return to Loch Modan or Barrens and not having them look like garbage. Also there won't be the bullshit in the questing timeline that Cata created, along with the overdone stupid pop culture reference quests.
You mean the rat wheel that's raids? No thanks. Especially Mythics, where it doesn't rewards the player. Back in Vanilla when you defeated a raid boss, you got epics, which you couldn't get anywhere in the game. Today, beating Mythics gets you gear that has the same model but with a different color. Oh and better stats, like that matters anymore.
One small portion of the game isn't enough to satisfy the hardcore. Hence Vanilla WoW servers.
No. Not ever. You solo world content like a boss, which has no challenge what so ever. Blizzards idea of content are daily's and pet battles. You have 4 very unnecessary raid difficulties.When that specific community goes on about "the game is casual" what they're actually saying is "Other people can do what previously only me and my very small, less-than-one-percent group could do. I'm no longer the special snowflake."
I don't know about you but once I clear a raid, I'd like to move on. Hopefully, something with different walls and different bosses, with totally different loot. Not this rat wheel of LFR->Normal->Heroic->Mythic. It's lazy and boring.
Heroic/Mythic is also when WoW began to lose subscribers. Heroics were fine until Blizzard added LFR and Mythic. Even then, Heroic was fine when Blizzard did it like in Ulduar, where a lot of thought went into each mechanic design.Heroic/Mythic raiding has been in the game for years.
no those pop culture quests and NPCs will still be there
http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/List_o...n_Warcraft/WoW
Omians- 70 Troll Enhancement shaman, Emerald Dream
Sigh. Once again this fallacy of, "Hey subs declined during a period where X thing was introduced, so clearly it was because of X!" I just love how everybody always pretends that the thing they hate is the reason why subs declined.Heroic/Mythic is also when WoW began to lose subscribers. Heroics were fine until Blizzard added LFR and Mythic. Even then, Heroic was fine when Blizzard did it like in Ulduar, where a lot of thought went into each mechanic design.
Pay no mind to the fact that the game was 5+ years old.
Eh, it's the usual argument that says you have to get something that makes you seem special to others, not feel special that you did something far less people did. Archie mythic so far is arguably the hardest boss ever to be put in the game on death to kill ratio, but somehow that's less of a reason to feel awesome at what you do because you can't wag your epeen at someone because your gear doesn't have a unique model.
Really glad I don't need the adoration of others to feel what I did was awesome and celebrate it with my friends.