Is Blizzard way over their heads with change in WoD?

[huth]

That's like asking if Microsoft are in over their heads when it comes to the creation of their operating system.

Difference is that in Microsofts case the answer is always yes.

[xindralol]

After reading all the 6.0 patch changes, they are removing and changing a lot of things. Are they over their head in change?

they alwaysnliked to change things that worked perfectly fine until they were broken (ie self heals, arenas)

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I always associate "over their head" with trying to do too much. As a developer, removing older features is actually the opposite. It simplifies things a lot. If anyone thinks that just because something was there before it should always be there, they have short memories when it comes to software. Software needs to evolve with the times, otherwise we'd all still be playing WoW Vanilla, which if you look at it through an objective lens, kind of sucked compared to now.

Remember at one point the following were "Iconic":

- 40 man Raids
- Having only one AH per faction
- Horde having to get their butts over to Searing Gorge just to raid MC and BWL
- Paladins wearing Cloth and being cleanse bots (Decursive Mod being manditory)
- Shaman being forced to go Resto for Mana Tide
- Druids being forced to go Resto for Innervate
- Stacking mana per 5 second regen gear
- Completely unnecessary "resistance checks" fights in every Raid to gate advancement
- Only 8 debuffs on a raid boss
- Inner Fire granted Attack Power buffs

And there are plenty more. These were all things that devs removed, and the game is better because of it.

the 8 debuff thing was an engine limitation, has nothing to do with this.

[Seezer]

Something went wrong. Blizzard is way behind on this thing. If they can't launch with all of the new character models, then they shouldn't launch any of them. Don't use this as a selling point for the expansion and then not deliver. WoD feels like a World of Warcraft: Allstars expac, and I don't feel that they themselves are sure of what direction they are going.

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Nope. In fact, it didn't change at all. The numbers changed, that's all.

Math isn't actually about numbers. Math is about what you do with those numbers.
Changing the math is hard. Changing the numbers is trivial.

Okay yoda. The math we are talking about here is actually about numbers. And they are changing that, nothing about it is trivial.

[Drixxu]

IMO, they really cut alot of spells and such from every class, which may have been needed, honestly alot of people are angry/ok with it, we will just have to see how it plays out on launch day

[Siddown]

the 8 debuff thing was an engine limitation, has nothing to do with this.

You are missing my point. Too many people think too many things are "Iconic" (a word that gets thrown around an awful lot these days), yet they are just things that happened to be in the first few years of the game. Lots of things have been removed since Vanilla, and most of them have been for the betterment of the game.

Change is good.

[vaeevictiss]

yawn...i guess its about the time for the standard new expansion threads about how much the game will suck/how you will be quitting/how all the changes are bad/how this will break the game.

Relax...most of these changes are good (except removing fel flame...really? we wanted an instant cast DD for years lol) but many will never make it to live.

[KCguy]

We as a community are in over our heads as more info gets released. Not them. lol