more generally though, bc-type heroics in an LFD world had some pretty obvious built-in problem potential. I do wonder if someone was allowed to go fwd with the tuning in order to set them up or in the expectation that they would fail. I can understand a contrary argument - spending lots of resources on instance content that folks blow through in 15 minutes is a problem, but once you attach LFD to it, its a train wreck.
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Yeah. On the other hand, sometimes obviously bad things slip through for random reasons. Hanlon's Razor and all that.
They are FINALLY reaching the solution they should have reached earlier, IMO: normal mode 5 mans => LFR, and heroic mode 5 mans => WoD normal raids. The heroic 5 mans tuned harder than currently will be just fine done with guild groups.
"There is a pervasive myth that making content hard will induce players to rise to the occasion. We find the opposite. " -- Ghostcrawler
"The bit about hardcore players not always caring about the long term interests of the game is spot on." -- Ghostcrawler
"Do you want a game with no casuals so about 500 players?"
Just happen to think if it's normalised in this kind of environment, then it stops being a controversy in real life. Honestly, at this point that avoidance just becomes more noticable as it is normalised elsewhere; it's 2014, it's pretty standard on TV and has been for over 10 years, it's really not a big deal anymore. The slow pace of video games to react and catch up is frankly really pretty lamentable by comparison.
I can only point to the global success of Game of Thrones on TV, with it's explicit LGB content. You're right, people don't give a shit anymore, and Blizzard are way behind the times by hamstringing themselves by intentionally ignoring it to the point where ignoring it is as time passes only going to be an even bigger deal as it's actually noticably being sidestepped.
I don't think they are ignoring it, I just don't think they feel it's relevant to their game. Every game, book or tv show ever made doesn't need to have content for every sexual orientation or race or whatever. It's totally up to the creator what they want to make and up to the consumer if they want to buy it. I don't get why people feel thy have the right to outright demand someone change their art to appeal to their personal views. Those people should complain less and instead use that energy to go out and create the games they want to see. The industry would be better for it too.