I still think its less about the money and more to do with not wanting to mess with it. I think that is why they brought up officially licensing the game to other people. I really think they don't want to fool with, and that would have been a perfect deal for them. Apparently though there is no legal way to do that and protect their IP.
Absolutely. I think it comes down to this: the quality of every accomplishment is really high in legacy MMO's. Retail WoW has a very high quantity of accomplishment, but it has less value*. Not saying one is better than the other, just that it's pretty cool to play in an environment where every accomplishment is meaningful and fun because it didn't come easily.
*Except for Mythic raiding. This is top-notch on Retail, and falls under the "meaningful and fun because it didn't come easily" paradigm.
When we looked at the relics of the precursors, we saw the height civilization can attain.
When we looked at their ruins, we marked the danger of that height.
- Keeper Annals
When we looked at the relics of the precursors, we saw the height civilization can attain.
When we looked at their ruins, we marked the danger of that height.
- Keeper Annals
It's part of their grand delusion. Blizzard HAS to be incompetent in their fantasy. Blizzard has said no repeatedly. If they are incompetent, then they could be wrong.
Anybody with any sense knows they're not incompetent. (but we're not the ones with the delusion to keep afloat)
Oh really? That's why WoW has had maybe a year of actual balance in its lifetime? They can't even pace raid tiers appropriately. The art department being solid doesn't mean every department is. WoW has been coasting on past success since mid-Wrath.
Thread 1: QQ WoD sucks blablabla. Thread 2: Bliz is competent, wtf are you talking about?
W/e fits your argument.
And how is the one not using information they don't have as an argument, just assuming that it exists, the delusional one? Notice Bliz never said anything about cost in their response to this?
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"can't pace raid tiers correctly"
vs
"working on next expansion"
HM > BRF > HFC was well paced.
I mean, I don't care either way, because I usually quit/go casual after I've completed the content I set out to complete but yeah. I don't expect them to release a new raid while preparing for the other expansion. I think it gives people who haven't completed it at it's highest difficulty to do so. You killed M Archi? cool. Go play something else till the next expac comes out, or whatever.
Well paced for mythic guilds maybe. Casual guilds are barely into heroic by the time the next raid comes.
Why do people say in one breath "OMG, Blizzard sucks!" and then ask that very same company make a vanilla server? If I thought somebody sucked at something, the last thing I'd do is ask them to do that very thing for me.
Besides, Blizzard is busy. In case you haven't noticed, they're making an expansion pack right now. Anybody not working on Legion is probably on to next one already. I seriously doubt they have people sitting at their desks twiddling their thumbs just in case some fan request comes in.
1100 (1116)? Did a bunch of people get laid off on Monday? Is it Worldwide Sockpuppet Day? What is going on?
You people do realize that if your dreams are fulfilled, you will be transported back in time to when WoW was shitty, except that you will know the future when WoW is actually better, and you will never experience that future. Because clams don't stack, and pretty much everything else that was full-on asshattery about the good old days.
No, they obviously shouldn't ignore fans. My point was they can hardly be expected to just drop everything from their schedule to develop a vanilla server system that may or may not be successful. Besides, they haven't ignored requests. They fulfill the ones they feel like doing and they say no to the rest. In some cases its seems like they just have to keep saying no and no and no and NO, NO, NO because some part of the customer base seems to have selective deafness.
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To be fair blitz had 3 WoW teams, team 1 was the main one that went to titan then overwatch, team 2 did mop last and now legion next, the shitty new hires are team 3 and they did wod. Personally cata and mop weren't that bad overall to me.
Like I posted on another thread I forget which, it would be easier for blitz to start from scratch for a vanilla server instead of trying to patch it into the new system, but regardless it's going to take them quite a while.
If it was only a handful of fans asking for legacy servers then there would not have been this uproar we see now. So maybe Blizzard should really think about it hard instead of continuing to say NO, NO, NO.
And nobody (in their right minds) suggest Blizzard drop everything and focus solely on legacy servers. Retail and future expansions are the most important, but surely they can make a slow start on legacy?