Originally Posted by
aziras
The Kirin Tor thing did it for me. I have completely lost faith in the team working on WoW.
Having worked with SW management the past 10 years myself, I also expect this not to be the developers fault. Nor is it likely their QA staff.
The ones to blame are the game directors, or whoever else makes to call that something is "good enough". In the current state, the WoW team just does not compare to a software service used by millions of paying customers (I choose to believe their subscriber counts).
It is beyond sloppy to let these things live. Whoever is in charge need to think hard on what they are currently doing to the perception of quality in the player base. For the majority of the players "mythic tuning" is not how they gauge quality. On the other hand, little quirks in the core gameplay will affect everyone.
For every player that went to forums to ask if they missed something regarding how to get 4 Kirin Tor quests there is likely another 9 that felt stupid and blocked, and eventually just silently gave up.
The WQ system by-design is almost certainly meant to give some random flow to casual endgame. Give you something to do when you log in, and designed so that you do not need to log in every day, but can binge every other day if that is how you like to play.
When they let such code changes live without actually having tested them it makes me wonder. Are they deliberately not testing? are they just ignoring test results? are they terrible at their branch management? or is there some other explanation?
I can understand that internal QA might miss things like standing on a root somewhere on a specific small/large mount and jumping backwards may lead to unintentional collision (or falling through the world). But I cannot believe that the task of "put the Kirin Tor Emissary quest" back on live is not coupled with a test case along the lines of "complete Kirin Tor Emissary quest". If they have gone through that test case, they would have noticed that it was not possible to complete it and someone should have flagged that to the GD or whoever is in charge...
Blizzard have 12 years of legacy with this game. That also means they have to live up to a certain standard and cannot just "start-up" their way through.