I am amazed at people defending Blizzard on this...
I am amazed at people defending Blizzard on this...
It's funny sorta... Because this is maybe the first time ever that the expansion (Legion) could easily stay 2 more months at it's last patch and less people than usual would complain about having the last patch for too long (All thanks to mage tower challenges that people seemed to have been spamming and rushing to do towards the end).
This was already communicated before the xpac launch and also in the official post to the warfront launch from blizzard.
If you don't read this stuff, don't blame the company that you're lazy
Warfronts change depending on how fast the other faction can get the resources for attacks
"Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova, Commander, daughter of Andrej and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance and the boot that is gonna kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart. I am death incarnate and the last living thing that you are ever going to see. God sent me." - Susan Ivanova, Between the Darkness and the Light, Babylon 5
"Only one human captain ever survived a battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me! You are in front of me! If you value your lives - be somewhere else!" - Delenn, Severed Dreams, Babylon 5
A game director is not at the level of management where the amount of resources to be allocated gets decided. He's probably been fighting tooth and nail for more resources and more time to QA. Blame him for actual design decisions - and even then he is probably to a very large degree beholden to studio creative management. He may have a strong voice in where the game is going, but the actual product strategy and creative brief is likely to made one or even two levels above him.
He's the one to blame for how they prioritize the resources they do have. For example, how the allied races are unlocked, how the reward structure for various content is, what the reputation rewards are, various tuning and balancing principles, etc. I think a lot of people are vastly overestimating the power a game director has on a corporate cash cow like WoW.
They didn't sell blizzard to them. Activision and Blizzard are seperate entities under a holding company created by Vivendi. When Vivendi allowed the buyout Vivendi has enough stock to keep an eye on things because one of the main points was neither side controlling the other.
With nothing coming out of there by Vivendi, or former employees then the whole "Activision is fucking blizzard." thing is nothing but shit. You're basically saying after 10s-100s of people leaving Blizzard since the event happened that none of them is going to tell? Please that's as much a conspiracy as man not walking on the moon.
A lot of raging for a Warfront, chill.
#TeamLegion #UnderEarthofAzerothexpansion plz #Arathor4Alliance #TeamNoBlueHorde
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