Cross-Realm SoO, New Model Faces, WoD Flying, Blue Tweets, Poll, Heroes Tech Alpha

[Lycanthat]

I can see where blizzard is putting their time.. I just don't get it. They plan on releasing a new game, work on two other games expansion with one game covering for it and just one total team divided into smaller bits? How.. just how..

Explains the lack of content.

Yeah, basically your subscription is (currently) funding Heroes of the Storm so Blizz can chase after that sweet sweet LoL $$$...

[Immitis]

Yeah, basically your subscription is (currently) funding Heroes of the Storm so Blizz can chase after that sweet sweet LoL $$$...

you mean just like every other game developer in the world?

money to make games doesnt just poof out of nowhere people.

and each game has its own team, sometimes people move around different teams, and some people are on multiple teams but overall the development is all separate

[Deleted]

At least Blizzard is releasing games to earn its money while people just throw their money on Star Citizen so much that it reached 40 million... By doing "nothing".
At the same time, Blizzard always worked hard to show us real content and delivered it to us.

[xytech]

Why are they so afraid of allowing cross-realm SoO HC? I just can't see a problem about it. It'd certainly boost my activity.

[Kaleredar]

How many of those mounts will be available to buy with gold ? And how many will be available in Blizzard store only ?

Hey smartypants, what's the current ratio of "store to in-game" mounts look like, hmmm?

Oh, there are ridiculously more in-game mounts in nigh every patch and tier than there are store mounts that are introduced once every two or three months?


Still feeling smug?




Anyway... If Blizzard's goal is to make the world "not inconvenient to get through without flying," I really fail to see how making a larger world, with flying, would somehow be "too convenient" if it's intended to be "convenient" in the first place. Dynamic events wont matter whether flying mounts are included or not, nor will exploring. World PvP is only marginally applicable.


Also... No idea why anybody would have any reservations about making normal SoO (or heroic for that matter) cross-realm. There's really no reason to not allow it to be in full.

[Aerna]

Alas, unlikely. Tech limitation: pre-6.0, we actually can't make Normal x-realm without also doing so for Heroic.

And what's wrong with making SoO heroic cross realm too?

[Shrugal]

And what's wrong with making SoO heroic cross realm too?

No first kill competition on servers anymore. That's a real thing and removing it would be a shame and piss of many players.

[billielecter]

No new content until September. What a smart way to save WoW!

[Firebert]

Voted "Yes with restrictions": Add a soloqueue mechanic to Flex and Normal with sensible item level restrictions.

[Deleted]

Only 10 new mounts........?

10 new mounts likely means several slightly different versions of each, like colours or attached armour/decorations. That's not so far from the norm when you think about the previous expansions. Yaks, Goats, Mushan, Dragon Turtles, Cloud Serpents, Giant Yak, Water Strider... probably forgot some from MoP launch but there's far more than 10 mounts from those archetypes I've just listed.

[Frozenbeef]

Warlords of Draenor has roughly 10 new mounts.

wow don't go overboard for our sakes blizzard -.-

[Deleted]

I am assuming he is talking about models and not actual mounts. MoP released with ~15 or so models IIRC?

20 models.

[Deleted]

Who cares about the amount of mounts we get, as long as they are good.

Give us a brown boar, armour is a plus!

[Deleted]

How are people coming to the conclusion that this post supports the idea that we'll be getting sameface? Do you really think Blizzard is going to write an artcraft on something they can't do? If we were just getting samefaces we'd get a blue post squirrelled away in the forums, not an article slapped on the front page for all to see.

[Mic_128]

MoP had at release:

1. Armored Water Strider
2. Normal Cloud Serpent
3. Thundering Cloud Serpent
4. Heavenly Cloud Serpent
5. Astral Cloud Serpent
6. Amber Scorpion
7. Shado-Pan Tiger
8. Imperial Quilen
9. Flying Cloud
10. Dragon Turtle (Pandaren racial mount)
11. Armored Dragon Turtle (Pandaren speed racial mount)
12. Crane
13. Goat
14. Son of Galleon (regardless of it being bugged)
15. Geosynchronous World Spinner
16. the other Engineering mount
17. Jeweled Panther
18. Pandaren Kite
19. Yak
20. Traveler's Yak

That doesn't even go into the color variations. WoD having 10 mounts isn't something to freak out over.

ED: forgot about the Yak

Thanks for reminding me that I still haven't got about half of those.

[Arvandor]

people from the press are smart enough.. when they said mounts, than they mean mounts and not models..

interesting that blizzard speak for two of their negative wod infos.. flying and one face option..

[Firebert]

No first kill competition on servers anymore. That's a real thing and removing it would be a shame and piss of many players.

That finished ages ago. Just remove the FoS.

[VanishO2]

That finished ages ago. Just remove the FoS.

World 1st yes, server 1st nope. There are servers still going for it.

[Illiterate]

Does the 10 new mounts include store mounts? If not I would expect 8-9 of them to be from the pay to win store.

[Firebert]

World 1st yes, server 1st nope. There are servers still going for it.

Those servers must be so unpopulated that they must be merged already.