Summary of Holinka's interview (see the front page -
permalink):
* We are looking into A, B.
* We are thinking about C, D, E.
* We don't think we are going to do F. <Spends tons of time mulling over the complexities that are so first-level basic that it becomes clear this is the first time Holinka thinks about the topic.>
* That thing you are worried about is working fine, we just have to do a better job explaining how it works.
* We aren't sure about doing G, please send more feedback.
* We sometimes think about H. Don't know if we are going to do it.
* J is a real challenge. No commitments.
* The team is aware that you don't like K.
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By the way, it's all good. We found a metric on which PVP ladder in Legion looks fine compared to ladders of previous expansions. (Or maybe this is false and we just think nobody would pin us on the numbers.)
The only things Holinka said like "here, we did / are going to do this" are:
* Leveling PVP is going to reward more experience (a change of a multiplicative factor, 5 minutes of dev time).
* Rated weekly quests will have bonus rolls (a change of a flag on several quests, same as above, requires next to no time to do).
* They will show the title cutoffs by themselves (at best this is a very minor addition to the bnet API, at worst just a blog post).
* They are extending PVP cups (e-sport, bla bla bla, not something the dev team even does, but whatever).
These guys are officially doing nothing. They have a whole team and the amount of work they can show after several months is less than half of a work day of a single dev.
Disgusting.