Come at me bro; The rantings of an (RL) alcoholic.

[Motso]

This was a bad idea.

[Zaktar]

Australia breeds hilarious people.

[Motso]

Australia breeds hilarious people.

Its the environment, we are ride or die cause if you run into a brown snake alone its die.

[Zaktar]

Its the environment, we are ride or die cause if you run into a brown snake alone its die.

If I was going to come at you I'd go for the hug. As to the post... I mean I'd argue there is more at work, but I'd also agree there are some bitchy whiners who need a smack of reality.

One of the problems for a big organization which gets so much data about how its customers respond to what is that it starts to look like a maze (consider that Blizzard potentially gets an utterly insane amount of data compared to, say, Wendy's). You end up with this illusion of logic because you hear what people are saying and you see what they're doing in great detail so you make changes based on what you're getting, when really you should have been trusting the instincts of the smart people who have experience making fun games. Data can destroy a business. Not saying I know because I don't, just that I've seen business partners make all the wrong choices because they thought metrics could guide them better than talent.

[Super Kami Dende]

Its the environment, we are ride or die cause if you run into a brown snake alone its die.

What city bumpkin bullshit is this. I've been running into Brown Snakes alone since I was 7 years old in Queensland.

[Amali1232]

If I was going to come at you I'd go for the hug. As to the post... I mean I'd argue there is more at work, but I'd also agree there are some bitchy whiners who need a smack of reality.

One of the problems for a big organization which gets so much data about how its customers respond to what is that it starts to look like a maze (consider that Blizzard potentially gets an utterly insane amount of data compared to, say, Wendy's). You end up with this illusion of logic because you hear what people are saying and you see what they're doing in great detail so you make changes based on what you're getting, when really you should have been trusting the instincts of the smart people who have experience making fun games. Data can destroy a business. Not saying I know because I don't, just that I've seen business partners make all the wrong choices because they thought metrics could guide them better than talent.

Overly reliant on data and being so naive as to attempt to cater to the needs and desires of as many gamer profiles as they plainly do. You can't make everyone happy. And when you try, you just piss everyone off.

[Echocho]

We have found ourselves in a place where everyone wants/expects WoW to be exactly as fun as it was when they first got into it, and that is feckin stupid.

Except that a lot of people that go back and play those older versions (illegally) find them to be just as fun as when they played them the first time. The game has changed a lot, there's no denying that and amongst all the millions that quit the game over the years I bet there's a sizable portion that quit because the game changed.

[Aucald]

I don't really know what this thread originally was, but given the altering of the OP and the distance from WoW as a topic, I am going to say it has run its short course. Closing this.