Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Neviriah]

Zorbrix tweets are usually signs of something happening on a specific day. Been baited into this.

In this case.. the image Leads me to think about Oktoverfest Or maybe a hint towards more info at gamescom since that is in Germany too? Damn now you got me going down the rabbit hole too

[Sondrelk]

I would be all for a mount usage and mount combat system. But this is not that. You get to feed your tamagochi to make it stronger and stronger until it can fly nearly-as-good-as your dragon you got from farming ruby sanctum.

What an evolution! What a great fun. Well, not for me, but i am sure some like that.

And in Spiderman you spend ages improving your movement skills to be even a fraction as efficient as teleporting in GTA, and yet when people talk about games where moving was what made it a 10/10 game they inevitably come back to Spiderman, or the Wingsuit in Just Cause 3.

Flying in WoW is beyond boring. It's barely even a movement mechanic it's so simple.

[rhorle]

What's a skinner box? Is that a common term in the industry or a language thing

In short it is a behavior conditioning thing. Like train a rat to do push a button to make food appear. It is used by people to give more weight to their argument that a video game sucks because it is just designed to condition players to accept X thing for Y rewards.

[Dracullus]

reported for trolling.
this type of behavior has to stop at some point...

I wholeheartedly agree.

[Grimmy17]

It's something psychological now being used as a buzzword for any kind of farm.

Thank you! Did a quick google also - quite interesting.

Implementing psychological experiments as a means of calibrating a video game... Very apt

[boyzma]

Why did you feel the need to tell us this?

Because there's too much optimism in here dont'cha know? Gotta have the pessimism thrown in /s

[Catastrophy349]

All according to plan. https://twitter.com/mrgmyt/status/15...ArT4f8VuJuzxpw

[Darkvoic3]

Tonight/tomorrow morning is going to be nuts. I can’t believe what’s happening.

hm...?
So let's say alpha happens tomorrow what then? I doubt you'll be one of the people whom are going to be able to play it.
The only thing I'm hopefull for is to see all the talent-trees and then look at the changes they do to the talent-trees/specs through the alpha/beta.

I also doubt that we will get new affixes or even affix adjustments to make them more kiss/curse but at least for that there is still a chance.
I still hope they go away from that bland thought, that adding fortified/tyrannical is a good affix for a dungeon, since the key level is already ment to scale the hp/dmg.
It will be fun to watch what it will be in dragonflight which will get the community upset and them telling us "we here you". But at least in the last patch of the expansion the "we here you and will try to do better in the future" wil take affect

[Nokster10]

Gearing progression from their content, instanced content for solo and matchmade group players, where the gameplay is being catered especially to matchmade groups, having player accountability instead of group accountability. You know, there are fun games out there where you simply push a "join now"-button and get matchmade with groups for content that is entirely made for that setting. In WoW, the devs simply take organized group raiding and water it down to oblivion for their abnomination called "LFR".

That sounds an awful lot like that trash game called FF14. Also your last point is completely false since there are 4 difficulties for raiding.

[Catastrophy349]

Yeah, I could care less about playing it. I don’t like Spoilers so I mostly focus on gameplay, systems, art stuff once Alpha/Beta starts.

[Cheezits]

MRGM and Stiven both having a "nice long sleep", huh?

[Rtrain]

Oh man you guys were right its happening!
https://twitter.com/Zorbrix/status/1...028354/photo/1

bavarian pretzel.... german commercial... it's all connected! :thinking:

[Catastrophy349]

MRGM and Stiven both having a "nice long sleep", huh?

Without sounding like a copium addict, it’s kind of been beaten to death at this point that this would happen. Everyone should enjoy the ride and get rest if it’s late where you are because tomorrow is gonna be fun

[rhorle]

Solution: The devs should add fun gameplay without psychological tricks.

They can't. Everything plays on some part of the psyche. Games are by their purpose designed to encourage players to play them. It only becomes an issue for you, and others, that bring up the term when they are not satisfied with the game. When you are happy with the game it is no longer a dirty trick the developers are using even though it is the same exact thing.

The only true solution is for people to move on and find another hobby to fill your time. They don't. So they look for any reason to justify why it isn't their fault that they aren't happy. They blame the game design, the developers, other fans, mind tricks, or anything else they can think of. Just move on.

[Xofoo]

Without sounding like a copium addict, it’s kind of been beaten to death at this point that this would happen. Everyone should enjoy the ride and get rest if it’s late where you are because tomorrow is gonna be fun

But what if Blizz pulls a fast one on us and releases it tonight?! We can't sleep! Not yet! :O

[Marlamin]

My surgery for tomorrow got cancelled, so now I'm debating whether to get some sleep or ride the thread into the early hours of the morning
@Marlamin was there any resolution to the build numbering issue?

It was a typo, they mixed up some numbers so now the new vendor build is higher (and is likely the one we'll see tomorrow).

[Catastrophy349]

But what if Blizz pulls a fast one on us and releases it tonight?! We can't sleep! Not yet! :O

I guess it depends on your:

-time zone
-situation for tonight/tomorrow (do you have to go anywhere, work, etc.?)
-HYPE level

I’ll be up late

[boyzma]

But what if Blizz pulls a fast one on us and releases it tonight?! We can't sleep! Not yet! :O

But "we're" not all across the pond Only 3:37 pm here. Plenty of time left before sleep.

[Grimmy17]

It was a typo, they mixed up some numbers so now the new vendor build is higher (and is likely the one we'll see tomorrow).

How odd. I don't expect that to happen all too often, must've been a slip in all the excitement and rush!

Hope you're well rested and healed before the big day

[Marlamin]

How odd. I don't expect that to happen all too often, must've been a slip in all the excitement and rush!

Hope you're well rested and healed before the big day

It happens every now and then, those fields are still manual input for Blizz. And no, I wish I was more rested, but today is technically the day where I am, so will go to bed soon.