I don't understand how Blizzard is so incompetent. Listening to fans or not can't they just make some competent expansions like wotlk or mop or even legion?
I don't understand how Blizzard is so incompetent. Listening to fans or not can't they just make some competent expansions like wotlk or mop or even legion?
The actual game most people want back is Vanilla - TBC - WotLK. Back then, Blizzard listened but did their own thing while taking into account player feedback, and the results were great. Feedback is what it is: Feedback. It should not be directly funneled into an end product, it must be interpreted properly.
It isn't hard to join those communities at least from the raiding side... pvpers are weird and what little ive seen dipping my toe into that viper pit I can understand people's hesitation.
With Preach though his opinions come more from someone who is always in a high progressed raid guild. The culture of those guilds are so utterly alien compared to the screaming rl who can't kill more then 4 mythic bosses that its difficult to consider they are both raid communities.
nope, they dont speak "the truth", they speak their opinion...
they are entitled to their opinion, and when they dont like something they are free to say it, BUT same goes for other side, the "fanboys" as you (clearly biased) call them are ALSO entitled to their opinion, and if they like something they are free to say they do, your disagreement with them doesnt make them wrong...
Tonight for me is a special day. I want to go outside of the house of the girl I like with a gasoline barrel and write her name on the road and set it on fire and tell her to get out too see it (is this illegal)?
Regarding the "If you're not good at the game your opinion doesn't matter" discussion I feel like every opinion matters but when you got a ton of viewers who actually care and will follow your command then you want someone who knows what they are talking about giving their opinion. It's the same way when you watch a Football game or something and you want someone analyzing it who actually knows the game and knows what they are talking about, and just not a loud Joe Schmoe from the street.
I don't mind someone like Preach who's played at a very high level for years giving his thoughts on raiding, I don't mind someone like Dratnos who is doing high m+ giving his thoughts on dungeons and heck even someone like Asmongold giving his thoughts on the 'overall' state of the game because I think they've all played a lot and they are pretty passionate about it so it makes it interesting. I don't get why people care about Bellular at all though because the guy has accomplished nothing in the game and he went from making your average 'news of the week' videos in the spirit of Hazel (but worse) to making clickbait flame videos trashing the game for the last 5 years because that's what gets views. Even if the game would magically become perfect he would still just post his clickbaity shit.
I mean not every player has valuable insights to offer. Those who screamed " meaningful choice" with covenants had such a lack of understanding of the game their opinions held no productive value.
Its hubris to think that if your just some random joe who doesn't invest time or effort into something you have useful insights on the topic.
It's an overused analogy and basically has been a meme for ~4 years. And it doesn't just get used when talking about critiquing design philosophies. I've seen people appeal to arguments about McRibs when discussing bringing Classic WoW back. You can't tell me that's not hilarious.
I think a key thing a lot of 'complainers' lack is the kind of thinking where you follow the logic the entire way to see what would actually happen if they made certain changes. For example there might be a complaint about "They need to triple the droprate of gear" but then if Blizz did you might reach a point where gear feels useless and non rewarding because everyone has it.
No matter how good or bad you are at the game, there always seems to be a lot of complaints in that spirit of "they need to fix X" without any thought about what that change would actually mean. As someone who has played this game for about 15 years, I feel like one of the most common mistakes Blizz has done over the years is changing things to fix problems - only to create new problems and it's a snowball effect where a tiny change they made 'for the better' 5 years prior has now escalated into a much bigger problem that they are desperately trying to fix.