Originally Posted by
Niwes
i cant tell anything about quoted posters motivations (what you imply as „hate“). i just can tell what we, me, as working in this business for 20+ years, would do as damage control and that its obviously to ME, what happens. i speak for noone else than for ME. and what i think what happens is just exactly a duplette of what the quoted poster has written.
also we (some other sw developers and wow fans here) had done the same that Bellular did in his video. but way more smart and way more in deep. i will never release this analytics and their results anywhere in public, because i am sure Blizzards lawyers team would contact me very fast and i dont have the publicity bonus, as a safe shield, Bellular has. but everyone out there, understanding REST, using the wow armory api and analzye the combined data of wclogs and rio, can do the same and can see the real picture. most ppl are too lazy, have too less knowhow or whatever, but you can have a look at the simple truth. its just there. and let me say here that Bellulars picture looks way better than the reality is.
why i say this: lets just assume for a second you believe what i said above (without making out analytics public) and its true. then this is a VERY good reason or support for the „Blizz is in full dmamage control“ argument. it would backup that argument heavily. since i have that information and work in this business since 20 years, i simply can not disagree to quoted poster. even when i want.
as a quick side note: what you written is super easily to turn 180 degrees around. i can say „kneejerk arguments out of whiteknighting/fanboyism happens“. and now? what you said has zero substance. and tbh i expect a bit more of someone that is a mod in this forum.
in short: everyone has his opinion. quoted poster has his, i has mine and you have yours. at least, i could back it up with some real analytics, if i wanna get myself in danger with Blizzards lawyer suites. but as long as i not offer my real data analytics it doesnt matter much. i will for sure not do, since i care waaaay too less to take that risk. but since i work in this business and clearly can see (and back it up for myself) that quoted poster is 100% right (in MY opinion), i have to agree to him.
the only mistake i did was not to write „imo“ to my sentence you quoted. but this mistake is not the same big than your „i know everything“ fanboyism stance, that use stuff like „no, he IS not“ or declare the reason for other ppls („out of hate“).
but in the end, before some of us bring real, undiscussable, facts on the table or Blizzard opens his internals to public (will never happen) its just opinions. yours, mine, quoted posters one. and no opinion is more or less „true“ here. its just opinions, not facts.