Battle for Dazar'alor Mythic Progression, Jeremy Feasel Interview, Blue Posts

[Khallid]

I'm confused what about the Allied Races is a "strong system"? The fact that race changing costs cash?

[iamthedevil]

I'm confused what about the Allied Races is a "strong system"? The fact that race changing costs cash?

Strong = easy to create content that people like.

[Silent One]

I'm confused what about the Allied Races is a "strong system"? The fact that race changing costs cash?

The fact they can slap 3-4 hairstyles on a different color'd model, get people to pre-order the next expansion to get the privilege to unlock, and make people spend hundreds of hours playing the game to unlock it, then play even more to level one up, or fork out the cash to race change.

[Joker of Muerte]

Honestly they should make the Warfronts like they do the content in NAtural Selection 2 . Where one player is the Top down overview person who places upgrades and turrets and whatnot and everyone else makes sure they get built and takes the different areas for their side and repairs stuff and yeah.

[Drusin]

The team loves the Allied Race system and thinks it is a strong system.
The team does plan to add more Allied Races, but nothing to announce right now.

Well I disagree. Why? Because there is still a 50 character cap. You can't keep this up, eventually achievement+mount+xmog collectors are going to hit that cap.

[Khallid]

Strong = easy to create content that people like.

Damn it, I must be a robot then. You have uncovered my identity.

[Gratlim]

I see some blue colour in this ranking. Must be a mistake :s...

[Kazadar]

i'm glad there are more allied races coming i enjoy them. hopefully some of the new races they added this expansion will become allied. also i'm glad to see the bodyguard is returning in some form.

[javierdsv]

Those new systems sound a lot like how Destiny 2 works, it is an incredible thing to be able to keep doing things everywhere and still have current relevant reasons to be there all the time. This would give new breathing air to the game and I'm all for it. They would even give them reasons to graphically update several places continuously too.

I've always had the impression that when you leave a zone to never return it is a waste of content...

[Chickat]

There are different ways to formulate criticism. Yours was filled with sarcasm and cynism. Both rub off as salt very very fast in written format.

Can't blame the other guy for calling your first comment salty, because it reads like salt. Even if you want to be critical of things. Wording is key!

You can't criticize what you haven't actually seen yet. I understand being skeptical, but we have no idea how any of this actually pans out. It's either going to be end up being hype or massively disappointing.

[Msshammy]

Wow.. 6 guilds 8/9 mythic. That's pretty crazy.

[Chickat]

To me it looks like someone sends him out there to act excited and engage the crowd, but it just looks so fake.

I think it's real but looks fake because he has no charisma.

[Gadzooks]

Jesus Christ people. Let them try some new things and see how it goes.

This is the first interview that actually had some new ideas and hope.

It's striking to me - salty even - to see so many devs speaking out NOW, when they were nowhere to be found during development of BfA. Is it a good sign? Depends on how much faith you have with Blizzard and the WOW team right now. From my perspective? Not any. They nuked a lot of bridges with the community, so I don't expect a couple of dev interviews to change things overnight. But they have to start somewhere. And, this is not exactly a great start, because it's more content that they are doing regardless of player's feelings and opinions. Islands are pretty much universally ignored if not outright hated, and from everything I've read, they're only done to catch up on Apexis...er...azerite power, or for a parrot mount. So instead of saying "Oh, okay, we hear you, we'll focus less on that, and do something else" they're doubling down on them. Woo. So much communication, right? Shouting at a brick wall has no effect - you're doing so much better, Bliz - the wall is higher! C'mon. All he did was tease some vague things, and we're all supposed to go "Everything is perfect, here's my $15." Right? Right?

2019 is going to be a pretty challenging year for Blizzard - they're facing lower numbers across the board with the lack of any big releases, so of course, they're sending the troops out to rally players. The one big juicy carrot they have to lure players back in, and keep them in, is new content (and mounts), so the cynical side of me just sees this as Feasel waving a shiny toy at players and going "Look at the birdie!".

And don't get all salty at my cynicism, they earned it. I've watched Blizzard and the WoW Dev team build hope and crush it utterly since WOD and it's fiasco, and failing to learn anything meaningful from it. And, with the Reign of Ion, it's only gotten worse. One dev interview with some shinies revealed isn't going to do much to stem the tide of anger and resentment Blizzard themselves created among their customers. People have every right to their feelings, these new "emotions" Ion recently discovered, and I always find it a bit rude when someone thinks they have the right to tell people how to feel.

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I think it's real but looks fake because he has no charisma.

A lot of the devs are hard to read, because...well, they just tend towards certain personality types at times, and they're not hired for their personalities as much as their abilities. (Not trying to throw some hot button descriptive words around here)

I actually have nothing against Jeremy, I just wish the CM team would get their act together and put a decent video interview studio together, with good camera angles, microphones, and lighting - but looking at the last minute put together effort they do for Ion, their game director, I'm not holding my breath. Podcasters all across the board have put together excellent studios - E&T's video quality and production is excellent, as an example.

Part of an effective PR strategy is maintaining quality across the board when the company speaks, and a lot of their devs are shown in a bad light, because of their lack of a platform for them to speak from. Jeremy would probably come across much better with a proper camera, mic, and setting. Plus, he doesn't look comfortable with that format, when E&T do this kind of thing every day, and are comfortable and know how to present themselves effectively (plus, they have a theater background, no?)

[VeraeliaBlack]

*looks at World First Mythic Progression List*
*Two Alliance Guilds*

Looks like it's still business as usual. But no, no bias to Horde or anything, nope.

*eyerolls, closes tab*
Wake me up when Blizzard actually gives Alliance something notable for longer than 2 weeks (until Horde QQ about it and get it nerfed).

[Weeps]

All I hope for is a few things.

Revert the GCD back to Legion style.

Do not create more Island Expedition content in next expansion.

Open flying for each patch. When you get a mega content patch like 8.2, you can’t fly in those new zones until you do the “pathfinder” for that patch.

Dump WarFronts or make it actually immersive. There’s A LOT of potential in WarFronts. It’s just wasted AF. Half assed LFR crap. If you could make WarFronts have varying difficulties it’ll be very interesting.

[matheney2k16]

*looks at World First Mythic Progression List*
*Two Alliance Guilds*

Looks like it's still business as usual. But no, no bias to Horde or anything, nope.

*eyerolls, closes tab*
Wake me up when Blizzard actually gives Alliance something notable for longer than 2 weeks (until Horde QQ about it and get it nerfed).

If your tired of the imbalance then you create an alliance guild and go for world first? Faction imbalance ain't blizzards fault anymore it's the players.

People love the Zug zug

[Eleccybubb]

If your tired of the imbalance then you create an alliance guild and go for world first? Faction imbalance ain't blizzards fault anymore it's the players.

People love the Zug zug

Yes it's the players fault that Blizzard designed racials that benefit Horde more in a PvE setting hence why world first pushers go it.....

[matheney2k16]

Yes it's the players fault that Blizzard designed racials that benefit Horde more in a PvE setting hence why world first pushers go it.....

What racials are imba atm?

[Hexme]

Honestly they could announce Naga as a playable race and it would still not get me back into playing this pos abomination of a MMO. Oh look FF14 ARR just released a new class which all you have to do is complete the ARR story line, with a new race coming in the new expansion which you can play day 1. Oh look ESO is releasing a new class in June which all you have to do is buy the expansion. Oh look BDO released a new class in Dec and all you had to do was own the game.

Damn remember when all you had to do was own/sub to WoW for BE, Draenei, Worgen, Goblins and Pandas?, damn it's been that long since WoW was an actual good MMO.

[Niwes]

How can we believe this when...



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Everything seems rather straightforward, no risk taken, a new hub with World Quests, Invasions and Shrines, they don't seem to be willing to take risks anymore after the Azerite/Islands/Warfronts fiasco.

Edit: Wow these blue answers. If I'm remembering right, While I'm not 100% sure. Why not checking before answering ? Should be like a 10-seconds research.

yes lol. thought exactly the same.

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when i remeber how hyped jeremy feasel was about island expeditions at blizzcon and when he told us how completely new and cool they are because of AI ...

sorry bro, you and your company just sucks and completely lost touch and only drive the cost effective route. all stuff that can be templated and is cheap in design and development is what you are doing. since its all only for good quarter numbers and serving the activi$$ion blizzgreed share holders.

PS: yeah, level up bodyguards. another endless brain dumb grind stuff i have to repeat on every alt. and big new story quests. yeah, another pile of a quadrillion quests i have to do on every alt, to transport horrible lame story and 1% lore. yeah baby, all for the cheap grind. maybe ppl stay subbed, eh ?

Fuck that.