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Sociop  Posts: 264
Registered: 2009-12-8 15:10:16
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4.3 Interviews with Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street |
Arcilite_I posted:
Idk I think he's actually serious and has no clue what they've done....or he's the biggest troll in MMO history.
I don't know either, can someone touted as a game design genius really be that oblivious to his own failures?
Perhaps his overwhelming arrogance has wrapped him in blanket of impenetrable denial.
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sarnsereg  Title: I HAS A TITLE?
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Registered: 2001-6-17 21:19:51
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how do they not understand that worlk was so much better in just about every aspect compared to cataclysm... yet insist on making things better for the elite raiders? making things harder for the casuals....
they once said the point of wow's success was that the casuals could play this game and compete... i've really fallen out of favor of wow fairly quickly the last couple months because of things like this.
buying tier gear with valor was the only way for me to get some of my gear this expansion. wotlk i was able to PUG both a 10 and 25 man EVERYTHING and in cata i can;t find a pug to do a damned heroic and not wipe. it's stupid. i play this game to experience the dungeons and raids and they have made it harder and harder to do that. i've done half of firelands and its too hard to get through normal with my group that ends up having 1-2 people not able to raid every time we try to raid so we take pugs and make no progress.... in wotlk we could grab 2 pugs and still make progress and it was fun.
imo, the best was 10/25 man on seperate lock outs, easier to do normals(ie pugs can clear) and then heroics actually be the difficult one. building in a buff like in icecrown was nice, it let them not change ANYTHING about their encounters and was a built in way to let people progress regularly through content.
yet here they are.. we can't change anything or people will leave..... hint hint, people have left and are going to continue to leave if you don't make things easier. some will complain about being hand fed everything and that things are too easy... and all you have to do is look at the sub numbers for wotlk vs sub numbers for cata..... wotlk people complained it was "too easy" yet they didn't quit to the tune of 600,000+ like they did when cata came out and complained it was too hard.
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Sociop Posts: 264
Registered: 2009-12-8 15:10:16
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sarnsereg posted:
how do they not understand that worlk was so much better in just about every aspect compared to cataclysm... yet insist on making things better for the elite raiders? making things harder for the casuals....
they once said the point of wow's success was that the casuals could play this game and compete... i've really fallen out of favor of wow fairly quickly the last couple months because of things like this.
buying tier gear with valor was the only way for me to get some of my gear this expansion. wotlk i was able to PUG both a 10 and 25 man EVERYTHING and in cata i can;t find a pug to do a damned heroic and not wipe. it's stupid. i play this game to experience the dungeons and raids and they have made it harder and harder to do that. i've done half of firelands and its too hard to get through normal with my group that ends up having 1-2 people not able to raid every time we try to raid so we take pugs and make no progress.... in wotlk we could grab 2 pugs and still make progress and it was fun.
imo, the best was 10/25 man on seperate lock outs, easier to do normals(ie pugs can clear) and then heroics actually be the difficult one. building in a buff like in icecrown was nice, it let them not change ANYTHING about their encounters and was a built in way to let people progress regularly through content.
yet here they are.. we can't change anything or people will leave..... hint hint, people have left and are going to continue to leave if you don't make things easier. some will complain about being hand fed everything and that things are too easy... and all you have to do is look at the sub numbers for wotlk vs sub numbers for cata..... wotlk people complained it was "too easy" yet they didn't quit to the tune of 600,000+ like they did when cata came out and complained it was too hard.
Yep even the regular 5-man Cata Heroics are still a wipe fest which is why I stopped doing them on all three of my 85's I don't even entertain the thought of trying to pug a Cata raid. However like you I did them all in wotlk on a regular basis.
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Arunne Title: The Anonymous
Posts: 177
Registered: 2003-11-3 14:11:47
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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4.3 Interviews with Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street |
You guys are totally discounting the .01% of the wow population that was crying for their game to be this hard and think that CAT is the best expansion ever.
Of course that .01% is made up of Ghostcrawler and his buddies!
Edit - proofreading is my friend!
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It's truly surprising to watch a game company kill such a winning formula in such short a time. It's amazing to watch the lead dev demonstrate that he's absolutely oblivious to the reality of his teams decisions during such a decline.
It really makes you wonder where the disconnect is, and why it has lasted for so long. An extreme case of cognitive dissonance is my guess. Because widespread opinion and falling numbers don't lie.
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Nakal Title: Moderator
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Registered: 2002-7-9 11:50:38
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Arunne Title: The Anonymous
Posts: 177
Registered: 2003-11-3 14:11:47
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4.3 Interviews with Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street |
Blisteringballs posted:
It's truly surprising to watch a game company kill such a winning formula in such short a time. It's amazing to watch the lead dev demonstrate that he's absolutely oblivious to the reality of his teams decisions during such a decline.
It really makes you wonder where the disconnect is, and why it has lasted for so long. An extreme case of cognitive dissonance is my guess. Because widespread opinion and falling numbers don't lie.
Makes me think that Ghostcrawler's dad was the guy who came up with the idea of New Coke.
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Zero_Washu Posts: 290
Registered: 2001-9-28 05:17:03
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1/1/00 12:00am
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4.3 Interviews with Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street |
Got to love the comment which confirms that only gear allows healers to feel able again. In wording, the nerf can be overcome by lots of gear, until we need to move the bar again
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Talehon69  Title: Anonymous Entity
Posts: 525
Registered: 2002-12-11 10:09:58
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Date Posted:
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They're making the Raid Finder at the Derp Difficulty, and you'll get tier pieces from it. Just lower ilvl, but if you're doing Derp Difficulty raids, do you really need the same gear?
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Ugh_Lancelot Title: Ooo...bouncy!
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Registered: 2002-6-17 14:37:05
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Talehon69 posted:
They're making the Raid Finder at the Derp Difficulty, and you'll get tier pieces from it. Just lower ilvl, but if you're doing Derp Difficulty raids, do you really need the same gear?
Did you actually have a question in there somewhere or were you just delighting in calling casual players names again?
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