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Quazimortal  Title: The One and Only
Posts: 1,557
Registered: 2004-9-18 21:52:58
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1/1/00 12:02am
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GutterSludge posted:
Yes Quasi, but if Blizzard really wanted viable feedback, they would have a realistic list to choose from, not things like a 5 year old nerf..
I've never seen a realistic list on reasons for cancelation for any MMO.
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:02am
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Auenwing posted:
Sorry to interrupt what was an incredible discussion here, but I want to be very clear about this:
Nothing regarding heroics drove me or my guild from WoW.
There was so much else that Blizzard arbitrarily changed in this expansion that clearly demonstrated somebody there was out of touch with their customers' experience. More than usual. Or that someone there had decided that WoW's age was going to attrit older subscribers and concluded that changing the game to attract new customers was the correct business model.
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I agree, it was more than the difficulty increase. It was the ridiculous amount of phasing, the totally linear questing on rails, the severe mudflation of hitpoints for no discernible reason, massive nerfs/buffs slinging classes back and forth, daily (if not hourly) hotfixes, ridiculous hateful behavior in dungeon groups due to dungeon difficulty changes coupled with massive redesign/gutting of healers, etc, etc. And it only took me a week to get sick of it.
If I had to pick one though it would be healer "redesign" though. They single-handedly turned a role into complete trash overnight. There was so much vitriol toward healers it was sick. It was that more than anything that made dungeons harder, not the stupid, regurgitated mechanics and over the top damage.
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Auenwing  Title: straightface
Posts: 589
Registered: 2002-12-27 23:23:12
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:02am
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Quazimortal posted:
GutterSludge posted:
Yes Quasi, but if Blizzard really wanted viable feedback, they would have a realistic list to choose from, not things like a 5 year old nerf..
I've never seen a realistic list on reasons for cancelation for any MMO.
What we found amusing was the fact that they shortened the number of characters you could input when entering your own reason. Definitely smaller than after TBC.
Bremen_Gaheris posted:
If I had to pick one though it would be healer "redesign" though. They single-handedly turned a role into complete trash overnight. There was so much vitriol toward healers it was sick. It was that more than anything that made dungeons harder, not the stupid, regurgitated mechanics and over the top damage.
My husband played a priest as his main. He is an incredibly level-headed, objective scientist. He saw the stories and the posts out here on the boards, and had to "observe" for himself, never trusting anything he could not replicate. His testing complete, I've never seen him so disgusted over a game developer's design decision before. That's the thing that really broke the game for him.
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:02am
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Cataclysm? |
Auenwing posted:
Bremen_Gaheris posted:
If I had to pick one though it would be healer "redesign" though. They single-handedly turned a role into complete trash overnight. There was so much vitriol toward healers it was sick. It was that more than anything that made dungeons harder, not the stupid, regurgitated mechanics and over the top damage.
My husband played a priest as his main. He is an incredibly level-headed, objective scientist. He saw the stories and the posts out here on the boards, and had to "observe" for himself, never trusting anything he could not replicate. His testing complete, I've never seen him so disgusted over a game developer's design decision before. That's the thing that really broke the game for him.
Exactly what I did. I didn't have any pre-conceived notions except I assumed more of the same awesome-sauce from WTOLK and Blizzard. I had no idea how Cata would play. I just jumped in and after a week I was so digusted I logged in one more time to clear mailboxes and didn't log in again for the rest of the 2 weeks on my account.
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The_Korrigan Title: Scrub Buster
Posts: 955
Registered: 2001-7-17 03:51:32
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:02am
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-Abysmal- posted:
i've seen defunct guild boards with more action than this board and somehow 81 people voted for this?
Yeah, strange isn't it?
 
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Crafty_ac2  Posts: 99
Registered: 2002-12-8 23:08:07
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:02am
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what a let down.
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:02am
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The_Korrigan posted:
-Abysmal- posted:
i've seen defunct guild boards with more action than this board and somehow 81 people voted for this?
Yeah, strange isn't it?
I guarantee there are a lot of people that read these boards, have an account but just lurk. I know I post only in spurts when it fancies me. I mostly lurk for the nuggets of good info in between the trolling and baiting. This board has a MUCH higher signal to noise ratio though than Official forums for the games I am interested in.
This poll could have been answered by lurkers who are interested but don't want to get flamed by the old schoolers here who treat this like their own personal Free for all PVP server, flaming new people off the boards before they even have a chance to attempt to join the community (so to speak).
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-Peo-  Title: Caveat Lector
Posts: 408
Registered: 2005-2-2 08:38:42
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:02am
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Bremen_Gaheris posted:
This poll could have been answered by lurkers who are interested but don't want to get flamed by the old schoolers here who treat this like their own personal Free for all PVP server, flaming new people off the boards before they even have a chance to attempt to join the community (so to speak).
So true. This board used to be decent, too.
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kuide Posts: 106
Registered: 2004-11-1 08:23:04
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:02am
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I never had a problem healing in Cata, that is maybe because I never healed much in WoTLK.When someone got low (20%) I would just chuck a Hot and heal.
And a good job too, because in Cata that's all you could do, before you went OOM.
My gripe was, even when I got the other 4 players to the end, the reward was so bad, even if it was for me, it would make so little difference it was pointless going there.
The other problem (major) was class balance.. nerf /buff/nerf/buff ^$^^ that %%^$.
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Xorcha Posts: 5
Registered: 2006-12-21 14:35:51
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:02am
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I'm still subbed, but probably not for long. Found out last night that I am actually finding Toontown more enjoyable. TOONTOWN. If I start playing Pixie Hollow too, just shoot me.
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