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| Well finally World of Warcraft developers have told their biggest lie. by Worm 08/24/2013, 9:05am PDT | ||||
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| On Polygon no less, the den of lies.
http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/23/4650246/world-of-warcraft-would-be-in-bad-shape-without-embracing-the-casual Blizzard made its first major push to appeal to casual fans with last year's release of expansion Mists of Pandaria, something that Chilton says has proven to be "very successful" for the company. This is pretty ridiculous since every expansion has been appealing more and more to casual fans. Even TBC which is generally regarded as pretty fucking hard made it easier to level and gear up. From there expansions just made the only thing in the game (dungeons and raiding) easier and easier culminating with MoP where you literally can kill the final raid boss with no idea of what you're doing. Since players can now do the same content on lower difficulty, it's pretty ridiculous to fill raid slots or do anything meaningful. The changes are all for people who hate MMOs but insist on playing them, they've voted with their dollars to ruin a whole genre because they'd rather have an experience that isn't compelling rather then put in some effort. There was a slight back up in this philosophy with the the very first content patch of Cataclysm but I guess it didn't focus well. "We would have been in bad shape had we not done that," he told us, acknowledging that many long-time players saw this move as a break from the MMO's roots which focused on instances and raids. With reference to the original World of Warcraft before the release of any expansions, Chilton said: Working off the assumption that the first part is a lie, yeah they probably would not have reached 12 million subs without designing the game more and more for children. Though they've been doing nothing but losing subs since MoP came out, so I guess they're trying to say they would have lost even more without turning the game into a total piece of shit. So that's it, MMOs are fucking shit. No one is going to admit or point out it's because Blizzard brought people into the audience who hate MMOs and hate their own fucking lives and that most other companies are too afraid to build up an audience slowly and instead want big Blizzard numbers to begin with. Shit excuses like this are going to pass for ages and everyone will wonder why an amazing game like Wildstar can't catch on with the hardcore audience. |
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Well finally World of Warcraft developers have told their biggest lie. by 08/24/2013, 9:05am PDT  Wildstar's bringing back the 20/40 man raid formats. by 08/24/2013, 9:09am PDT Have you looked at any of the combat? It really killed my expectations. by 08/24/2013, 10:59am PDT Wildstar's the quickest I've ever stopped playing a beta MMO by 05/10/2014, 10:49pm PDT Not that I've ever even paid for an MMO by 05/11/2014, 7:26am PDT How high did you get? Pre-lvl 15 content is quite easy NT by 05/11/2014, 6:48pm PDT 10! by 05/11/2014, 10:01pm PDT I mentioned on Deus Ex: The Fall by 08/24/2013, 5:06pm PDT Re: Well finally World of Warcraft developers have told their biggest lie. by 05/11/2014, 6:35pm PDT |
