Reading over some of the questions which were answered in the twitter-dev-chat-thing – I’m reminded of a clip from family guy. Unfortunately not available on youtube, in which Stewie attends a star trek convention and has a legitimate question to ask but the panel just keep answering completely unrelated and insipid questions from the audience and then don’t have time to answer his.
This only a slight exaggeration of what happened with the twitter event.
It’s not for want of decent questions being asked, but these were just glossed over and instead questions as fucking stupid as “When Race change is live will we be able to change to any race in our faction no matter what class we are?”. Pretty much the standard deal with Blizzard, answer only the questions which fall into one of three categories:
- Questions you’ve already answered before.
- Questions that have no relevance for anyone except the person asking, because he/she is probably mentally retarded.
- Questions in which you can easily answer something along the lines of “We’re not sure yet” or “We have no plans yet” without seeming like total douche bags.
Almost all the questions about Icecrown and/or Cataclysm were things that had already been answered at Blizzcon. While actual informed questions such as anything along the lines of “Do you really think raiders like raiding 5 of the same bosses 4+ times in one night?” or “Why is it that you deem the 3.2 content patch a success when it is universally loathed by all but the most casual of casual players?” are simply ignored.
No but it would be far too much to ask that they actually answer any of the tougher questions or questions which would provide us with new insight into how they manage to release content which is so obviously flawed even after over 5 years of experience. Somehow they seem to think that players of this game actually like the idea of being forced to go back to old raid dungeons and heroics in order to get their CC upgrades, and soon their Icecrown upgrades. Newsflash for them, WotLK heroics were a fucking joke even at the start of the expansion – why the fuck do you think we want to keep fucking doing them every fucking content patch. Are they getting any better? No they’re just getting even more faceroll, boredom and burnout inducing than before every time. The only idea that I can conceive which they must have in their heads to make them force us though these hell-pits every patch is that they want new players and newly dinged 80s to have someone to group with. But that doesn’t happen even on a highly populated server like mine – all that happens is that heroic PuGs start asking for better and better gear. And understandably won’t take anyone without full 213/226 gear into their group for Oculus because they want to get the whole thing over as soon as possible, but like a bad case of genital herpes it just keeps fucking coming back.
#1 by Chimy on October 27, 2009 - 20:43
Well, I agree with the majority of your post, even when searching online for information about your class or about a patch, if the url has ‘wow.com’ in it, you can guarantee it won’t have anything of use.
I don’t see what you’re getting at with the 3.2 stuff though. Mounts when you can actually use them, cheaper stuff, ToC…
Occulus aside, I actually have something against people with high level gear requiring gear level on instance pugs. To all of those out there who do: “Yes, we know you’ve been playing for a while. Yes, we know you have good year. No, it doesn’t give you the right to forget you’re playing with 2 million other people who may not have been there to take out serpentshire caverns or when Onyxia was hard in normal mode. Some people aren’t in guilds and can’t say they’ll be home every tuesday/thursday from 8:30 pm to 12pm every day for the next year. So, suck it up, help out people new to the game, and quit QQing about how hard it was for you.”
#2 by Vandya on October 27, 2009 - 21:02
Yep, every Blizz Q/A has been like this for a while – catered to the most casual of helmet kids, just like the content. So I guess it makes sense =/
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