11/07/2018 02:30 PMPosted by MilyndeYou have renewed my faith in ya'all after Ion's "what's coming" speech -- seriously! I'd pay $500 right NOW for a lifetime sub that includes all future xpacs! sign me upOther people respond about the lack of feasibility due to cost. My response is different.How are you excited for the future of World of Warcraft after the head of the development team spearheaded genuinely bad mechanics, later tried to fix it by not only doubling down on bad mechanics (e.g. adding another ring, adding more passives, removing under-performing passives, adding explanations to p…

11/07/2018 06:24 PMPosted by AlesoneYou just cancelled your subscription.What is the last thing you will do on WoW before walking away?Each time I have come back to WoW I immediately cancelled the recurring payment option because I did not want to have to deal with contacting customer support because, like an idiot, I was not paying attention.With that said, the last thing I did was quest in Hellfire Penninsula...because that was as far as I was able to get before realising I was playing a bad RPG in a needlessly large world with content that I lamented being deprecated rather than brought cur…

<span class="truncated">...</span>It seems to me that this phrase is what best sums up World of Warcraft. The game can be fun if one has a great deal invested and/or is playing it in exclusion to all else, but outside of that every facet of the game is done better by other games in the genres that WoW has come to borrow.All WoW has done since it began excessively pruning content is pull what it borrowed from other genres together in a very accessible way, all the while making what is effectively a bloated, subscription-based ARPG looter like Diablo III. But...we have Diablo III for that withou…

10/30/2018 12:45 PMPosted by AyaphIt’s been a good run and WoW has brought a lot of beautiful moments into my life. However, with what the game has become, there is nothing that I am able to find in WoW that I can’t find in other games.It seems to me that this phrase is what best sums up World of Warcraft. The game can be fun if one has a great deal invested and/or is playing it in exclusion to all else, but outside of that every facet of the game is done better by other games in the genres that WoW has come to borrow.All WoW has done since it began excessively pruning content is pull what it …

10/17/2018 03:56 PMPosted by MenardDo you guys feel this is the best place for feedback? If not, what do you think could be changed to make you feel this would be the best place for feedback?Internet forums are rarely the best place for feedback because they tend to be moderated poorly at best and virtually always with an inconsistent hand.There is much more that can be said about this but it comes down to the fact that people who are aware of this are, well, aware of it and those who are not aware of it are simply not aware of it, viz. people either have real experience in various internet fo…

I was thinking about a way to make sense of things while I was at the gym and I came to the following conclusion:Parts of the narrative design and development in the game are inarugably bad, period, and this does varying amounts of damage to various narratives in the game. The issue with post-Wrath Forsaken existing within the Horde can be dealt with by remembering that the amount of time the game exists through our time, viz. IRL, has no bearing on the timeline of events in the game. Reading through parts of the WoW gamepedia timeline* show that if we place Warcraft: Orcs & Humans at Year 0, …

09/26/2018 07:34 PMPosted by Enekie09/26/2018 06:47 PMPosted by HexadecimalSylvanas Attacking Gilneas - The reasons why this happened at all are, to this day, so completely out of character for everyone involved and still lack a concrete explanation, that I can only believe this contrived circumstance was written by several different writers that have never played the game or communicated with one another.In fact, you're not too far from correct! Blizzard revealed in an interview about Cataclysm that multiple writers were involved and each had a different idea of what was going on--hence why …

09/26/2018 07:20 PMPosted by QuilthalosThe fact that it is otherwise ignored by Blizzard writers means that it is tolerated or accepted by the Horde, something that inappropriately and very awkwardly makes the Alliance the good guys.But they are not ignoring it?We have seen the consequences on the Horde quite a bit already, and the story will almost certainly involve the alliance quite directly, as we have already seen, with the emphasis on Arthas, the Lich King, and Lordaeron.So my point is simply that your complaint makes sense, in the abstract, or it would if the writers were continuing to …

09/26/2018 06:49 PMPosted by QuilthalosThe meaningful difference is that the Orcs were effectively coerced into this behaviour through the influence of the Burning Legion and that the aggression shown before was in no way in keeping with their racial character.I'm not saying that they are the same. I'm saying that a decision was made on the basis of hope, or wishful thinking, and now that decision is having consequences.In a sense, yes, there is incoherence, or tension, or whatever term one wants to use.[...]The specific term used is important and that is why I defined it earlier. Tension is n…

Blizzard is incapable of writing in-context. When they need something to happen, the Horde suddenly does a white-knuckle grip on the "Villain Ball" and makes something happen. See:[...]Is your contention, then, that Blizzard is largely incapable of writing coherent stories?Again, I am not a lore buff, but it seems to me that there is a lot of deus ex machina and otherwise making something happen for the sake of making something happen. So long as stories more or less make sense and do not stretch the plausibility of the characters/cultures/what-have-you within the narrative I am just fine with…