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Welcome to Ask the Devs, our brand-new World of Warcraft developer Q&A series where we're asking you to post the questions you want answered. The community will help us decide on what questions to answer through the thumbs-up voting system. We'll be collecting questions from around the world in each of our regional forums to make this a truly global effort.
Hit up the thread for more information and instructions on how to participate.
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#1:
Are they ever going to pull their heads out of their arses?
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Well you could ask that but they'd probably ban you.
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I could live with that. It is the pertinent question of the times.
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GutterSludge posted:
#1:
Are they ever going to pull their heads out of their arses?
/sarcasm_on
Not without simultaneously nerfing both Heads and Asses by approximately 76.23%, so that in effect the results should still be the same unless you have a really large Ass, at which point it could possibly be considered a nerf. But it is ok because the changes will be done in phases, so that not everyone can see all at once how large their Asses have really become.
/sarcasm_off
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So when are you going to stop ****ing with us and show us the real game? You know, the good one?
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GutterSludge posted:
#1:
Are they ever going to pull their heads out of their arses?
This.
It is the ONLY valid question, in fact.
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#2 Why did you make every class less fun that it was in Wrath?
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#3 When is GC getting fired or at least demoted to C Team?
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#4 So, are you guys enjoying Rift just as much as we are?
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Unstruck posted:
#4 So, are you guys enjoying Rift just as much as we are?
thread! that was actually funny!
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Unstruck posted:
#4 So, are you guys enjoying Rift just as much as we are?
thread! that was actually funny!
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Unstruck posted:
#4 So, are you guys enjoying Rift just as much as we are?
lol...that was the very first thing that came to mind when i saw this thread and someone had already posted it. priceless 
seriously though...how long you think before blizzard tries to incorporate some rift ideas like the npc mob invasions and the public/auto-group ideas? they would be smart to do so but you have to wonder if pride won't keep them from learning a few things from what rift has done right.
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GrimTempest posted:
Unstruck posted:
#4 So, are you guys enjoying Rift just as much as we are?
lol...that was the very first thing that came to mind when i saw this thread and someone had already posted it. priceless
seriously though...how long you think before blizzard tries to incorporate some rift ideas like the npc mob invasions and the public/auto-group ideas? they would be smart to do so but you have to wonder if pride won't keep them from learning a few things from what rift has done right.
And steal mechanics from other games? They would never do that!
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yeah, I´m with the "Where`s the `Warcraft´ in WoW" faction ^^.
#5 Whose telling you what you should implement?
#6 Can you get rid of that person, please?
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GrimTempest posted:
Unstruck posted:
#4 So, are you guys enjoying Rift just as much as we are?
lol...that was the very first thing that came to mind when i saw this thread and someone had already posted it. priceless
seriously though...how long you think before blizzard tries to incorporate some rift ideas like the npc mob invasions and the public/auto-group ideas? they would be smart to do so but you have to wonder if pride won't keep them from learning a few things from what rift has done right.
where do you think the idea of the pre cata event came from.
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You could rephrase the "head up" question to ask, why does blizzard upper management allow a crew of clowns that everybody despises continue to run their cash cow into the ground?
[quote]seriously though...how long you think before blizzard tries to incorporate some rift ideas like the npc mob invasions and the public/auto-group ideas? they would be smart to do so but you have to wonder if pride won't keep them from learning a few things from what rift has done right. [/quote]
Um, WoW has had dynamic content all along. It might not be ultra repetitive rift invasions but every time a holiday hits, or when they did the undead crap, or whatever - it's all dynamic content. Rift has a newer engine and different graphics but the concept isn't all that new or amazing - they're just doing something different with it, and it's very much like WAR's PQ's, just a little less sucky.
Rift's invasions are neato now, when the game is new and a week old. When you're facing 4 an hour every hour during primetime for the 100th or 500th time it'll probably be a little less amazing.
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that argument goes both ways. the pve events you see in wow are so infrequent AND poorly designed they might as well not be there.
personally i want to see the group options added to wow. being able to run up to someone whose killing a named mob you need for a quest and having the option to group yourself with them in one quick click so you don't have to wait 5 minutes for a mob respawn is a game dynamic blizzard should have figured out on their own ages ago. considering most named quest mobs still have those long respawn timers rather than something short like 15 seconds i don't have alot of faith in it happening...it almost seems like they want people to have to sit around and wait.
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Blizzard is a company run by arrogant egos, they will not learn.
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So how many of the silly questions will they answer while avoiding the real questions from that thread? Yeah... a lot I am guessing.
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#2 Why did you make every class less fun that it was in Wrath?
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So a blue just said that the highest rated post in the thread was post #73 which was:
What is your favorite escape/distraction when you arent working on WoW?
I simply don't believe it.
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So a blue just said that the highest rated post in the thread was post #73 which was:
What is your favorite escape/distraction when you arent working on WoW?
I simply don't believe it.
That's votes by the official forums morons, not by Blizzard. We'll see what they decide to answer.
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Well we've learned a lot from this first round. We're waiting for some of the other regions to report in but we have a good selection of questions to get answered. One thing we had originally planned in the initial discussions of starting this up was to theme the weekly questions so as to give some direction to what the topic will be. It was sort of put aside to see how the base idea would work out without any theme to drive the topic of questions. This first round of what people asked and especially what large numbers of people actually vote for has shown us it's something we'll in fact need to use.
For example, the #1 most voted for question on these forums? "What is your favorite escape/distraction when you arent working on WoW?" By far it got the most votes. It sort of indirectly reveals a flaw in a 'sky's the limit' approach for what can be asked. It puts us in a weird spot because you all voted for it! But at the same time most people would probably be pretty upset if we took the time to answer it over something with more substance. Hopefully we can guide future Ask the Dev's to have more substantive questions by providing a topic to stick to.
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Ugh_Lancelot posted:
Ferrydust posted:
So a blue just said that the highest rated post in the thread was post #73 which was:
What is your favorite escape/distraction when you arent working on WoW?
I simply don't believe it.
That's votes by the official forums morons, not by Blizzard. We'll see what they decide to answer.
Bashiok posted:
Well we've learned a lot from this first round. We're waiting for some of the other regions to report in but we have a good selection of questions to get answered. One thing we had originally planned in the initial discussions of starting this up was to theme the weekly questions so as to give some direction to what the topic will be. It was sort of put aside to see how the base idea would work out without any theme to drive the topic of questions. This first round of what people asked and especially what large numbers of people actually vote for has shown us it's something we'll in fact need to use.
For example, the #1 most voted for question on these forums? "What is your favorite escape/distraction when you arent working on WoW?" By far it got the most votes. It sort of indirectly reveals a flaw in a 'sky's the limit' approach for what can be asked. It puts us in a weird spot because you all voted for it! But at the same time most people would probably be pretty upset if we took the time to answer it over something with more substance. Hopefully we can guide future Ask the Dev's to have more substantive questions by providing a topic to stick to.
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Yeah, I don't believe it in regards to that being picked by the official forums people. I read that forum a lot and although there are a few people who like that sort of question I highly doubt that was the highest rated. It makes no sense.
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So basicly they're saying, "We're going to put up questions and you choose the ones we'll answer."
Oh and the questions will be completely irrelevant to the game in it's current form.
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So basicly they're saying, "We're going to put up questions and you choose the ones we'll answer."
Oh and the questions will be completely irrelevant to the game in it's current form.
Heh, if it worked for Bush and Cheney.
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Arcilite_I posted:
IndridCole posted:
So basicly they're saying, "We're going to put up questions and you choose the ones we'll answer."
Oh and the questions will be completely irrelevant to the game in it's current form.
Heh, if it has worked for every politician.
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So basicly they're saying, "We're going to put up questions and you choose the ones we'll answer."
Oh and the questions will be completely irrelevant to the game in it's current form.
Duh, they have screwed up the game so badly, they can't answer any question regarding the game anymore. They have to answer frilly, stupid questions. Because they are frilly, stupid people.
GC is so arrogant, I don't think he even believes that questions can be asked. There is only The Visionâ„¢
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They even lie about the votes on the questions lol.
Just...wow...
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Unstruck posted:
#4 So, are you guys enjoying Rift just as much as we are?
I would ask: When are you going to make healing fun and viable again?
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1. I'm glad you are making these hypocritical whiners leave this game for another mmo that is a wow clone in itself. Keep up the work. Rid Wow of these whiners who played wow for years but still whine nonstop.
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Ansithe posted:
1. I'm glad you are making these hypocritical whiners leave this game for another mmo that is a wow clone in itself. Keep up the work. Rid Wow of these whiners who played wow for years but still whine nonstop.
Doesn't that include you as well since you are whining about whiners?
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Quazimortal posted:
Ansithe posted:
1. I'm glad you are making these hypocritical whiners leave this game for another mmo that is a wow clone in itself. Keep up the work. Rid Wow of these whiners who played wow for years but still whine nonstop.
Doesn't that include you as well since you are whining about whiners?
Quazi, stop making sense, I might have to start believing you are not the moron I thought you were 
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Ansithe posted:
1. I'm glad you are making these hypocritical whiners leave this game for another mmo that is a wow clone in itself. Keep up the work. Rid Wow of these whiners who played wow for years but still whine nonstop.
Players who have invested their time, money, and energy into a hobby such as WoW have every damn right to complain, protest, and "whine" when the developers make dumbass decisions that completely change the game into the homogenized and boring crapfest that it's become.
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Don't get me wrong, there are some great things about Cataclysm that I do like. I love the world redesign, and streamlining of quests. Leveling is pretty fun now.
But, when I have a well geared tank, decent DPS, no one is standing in fire etc... and I still run out of mana trying to keep people alive about 2/3rds the way through ( note I am in mostly 346 blues with the faction 359 stuff...) ..
It just isnt fun anymore to heal..
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