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Zarhym posted:
This is the sort of philosophy we're going for with phasing, as we do feel it's an important tool for storytelling. We do recognize issues where we've "over-phased" zones in the past though, and we generally tried to take a more minimal approach to phasing in Cataclysm. While there is still a good deal of phasing involved in many of the zones, we tried to make each phase a little more intricate and less intrusive on group gameplay. We want to make sure that, in times when a group is required, phasing doesn't hold you back from grouping with friends.
(...) [Disappearing Herbs & Nodes] It is an issue we're aware of and having been looking into. We've applied a number of hotfixes to phased gathering nodes since the release of Cataclysm, but this one is still there and is certainly a bugger.
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Well if Cataclysm is minimal phasing, i would hate to see what they think over-phased was....
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Vault_News posted:
We do recognize issues where we've "over-phased" zones in the past though, and we generally tried to take a more minimal approach to phasing in Cataclysm.
That must be some sort of twisted Blizzard inside joke.
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I'm now certain that this Zarhym guy knows nothing about WoW.
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Blizztards posted:
We do recognize issues where we've "over-phased" zones in the past though, and we generally tried to take a more minimal approach to phasing in Cataclysm. While there is still a good deal of phasing involved in many of the zones, we tried to make each phase a little more intricate and less intrusive on group gameplay.
Except for just about all of the lowbie zones?
What game are these people playing, anyway? 
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Azure-TheBlueOne posted:
Vault_News posted:
We do recognize issues where we've "over-phased" zones in the past though, and we generally tried to take a more minimal approach to phasing in Cataclysm.
That must be some sort of twisted Blizzard inside joke.
Yeah, seriously, that is so off-base it's nonsensical. Did anyone call him out on this in the thread?
Blizzard did with phasing just what it did with other toys it invents (like vehicles) - shove them down everyone's throat at every opportunity and make it clear you do not advance content without embracing it.
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Broken_Kayfabe posted:
Yeah, seriously, that is so off-base it's nonsensical. Did anyone call him out on this in the thread?
If someone did it was removed, I guarantee it.
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When wasn't there phasing? 
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Huh? They already admitted back in December that there was too much phasing in Cata. Which one is it?
*boggle*
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Demorak posted:
When wasn't there phasing?
phasing was introduced with WOTLK and was one of the "main" features of that expansion, before that there was no such thing as phasing in WOW.
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sarnsereg posted:
Demorak posted:
When wasn't there phasing?
phasing was introduced with WOTLK and was one of the "main" features of that expansion, before that there was no such thing as phasing in WOW.
It was more of a sarcastic comment. 
I'm mainly pointing said comment at the content of this expansion.
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Kriegprojekt posted:
Huh? They already admitted back in December that there was too much phasing in Cata. Which one is it?
*boggle*
They twist the truth so much, it would make George Orwell proud. Its like 1984 and this week history says this. Time to rewrite it, cause big brother says so....
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Vault_News posted:
We do recognize issues where we've "over-phased" zones in the past though, and we generally tried to take a more minimal approach to phasing in Cataclysm.
/doublefacepalm
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Zarhym posted:
This is the sort of philosophy we're going for with phasing, as we do feel it's an important tool for storytelling. We do recognize issues where we've "over-phased" zones in the past though, and we generally tried to take a more minimal approach to phasing in Cataclysm.
Dood, seriously, when you post xxxx like this, you're supposed to put a <straightface> at the end!
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Zaryhim posted:
We do recognize issues where we've "over-phased" zones in the past though, and we generally tried to take a more minimal approach to phasing in Cataclysm. While there is still a good deal of phasing involved in many of the zones, we tried to make each phase a little more intricate and less intrusive on group gameplay.
Wow.
Did you just pee on my shoes and tell me it's raining??
Do you know you can be out of phase with group mates who have the EXACT quests at the EXACT points as you do?
Hello? McFly?
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Blizzard has been lying to their customer base since beta, and we are still surprised?
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 First belly laugh of the day thanks Bliz!
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Spookysheep posted:
Blizzard has been lying to their customer base since beta, and we are still surprised?
Maybe they are using phasing, and we need to continue advancing reading their 'stuff' to uncover more things.
Maybe they are working at making the lies more homogenized.
Or something.
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sarnsereg posted:
Demorak posted:
When wasn't there phasing?
phasing was introduced with WOTLK and was one of the "main" features of that expansion, before that there was no such thing as phasing in WOW.
This is not technically true. When you're dead and running to your corpse, you're phased; been that way since the beginning. Also, there was some minimal phasing in TBC in the draenei starting zone.
However it was only later that Blizzard discovered it could be used for content.
Rather than working on world changes that only affect you, mmorpgs should be working more on world changes that actually change the world. It's the true next evolutionary step.
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