First of all, I apologize about posting this in a new thread, but since it has nothing to do with the gameplay and everything to do with Blizzard's policy, I figured I'd make another thread, though with any luck this one won't have the staying power Han's gameplay thread does.
Besides the rampant server outages of late, I'm more deeply concerned about the ongoing pattern of misinformation going on in Blizzard, both in regards to ignoring issues brought up by players and perhaps more in not giving information that could help allay fears. Today it was discovered just how big of a problem the latter is at Blizzard.
The Fires of Heaven, a prominent Horde guild on the Hyjal server that was likewise important during beta, received exclusive information about upcoming changes that have not been made public via their forums at the thread located at http://www.fohguild.org/forums/showthread....15&pagenumber=2
Tigole, one of the Blizzard developers, gave this information in two different posts:
"We figured out what was causing her to go beneath the world. It should only be occurring when you wipe out. The fix for this is live on the Test Realm right now, awaiting a patch to the public realms.
"Also, the Onyxia speed hack should also be fixed in that same build (unfortunately, we couldn't stop her from farming feathers for gold in Azshara though).
"I'll try to update you on the knockaway bug status later today.
"Apologies for these bugs. I know how frustrating they are."
and
"Regarding Onyxia/Molten Core loot, the main thing to remember is that the loot table changes are not coming in this patch. Luckily, the next patch will follow much quicker than the current one on test (the delays in patching frustrated us as much as you, if you can believe that). So t here will be a delay before MC/Onyxia loot completely catches up to the Kazzak/Azuregos stuff.
"MC/Onyxia loot should be on par if not better than some of the Azuregos/Kazzak stuff once the patch-after-next hits the live servers.
"Also, you guys will be happy to know that Blackwing Lair is coming along nicely and is being tuned and tested internally now. So there's more instanced raid content on the way, although I don't have an ETA on Blackwing just yet..."
This was pointed out on the Blizzard forums (a waste of humanity, but let's ignore that part) and the jumping of "fanbois" and whiners inevitably commenced. I of course tried to be rational at first about the whole news and put it into a (relatively) positive light: " You know, communicating some of this information to customers might persuade some of them not to cancel their accounts because they don't think anything's being developed."
However, this whole thing escalated out of control (at least in my opinion) when one of the members from the guild decided to respond. Melia, level 60 druid, responded:
Q u o t e:
Wow. This really pisses me off.
Why can't Tigole post on the Blizzard forums w/ this kind of thing?
Why is he telling his buddies stuff that us paying customers have to squeeze out of the CM's?
Because you guys are idiots."
I was kind of infuriated by this, even though when you get right down to it, most of the people posting in those forums ARE idiots. So I retorted, " Well, maybe we idiots should tell Blizzard to take a hike and take our money elsewhere. I'm sure that your guild can keep the MMO going since you are superior specimens of humans."
To which Melia replied in return, "You won't do that because you are a spineless mouth piece.
"<insert hot air> Blah blah blah blah....
"All talk, no action. If you don't like WoW, don't play. Leave. Get lost. Bye."
I love playing the game, but honestly BS like this is incredibly lame. As far as a response from Blizzard? Pfft, none as of yet.
I'm tempted to cancel my account over this, but since I do have the habit of knee-jerk reactions, I figured I'd post this to see if maybe I'm making too much of this.
Unless the thread is deleted mysteriously by mods, it can be seen in its entirety at http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.a...l&T=1958444&P=1
Besides the rampant server outages of late, I'm more deeply concerned about the ongoing pattern of misinformation going on in Blizzard, both in regards to ignoring issues brought up by players and perhaps more in not giving information that could help allay fears. Today it was discovered just how big of a problem the latter is at Blizzard.
The Fires of Heaven, a prominent Horde guild on the Hyjal server that was likewise important during beta, received exclusive information about upcoming changes that have not been made public via their forums at the thread located at http://www.fohguild.org/forums/showthread....15&pagenumber=2
Tigole, one of the Blizzard developers, gave this information in two different posts:
"We figured out what was causing her to go beneath the world. It should only be occurring when you wipe out. The fix for this is live on the Test Realm right now, awaiting a patch to the public realms.
"Also, the Onyxia speed hack should also be fixed in that same build (unfortunately, we couldn't stop her from farming feathers for gold in Azshara though).
"I'll try to update you on the knockaway bug status later today.
"Apologies for these bugs. I know how frustrating they are."
and
"Regarding Onyxia/Molten Core loot, the main thing to remember is that the loot table changes are not coming in this patch. Luckily, the next patch will follow much quicker than the current one on test (the delays in patching frustrated us as much as you, if you can believe that). So t here will be a delay before MC/Onyxia loot completely catches up to the Kazzak/Azuregos stuff.
"MC/Onyxia loot should be on par if not better than some of the Azuregos/Kazzak stuff once the patch-after-next hits the live servers.
"Also, you guys will be happy to know that Blackwing Lair is coming along nicely and is being tuned and tested internally now. So there's more instanced raid content on the way, although I don't have an ETA on Blackwing just yet..."
This was pointed out on the Blizzard forums (a waste of humanity, but let's ignore that part) and the jumping of "fanbois" and whiners inevitably commenced. I of course tried to be rational at first about the whole news and put it into a (relatively) positive light: " You know, communicating some of this information to customers might persuade some of them not to cancel their accounts because they don't think anything's being developed."
However, this whole thing escalated out of control (at least in my opinion) when one of the members from the guild decided to respond. Melia, level 60 druid, responded:
Q u o t e:
Wow. This really pisses me off.
Why can't Tigole post on the Blizzard forums w/ this kind of thing?
Why is he telling his buddies stuff that us paying customers have to squeeze out of the CM's?
Because you guys are idiots."
I was kind of infuriated by this, even though when you get right down to it, most of the people posting in those forums ARE idiots. So I retorted, " Well, maybe we idiots should tell Blizzard to take a hike and take our money elsewhere. I'm sure that your guild can keep the MMO going since you are superior specimens of humans."
To which Melia replied in return, "You won't do that because you are a spineless mouth piece.
"<insert hot air> Blah blah blah blah....
"All talk, no action. If you don't like WoW, don't play. Leave. Get lost. Bye."
I love playing the game, but honestly BS like this is incredibly lame. As far as a response from Blizzard? Pfft, none as of yet.
I'm tempted to cancel my account over this, but since I do have the habit of knee-jerk reactions, I figured I'd post this to see if maybe I'm making too much of this.
Unless the thread is deleted mysteriously by mods, it can be seen in its entirety at http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.a...l&T=1958444&P=1
