Been three weeks since the release of WoD, and late last night, it has exploded in player outrage over how Blizzard blows, Garrisons are boring, this and that. Good to see more people are waking up.
But I think this is because of four things;
1. The two interviews with Ion and Kris(two WoW devs) with nerfs all across the board for tomorrow… hitting Warriors hard and Shamans up the ass.
2. The lie that “‘we didn’t know’ there would be no flying in 6.1” coming from Ion(how can you fucking not know?! Seriously!).
3. “No flying?… I WARNED YOU, BLIZZARD! I QUIT! FUCK YOU!!!” posts.
4. Blizzard’s customer service is bad. Hearing tickets being deleted even though the issue never got solved.
Overall, the “honeymoon phase(aka OMG THIS IS AWESOME!!! phase)” is over, which is making people feel less confident in Blizzard handling WoD. And there’s even people that understand what I’m going through, with my deep depression to just not feel like doing anything.
All I want to do when I look at my screen, and see these posts, raise my fists up and yell “GO! GO! GO! We’re not going to take this crap anymore!”
Which is funny, since I was about to think about going back to WoW. Had a nice post all written up about how I was going to try to work around the annoyances. But this is changing those plans.
I hope these threads continue in intensity and more people unsubscribe, to the point Blizzard has to say something about it to keep more people from leaving. I don’t feel sorry about unsubbing now. Yet I’m willing to still give them a decent chance to make some of the things that anger me, more tolerable.
Such as, I’d shut up if they give us a Commander’s Quarters, that is customizable. They did mention how there maybe “hidden updates” planned for Garrisons in future content patches, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
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Update: 12/9/14
It’s getting a bit worse now, as I hoped. Getting to the point where now there’s a thread about “Your customers are losing faith in you” and demanding Blizzard to respond.
This is coming from the highly questionable buffs and nerfs of yesterday’s hotfix. Hunters alone, BM Hunters.. Kill Shot got nerfed by 10%. That stings.
I think now’s the time to find other games, that hopefully have confident, reliable game developers. This is worse than SCS Software and their backwards work of the 18WoS series. Though they have redeemed themselves in my eyes, with Euro Truck Simulator 2.
Hopefully they will continue to do so, with American Truck Simulator. If they do, I’ll have my wallet wide open, shouting “SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!”
However, I do want to say one important note(to myself). To blame Blizzard for my.. game depression, is stupid and childish. They’re just one of the many game companies that don’t seem to care for their product anymore.
EA is hell of a lot worse than Blizzard. I got to remember this. Just because Blizzard isn’t doing so good with WoD, doesn’t mean all game companies are shit.
Games like Space Engineers, and Rodina. Their game devs care for their customers and always willing to listen to feedback to improve their game. Of course, these two games are Single Player. They don’t involve class balancing and shit like that.
Class Balancing has always been a hot topic in WoW, and very hard to do. “AHH dude I keep getting owned in PvP! BUFF MEH!!” *patch later* “AHH dude I feel like any other class now!”