So a World of Warcraft dev decides to take a potshot at Asmongold. Asmongold responds to it.
Kotaku writes an article framing it as Asmongold is 'taking aim' at the devs, doesn't cite the developer who started the fracas and makes a hilarious claim:
it's also hilarious that they're defending a blizz dev who according to twitter and vice are all just a raging horde of misogynists and rapists, and iirc the dev in question was a white male (probably even cis!), which according to schreier shouldn't be allowed to make games these days anyway.
outside of kotaku's usual retardation I hate how devs are propped up to be those infallible beings who know exactly what they're doing and only release perfect games (that opinion isn't limited to game journos). basically you're not allowed to call them out when they produce shit, that would be toxic, and if you vote with your wallet you need to think of the poor little dev who needs every penny, because apparently a customer is in charge of his wages. never mind the whole "but he was working so hard on it, all that crunch!", as if again I'm responsible for his shit managers, work ethic, quality of work and inability to meet deadlines. it's like arguing with fucking children, but those are usually smart enough to understand the simple chain of "fuck up -> no dessert".
You could probably make a hundred of those points - I literally cannot think of a single thing that you could reasonably salvage from current WoW - they've done such a bad job for such a long time it's virtually unfixable without just literally deleting everything (a Realm Reborn style) but that's not an option because WoW has characters that have existed for 16+ years. Blizzard has demonstrated that they have extreme difficulty actually creating new games and WoW2 would likely take the team 10+ years at the current rate.
the worst part is you can point that out, and it will do nothing, if they don't outright defend it. I was complaining about the faction retardation right after vanilla, and the usual reply way "but what about the PVP? it's WARcraft! what about the
lore (nigga you really wanna start a discussion about TBC lore)?", as if there's absolutely no other way to do (it's not like other games did so and more), and even a flimsy handwave via story would be more than fine considering the shit they've never stopped eating up.
rate me MATI, but WoW is a shit game designed for shit people. it sounds crass but the truth is "when you built it they will come". when you dumb down your game more and more and focus on specific aspects while neglecting others, it's inevitable you'll end up with a distilled playerbase which is either too ignorant or locked in to stop paying. have enough of those paypiggies and you don't really need to put in any effort anyway (didn't help that the majority of your competition was also fucking retarded), which means improvements aren't necessary if not outright disliked. anyone else who liked other and better games has already left long ago.
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