World of Warcraft

[Just Some Other Guy]

I've been gone from WoW, 2-3 years. decided to check in to see what the current Blizzard staff are like. Looks like Tumblr took over

Ah, so this is what that guy means by WoW being a "sleeping giant". Yeah, there's probably a decent amount in the Blizz staff...

 

[Radola Gajda]

First they have to figure out a viable way to do that without breaking world PvP. Given how well they've managed to handle literally everything else, I can see why they don't want to even try.

Wow world PVP dying? oh that would tragedy.
Every server I played on no matter if official or private would sooner or later devolve to the point that one side would hold overwhelming majority . Something that can be excusable for small private server, but not for Blizzard . I still remember their wise decisions. Oh your server has acceptable ratio 60/40 let's merge you with other so ratio ends up being 75/25. And dont worry thanks to our sharding technology you will be put into the shards with players from server where ratio is 95/5. So in the end you are lucky if you are only outnumbered 2 to 1 in open world PVP. Usually it was 3 or 4 vs 1

 

[870EVO]

https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1645545516254765058

 

[Power Glove]

People can say whatever they want to say about HoTS in terms of gameplay, but one thing they should give credit to HoTS team props is that
they were both very passionate, shameless and sometimes borderline horny when they wanted to make fun skin concepts into reality, and I can't really think of any
recent triple A devs who were like this.

Those legs on Alexstrasza sure were something.

 

[Gravemind]

I found HotS to be very fun, but the 2.0 revamp that added master skins to loot boxes killed my interest in the game. I was proud of my Abathur master skin and quite enjoyed playing as him.

I have to say, out of all the more valid reasons to hate HOTS, that one has to be one of the dumbest I've ever heard.

Like, I hate HOTS because their constant balancing and rebalancing changes are often pants-on-head retarded, especially when they rebalance during patches for "competitive" play when there isn't really much of a competitive scene for HOTS anymore especially since they decided to do away with their official tournaments.

 

[Antenna7]

I didn't know you could do this while working for Blizzard. California everyone.

 

[StacticShock]

Do people even give a shit about guilds in game?

yes they do, it's mostly related to ego shit if it's not a NFT or pay to win game where it basically becomes a pyramid scheme.

Nobody wants to play as a realistic Whoopi Goldberg, at least I'd hope that is true.

nigga i only want whoopi goldberg on a game if it's a comedic one where she uses a nun outfit.

 

[AgendaPoster]

Yeah that's a condition that most entertainment has been infected with. I still remember people claiming that 'Tumblr's just stupid crap on the internet, it will never matter in the real world'. Now that shit is the norm.

I have a feeling we've all been swindled.
When the "sex scandal" hit at Blizz like 1-2 yrs ago and every single one person online was like "OMG they had secret room and tried to have sex with women reeeeeeeeee", I tried to tell people, "bros, you have 1000 reasons to moan at Blizz for being shit; abstain from condemning the OG old guard that put Vanilla WoW and Warcraft and Diablo out for essentially being young heterosexual males - you won't like what they will be replaced with"
Nobody listened, cause the hatred was too intense.
Who do we even think was pushing forward the criticisms and accusations of alcohol fueled orgies? The fucking pink hairs, of course. It's not like other cishet males care that you engage in casual sex with some chick you met at Blizzcon, literally that's the pinnacle of normal.
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[Retink Retunk]

I have a feeling we've all been swindled.
When the "sex scandal" hit at Blizz like 1-2 yrs ago and every single one person online was like "OMG they had secret room and tried to have sex with women reeeeeeeeee", I tried to tell people, "bros, you have 1000 reasons to moan at Blizz for being shit; abstain from condemning the OG old guard that put Vanilla WoW and Warcraft and Diablo out for essentially being young heterosexual males - you won't like what they will be replaced with"
Nobody listened, cause the hatred was too intense.
Who do we even think was pushing forward the criticisms and accusations of alcohol fueled orgies? The fucking pink hairs, of course. It's not like other cishet males care that you engage in casual sex with some chick you met at Blizzcon, literally that's the pinnacle of normal.
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Can't wait for the expansion after next, where it's just a Depression Quest tier visual novel of a game instead of raids because they fired anyone who can actually develop a game.

 

[Agarathium1066]

I have a feeling we've all been swindled.
When the "sex scandal" hit at Blizz like 1-2 yrs ago and every single one person online was like "OMG they had secret room and tried to have sex with women reeeeeeeeee", I tried to tell people, "bros, you have 1000 reasons to moan at Blizz for being shit; abstain from condemning the OG old guard that put Vanilla WoW and Warcraft and Diablo out for essentially being young heterosexual males - you won't like what they will be replaced with"
Nobody listened, cause the hatred was too intense.
Who do we even think was pushing forward the criticisms and accusations of alcohol fueled orgies? The fucking pink hairs, of course. It's not like other cishet males care that you engage in casual sex with some chick you met at Blizzcon, literally that's the pinnacle of normal.
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I think you've a good point that it was drummed up by the people who intended to replace them but blizzard's rot was already firmly set in and chewing through its foundations beforehand. This was just used as a way to quicken it. The men who were thrown into the pit may have had their share of truly disgusting actions under their belt but it's certain they were prodded in by someone with their own plans.

Long before Blizzard's shit-smeared laundry hit air they'd already done enough to make me despise them so in this case it's really just a giant pit of rot and failure. Now there's just a new troupe of turds marching along.

 

[Antenna7]

All you have to do is read what Metzen had to say around the time.

 

[Kotol]

All you have to do is read what Metzen had to say around the time.

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Dang, I read this totally real story and went through annoyance, anger and disappointment to indifference in around 10 seconds. Didn't know I still had it in me to get that agitated by something like this.

Anyways, this reads like that one guy during Battlefield V's development claiming his daughter asked where the female soldiers were. So of course they just had to add them to the game so women could identify with the horrors of World War fucking 2.

 

[Antenna7]

Anyways, this reads like that one guy during Battlefield V's development claiming his daughter asked where the female soldiers were. So of course they just had to add them to the game so women could identify with the horrors of World War fucking 2.

It's been posted.

 

[Articles and Nudes]

The BF V story always cracks me up, because the fictional inclusion erased real, historical women in the process. Plenty of women in the world wars to use, but instead the chick with a cybernetic arm had to take center stage.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

All you have to do is read what Metzen had to say around the time.

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i think that picture was posted earlier and i responded to it. my thoughts are the same as back then. edgy guy that used to love blood, violence and girls with big tits wearing scantly cloths, lost all his piss and vigor as soon as he settled down and got a family. but in Metz case is that plus turning to Christ, having a daughter and his wife cucking him with other girls, turning him to a washed up shell of a men. he's the kind of guy that thinks Kratos from the new god of war games is a great example of a father (HES JUST LIKE ME DAUGHTER! FRFR. NO CAP!).

 

[StacticShock]

his wife cucking him with other girls

what, it's not uncommon for certain men to cuck out once they get married and most of the times it's not even the woman's fault but it doesn't change the fact of her being a contributing factor as some women love "changing" their men in order to "tame the beast", then cuck said tamed beast because she's bored.
the fact that he has a daughter doesn't change much as the famous *hits pipe* thingy is accurate as fuck, many men with daughters become disconnected because they aren't women and don't know how to relate to their little princesses.
if only he had a son to counterbalance... nah he probably would still be a cuck.

 

[Well Intentioned]

It's honestly just a part of growing up and maturing.

I'm reminded of the Plinkett review of Indiana Jones. There's an insightful comment about how Spielberg and Lucas are both grandparents and have grown up and gotten a little older, which is why the Indy 4 was off tonally and more 'family friendly' compared to faces melting, hearts getting ripped out of chests, etc. from the older films.

I've always said that Metzen was a good conceptual guy but really sucked at actually executing/articulating things. He was very much about 'kewl moments' and interesting set pieces, etc. So when you're a little older, a little wiser, have a kid, etc. it hampers your ability to create that scale of grandeur and spiciness he was known for.

It's further complicated by the fact that Metzen (or Blizzard, really) went way too hard in the other direction and kowtowing to the drooling retards who find offense in anything. Which is how we got shit like the Tracer's Butt controversy.

It's okay to have a character that dresses like a Quaker, whether it's for functional reasons, or if their personality is practical or whatever. It's also okay to have 'sexualized' characters, too. When you go too far in either direction you get shit like Bowls of Fruit (or shit like those digital ET changes Spielberg made because guns bad) or 2edgy4me nonsense that looks like a 14 year old on too much Adderall thought up in a manic state.

All Metzen had to say when his kid asked him in that totally not made up story is that 'they're wearing what they like to wear. Some people like wearing swimsuits, kind of like how I like wearing shorts or you like wearing your Frozen pajamas.' Boom, you avoid what is probably an 'awkward' conversation with your kid.

 

[Frosted Snowflakes]

And who is this "person" that they lost?

 

[Inside your walls]

Are they really getting that desperate for player engagement?

 

[Articles and Nudes]

That's been a requested feature forever, dude.