Part of the reason Campy and I created this blog is because we rant. A lot. I started using my regular blog solely for ranting, and that kind of depressed me- the only thing I had to talk about in a general blog were things that pissed me off? WTFITS is born.
Now this rant was spawned when Ghostcrawler, aka Greg Street, the WoW dev, posted a special little note to the WoW playing masses about the state of the game. There is a lot of dissent right now- people are bored, people don't like the changes, and yes, some people are complaining about the dungeon difficulty. But the majority, I feel, were instead complaining about how this current expansion, Cataclysm, seemed phoned in. Bottom line- not fun. GC conveniently skipped over that part in his rant to the masses, instead only addressing the people complaining about difficulty. Ranting ensues.
WoW, Dungeons are hard? The title of your little treatise alone successfully has convinced me to never spend money on a Blizzard product ever again.
GC, way to miss the point. Sure, some people are whining about difficulty, but most of the people I hear are complaining about the FUN factor. Who the hell wants to pay 15/month to get kicked in the face in the LFD?
I'm a healer. As an adult with half a brain, I understand the changes made to healing in this expansion. I am ABLE to heal the content. But you know what, GC? It's not fun.
It's not fun getting yelled at by assholes who blame me for wipes, even though they stand in the fire, don't interrupt, and generally play like idiots. It's not fun not being able to save a tank that is biting it in AOE. It's not fun managing MANA. It's not fun being the class that is nerfed in order to tune the difficulty of an encounter. Seriously, was that your idea? When Wow tanks and you get fired, I really hope you get a job in customer service and can never get your arrogant hands on mmo development again.
It is literally BOGGLING how you've bungled this. You teach your player base to play a certain way. You give them the tools, and it works. People have fun. Complaints are minimal, usually about small scale class buffs/nerfs. You decide, that's not what I WANT anymore, I want to completely change things around! You change it so that your players, and especially the healers, are punished for learning to play a certain way. Then you basically write a post saying 'Gtfo bads' and expect that to be kosher. It's NOT.
I don't play mmos to get my ass kicked. Not saying I want shiny lewts handed to me on a silver platter, but there is a threshold in a game where the payoff fails to make the work worth it. You've just crossed it. I'm having a hard time seeing WoW coming back from that threshold.
As I said, I have no interest in flushing my money down the toilet so developers can talk down to the people with legitimate concerns about the state of things. Before that little post, I was content to just let my time run out and maybe come back in a few months, see how things are going. But now, GC? You and your company will never see another dime of my money again. Any company that allows its developers to alienate an unhappy portion of the player base in such a way (regardless of how big or small that portion is) doesn't deserve its success.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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