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World of Warcraft News - World of Warcraft US Community Manager Bret "Ornyx" Forbus and his response to a player has ignited a lengthy discussion on the forums after he responded to a player's concerns about the artifact power grind in Legion. The most controversial reply he made to the player centers around what some perceive as "Armory shaming".
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MMOs are grindy by nature, if you dont like the grind, dont play MMOs
If you've done 25%, and you say your out of content, you're lazy or uninterested. If the former, then blame no one but yourself. If the latter, why are you still here?
His response was right on the money imo
I don't disagree with what he said, but how it was said.
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PvP is attrocious so I won't even talk about that crap. I'm interested on what else is there beside that?
25%... pff that's 100% of the expansion.
Now someone will throw timewalking, brawlers, the stupid events where you fly with baloons and other similar crap... That's not new content. That's old crap that can at most entertain you for 1-2 hours/week.
In WoD I could at least play with my alts, but here... If I'm going to spend time on my alt I might as well farm AP on my main, so that I don't lag too much behind the rest and end up in a situation where I'm not being picked for even level 10 mythics +...
Also I know that a lot of people will say that there is old stuff to be done, but you have to understand that there are a lot of people like me who have done almost all the old stuff.
I personally have close to 23k achievement points and if I feel like it I can raise them to 25k + in a month, but I don't have the interest anymore.
I have 319 mounts and within a month they can be close to 340, but again I don't have the interest anymore.
So please enlighten us what's there to do beside farming old content? Because in the "new content" there are only mythic+ and nothing else.
People really need to stop white knighting and face the facts. While there might be a bit more to the game at the moment beside mythic+, most people would still choose to do mythic+ over anything else, because the artifact and legendary system is not only flawed, but total crap.
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You've been doing basically the same thing for the past 13 years, now you are going to complain?
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
If you didn't have anything to add you could have just ignored my post.
I have to side with the CM on this one. WoW has typically been grindy by nature, although it has usually offered several types of grind to suit differing play styles. It is what it is, as are all MMOs. Doing less than 25% of the given content, then crying about it and/or expecting it to change to suit your own "special" needs, is ridiculous.
WOW players are too sensitive, on the EVE forums the Devs would have slapped such a comment down and mocked you for it. Then the players would have piled on.
It's a cruel world and as noted, CSM's are not Customer Support, doesn't sound like they are even employees so you can't expect total professionalism.
Besides, this is the internet, not a good place for those with thin skins.
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Based on that mob mentality, it sounds like there's Bullying on the Eve forums. This kind of attitude will lead to the eventual loss of freedom on the internet. I mean look around, everyone is being held responsible for everything. The internet is not the wild west. There are consequences to what you say (you can't yell Fire in a theatre).
Ornyx chose a single rhetorical comment in a long, long thread (again one of hundreds) to respond to by shaming the person. He apparently can't do that to a more substantive post, I guess.
Once again, it's not WHAT was said. It was HOW it was said.
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CM's are supposed to bring the community together. This one just split it, massively. Bad CM, fact. I'd sack them for it if it was me making the call.
I would just rather not see this turned in to a thing and have this guy lose his job. I want more humans in customer service, not less. Public outcry over something so minuscule is how we end up getting canned responses. Instead of having a human, with an actual voice for your concerns, your criticisms will just end up as a percentage on a spreadsheet somewhere. At least he gives a shit enough to be snarky.
Basically you just said you do not like the content the game provides...why are you playing. That is like me saying what is there to do in EVE I hate that crappy PvP and mining. If you want elite raiding then farm AP. If not then you have plenty of time for Alts. You just choose not too. Sounds like you are whining cause there is not "stop point" where basically your character can get no better.
I question whether game companies actually hire customer service professionals or if they just get some gamer who wants to break into the business. I strongly suspect the latter.
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I'm rather surprised that this is the 2nd response where instead of actually answering my question on what's there to do beside farming AP you just solidified what I just said...
Also to clarify I log once every 3 days to get the emissary quests done for rep for the paragon bags. And I do 1-2 mythics level 10 + for the chest reward. Other than that I don't play the game. I'm just keeping my hero somewhat relavent in hope in case something changes I would be able to play with my friends(who are doing absolutely the same thing).
Raiding is good and all, but I rather do other stuff in my evenings.
Also time for alts? Haha and what am I suppose to do on my alts? Farm AP? Do PvP? I love PvP, but in it's current state... yeah I don't want to talk about it.
Heck even in WoD there was more to do. People complained about the Garrison, but at least it forced you every now and then to go and farm wood or lay traps etc...
Here there is nothing beside farming AP and that's the point. It's not that the farming is an issue, rather than that, this is the whole content the game have to offer. This and raiding which at least is one of the best the game has had to offer, but if Blizzard is trying to focus only those few thousand hardcore raiders and ignore the rest like Wildstar did it might be facing a rather grim end.
Few days ago an outland private server lanched and there are 5-10 hour queues. I'm not sure what other people thoughts are on this, but for me it just shows that people love the game, but they would rather play old expansions than this crap expansion and that's reallly saying a lot of the state of the game.
The point is you discount the "content" because you do not like it. The content is there you just do not like it. If you do not like the content (special holidays, PvP, collecting transmogs, Pet battles, mount collecting, completing old achieves, leveling alts, RP activities with some guilds, progression locking to complete achieves while relevant with guilds) then maybe the game is not for you and talk with your wallet and leave. To sit there and say there is no content just because you do not like it is ignorance.
Once again you are just mad that there is no "stop point" for you characters.
If you are not into Raiding that much then raising Alts is perfectly viable. Face it the game is not for you anymore. Content exists you just do not like the offering.
Civility and frankness can and should go together in this context however. That is just being a decent person and a mature adult. I don't think the WoW dev was out of line here.
Especially in this day and age, where the expectations people have are extremely high towards themselves, other people and especially business related people.
I dont want to make myself a judge whether it was out of the line or not, I cant really judge based on the info in the article.
Only thing I can add is just, that the world and people are not perfect and games are not perfect, nothing is perfect.
As it stands though I am not too fond of where WoW has ended up either and its easy to make my opinion influence a situation like this. I will try not to though, while I still cant help but add, that running a game and a game fora does have its huge challenges, but running a game that has hit the ground for a lot of players, must make it even worse.
Guess you skimmed over the point where I said that I've done almost all the old content. Having most of the achievements kinda points to that.
And my point was that there is nothing to do in Legion. From the older content there is quite a bit, after all the game is older than some of its players.
I was just curious which are the other 75% that the CM was talking about.
25% were(I assume) the guy doing some mythic + and maybe LFR?
Then I'd be willing to accept that another 40% are the raids.
I will be generous and say PvP is 15% although even 5% is being to generous. I guess in the eyes of Blizz the prestige farm up to rank 18(or 21 was it?) is content for them... that's not content. Seems that people are misunderstanding what content is. If that is content next expansion they can just increase it to prestige rank 1000 and be done with any other content huh? That's just an extansion to content, like the AP grind is. That's not content that's just an extantion to the artifacts which take months(soon years) and even then they won't be finished. Yes, finished you are right... At some point things have to come to and end and farming more than 3-4 months is absurd.
Either way that's still about 80%(and that after being overly generous and suggesting that raiding is 40%).
So the last 20% are baloons, pet battles, brawlers?
No offense, but those things aren't content. It seems that you bath in ignorance if you can't even understand that.
Also I'm curious, would you be willing to just say how does your WoW weekly gameplay goes?
What do you do each week in WoW. That should pretty much give a clear idea to everyone on what the "content" is.