tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post7910001859921772528..comments2023-06-19T10:45:56.724-04:00Comments on Player Versus Developer: One And DoneGreen Armadillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15564045048380177626noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-72214162440677934752010-05-28T13:38:17.260-04:002010-05-28T13:38:17.260-04:00The functionality of the dungeon finder is GREAT, ...The functionality of the dungeon finder is GREAT, unfortunately the kind of game play and attitude it fosters is a failure.<br /><br />No teamwork, rote button mashing, and people criticizing gearscore which is another gamebreaker for me.<br /><br />WoW player since 2005 and if Cataclysm continues with the nonsense, i dont see myself playing much longer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-48746000276561771992010-05-27T12:57:25.472-04:002010-05-27T12:57:25.472-04:00no blame the developers who make a social game and...no blame the developers who make a social game and then refuse to set any rules for behavior. <br /><br />In real life there are consequences for being a jerk. Your coach can bench you, the police can arrest you if you go over the deep end, insurance rates go up if your driving is bad etc etc. <br /><br />In WOW no penalty for bad actions means bad behavior, ninjaing,requiring ridiculous gearscores, being rude obnoxious or other annoying behaviors are rewarded because there is no penalty for bad behavior. <br /><br />Next time you see that 9 year old in the restaurant refusing to listen to his parents who do nothing about it, remember adults are just as bad without penalties. Just look at Somalia for instance. No rules it's a WOW style utopia. <br /><br />If your going to use life as an object log off and pay attention first.samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08143435412222235822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-83845855636214033602010-05-26T19:13:28.500-04:002010-05-26T19:13:28.500-04:00I get a little tired hearing about how horrible Wo...I get a little tired hearing about how horrible WoW is because some of the players are jerks.<br /><br />Welcome to life.<br /><br />I used to like playing softball but once a good player hit the ball really hard at me and laughed when jumped out of the way. That Abner Doubleday sure made a fail game.<br /><br />Blaming game developers because you don't know how to set social boundaries is a tad immature.<br /><br />One and done is a great philosophy. Give a group a chance. One chance. Then move on with your life.<br /><br />Oh, then blog about it.Bristalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11849907713604626977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-52327164075564457492010-05-26T09:32:24.327-04:002010-05-26T09:32:24.327-04:00Being anonymous discourages forging any bonds, mea...Being anonymous discourages forging any bonds, meaning that we're not overcoming challenges with friends, or even other people, we're just playing with a lot of bad NPCs who take our loot. I'd not stick around for that; sounds like a bad game.Klepsacovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-39346480189806307412010-05-26T09:06:13.780-04:002010-05-26T09:06:13.780-04:00Your post makes it sound as if the largely atrocio...Your post makes it sound as if the largely atrocious (in my experience) WoW community has gotten even worse. As if damage meters didn't lead to enough pointless e-peenery [Pro tip: pull like a two hour newb, use lots of AoEs, and you too can rule the damage meters! Remember to blame the healer when you die!], gearscore has been added on top of it. Add in a system where PuGs are cross server (thus players are free to be utter asshats with perfect anonymity), and you have a system that sounds like a tiny slice of hell to me.Yeebohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08028940396189544294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-63200018327186087972010-05-26T08:47:05.033-04:002010-05-26T08:47:05.033-04:00It's worth clarifying that Bornakk is a commun...It's worth clarifying that Bornakk is a community manager, not a developer. His admission can be viewed more as an acknowledgment of how things are in practice than a statement that this is how things should be. If anything, I respect him for the honesty.Green Armadillohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15564045048380177626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-66190465998080521472010-05-26T07:04:22.453-04:002010-05-26T07:04:22.453-04:00Very sad to see a blue talk like that too. :( Thou...Very sad to see a blue talk like that too. :( Though that whole thread makes me want to facepalm, like when I see people complain that any WOTLK instance supposedly takes <i>forever</i>... even heroic OK with all bosses and a wipe only takes about thirty minutes. :/Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-31581457593061496372010-05-26T06:33:01.999-04:002010-05-26T06:33:01.999-04:00It is rather unsettling to see a developer come ou...It is rather unsettling to see a developer come out with a one and done policy.<br /><br />I always rather enjoyed the feeling of victory through tenacity. One of my best nights raiding was a night spent wiping on Twin Emperors in AQ40. We got the kill, a server first, on the last try of the night after about 20 wipes. Grueling truly, but an awesome feeling to win.<br /><br />That was of course a different game. Vanilla WoW raiding, gone the way of pre-Trammel UO, permadeath, and all those other things us oldies look back upon with rose-tinted spectacles.Stabshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08716211705647213383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-43104659200920837962010-05-26T01:27:51.816-04:002010-05-26T01:27:51.816-04:00I am not a fan of this style of gameplay nor the a...I am not a fan of this style of gameplay nor the attitude it fosters. <br /><br />I can understand that some people really do have such a limited time to play that even five extra minutes in a dungeon run is too much, but when everyone acts like snobs there is something else going on.<br /><br />My warrior just turned 80 a couple of weeks ago and she has yet to run any 5-mans at all. I stopped doing 5-mans in Burning Crusade because I kept seeing people drop from the runs because they did not have enough time play through a few wipes. And many of them are not nice about it at all, they endeavor to make less-skilled players feel small.<br /><br />To think that a designer publicly supported this style of gameplay certainly makes be reconsider just what kind of game I am playing and if I really want to continue giving them my money to do so.<br /><br />I do have other hobbies.houndhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12461545986646322317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826986957606858027.post-8711907339686056432010-05-26T00:53:38.400-04:002010-05-26T00:53:38.400-04:00I was randomed into a H HoR the other day, and it ...I was randomed into a H HoR the other day, and it was pretty hilarious. A couple of tanks dropped group within seconds of joining. We wiped, and more people dropped. After a couple of rounds of this, I was the only person remaining from the initial group. We eventually ended up with a tank with 50k health, and the run went totally smoothly, even with the 18k health priest healer we had from the wipe before.<br /><br />One big problem with H HoR, besides the difficulty, is that if you wipe you have to start all over again. Thus it is possible to make zero progress on a wipe, whereas usually in a 5 man, if you even just kill one mob, you have made a tiny bit of progress.<br /><br />Violet Hold was awful for that reason, as all of the bosses were included with the sequence. And the bosses are random, with some being trivial and a couple being very difficult (at the time). So you'd clear a ton of waves of trash, get a hard boss, wipe, and suddenly all that time was just wasted. Though it was even worse when it was the SECOND boss who was hard, as you'd have to refight through all the trash, refight the first boss (who didn't drop any loot that time), then refight through the trash AGAIN, then hope that this time you won't wipe on the boss. Totally not worth it.Argonnoreply@blogger.com