World of Warcraft deel 25 : Power to the Forsaken

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Op donderdag 21 april 2005 12:00 schreef Legolas_Greenleaf het volgende:

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Juist.

Bateman? Wij krijgen dat bij Astranaar, Southshore, Darkshire, Lakeshire en met een beetje pech ook nog Menethil.

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Eyonix,

Thanks for the post, but unfortunately it's too little too late. As of today, I've already canceled my account and do not intend to pay Blizzard another dime to be an unwilling subject in a haphazardly administered experiment. Blizzard can't afford this fiasco with Guild Wars a week to release, and MUCH more careful planning and testing should have gone on prior to turning the game into an unplayable wreck for the majority of players just to appease the minority of bored level 60's who have been clamoring for their constant mindless, two button push ganking and griefing to finally mean something and provide them with a reward just for doing their damndest to ruin everyone else's experience. Blizzard has NO regard whatsoever for the universal truth that MMO players WILL find ways to exploit, grief and abuse any system you put into place, even those that might be well-intentioned. Until such time as rogues can no longer pick their fights with 0 risk factor, zerg guards on people in GZ and BB and vanish, gain honor from one hitting someone engaged on a mob, and be totally undetectable to all but one class and race, I'll not be patronizing WoW anymore, as the open PvP system is laughably unbalanced and flawed.

The only remedy that would even make me consider returning is the complete revocation of this "honor" system, or the addition of an equivalent dishonor penalty, as promised in the game manual. Rewarding childish griefing is the same as condoning it. So is failing to provide adequate disincentives to discourage it. If the current system continues, you can expect all PvP servers to be veritable ghost towns populated exclusively by mages and rogues. And who can blame them all for choosing the classes which receive such an immense advantage? In short, you guys have really, really screwed up this time, far worse that ever before because this time you have actually failed to deliver on the functionality and gaming environment promised, which is quite a different thing than some server downtime or queues which were not specifically forbidden by the User Agreement. There are in fact specific guarantees that grief play will be dealt with, and that "dishonorable" play will have in-game penalties. In fact what we've gotten is the exact opposite: a system which encourages and even rewards unskilled zerging and continuous griefing, and which provides no counterbalance whatsoever to discourage this style of play. The "wait and see" approach is not at all adequate. You don't use paying customers as test subjects just to "see what will happen". That's what your test realms were for, and your total incompetence in keeping those available and listening to feedback from those who tried out the honor system and almost unanimously concluded it was going to pretty much ruin the game only serves to continue a pattern of haphazard game modification and implementation, which has been to this point the ONLY downside to this wonderful, ground breaking game. Now your sloppy methods have actually changed the landscape of the game itself, and not just the logistics of accessing it. Totally inexcusable, and you deserve every penny of lost revenue this is going to cost you, both near and long term.

Good luck with your grand experiment. Sorry I've had one too many anal probings to remain a subject, especially considering the fact that test subjects are normally paid by the researcher for their participation and inconvenience, not the other way around.

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Op vrijdag 22 april 2005 09:48 schreef mp76 het volgende:
nog een paar uur wachten en dan lowbies ganken voor punten