I would really have to read/research a whole lot more. I actually only know it did happen; the when; how much it cost, etc., but WOW TBC Classic Gold I don’t think I ever watched the why. I didn’t think Vivendi Games was ever that hard up for money, but I suppose something Activision had seemed enticing enough.

The two Vanilla and TBC classic are all out, capable to experience as it had been. And. . . And I would say that I enjoy the classic variations a lot less than retail now. It’s a lot slower and easier. It’s more clunky. It’s far more grindy and time consuming. Rewards thing a great deal less since the PvE encounters are balanced about someone with performance issues and a lot worse awareness and skill of the match.

Really is not that the matches have become worse, it’s the player mindset which have changed. Coupled with a ton of tools for knowledge and learning. Individuals trying to take shortcuts rather than learning, leading them to feel as though it’s a grind when they can’t simply jump into the rewards. People consume content a great deal quicker and use a ton of crutches to perform it. They bypass most of the exploring and trial and error parts, which is what they remember most fondly from the old games, in favor of optimization and min/max from the get go. A lot of optimization is not even about doing things , but eliminating things all together. Which also leads to people whining that they”feel forced” doing things as they’re so utilized to being able to bypass it.

I 100% believe this was the case in Hearthstone. I haven’t played in a very long time but back when they started adding cards would be a few new broken strategy everyone had to play and Blizzard sat around for weeks stating everything was fine prior to waiting to launch some half-assed counter within another expansion. When it failed they finally delivered a balance patch to repair the original matter. I’m positive people stuck around simply to see whether the new cards would change whatever the player numbers were boosted.

Agree. I do think there is an element of this devs tricking themselves into believing their”methods” and content are kind of pleasure. They certainly”overdesign”, beginning with the rewards and working backwards from there instead of really thinking if the systems themselves are enjoyable.

However, in BFA, everyone understood Azerite armor was crap in beta and blizzard said dont worry we have fixes in store. In Beta shamans were dreadful and had several bugs and issues which weren’t addressed. The initial tier comes around and instead of them fixing shamans they state the cheap Burning Crusade Classic Gold first patch Shamans will be fixed. So they made insect fixing shamans a content feature in the first major patch in an attempt to keep people subscribed or deliver them back to the game.