Blizz and Holy Paladin in 4.2Follow

Bliz consistently denies that the team has lost designers or that the "A-Team" has been xfered to the new game (Titan), but from the 4 classes that I played with any level of real understanding, Mage, Paly, Druid, Priest... There's just too many plot holes in the designing.

It seems like 4.0 was planned to be a triage heal/tank game. Then somewhere in the planning, they realized that they'd completely missed the ball. They just didn't have it tuned and they reverted to what we have now.

Put another way - Imagine you're planning a dinner party for 4 people. You're going to be serving steaks. Then suddenly, just before the party is set to start, you are told that the guests are really 10 people. There is no way you can serve 10 people on 4 steaks, so you quickly break out the meat grinder, grind up the steaks and make meatballs. Everyone's got some pasta in the house and you can stretch the meat if you mix it with sauce and pasta...

The problem you face is that you'd been marinating that steak all day and now you're meatballs taste like they have steak sauce and liquid smoke in them. So you compensate by putting too much garlic, onion, basil and oregano in the pasta sauce....

In the end the meal isn't terrible, but all of the guests notice that it's just not right....

Didn't they acknowledge several months ago that most of the original designers were working on Titan?

I'm positive I read that a Blizz official said that the development team hadn't changed. People left and were replaced over the years, but they denied having moved anyone but the "number crunchers" over to Titan.

Believe it was mentioned after several people made some threads on the subject.

In a PR interview about "Titan", Blizard COO says they have some of their best people on Titan. Did you expect them to say anything else? "We've hired a brand new team of inexperienced MMO Devs/Devs that worked on games that weren't in the same league as WoW" doesn't really get me excited about Titan. To me, it sounds like about as politically neutral of a statement as he could make.

More than likely, they started filling in the new team for Titan first by offering transfers/promotions to existing staff. In some cases, they may have specifically looked for devs from other MMOs that did something in another game that Blizzard would like to incorporate in Titan.

There's no room for your rationale and logic here, Protein!

Frak, you just crit my face.


+1

Also, developer C who's been with WoW for a long time took a promotion that moved him from mid-level WoW dev to Titan team lead. Or high-level WoW dev is now project leader for Titan. I think it's highly unlikely that the team for Titan is entirely new, but I also doubt Blizzard is trying to shoot their own foot by taking all their top talent to Titan and leaving a skeleton crew of window-lickers running WoW.

The problem with any forum is that it constitutes an extreme minority of the player base. Bohdi could be (and usually is) right about how healing works for the top 5% of players, but that leaves the remaining 95% of players who may be having a completely different experience. I'm not happy about every decision they make, but I can live with that.

Kind of but not really, that's the best answer I can give.


For me it was the pacing that killed it.


Binary healing on HM's, poorly balanced stats (mastery/crit), poorly thought out and balanced tool set for healers, and releasing a game that was basically barely PTR ready in terms of overall balance at end game were just the build up.

This is kind of like the time you tried to sell magic through body friction, only cheaper and less likely to end in a conviction for statutory.

We all know where you hid that rabbit Mazra.

Meh, the EVE community is the whiniest bunch of ******** I've ever come across.

I'll cry about micro-transactions and injustice once it's actually here and not just a leaked document. Right now it's just vanity items which I don't give a **** about.