Looks like they are worried about losing WOW subscribers... and could potentially effect the outcome of Diablo 3 (maybe in trying to get more money out of it)...
It looks like blizz is interested in how the release of new games (including diablo 3) will effect their cash crop known as WoW. They're also interested about the impact the real money auction house will have.
Doesn't really surprise me. Someone recently made a thread putting forth the question why decisions are made (specifically concerning the release push back) and my short and simple answer for that and other similar questions is one thing. It all boils down to money. Even if they just *were* taking more time to make the game kick more ass, they can only do that because it will make more money. Having a larger fan/customer base by making great games means more money. Sometimes you have to sacrifice some of something immediately, knowing it will pay off in the long run. This is an investment. Not all investments pay off, not everything goes as planned. Some risks are more worth taking than others.
I don't claim to major in business but this much is just common sense. That's just how things are, people know this much if they know anything about how the world works.
Well the thing is.. Many of us who think we won't be buying items (before launch) will be foaming from the mouth while browsing the auction house. We may not feel the same way if items we want are ridiculously impossible to get otherwise.
Seemed to be a bunch of questions about consoles/phones which gives me the impression that there trying to decide what systems they want to incorporate into their future products. Also, the gender question is trolol right?
I got this survey as well. After filling it out it really felt like Blizzard is really reaching for answers now. It almost felt like they have no idea what to do next.
Oh, and I was pissed cause I thought this email was a beta invite at first.
Yeah... The answer you gave to question 30 is exactly what they're afraid of.
I'm actually thinking of playing SWTOR now. Who knows when D3 will come out.
Ah well. We'll just have to wait for them to figure out where the pot of gold is.
Perhaps, but I was only playing WoW until D3 came out. So yeah. Plus I've stopped payments on all my WoW accs (4 boxing is quite fun) specially with 4 arcane mages atm lolol...But not worth the cost anymore.
Anyway I've told many many people that I'd be quitting WoW when D3 was released cause I'm just completely and utterly burnt out and over WoWs MMO style of gameplay, It was my first and my last MMO. I liked it in Vanilla, BC was a different change, Wrath was more towards "casuals" but Wrath to me was a LOT of fun... I could do alot of things quickly and easily.
Alot of the mechanics Blizz implemented with Cata is just wrong, Capping your guild reputation weekly.... lol, capping guild xp daily... why bother? it's just a roadblock, I remember reading a blue saying something like "why would you want to do a slow grind to get VP and buy gear when u can get it alot quicker with raiding?"... It's only slow because you put an artificial Cap on earning those VPs.
Just all up Cata was a bad experience, BUT! The new zones were fun to play them multiple times(bar a few stupid quests which don't hand in or co-complete while your in a group)
/end rant
back ontopic, I'm not surprised by this survey, since Blizzard has already lost 1 mill subs after Cata launch. I don't think alot of people liked the class changes, the buff homogenization(like if u have a pally / druid, you can't have mark of the wild and blessing of kings up at the same time, it's one or the other) or the huge difficulty increase from wrath(I still haven't done any lvl 85 dungeons or heroics, just a waste of time since more gear gets released)...
I guess I just don't like MMOs, I prefer being able to do things at my own pace or with some friends, while not having to be forced to group up to complete objectives. Since I've been a D1,D2&LOD,SC1,WC2,WC3:ROC&TFT player before WoW came out.
Cata was really fun for a while for me. I just sat in Tol Barad/Pen. world pvping every chance I could get. I actually had my most hilarious moment there, second perhaps only to a shield hearth vs an entire lvl 60 raiding guild looking for azurgos or w/e in azshara back in the vanilla wow days... Freezing the bridge with a ring of frost preventing up to 200 alliance from bugging out the tol.
But even that got old and became broken (at least for solo) due to resilience among other reasons and I quit soon after making my last wow pvp video on a class I played at most for two and a half months.
Well the thing is.. Many of us who think we won't be buying items (before launch) will be foaming from the mouth while browsing the auction house. We may not feel the same way if items we want are ridiculously impossible to get otherwise.
The cure is to play hardcore :Thumbs Up:
I know that I will only play HC with characters That I enjoy, so all my Mighty items will go into the GAH even if I find the *best* one in the game. Hopefully someone else will similarly put up awesome Mojos/Daibos/Quivers that I can buy!
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If that made sense to you, Bravo! I think I even confused myself...
Stacked resilience on top of stacked stamina dodge/parry/block/dr% meant maybe one or two things. You could make more mistakes and still win, healers are able to keep people alive (including themselves) for much more sustained time. I mean sure AP PoM Pyro and other similar mechanics didn't require much skill, but at the time I played paladin and for the first two years after launch they were never an overpowered class with broken mechanics (aside from maybe infinite stacking reckoning which did get nerfed after a kazzak 1 shot). Battles were much shorter, and much less calculated and not everyone used the same build they copied from thottbot/wohead/ etc and people were experimenting with all kinds of new, hard to get and different gear (basically we all sucked). There were many fewer cooldowns so the core skills felt more powerful, albeit they were fewer and far in between compared to the huge number of abilities to a lvl 85.
Here's what was asked. Click on links to see the questions.
It is mostly WoW Related, the D3 questions start at Question 29.
Email | Front Page
Question 1 | Question 2 | Question 3 | Question 4 | Question 5
Question 6 | Question 7 | Question 8 | Question 9 | Question 10
Question 11 | Question 12 | Question 13 | Question 14 | Question 15
Question 16 | Question 17 | Question 18 | Question 19 | Question 20
Question 21 | Question 22 | Question 23 | Question 24 | Question 25
Question 26 | Question 27 | Question 28 | Question 29 | Question 30
Question 31 | Question 32 | Question 33 | Question 34 | Question 35
Question 36 | Question 37 | Question 38 | Question 39 | Question 40 | Question 41 | Thank You Page
That's them all.
What do you guys make of this and the few Diablo questions that were asked?
Whatever it is, I don't like it! =(
It looks like blizz is interested in how the release of new games (including diablo 3) will effect their cash crop known as WoW. They're also interested about the impact the real money auction house will have.
Doesn't really surprise me. Someone recently made a thread putting forth the question why decisions are made (specifically concerning the release push back) and my short and simple answer for that and other similar questions is one thing. It all boils down to money. Even if they just *were* taking more time to make the game kick more ass, they can only do that because it will make more money. Having a larger fan/customer base by making great games means more money. Sometimes you have to sacrifice some of something immediately, knowing it will pay off in the long run. This is an investment. Not all investments pay off, not everything goes as planned. Some risks are more worth taking than others.
I don't claim to major in business but this much is just common sense. That's just how things are, people know this much if they know anything about how the world works.
Oh, and I was pissed cause I thought this email was a beta invite at first.
Perhaps, but I was only playing WoW until D3 came out. So yeah. Plus I've stopped payments on all my WoW accs (4 boxing is quite fun) specially with 4 arcane mages atm lolol...But not worth the cost anymore.
Anyway I've told many many people that I'd be quitting WoW when D3 was released cause I'm just completely and utterly burnt out and over WoWs MMO style of gameplay, It was my first and my last MMO. I liked it in Vanilla, BC was a different change, Wrath was more towards "casuals" but Wrath to me was a LOT of fun... I could do alot of things quickly and easily.
Alot of the mechanics Blizz implemented with Cata is just wrong, Capping your guild reputation weekly.... lol, capping guild xp daily... why bother? it's just a roadblock, I remember reading a blue saying something like "why would you want to do a slow grind to get VP and buy gear when u can get it alot quicker with raiding?"... It's only slow because you put an artificial Cap on earning those VPs.
Just all up Cata was a bad experience, BUT! The new zones were fun to play them multiple times(bar a few stupid quests which don't hand in or co-complete while your in a group)
/end rant
back ontopic, I'm not surprised by this survey, since Blizzard has already lost 1 mill subs after Cata launch. I don't think alot of people liked the class changes, the buff homogenization(like if u have a pally / druid, you can't have mark of the wild and blessing of kings up at the same time, it's one or the other) or the huge difficulty increase from wrath(I still haven't done any lvl 85 dungeons or heroics, just a waste of time since more gear gets released)...
I guess I just don't like MMOs, I prefer being able to do things at my own pace or with some friends, while not having to be forced to group up to complete objectives. Since I've been a D1,D2&LOD,SC1,WC2,WC3:ROC&TFT player before WoW came out.
But even that got old and became broken (at least for solo) due to resilience among other reasons and I quit soon after making my last wow pvp video on a class I played at most for two and a half months.
http://warcraftmovie...w.php?id=173183
The cure is to play hardcore :Thumbs Up:
I know that I will only play HC with characters That I enjoy, so all my Mighty items will go into the GAH even if I find the *best* one in the game. Hopefully someone else will similarly put up awesome Mojos/Daibos/Quivers that I can buy!
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