After 4 World of Warcraft events launched with bad loot this year alone, Blizzard admits that it can "start to seem like a pattern"
Nov. 17, 2024“We hear the feedback from the community loud and clear.”
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While for many,World of Warcraftis in a good place right now, one aspect of the game that has come in for criticism from players is event rewards, which recently, for the fourth time this year, have had to be made easier to obtain.
Hazzikostas concedes that the team had miscalculated with some of these updates. “Even if they really enjoyed the 20th-anniversary content, there was this sense of ‘I already have been spending a bunch of time doing dungeons and delves and levelling these other alts. This feels like too much to ask on top of that,'” before noting, “That’s the part we hadn’t grasped until we heard the feedback loud and clear when live.”
He is keen to dispel the idea that they plan to start out stingy before inevitably buffing the rewards later, instead explaining why the team tends to err on the conservative side of things. “We can always buff the rewards.” he begins. “We’re never going to nerf the rewards, really, right? If things go out too fast and generous, we’ll never pull that back. And so, while playing a bit of that guessing game of trying to pick the right values, we may tend to err on the conservative side.
“Hopefully, the players understand we’ll be fast and responsive if it feels like we’ve missed the mark”, remarks Hazzikostas. “We hear the feedback from the community loud and clear.”
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