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Honestly kinda interested in what the new zones will be like and whether or not the WoW dev team isn’t creatively bankrupt on creating a micro-transaction treadmill for player.

  • insurgentrat [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Idk how much time I have in my life for an mmo these days but I enjoyed wow originally and am vicerally digusted by the current obsession to keep trying to serve up the bottled past so never bothered with classic.

    A different development path with a less bombastic story, more social interaction, and less key jangling gameplay sounds interesting. We’ll see how it goes, a kill switch for transmogs wont last though.

    I do wish they’d fix pvp. PvE servers are a snooze fest with no sense of danger but failed people camping low contested zones are awful. Some system like after x many honourless kills in contested zones you’re hostile to both factions for a week and can’t bank or anything might work but they wont do it since failed people are their cashcow.

      • insurgentrat [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        10 days ago

        I think a bounty system wouldn’t work as:

        1. players wanting to be infamous are further rewarded for the behaviour you’re trying to discourage.
        2. players seeking more same-level pvp are now encouraged to grief.
        3. if players on the same faction can get the bounty then removed gameplay occurs where players grief and then die to a friend. Without this though normal gameplay is not hampered for the griefer.

        I am not entirely sure how to handle it, but in MMOs I have played with good PvP the price of being a pker is:

        • that most or all towns are hostile, your ability to use services is highly limited and pk hunters will know exactly where you will need to visit to make hunting you easier.
        • You drop everything when killed
        • You lose XP when killed

        In these games pkers make the world fun and dangerous, but choosing to become one is extremely high risk and high reward (they’re all full loot games). These systems wouldn’t exactly work with wow and I’m pretty sure XP loss would have people sending firebombs to blizzard (despite griefers insisting they’re oh so hardcore) but denying normal gameplay for some time, including repairs, would mean that eventually the person would have to spend a week or something afk as a 60 with no gear is a free honour farm.