BlizzCon 2007 details Comments by Robert Purchese

Given the large negative reaction to the latest (2.1) patch information I can imagine BlizCon will be packed with people armed with rotten fruit, veg and eggs...

Oh no, wait, it's in Americaland so they'll all be packing uzis and rocket launchers.

Unless they announce something totally not related to warcraft, they can fuck off. I've had it up to here with blizzard milking the warcraft franchise and leaving the rest out to rot.

I'd rather they left franchises to rot rather than farm them out to third partys who can't always do them justice (also known as 'doing a Nintendo'). Starcraft and Diablo will return, but let WoW have it's day first.

The nerdiest of nerdcons is back! By golly that warms my cockles.

zootle: 'Given the large negative reaction to the latest (2.1) patch information I can imagine BlizCon will be packed with people armed with rotten fruit, veg and eggs... '

Actually, the vast majority of the WoW community is happy with the upcoming addition of new content and balancing changes.

Can I have a Murky now Blizz?

I'd settle for Gurky.

I'm a great fan of WoW but every time I hear something about Blizzard a little bit of me pines for Starcraft. That game was, and still is, awesome. When every other RTS of the time was going for polygons, Blizzard stuck with the sprite idea and pulled it off magnificently with three wonderfully different races and a kick-ass storyline.
I don't want World of Starcraft, I just want Starcraft II or something to continue the storyline from where Brood War left off.

I agree with you, ProtoformX . Starcraft was a fantastic game. It kept me glued to my PC for the weeks I played it. I think it's the one game that would make me upgrade my PC if it was announced.

$100? Fuck that.

so its happening in US eh? thought this was EUROgamer?

Yes Hamflank, now kindly remove your face from Blizzard's rectum and see the people who are pissed off at it.

I have to say - as an on-off WoW player I don't get why they need to keep tweaking half these classes. Some of them have taken Blizzard a lot of time to balance out, to smooth over. Some of them more or less seem to be as good as they'll get. Now Blizzard plans to bulldoze some of them and strip them of their balance, more or less killing off one or two specifications of classes. That really bothers me, because in the end - even if the end result they have intended is better - it's the paying customers in that period of testing, tweaking and work that get screwed over, surely? They never seem to get it right, or hold off until they get it right. They just make the changes and promise they'll correct any issues in the future.

Still. WoW keeps me in touch with friends - the reason I started. Though I know most of them are really getting bored of WoW. The moment they move on, is probably the time I move on as well (I think that'll come with Warhammer or Conan). I think perhaps what WoW needs is some competition... I'm sure Blizzard would take notice. As for Blizzcon... meh. Bunch of fanboys who've probably not played any other game for two years. Though to be fair, I'm sure some of the worst won't turn up... it involves going "outside". They're afraid of that big ball of fire in the sky...

They're afraid of that big ball of fire in the sky...

Yeah, pyroblasts scare the shit outta me as well.

> so its happening in US eh? thought this was EUROgamer?

Some people are dedicated/mad enough to travel half across the globe for these things. I wouldn't, although I'm still going to PAX.

There are always people whining about a patch.
"oh noes i is get nerfed f*** blizz i quit wow lol"
But in the end most of the changes are accepted and the class balance is only getting better.
Anyway.. the most important things in 2.1 are not class changes but new content, UI improvements, etc..

>> Now Blizzard plans to bulldoze some of them and strip them of their balance, more or less killing off one or two specifications of classes.

Yea.. they plan to "bulldoze" them. Sure.
They are just changins come skills, ffs! Stay calm! The world IS NOT going to explode!

Well Ahac, from what I see they're killing Holy Paladins - instead of relying on their crit, now with a big hit on mana return they're no longer going to be able to main heal with the paladin plate that Blizzard have so 'helpfully' provided (even in decent blues and epics, most paladins end-game struggle to get into the 10k mana). And no-one who plays a Pally end game with an IQ in double figures goes any other way - you might be needed for tanking but warriors hold it better, and DPS - heh, one of those little in-jokes I think. No compensation, no rebalance (YET - I suspect there's more to this than meets the eye). Just one class that will sadly die out, and if it hits hard, it'll die out very fast too. For me, that's bulldozing a class. And alchemy, I hear they're making that totally worthless too - 1 hour transmute cooldown and only one elixir of each type is going to drastically hit that crafting class since people won't buy stacks of elixirs any longer, since they'll only be able to have one offensive and one defensive on at any time...

I've heard all this stuff from people whinging over it. To be honest, I had to go read to try and see what balance was being brought in - surprisingly little as of yet but I don't think this is the end of the story by a long shot (It'd be commercial idiocy otherwise). End game raiding pals of mine have said they'll not bother taking pallys in for anything other than the "free epics" bosses. The opinions have already begun to change. Paladins are beginning to feel the hurt before the patch even hits, which makes the game unpleasant for people paying money to enjoy themselves.

I couldn't give two shits either way - I have a rogue and a hunter (and rogues are getting a tasty buff). However, I fully see why people are complaining over this patch - and until Blizzard get around to actually implementing some actual balance into these big nerfs they're hammering down on their customers, I'd say the rest of us have no right to tell them to stop. I think it's all too easy for you and me and others to be so flippant about this, so "Who Cares?". But the people complaining pay monthly to play a game, and when Blizzard make that game nigh impossible for the player - yeah. I remember backalong during the Ranger changes in FFXI, so many people left or changed their class, that less than a fortnight later they got massively buffed again. Precedents are already set.

But I do agree that some should take it less seriously. After all, not long now and Blizzard will have some competition, so people CAN have a choice. But whilst people pay for WoW, if changes hurt the way they play and make it more difficult, less enjoyable or just near impossible - the rest of us should just let them by. They have a right to be pissy.