If you’re staggered, you can’t attack—it interrupts your animation. Poise means you aren’t staggered, which means you can attack even though someone has hit you.

If you’ve somehow navigated the gaming landscape without ever learning what Gamergate is, A) I’m super-jealous and B) I recommend you never try to find out.

You cannot compare then and now, the circumstances are not remotely the same. And the assumption that 250k signatures translates into 250k new subscribers is laughable at best.

Given that their highest height was around 12 million, and now they’re at half that ten years on, it still seems pretty good to me. Most of the mmos released around the same time are now on the bone pile of history, whereas WoW will definitely be around for at least another decade. And this is with them being one of…

If they weren’t still the most popular MMO by far, with four times the subscribers of their closest competitor, you might be onto something. Most games would give anything to “tank” like that.

Honestly, based on the numbers of people playing RTS games compared to FPSes or MOBAs, yeah.

In addition, if the demand is not there, then Blizzard really has little argument to why it doesn’t just allow private servers

I posted this the other day on another thread, but it’s probably more relevant here...

I think there’s a lot more going on behind subscriber numbers than you or even I think and I don’t think it could be so easily chalked up to “lol, wow sucks now bring back old content”

The guy posts a thoughtful, reasoned explanation of the development team’s approach to content, highlights the word “minority” about a hundred times, and the best you can come up with is “Well, 250,000 people signed a petition.” Yes. Out of millions of subscribers. Minority.

“Yet Blizzard still hasn’t done what I want them to.”

Since when was game development a democracy?

Business logic: less than 5% increase in annual profit = “losing” money.

I don’t think the number of people interested in legacy relative to retail is as big as you think.

The answer is right in the article, it dilutes the reward when it is obtainable via multiple means. The more valuable a reward is, the more it motivates the minority hardcore players to try and get it, and more special it makes them feel.

See, this is a great representation of video games as a whole as well.
Whenever people throw a hissy about one game or genre or another, saying it shouldn’t be that way or it should be fixed or even that it shouldn’t exist I think, “fuck you.” Maybe it wasn’t made for you. Maybe it was made for someone who actually…

He’s got a point.

I don’t know how anyone doesn’t understand this - it’s common sense. And yet everyone thinks THEIR opinion is the majority one. Of course it is; as a person you naturally gravitate toward people with similar interests and ideas. Thus you only see what you want to see.

Here’s the real issue. You are wrong either way you come at the issue,one way is discrimination and the other is violation of privacy of a individual. The thing here is this, propose a solution that makes everyone feel safe and assured and you will be hard pressed, because you can’t verify wether someone is truly…

a Sean Bean dies at the end of a lot of things.