unnecessary changes like the upcoming ones creates schism and grief among players. on top of that we got newcomers with attitudes that should've been shoved up their own holes. this could've been all avoided, but no turning back now
ofc the new guys have much less to lose in the long run, if changes ultimately doesn't suite them they'll simply abandon ship.
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Edited: August 31, 2016 Reason: spelling
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Being selfish is not an objetive opinion. Many people like grinding even if it's x7, x5, x3, x1,... but many other people don't have time for that. It's not about like/dislike insta rep, it's about time. Since WoW was released times have changed and the people who had 13-14 years old on vanilla now have 24-25, have family, work, studies, responsabilities, and don't have time to stay grinding a rep for eternity. Servers are for players and fixes/changes should make happy (or try to) to the most people. When you read all the feedback posts in the forums, you see like 80-90% of people complains about rep changes (not even on gold or prof). I find that "unnecesarily ridiculous".
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Why does anyone still even discuss this? They closed the official feedback thread in a matter of hours because they didn't like the responses, and knew they were still going to implement these changes no matter what anyone thought of them. Don't embarrass yourself by begging them not to do this, since it only falls on deaf ears and you wont get any official responses here.
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to give themselves the comforting thought that they've at least tried to have their voices heard, however futile it was
if nothing else, grinding community activity rank in case it ever becomes useful
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It's funny how they thanked the community when Moltdown happened and said something like "we had many mistakes and even we have been sometimes disrespectful to community, but still you choose us" and now they close a feedback thread because people didn't say what they wanted to hear. Here in my country we say "for money the monkey dances".
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I like getting achievements, yet I don't have a lot of spare time, which is exactly why when I started here I CHOSE Sargeras (the x20 server) as I don't have the spare time that some others do.
We then moved to Ragnaros when Sargeras was converted to a Cataclysm realm and the rates have been gradually decreasing which I've been fine with until now, as fairly soon I'll find myself on Icecrown with x1 rates?
I've always restrained myself on these kind of things and kept quiet, but this is some serious bull****.
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You play Retail? Good. Go play with the Blizzlike rates there. I play on Retail as well and in order to actually "tryhard" a little bit more I do log in there.
For casual play? I log Warmane from time to time. Stating that it's fair to drop the rates to 1x just shows how unaware you are about the whole situation. Most of the people that play Icecrown don't have the time or patience to grind through a hardcore road because of multiple reasons - They could have done it before when it was a live content (<- me as example), they've repeated those quests lines over and over through multiple toons (reputation grinds like Sons of Hodir), they don't have the time necessary to the grind that this specific change brings, etc. Warmane offered Lordaeron for a "Hardcore Experience" and if you want those kind of rates you move yourself into there. Icecrown has not demanded or requested such rates and to be really fair; For me to play those rates I would rather only play Retail where all the mechanics and content works at 99%.
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I'm sorry but you totally missed the point...
Same as nobody is forcing you to get to max level, so why don't you stay in low level locations, or why do you even play the game?
The answer is simple, to relax and have a good time, it's still just a game.
And I know official thread is closed and this comments and topics have a little effect, but I hope someone could actually think about it before the change comes. It's still better to say something than to mindlessly follow every change and by the community reactions the game can be improved the most.
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I just don't get the desire to turn the game into a grindfest. This was the perfect server to relax on a few hours a night and it wouldn't take you months and months as a casual to be useful.
Is this because their prized child lord server population has dropped to more than half and is getting worse everyday and they want people to stop transferring to icecrown?
They should at least make it a sliding scale rate system and let the player decide, let them choose 1x to 10x exp, profs, rep rates.
The community is so against this it seems crazy to ignore everyone.
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Why would they care? They think nobody will leave and they will just get more donations from this.
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That's such a disrespectful way to treat your player base. We are the reason this server is so successful. We are the ones that spread the word and donate to their sever, to just take away all the high rate servers and not give a real reason to why leads all to believe what you said and expect more to donate for profs and items since it will be a lot tougher to get them through rep and profs. Being a new casual player to icecrown now will be such a drag I really hope they listen and pull back a bit and perhaps go 7x exp, 5x rep, 3x gold , wep and profs.
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Honestly, imo...they should up the gold rates from 5x to 7x. 5x rep would be fine, would be nice is ALL factions were 5x though, I've noticed quite a few seem to be much lower than 7x atm, some seem higher, then there's Scale of the Ssnds which is disabled on Wrath. Only the last boss gives rep, when every mob in the raid should.
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In your dreams maybe they said something like that roflmao.
I can actually see the logic behind most of these moves, the exact reasons being given are not the full story at all. I believe that lordaeron, performance, $$ and game experience ideology are all important reasons for these changes. In the end, they can do these changes without any risk, they want to, and I see why they want to.
These changes will happen. Mitigate any negative effect on yourself as best you can, 3 months is plenty of time.
For me they will only yield positive results already. Furthermore I really hope icecrown population drops to under 8k by the middle of next year so we get a load the server is capable of handling without this ridiculous "optimization" which essentially destroys doing anything in world by reducing awareness to 35 yards ... or next to you.
Note: this optimization is obviously preferable to having the instanced bg/raid experience destroyed.Edited: September 2, 2016
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This is exactly why its bad for us, for everyone, specially Neltharion and Frostwolf players, without newcomers joining do you think the servers will live long enough? Whats the point of rushing all that grind on these 3 months if the server will die after?
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There's always Lordaeron for you, you dick.
