The game is not even out and I'm already seeing massively upvoted posts about things such as M+, difficulty sliders for raids, HD sets being ported from retail, flying for druids or more recently people wanting the game to be perfectly balanced because they dared to touch horde racials.

It's no secret the devs occasionally browse this sub and overall socials, it's a battleground. Think back to the dungeon xp nerf, the outcry was such that the devs eventually gave up and buffed it.

I sincerely hope Blizzard sticks to their own vision and waits at least a year until the playerbase settles in before taking in serious feedback about the direction of the game. Most of the people acting dramatic over anything the devs do or who want the game to be some sort of retail hybrid will not be here 6 months from now.

In the meantime, just let them cook! Just stop with the awful takes and demands and let the devs make their own version of Turtle WoW

Me and my husband are playing together, see you out there 😂

My hot take is that there shouldnt be much feedback. I think the player base putting thier two cents in usually ruins a game in just about every way possible.

They made WOWF without your feedback. Remember that.

In the old days, game devs didnt really have forums and whole PR departments. It was just devs cooking and doing something they loved.

Now days we have spoiled kids that eat the whole damn plate of food and then say it sucked. Then go for seconds and complain some more about the food and how they would cook it different. I really dont think the devs should give a damn.

They have a Northstar that I think is in the right place. Stick to it, and dont compromise on it for anyone. Stay true to the core guiding light and it'll all be ok.

If you’re struggling still, you should request a refund. This is beyond incompetence. A simple webform would’ve worked. I lost all of my names that were originally available, but by the time the throttle ended, they were taken. I can’t possibly fathom why the people who are supporting them more are dealing with throttling when it should be enforced on Nov 4th instead.

Edit: Got my refund 💰

If Blizzard really wants the game to be about the “journey” and wants to extend its longevity, I genuinely think December 9th is too soon for raids to open (maybe even WAY too soon). Don’t get me wrong: I absolutely love raiding, and I’m extremely excited to dive into the new content with my raid team. But when I look at the time between release and raids opening and do some quick math in my head, the number of hours a day I’m going to need to play just to check off the boxes (farming pre-BiS gear, leveling professions, farming consumes and gold, and getting my epic mount) is kind of crazy...

And before you say, “Well, none of that is required before raids,” or “The raids are going to be easy. Who cares about all that?” I’ll say this: sure, that’s fair, but I care about that... And I don’t think I’m alone in feeling that way. I like improving my character as much as possible before entering raids, for my own sake, because I like to parse, but also for my team’s sake, because I respect their time as much as I respect my own. I don’t want to be the guy holding the team back.

I personally love the expansion launch vibe more than any other point in the lifetime of a typical WoW expansion: leveling to max, grinding professions, farming gold, doing the new dungeons to get your pre-BiS gear, etc. That period is so much more fun than the “moving from one raid tier to the next” part of the game.

I’m even more excited this time around, given that Blizzard is making an effort to obscure the loot tables and "unsolve the game". We don’t even know what dungeons we want to run, what bosses we need to farm, or what crafted items are available. Everything will be way less streamlined, which is a good thing! The process of leveling to 60 and checking off all those endgame boxes is completely unknown with all the new content. This release timeline is pressuring a lot of people with this mindset to rush through a lot of the content instead of getting to enjoy the discovery, all the newly added content and quests, and the general vibes of the newly launched game.

Would pushing raid opening day back genuinely make anyone upset? Is this a hot take? I’d love to know other people’s feelings. I’m sure I’m not the only person posting about this.

Cheers

Almost like no one cares that all the streamers are going alliance or that Alliance is "Best" racials

Reading about you all freaking out over the name reservation thing has made my day. I cannot understate how excited I am to read all the posts on release day

Was genuinely shocked it wasn't taken an hour after names opened up.

Going to be rolling on an RP server for the first time ever and actually put a lot of time into coming up with these names over the last few days. How’d I do?

Thank you blizzard for rinsing me for 60 bucks and one of the perks being name reserve and when I try I get the dreaded dc cycle like why offer it if it’s not gonna work

So i was there at 6pm for eu, didnt get in so my name was taken, want to take another name - faction imbalance. Thanks blizz, this reservation was totally worthless

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I've been unemployed for 3 years but finally just got a new job and while I'm excited, I'm so bummed that I'll be working instead of playing WoW forever all day. Hoping that the anticipation I build while working will make it all the more fun when I get home!

This is point Communication, Blizzard.

WoW Failure.

After seeing these name reserves im so glad. What a bunch of crap. Please lord enforce the rules in Rp. Not only do I despise "funny" names but looking at what people have posted they arent even slightly amusing. I would hate to see those names in game. Each to their own I suppose...

Title. Just sort of stunned.

That's what people signed up for.

That's what people agreed was fair.

People who came first, got bypassed by people who came after them, and lost their names.

The people posting defending blizzard here are probably those people who got in and "got theirs" and they need to check themselves.

This was not fair to a LOT of people. I shouldn't have lost out on my name because it took me 52 minutes to get into the servers, it wasn't a super competitive or popular name, but I lost it because I was barred from name reservations for an hour.

Just delete the servers and take your servers offline so you can bulk them up and actually give a fair experience to your player base. Redo the name reservations next week.