Devs shouldnt be allowed to play live

#0 - Aug. 19, 2009, 12:25 p.m.
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Devs shouldnt be allowed to play live for obvious reasons. Who knows why they have been allowed to play this game in the first place. PVP is strictly competition and if development is allowed to take a side then things will never be balanced.

*********Anyone that knows what drives people to keep playing WOW should also realize that the same thing drives the devs to favor their aspect of the game rather than shoot for balance. In other words, dev plays DK all the time and dev fixes every weakness it has without fixing the weaknesses of anything else because of less exposure to the variety. This can happen directly from devs or the people that make the final decision on class development. Either way its happening *********

PVP has been unbalanced since day one and coincidentally the fotm classes just happen to be the ones that the devs are playing at the time(Kalgan). I think the change is long past due and should be implemented before we lose more of this game to it . 2v2 has already been sacrificed to to the fact that there is no turning back on the OPness of DK rogue and pally just out of the way the classes work.

Please dont be another Eve.
#86 - Aug. 19, 2009, 7:15 p.m.
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Devs shouldnt be allowed to play live for obvious reasons. Who knows why they have been allowed to play this game in the first place. PVP is strictly competition and if development is allowed to take a side then things will never be balanced.

*********Anyone that knows what drives people to keep playing WOW should also realize that the same thing drives the devs to favor their aspect of the game rather than shoot for balance. In other words, dev plays DK all the time and dev fixes every weakness it has without fixing the weaknesses of anything else because of less exposure to the variety. This can happen directly from devs or the people that make the final decision on class development. Either way its happening *********

PVP has been unbalanced since day one and coincidentally the fotm classes just happen to be the ones that the devs are playing at the time(Kalgan). I think the change is long past due and should be implemented before we lose more of this game to it . 2v2 has already been sacrificed to to the fact that there is no turning back on the OPness of DK rogue and pally just out of the way the classes work.

Please dont be another Eve.


There is no conflict of interest. We play the same as anyone else and have no special advantages. We also have employees that play on both sides, Horde and Alliance. Aside from that, believe it or not, people are capable of setting aside their personal preferences for the good of the overall game. Also, contrary to popular belief, not everyone wishes to play an overpowered class. We are a company of gamers and we are looking to have fun the same as anyone else and take on challenges the same as anyone else.

While I think you genuinely believe there is bias involved in our decisions, this is simply untrue. Please refrain from pointing fingers at specific developers. This is not constructive and borders on harassing or defamatory language toward them.

It is extremely important that we are able to play alongside everyone else so that we can find out what is and isn't working. Even more simply, we enjoy playing alongside you all as well and want to continue to provide a fun environment for everyone.