#42 - April 9, 2010, 8:15 p.m.
Q u o t e:
You could easily postulate that the current designers don't even play WoW nor do they have any clue what players want or how players currently feel about the game.
I could easily postulate that you're a cyborg delivered to earth to harsh my happy Friday.
When we release a new expansion, people expect a considerable degree of change, updates and content. You're essentially paying for a new game when purchasing an expansion, so we want to give you your money's worth. We're making a number of changes to the user interface, game systems and gameplay mechanics. It's only natural that taking the time to carefully reevaluate each class role, class and spec needs to be a part of all of these updates.
Sure, the game is fun and I'm glad you don't think it's broken. That doesn't mean we're going to stop pushing ourselves to keep the game feeling current, refreshing and fun. Besides, when it comes to the class previews we've provided so far, we've only outlined broad goals. We are asking for feedback to be sure, but saying "don't make these changes, I don't want them" doesn't provide us with anything to work with. We are going to be making changes, so we'd prefer that you considered the changes and sought honest clarification, or expressed valid concerns about the potential impacts of individual changes.
In any event, we'll be conducting an interesting experiment known as beta testing, where we'll put our changes to the ultimate test and continue to iterate upon them based on feedback from those testing. :)
