For better or worse borrowed power kept the game feeling new and fresh. If they truly do eventually keep multiple expansions of 'evergreen' features around then we're going to end up with a MASSIVE amount of bloat and frankly stale gameplay.
Surely cross realm chat channels are coming right? And cross realm queuing?
Such an interesting discussion happening here, and one that I hope you will all learn from. When you see a take that is echoed extremely loud in a community going forward, I hope you realize from now that, even though it might seem loud in the moment, it will always only represent a fraction of the playerbase. This is why, when something like no borrowed power is implemented, you will suddenly experience what feels like a shift in opinion among the community, because then the next loud take becomes the opposite: "bring back borrowed power". Because now the first group is satisfied, but the 2nd group is dissatisfied. This is why you can't take any opinion you see that seems like the majority at face value, and also why you can see wildly different 180 type takes in a single community. This doesn't even get into the fact that only extreme opinions are represented online. It's only either comments from people who love something or hate something, because the people who are genuinely indifferent to a thing will never bother making a comment in the first place. Think back to something you are completely neutral on, something that you haven't thought about in 20 years. Why would you ever create a comment on that? This knowledge can be applied to everything in life, not just games. Anyway I hope that some of you learned something, and apply it going forward when engaging with other people <3Never say "but that's the opposite of what everyone asked for last time", because who you are talking with is very likely a completely new person that never engaged with the initial discourse anyway. Example, I never engaged with the borrowed power discussion because I thought it wasn't very important compared to others. Nowadays you'll see me asking for borrowed power back, because I miss it a lot. Does that mean I changed opinion just because "everyone" said the opposite recently? No, I'm just a new person that have always had this take that borrowed power is good, but I didn't have a reason to engage in the conversation, because I was satisfied before. I engage now, because I'm not satisfied and find the current systems stale and boring. There are billions of people in the world. Who you talked to before does not = who you talk to now. Anyway that's my experience in life so far. Do what you will with it
"though previously looted and discarded non-quest items won't be retroactive."Sad.
where are these weird borrowed power andies coming from. please go back to whatever arpg hellscape you were hiding in. we already know that expansion long borrowed power systems are a fail. They annoy players and waste dev time with constant rebalancing, and make the other content worse in the game worse, because it all has to bow down to the borrowed power system. Please, learn the lessons of the past.i for one am glad they want to build evergreen features and not throwaway ones, because that's how MMORPGs work, and that's what wow is supposed to be. It's been bizarre seeing this like 6-7 year blip on a 20 year time scale, Where the portion of the community i'd call "legion kids" have been demanding wow turn into something else. DF was finally us breaking free of that. Let's stay that way.
Absolutely terrible audio mixing in the interview.
Assuming for 1 sec we're really gonna get Earthen mechs like the Engineer's one, then that's lame. Only 2 engineer mounts do have reskins, and they require 300 toys and 35 heirlooms collected. That's a grind, but not something equatable to KSM imo. KSM deserves something a little flashier. After having a look at the mount models datamined a while back, I'd go for either the fire bees, firebugs (would choose that one over the bees as there's more variety in colour so easy to distinguish), skittering spiders or fleshbugs.