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Class Warfare destroys WoW's Class Forums
One of the interesting things I noticed about the World of Warcraft forums is that despite its toxicity, it still manages to attract a lot of players to its murky depths. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the World of Warcraft forums had one of the highest participation rates for any MMO. This ...
So What Went Wrong?
blessingofkings.blogspot.com — Blizzard is never, ever going to tell us exactly why paladin development for WotLK unfolded as it... did. Currently, Ghostcrawler is publicly blaming it on some bug with weapon switching. But I don't think that's the real story. There's too many other ... (more) So What Went Wrong?
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Will issues from TBC repeat again in WotLK?
relmstein.blogspot.com — I'm excited that Wrath of the Lich King is just around the corner, but I'm tempering my... enthusiasm with some memories of the Burning Crusade launch. In particular, the recent buffing and nerfing of paladins reminded me that Blizzard did the same sort ... (more) Will issues from TBC repeat again in WotLK?
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Player Feedback and the Blizzard Forums
Arcane BlasterRelmstein has a post from a couple of days ago where he talks about the Blizzard forums, player QQ and trolling and the effect of this on Blizzard. He raises some points which I frankly disagree with. As background, I visit the forums almost ever day, including the class forums for all 4 of my classes, so I'm well aware of the content of posts there and of the occasional Blue feedback. The number of hot-fixes and patch revamps caused by out of controlled forum posting is almost too high to count... Blizzard has mistakenly changed nerfs and buffs too many times based on ...

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