Blizzard has an over-correction problem

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We’ve had a string of very long seasons. Now this season is suddenly over? If any season were going to be long, this one should have been it

At the start of the season it was very hard to get tier sets for many of us so we couldn’t really feel like we fully "start"ed our content until about 6 weeks in.

Then, this is the hardest raid in World of Warcraft history. Even if Blizzard nerfs the final bosses by 50% across the board we still didn’t get to play with the toys that they would have dropped

So Blizzard goes from seasons that are too long, to seasons that are too short. I can’t imagine how gearing up is going to be in a less-than-4-month season 4.

Blizzard is setting itself up for failure by experimenting like this without calibrating all the systems that go along with it (i.e. the vault needs a major overhaul to make this work)

In any sports league, major or minor or little-league, the season length is known before the season even starts. Usually way before. Why doesn’t WoW have that? It’s just another stress on guilds and people trying to manage raid teams

With tuning, it’s worse. Instead of making incremental changes across the season they wait until the end to obliterate warlocks as an example. Class tuning in general is incredibly frustrating. If you want to play this game at all passionately you have to deal with a constant moving target which is not a rewarding feeling, it’s a feeling of it being a pain in the neck

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Blizzard has many, many problems.

But, yes, over correcting their fubars is one of them.

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You’ve got to be kidding?
We’ve known about season 4 for a good while now, and it’s been stuck in a state of “maybe next week…” for well over a month.

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They do overcorrect. It’s human nature to overcorrect.

See Gen X (latchkey kids) to the next generation millennials being over parented.

This is of course a generalization. I’m sure many millennials had to walk up hill everywhere through snowstorms while doing their parent’s taxes.

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They do have overcorrection problems. This season ending when it is, is not one of them.

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Tbf, Blizzard probably makes as many minor adjustments as they do major ones. People complain either way.

But yes, if constantly being min/maxed is your goal, you’re probably going to have a bad time.

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Blizzard is a like a Newton’s Cradle. You’re in the middle of the cradle. Always be mindful of your position within them.

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Mild-take: WoW seasons should last 4-6 months tops.

Raids should never last 8 months. People have gotten used to an end-of-expansion content drought but that’s basically just players accepting a bad situation, rather than it being good for the health of the game.

I understand it is a system shock for a lot of players on this forum, and I understand some of the folks who came into this tier expecting it to last 12 months getting blindsided, and I empathize with them wanting to not have a season 4, but at the end time, I think a lot of these guilds probably need to accept the reality that pulling the last boss of a raid 600 times is not normal or reasonable and some guilds should simply fail to get CE.

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I think they shafted a lot of mythic raiders this tier. The tuning and giving them a shorter than expected season so they can redo old raids with affixes?

Not a good deal.

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Then cut the number of bosses by half. THEN start doing shorter seasons. They have it backwards.

If Anduin was the final boss, as originally planned, this would not be an issue.

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4-6 month tier with 7 bosses would be ideal to me. 1 free/joke entrance boss, 5 tier-dropping bosses, and 1 boss with a wild-card token. SFO without the last 3 bosses would almost be in that range as it would have 8.

Obviously you could flex up and down slightly, but I think that’s the ball-park. 10 boss raid for 8 months is too hecking long, both the longevity of the patch and the length / extend culture.

Also, Blizzard gotta stop putting wall bosses so early in the raid. You couldn’t even get 2 pieces of gear in the raid Vault before you hit the wall boss during SoD.

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Blizzard: sees a class overperforming by 10%

Blizzard: 1000% NERF NOISES :scream:

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Most of the overparenting of millennials wasn’t from Gen X, it was from baby boomers.

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Younger Boomers started the trend and gen x (my generation) has kept it going.

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How did yall derail this thread to this? :question:

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It’s more of a tangent :slight_smile:

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I disagree. Content is just being recycled(which is not bad on its own), and a year of this would be more terrible.

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Not going to lie but this is definitely odd that all of a sudden the next expansion is coming out within 4 1/2 months or so. No beta announcements etc. We only got the announcement of it as they went over things and then all of a sudden it is coming soon. Usually after they announce an expansion like at Blizzcon, it would take maybe a year after or longer and they had beta etc.

So not sure why the sudden change so fast but here’s to hoping there are no major issues at launch as this expansion and the past couple (since after WoD) haven’t been actually good launches imo.

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You say that but, and not too be TOO profile stalky, but the content that they are adding looks to be content that you don’t really participate in much. So I’m curious when you say “a year of this” what you mean. Because as far as I can tell whether S4 launches next week or never, it doesn’t really seem like it will impact what you do in the game.

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Yeah, that’s true for me now as I haven’t played the game like I did back in 9.0 or before.

And I’m just coming at it as someone that would have previously gotten burnt out by this point and would not have appreciated a longer season. And I think most people in general just want to move on from shadowlands.

Next season I’ll probably just sub for the cat mount and maybe the m+ purple mount.