Douglas

Let me check something here.

You agree that it would be beneficial for some people. Maybe only three people, but some people.

In fact, I have not heard anyone suggest that the set of people this might help was 0.

So, whether this should be implemented or not is a matter of comparing the non-zero (clearly) cost of implementing it with the non-zero (we agreed!) benefit derived from doing so. Right? I mean, doesn't this follow?

Now, people disagree on how that cost/benefit analysis would come out. That's fine. We don't have to answer that here. That's of course Blizzard's decision to make.

So, can we agree that we don't know whether it makes sense for Blizzard to implement this, and instead focus on "if they implement this, what should or could it look like?".

We can think through some of the balance issues, and we can think about multiple ways of doing it that might have different costs associated with them. Then, we can point Blizzard at a reasonably thought out discussion of the issues. They can evaluate the cost in more objective terms. They can evaluate the benefit in more objective terms. We can't do that for them, but maybe we can help them brainstorm.

I do not understand why people are trying to persuade me and others as to how that cost/benefit analysis is going to come out. I do not know (but have an opinion), and you do not know (but have an opinion). Argument back and forth about that doesn't really help anyone, does it?

If someone is completely convinced it's not worth doing this, then why participate in this discussion at all? Why do they feel a need to convince me of how it'll come out? Are you trying to help me in some way? Are you trying to get me to just give up and quit the game permanently instead? Just what is the motivation for trying to shut the discussion down entirely? I can't quite wrap my head around it.