Originally Posted by Angeron
There is literally no impetus for the manager's at Blizzard to force this kind of development when in the current situation you have the option of rolling an alt to level up/play with your friend(s).
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I understand that you believe this, but I do not think you have a reasonable basis for that belief.
As I believe I mentioned earlier, my account is currently inactive (except that it still happens to work on the PTR). I am not leveling up an alt right now. I've
quit. I am not the only person I know who has quit due to issues related to what we're talking about right now.
If a system like this had been in the game,
would I have quit? I would not. An hour or so ago I checked with another friend who has quit, and he agrees that if something like this had been in place, both he and his girlfriend would likely still be playing. Over the years we've had a few friends try out the game, get to maybe 20th or 30th level, and then quit due to a lack of people they could play with.
I do not know if people like us are a significant enough number of people to influence Blizzard. But we're enough to provide an existence proof that claims of "literally no impetus" are false.
We're not paying now! That's lost revenue! I paid subscription fees for something like 33 months, and had well over 6000 hours /played on my Earthen Ring characters (nearly 3000 of them on my restoration druid alone, one more raid would have pushed me past that mark), and I yet I ended up quitting!
Are there enough of us that this effort would be justifiable? I will admit that I do not know. But, you do not know either, so stating that there's "literally no impetus" as if it were fact is simply not correct.
You believe that impetus is small. It may well be too small for Blizzard to worry about, sure. I don't know, and you don't know.
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As to why people want to shut down this discussion, I think that most feel that this change would contribute little to the overall game in comparison to the cost to THEM in terms of resources that could be spent on things that matter (to them), like raids, and max level 5-mans, etc.
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So, if I follow you, what such people are afraid of is that we
might actually persuade Blizzard to implement this? And such people wouldn't use it themselves? And so they'd rather not see Blizzard expend any resources on anything they don't use themselves?
I guess such people think a lot of the stuff in patch 2.3 is junk? I mean, if you're only worried about things like "raids, and max level 5-mans, etc", then adding a bunch of content to Dustwallow Marsh, rekindling the "Lost Diplomat" chain, reducing the XP cost from 20-60, those are wasted effort?
It just sounds to me like exactly the same kind of reasoning many more casual players use when they claim that the effort spent on Naxxramas should not have been undertaken at all because
they would never see it. I didn't think most people around here were sympathetic to that sort of reasoning.