Warning for Furion: Whining

Juice · 09/24/08, 9:19 AM

Post: Wrath of Lich King Stuff (was 'Blizzcon' thread)
User: Furion
Infraction: Whining
Points: 0

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Flagging this so people will stop reporting the whine. No more crying about loss of honor/arena/tokens.

Original Post:

My gripe with the honor reset isn't the fact that honor is reset, although reseting anything in a game that is based on character development is a good hint on bad design.

The main problem is how they handled it. People have been talking about this for about a year and blizzard never gave a clear answer. Actually once they did and they said we'd keep the points:
WoW-Europe.com Forums -> GM Working Methods

I think this decision was too important from a players perspective to announce it 6 weeks pre expansion, where everyone already has their honor banked. That is just horrible for someone who isn't too much into BGs (and I know I'm not) and grinded it out (I was smart enough not to).

Now cleary their main goal isn't to piss their players off as that is against their interest of earning money, which is what companies are about.
I guess they just didn't plan well, which I consider quite unprofessional.
But if they did this to keep people playing pre 3.0, and they earned money by keeping us in the dark or even suggesting we'd get to keep it for wotlk (and even giving a false and uncorrected confirmation that honor would stay), this gets dangerously close to fraud.
I don't understand how anyone would *seriously* think they handled this situation well.

Juice · 09/24/08, 9:20 AM

This infraction has been reversed.

Reason:

Reversed so I can give a real infraction. This is stupider than I thought originally.