The community of WoW Classic has cried out – and forced Blizzard to back down. A whole patch is being retracted because it was not good.
A few days ago, an outcry went through the community of WoW Classic – or more precisely, the players of the “Era” realms. Here, one can still play the vanilla version of World of Warcraft, with very few changes.
A patch was supposed to bring more fairness and small innovations deemed sensible by the developers – but the outcry was large. A petition was even started. So Blizzard is now backtracking and reversing almost all adjustments.
What did the patch bring? A few days ago, the patch brought the following innovations:
- Alliance heroes now have access to the buff “Might of Stormwind”, a counterpart to the “Blessing of the Warchief”.
- Druids can learn to use polearms.
- The waiting time of 6 hours between the “Blessing of the Warchief” and the “Battle Cry of the Dragon Slayers” was reduced to 1 minute.
These 3 changes have been completely reverted. They are no longer active on the Classic Era realms.
The only thing that remains are the adjustments to the guild interface.
What has Blizzard said about it? Blizzard has issued a lengthy apology for making such changes to Classic. They had the best intentions in mind, but did not pay attention to the wishes of the community. In the official WoW forum, it was stated:
For all that makes it perfect, Classic Era is also beloved for its wonderful imperfections. These “perfectly imperfect” elements and the balance create the texture of the fundamental experience, and we acknowledge that making changes to that – even with the intent of adding “quality of life improvements” – and particularly without discussing it with the community first – was shortsighted. We thank you again for your feedback.
It continues:
The current state is that the philosophy of the Classic team has little desire to bring gameplay-affecting changes to Classic. In the future, we will strive to discuss all community-driven changes with the community first, long before we implement the feature.
What do you think of Blizzard’s approach? Is it good that they are backtracking on this? Or should they have kept the patch? Another case forced Blizzard to intervene as well – because a ‘legendary’ troll almost single-handedly destroyed WoW Classic Hardcore.
