Ion Hazzikostas took the time to explain why the Alliance has to wait so long for their warfront in World of Warcraft.
On Friday evening (14.09.2018), the Game Director of World of Warcraft, Ion Hazzikostas, answered pressing questions from players on Reddit during an “Ask me anything” (AMA). He took several hours to respond to many topics that were on the players’ minds. One topic in particular caused an uproar: The warfronts.
What was the problem? When it was announced that the warfronts would soon begin, all players were excited. But there was quickly a damper. While the Horde was able to participate in the warfront after a short wait, Alliance players still have to wait. Only one side can attack at a time; the other can kill a world boss and rare mobs in the Arathi Highlands. However, they can only do this once, after which the front must change hands.
Poor communication as the reason: Hazzikostas admits that they did a very poor job in communication. For testing purposes, the durations of the individual phases during the beta were much shorter. Then the front changed hands roughly every three days. Now, a cycle takes about 25 days – depending on the activity of the players, a bit more or a bit less.
Limitation of rewards: Another reason for the long duration of the cycle is that they want to offer players a particularly strong reward (like 370 gear from the quest) without that reward being too often available and thereby devaluing other content. If you only get these big rewards every three to four weeks, the impact on other content is minimal.
More warfronts solve the problem: Hazzikostas also mentions that more warfronts will come in the future. The various timers and wait times will then intertwine, so there will be more to do more frequently. While the Horde fights over Arathi, Alliance players could already conquer another front.
What do you think of Hazzikostas’ explanation? Does it make sense, is it coherent and understandable? Or did Blizzard just mess it up?
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