In recent days, World of Warcraft has been quite lively. A brand new game mode is exciting many – yet there is a loud minority.
With WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria, many players of World of Warcraft are currently enjoying an alternative game mode. However, if you look into the forums or social media, predominantly negative posts stand out. Major concerns have been the “Frog Farmers” and various exploit methods that Blizzard is gradually fixing – and then it’s said “Fun detected” and the fixing of exploits is not correct either.
A player is fed up with the community’s behavior and is expressing his frustration.
What was said? In the post “The Blizzard President is right” in the WoW subreddit, Adventurous_Radio_90 refers to an old statement by Mike Ybarra, that players can never get enough. He applies this quote to WoW Remix and the comments in recent days:
All people do is complain. Nothing is ever good enough.
A new game mode is released where you no longer have to farm all those cool transmogs and mounts? With less annoying reputation grind, no complicated gathering system for professions, and just one currency instead of 10 currencies.
“Well, yes, but that’s pointless if you can do all that with frog farming.”
Then they take away frog farming: “Hey, not fair! I couldn’t farm frogs, so other people are now better than me because they could.”
Then you revert the values of those who farmed frogs and give the others 40k bronze: “Well, yes, but the frog farmers also made a lot of bronze and upgraded their items with it.”
I know the game isn’t perfect, but there is clearly an effort on the developers’ side. Honestly, if you’re not having fun in the game, then don’t drag the entire community down who is having fun and instead find another game. There are literally thousands to choose from.
This is how the community reacts: The whole post received a lot of support. More than 4,000 upvotes speak volumes – although only 73% of the ratings are upvotes. So, about a quarter of the comments don’t like it. But those are probably exactly the people who should feel addressed.
In this context, kwaziiman writes that he has noticed such voices already at the previous event:
I noticed this when people complained about Plunderstorm. You could not have created a game mode that is even more optional. It literally did not affect you in any way if you didn’t want to play it. Unless you desperately wanted a parrot mount, whose model wasn’t even unique, and a pirate armor, apart from that there were no major rewards. If you like it: Great, if you hate it: Also great.
A bit more accurately, Oni_K summarizes the whole situation of the last weeks:
“I recently resubscribed and the one thing I forgot about the game was how much the players themselves hate it.”
At least there are also positive comments that clearly highlight how well Remix is received by some. Almost 3,000 upvotes were received by the comment from tigerofsanpedro:
Maybe my expectations were low.
I level a new class very quickly.
I can experience an expansion again that I missed and enjoy that very much.
I get mounts and transmogs almost for free and I don’t even have to farm old instances or raids alone.
Everything I do feels rewarding.
And yes, there are problems, but they will probably work on it and make it better later.
I am satisfied with everything.
This is the current state: Normally, there is quite a long content drought between the end of an expansion and the start of the next in World of Warcraft. With Dragonflight, the developers have tried new things here. There is a new PvE season and even a new patch with the first quest line for The War Within. At the same time, the developers are testing several completely new game modes like “Plunderstorm” or “WoW Remix”.
Nevertheless, a part of the community seems not to be satisfied with that either, so that some speculate: “At most a whole expansion between two expansions would satisfy them. And probably even then they would still have something to complain about.”
What is your impression of WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria – assuming you play it at all?
