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World of Warcraft Has No Honor?
It appears that a sudden wave of WOW subscribers have cancelled their accounts after being severely disappointed in the new player-vs-player honor system implemented last week. The 35-page thread in the official WOW forum has 700 posts of disappointed people and actually stopped working for some reason.
In addition there is another thread almost 1200 posts large (as of now) of people who hate the new honor system. Hopefully the new Battlegrounds should add true PvP combat to the game, we shall see...
So like 2000 people are upset about the new system huh, before battlegrounds are even in-game. Good to see the other 248k people are happy in the US. Not to mention subscription base world-wide prior to launch in China. Yeah, I am sure Blizzard is shaking.
Also if you take anything from the official wow boards seriously, unplug your pc and throw it out the window.
/rant-off
Posted by Sully at April 27, 2005 9:14 PMSully does have a point: If Blizzard would take their own WoW forum seriously, they would now be a computerless game developing company and face a fine for littering.
Of all the people who hang out at the official WoW forum, I wonder how many who announced their account cancellation will actually quit. Plus a topic of 1200 posts can consist of just 400 people with 3 posts each.
Personally, I haven't noticed any real difference between PVPing before and after the 1.4.0 patch.
There are still high-level players (preferebly in a large group) that continue to kill you, and there are still people who leave you alone when you are battling a mob/NPC/rat of equal level (Thanks).
Perhaps this decent behaviour is thrown out at the end of the week, when people can see their PVP ranking for the very first time, giving them an incentive to Player versus/ganks Player more.
All in all, I can't call this hono(u)r system successful. While it does give PVP a little more purpose (as opposed to absolutely zero, unless defending a town before the patch), the lack of 'dishonorable kills' for player killing doesn't encourage anyone to act nicely.
Posted by Terr at April 28, 2005 3:53 AMWell, I'm sure there are probably more disappointed or unhappy people than just those lot. It's silly to assume that everyone other than people who post complaints on the forum have nothing to complain about.
There were a few things I wanted to complain about there but I didn't bother because everyone else was already complaining at the time about stupid things. "Nerf this, nerf that. Game unbalanced. Sign this petition to have this guy banned. GMs were rude to me. Blah blah blah."
I just wanted to suggest a few things, but I have serious doubts that any higher ups from Blizzard would ever consider them. They have a plan, and they'll stick to it. I'm sure they're paying some attention to these complaints, and they may even try to fix them if the people complain enough about it.
If I were a Blizzard bigwig, I wouldn't take the forums that seriously. Like someone said in GamingSteve's forums here, people are always more vocal on forums.
And it seems like this feature is only half there. How can you have honorable kills but not dishonorable? This way, your honor can only go up. Why bother? I mean, if everyone has max honor, who cares anymore?
Meh.
is there any way to get an account back from closure such as asking the person who reported you to write a note to them saying it was an accident and such?