Imagina vc ser o maior streamer de um jogo com uma comunidade absurda de grande que te 'admira', sua comunidade entra num beta desse jogo e começa a ser mt racista e tudo de ruim e você simplesmente diz que 'não é problema seu' e fodase. Que belo modelo de pessoa vcs admiram.🤢

> Based White Men make WoW > Gets most Popular Game on Earth > Hire more DEI Hires and HR > Game loses most Players > After years of decline, goes back to version that the white men made > WoW becomes popular again > DEI Hires and HR do their best to ruin it again

Reminder to keep your character names in the Forever Beta respectful and within policy. Forced name changes are going into effect and users with the most extreme violations have been removed from the Beta. More info: blizz.ly/47he542

your community is not in their teens and early 20s anymore. we are husbands, dads, wives and mothers with responsibilities. Not every time sink or friction touch point that existed in 2005 must exist now. WoW forever can still feel like classic without all of them.

Confirms two things for me. Wow Forever is not the home for people simply exhausted by 8 week patches, competition, and seasons. And the marketing team is responsible for at least some of these hateful bots. Guess I’m gonna stay winning at WoW.

New breed of classic players discovered: Those calling us who played the actual, 2004 version of WoW tourists. Absolutely hilarious. Anyway, here's some old 2004-2005 screenshots from a very shitty resolution and internet from my first year playing WoW :)

I'm seeing a lot of discourse about who WoW Forever is being made for and while I cannot speak for anyone else on the team I can speak for myself. I am making WoW forever for the classic gamer and for the millions of people who have had their accounts lapse over the years because they were not satisfied with changes that were made to the game. Whether those changes were to the art style, the story, social aspects, game design, or changes to their favorite class. I did not spend the last year of my life relearning and mastering how to do things like we did it 20+ years ago for retail players. I could have taken it easy and just kept doing things like I had done for the past 8 years on retail...because I was much more familiar with it and it actually takes a lot less time to do (height maps on textures do a ton of heavy lifting). Because the reality is that the majority of retail players wouldn't care and would probably actually prefer it. But I felt I had a duty to uphold an artistic vision and integrity that millions of people expect from us. But not just for our players, but for my co-workers past and present who worked on it over 20 years ago. If I could not create something that resembled their work then I failed not only them...but myself. Please do not take this as me throwing any shade at retail players or the retail team because I am one myself...but I wanted to make Forever as authentic of a Vanilla experience as possible. This involves making decisions wildly different than retail. It means holding the line against changes that create a domino affect down the road. It means keeping friction and inconveniences in the game. It means finding friends and forming groups with strangers and being social!! Because WoWs social aspects have always been the pillar of the game and over the years it has slowly been chiseled away at with changes that allow you play alone. Since the day I started working on the Riverglades I have lived by three sayings. "Convenience is the death of the journey." "If you're making a game for everyone then you're making it for no one." "Every change we make incurs a debt to the authenticity of the game and sooner or later that debt will be paid." These are my core beliefs and I had a specific group of people I was targeting with my work. These beliefs cannot be shaken and I will try to hold the line against anything that goes against them and will continue to pester the team about things that feel out of place. That being said, my hope is that Forever will pull in as many people as possible, whether you are a retail gamer, a classic gamer, someone who hasn't played in years, or even a new player. I hope you can all remember what made this game so special in the first place and that starts with understanding why we are so passionate about keeping it authentic.

crazy to see a dev encouraging the negativity and separatism of the two game types. what a way to encourage retail players to try out wow forever LMFAO

Oh wow this is far worse than originally expected, and ofc oirse the most retarded retailists are foaming at the mouth for more. This crushes one of the most important aspects of an MMO, a player driven economy. Terrible choice, probably the worst so far.