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.

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Yessss!! Thanks Andreas! I played today and still saw the problem in regards to that formation being OP. I am assuming the new patch is coming out today?

Hey Andreas. Really liking the game. Especially love the recent challenges regarding solo play. I asked a while back if something like this could be added . Whilst I appreciate u are mostly involved with online. I really appreciate challenges to do that cater to casuals as well.

I really hope they make shooting more manual. so easy to score. people are taking shots from outside the box and scoring a lot. also some formations are very OP. they auto-position players and it's so hard to break through them. please! please! please!

We don’t need better AI buffs for defense in @PlayGOALS . What we needed was improved manual defending so that our own game skills could be used to stop the fidget spinners. We are getting that necessary change tomorrow morning. To any EAFC fans out there curious of the game, it’s FREE on all platforms.

I think the ai and game is good, you changed the passing to “semi” manual but it’s completely manual, it just needed tweaked not overhauled. Andreas I’ve played since the start but since the last update the game is pish now and I’ve barely played, hope the update brings me back

As if the defensive AI was not already overpowered enough you buffed it even more? This people i have no words.

GOALS 2.0. 300+ changes. - Reworked passing & defending - Much better AI - 5v5 Ranked - New Solo 5v5 - Completely rebuilt onboarding - Swaps 2.0 - New rewards & challenges - And a lot more Our biggest update since launch. Full patch notes soon.