115813-well-that-was-unexpected

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Well, i tried the game again, and to my suprise, i had a blast!
Within an hour on the new server, i had found a guild of kind people, and spoken to many more out in the world.
One thing we all had in common? We all new the game needed changes, but unlike me they had patience.
And they advised me to have it too, and you know what?
Hearing that from kind people who are also legitmatly concerned about the game made me WANT to believe.
 
I realize now what turned me off of giving it another shot SOONER, was the constant denial and hate for any suggested change from a select group here on the forums.
The outright disdain for anyone suggesting anything other than the devs orginal vision killed all hope within me for a possible improvement to the game.
Despite that, i logged in, and to my suprise, MANY players argee.
Did we sit around and circle jerk about how bad the game is, and how its dead and the devs should be fired bla bla bla?
No! we ping ponged back and forth about the good and bad, what could change and what should not.
 
People being met with, GTFO, too hard go back to wow! its not the GAMES fault people quit, people just SUCK! or a current topic i rcently
learned was UNLOCKED, "a message to the quitters and the cupcakes", will be discouraged.
They will assume (whether right or wrong) that this is the way the game is, there is the elite, (white knights whatever you call them) that run the game, and have the devs ear.
But after logging in AND MEETING CURRENT PLAYERS, this isnt the case, at all.
 
Yes, my side , the "shit needs to change or the game needs to die" needs to be less doom and gloomy.
But i beg of you , end the crusade on the casuals and the people making suggestions. I would rather see a discussion than a simple wall of, this is how it is, the game wont change if you wont, leave.
Why? Because people will, and they have.
But by taking a plunge, i learned that for everyone person that stone walls changes saying the people in the game dont want change, deal with it or leave, there is another active player with the same thoughts as some of us who have left with concernds.
 
Look, we gotta come together on this. I cant speak for anyone else, I dont have that right.
I pledge to no longer bash the game on third party sites, in my other games guilds, hell, the amount of fun i had today? if the big upcoming drop has half the changes they promise
i pledge to SUGGEST the game once again to friends who are disillusioned to the WoW juggernaught and dont want to play that xpac.
IF ONLY some of the whiteknight/everything is fine crew can accept that SOMETIMES change isnt a bad thing, and if we work TOGETHER we can make this a great game.	
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			We must be like Mel Gibson, put on our kilts, band together, and take out that roster boss (England).	
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Game is sweet, and now mega-servers this week and compensation for down time?
Going in a good direction me thinks, glad i overcame my blind rage haha.	
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There really isn't any crusade against casuals.  Casual play and challenging difficulty are not mutually exclusive.  Are changes required?  Yes, and there always will be.  The issue is almost always with the specifics of what people think should be changed, and they're often counter productive to the vision of the game, or even more likely just catering to the lowest common denominator.
 
There's some good stuff coming, but patience is key in this smartphone driven instant gratification world we live in.	
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There really isn't any crusade against casuals.  Casual play and challenging difficulty are not mutually exclusive.  Are changes required?  Yes, and there always will be.  The issue is almost always with the specifics of what people think should be changed, and they're often counter productive to the vision of the game, or even more likely just catering to the lowest common denominator.
 
There's some good stuff coming, but patience is key in this smartphone driven instant gratification world we live in.
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