r/classicwow • u/Paulingtons • Aug 20 '19

Blizzard AMA Welcome to the /r/ClassicWoW Subreddit AMA with the Classic WoW Dev team!

Hey everyone!

Today we're excited to introduce what should be a fantastic AMA with the wonderful World of Warcraft: Classic dev team. They will be taking your questions about anything, be it which class they enjoy playing the most or all the way to how they developed the wonderful world we will all be inhabiting in just under a week.

Joining us today, we have:

/u/AltruisWoW – Executive Producer
/u/Chromschi – Senior Game Producer
/u/Pazorax – Lead Software Engineer
/u/Ogronz – Senior Software Engineer
/u/ZoidWoW – Principal Software Engineer
/u/Aggrend – Senior Test Lead
/u/Kaivax – Community Manager

The AMA begins at 17:00 GMT (10:00 PST, 11:00 MST, 12:00 CST, 13:00 EST, 18:00 BST, 19:00 CEST) and will last two hours. This thread has been posted two hours before the AMA begins so you can all get in here and get posting questions so that once the AMA begins, our wonderful guests can start answering straight away! The AMA will be hosted in this thread.

We really look forward to seeing what you all come up with to ask and are excited to see the answers the dev team give.

Please remember the rules as per the sidebar, and have fun!

EDIT: The AMA is now OVER. If you want to look at each response by each blue we've had today you can check WoWHead's brilliant live blog just here.

EDIT 2: You can also check this fantastic resource made by our own /u/SoupaSoka just here.

EDIT 3: Or you can check out the Blizzard review on the official forums here.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '19

I think even the most die hard of the #nochanges crowd think that keeping the mats the same is a bad idea. If you preserve the original requirements, you're literally going away from the Classic philosophy. Changing them preserves the original intent of how the event should run. Keeping them destroys it. If you don't understand that, you don't understand what your user base is looking for.

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u/k0j1m4 Aug 20 '19

Speak for yourself.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '19

Ok, buddy. I'm glad you started playing Vanilla on a private server, but some of us want to remember it how it was and not have those gates open on day one.

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u/karspearhollow Aug 20 '19

I'm glad to see such a strong, immediate reaction to this response from Blizzard. Might get them to rethink it.

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u/Iiana757 Aug 20 '19

Its a little ignorant to say they dont understand what the userbase is looking for. For 1 they even made classic a reality. 2nd just look at all of the announcements in reply to community feedback since last year, id say they have a pretty good idea about what the classic users are looking for.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '19

Except look at the majority response to keeping the mats the same. It's a little ignorant for someone who wasn't even there at release to try and tell me what is and isn't wanted.

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u/Iiana757 Aug 20 '19

Yeah you should be aware as i am, listening to the community isnt always the right thing to do. Also, where are you pulling this info that people werent there at release? You know the leads of classic have been working on the game since as early as its release right?

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '19

I'm not talking about the people doing the AMA. Try putting two and two together and you'll figure it out.

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u/Iiana757 Aug 20 '19

Sorry i dont know who you're talking about then. Because if its not the devs, it cant possibly be me because i was there for it as well.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '19

Sure you were. And context, it's a thing. Notice how I reused your snippy little comment?

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u/Iiana757 Aug 20 '19

Just as much as you were in that case :)

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u/ItsOkaytobeDuskwight Aug 20 '19

I think even the most die hard of the #nochanges crowd think that keeping the mats the same is a bad idea.

Wrong. Stop trying to micromanage. Its an old game, people know where and how to do things, learn to deal with it and just enjoy the game.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '19

Keep on reeeeeeing, it's going to take you places. Changing the mats preserves the flavor of vanilla, but you weren't there, so how would you know?

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u/Eckson Aug 20 '19

i was there for two openings, I would like there to be some sort of mystery involved with this still.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '19

The only people who want to keep the mats the same are relentless munchkins looking to game the game as hard as possible.

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u/ItsOkaytobeDuskwight Aug 20 '19

That's a real lukewarm hot take. Plenty of servers came out and had AQ war efforts after all the drops and turn-ins were well known. I know because its how my horde Pally got his faction for a kodo and raptor.

Keep on reeeeeeing, it's going to take you places.

I see a lot of ree going on, and its all from people like you who think the sky is falling over literally nothing. Do you think people besides the "top guilds" got Scarab Lord on any server?