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WOW! Less appealing than ever before! - Dark Jaguar - 21st July 2006
You know how every time a company does something right they later change their minds? No? Neither do I, but in this case Blizzard apparently thought of this great idea. I'm not sure how this will actually affect those who play the game, but what they are doing is basically giving all the faction specific classes to the other side, so there is no longer any real difference between each side.
Nice one Blizzard. Caved into idiots complaining eh? This is basically like taking a game like Starcraft and just giving every side all the other side's units and abilities, in other words taking a game with unique and original groups you pick from to battle in a way that really makes Starcraft stand out from everything that came before and turn it into a single group with different skins.
I dunno, there may be more to this, maybe Blizzard was just sick of actually balancing the differences between the two groups but this is just lazy. Not the sort of thing I would think Blizzard would do.
WOW! Less appealing than ever before! - A Black Falcon - 21st July 2006
What exactly are you referring to?
WOW! Less appealing than ever before! - Dark Jaguar - 21st July 2006
WOW, check the thread title.
WOW! Less appealing than ever before! - A Black Falcon - 21st July 2006
Ah, I see... really? I hadn't heard about that... odd.
WOW! Less appealing than ever before! - Dark Jaguar - 22nd July 2006
Eh, I suppose it doesn't matter too much if we aren't even playing the game. I just thought it was a shame.
WOW! Less appealing than ever before! - A Black Falcon - 22nd July 2006
Looking into it a bit more, it makes perfect sense. Really, the real issue is the silly nature of the alliances they have drawn up that defies most of the logic of the story they had been developing in the Warcraft series...
As in, what they did was create Blood Elf Paladins and Draenei Shamans. Both classes make perfect sense for the races, more sense than they would have the other way around... the Draenei are from the Orcs' planet, Shamans make sense... and the Blood Elves were the High Elves. Sure, they have turned to evil to keep up their magic habit, but they'd probably rather tell themselves that they are still good, so... Paladins. Honestly, Blood Elf Shamans would be weirder...
What doesn't make sense as I have said repeatedly before is the stupid way they have put together these alliances. They're so obviously made just for side equality and simplicity and not for actually following the Warcraft plot that it's somewhat annoying... the plot is just an excuse for them to do their next thing, not the other way around like it seemed in the RTSes.