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eSport

Submitted by Abalieno on April 15, 2008 - 05:53.

So saddening:

Tom Chilton, Lead Designer: The big objective is to build WoW into a viable eSports game platform.

And then worse:

Tom Chilton: Before this, we didn't really have a good forum for competitive eSports. WoW PvP was just kind of there. For example, our battlegrounds always had the limitations of the Horde having to play against Alliance, it was very themed toward the conflict within the game itself.

So the "eSport" is a way to surpass the "limited" form of factional-themed PvP.

This is surely a new drift that wasn't there in their original plans. Subjectively: for the worse.

Tom Chilton: I'll tell you, it's been a slow evolution. When WoW first came out, we didn't really have any semblance of organized PvP. We had Tarren Mill versus Southshore...

GameSpy: Which was awesome!

Tom Chilton: That's nostalgia speaking! I remember you were interviewing me at E3 a couple years ago and you not thinking that it was so awesome.

We kind of slowly went from there, to trying to bring some organization to it with the Battlegrounds. Giving the game a little more capability for players to feel like it was a fair, controlled encounter. Then it was (the arenas) a natural evolution from that.

Natural evolution.

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Re: eSport

Lord Loom (not verified) on April 16, 2008 - 10:42.

very sad indeed...

from World of Warcraft to World of Skirmishcraft - one of the reasons why I lost all interest in PvP in this game =(

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Re: eSport

kyan (not verified) on April 17, 2008 - 06:54.

I've been disappointed, baffled, and skeptical of their vision many times over the last four years.

But those words... nothing previous has come close to killing my optimism like those words did.

It really drove home just how alien their vision of the game is to my own.

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Wow, back when I played (right after it was released). There where no battle grounds and no honor or anything. In all honestly, I had a lot more fun on the massive battles that just sprung up randomly.

It was the kinda thing that as soon as someone in the guild found out about it, almost everyone else was on the way soon after. It was a ton of fun, and quite random, you never knew where a skirmish might turn into a massive battle.

After honor came out, it changed it for the worse, much, much worse. I'm sure anyone who was there remembers. There was a grid lock 24/7 at TM and SS. Everyone was just trying to farm honor.

Then once battlegrounds came out, those disappeared soon after. It become almost impossible to even get any type of world fighting going on. Me and a few friends could lock down a town completely killing every NPC, (flight masters, everything) and players. Most of the time, you where very lucky to get a couple of people to fight, let alone any decent amount. Sure it's kinda amusing to kill noobs but that looses it interest after a couple minutes max.

Needless to say I have not played the game for some time, so I don't really know how it is now. Not to mention, don't really care. :p

P.S. Why can't I log in from the main page anymore?

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Re: eSport

Innsmouth on April 17, 2008 - 20:01.

I agreed.

P.S. Why can't I log in from the main page anymore?

Because spam accounts were wasting database space, so I just removed registration entirely. It's not like being registered and logged in was very useful.

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