12-08-2008, 06:19 PM
Well, there were several factors: The ease of BT, the eleven-month gap, and the difficulty of M'uru.
I fully agree that Blizzard needs to make sure nothing like that happens again -- but I also believe that it was a rather unlikely series of events that led to that situation.
Guilds have a self-tuning mechanism now: Achievements. Black Temple didn't have anything like that. While you could do stuff that would make it harder on your raid, there was no point -- it was the end of the content at the time, and most people had done it so many times they could fall asleep during it and still succeed. Personally I'm not a big fan of achievements, but if they can give guilds a reason to up their game, they've accomplished something.
The biggest risk in my mind is the gap. If they wait that long before introducing new content again, it'll fall apart regardless of what they do.
I fully agree that Blizzard needs to make sure nothing like that happens again -- but I also believe that it was a rather unlikely series of events that led to that situation.
Guilds have a self-tuning mechanism now: Achievements. Black Temple didn't have anything like that. While you could do stuff that would make it harder on your raid, there was no point -- it was the end of the content at the time, and most people had done it so many times they could fall asleep during it and still succeed. Personally I'm not a big fan of achievements, but if they can give guilds a reason to up their game, they've accomplished something.
The biggest risk in my mind is the gap. If they wait that long before introducing new content again, it'll fall apart regardless of what they do.
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