' Wrote:Giving the general masses what they want is a bad thing now? Your head, my baseball bat. There will be blood.
Gaming companies should strive to surprise their customers, give them something good that they werent expecting. What blizzard is doing is taking the ideas that have been thrown around on the forums and using them, and of course giving no credit to the people that actually thought them up. I throw it in the same category as copyright infringement, they're stealing intellectual content.
Being given what you want might please some people, the idiots that dont know which end of the dog stinks the most, but it is far better in game development to be surprised by something that you would never have even thought of. Creativity is what keeps gaming companies moving.
I havent looked at the wow forums yet regarding this, but I can almost guarantee you there's dozens of posts up by now going "lolol, told u there wud b goblinz!". I saw the first post suggesting worgen as a playable race, I even have replies in that thread, and that was back before the -first- expansion was released - I'm sure the guy who posted that, put the effort into making it all up, is going "****ing blizzard, where's my cut of your profits?"
I expect more from a company that's making billions a year in pure profit.