Torticoli

"I've always been interested by the power of video games and their place in society"

If *this* is what the power of video games on, and their place in, society, consists in nowadays, please shoot me now.

I honestly don't understand why developers insist on including a story when they make a fighting game.

Those stories are absolutely pointless, ridiculous, badly told, badly written, and useless. "Cheesy" doesn't begin to describe them. Who plays fighting games for their story ? Just give me a bunch of cool-looking characters, I'll make up my own damn story, and it'll be better than the annoying crap we've been dealing with in, say, SC4 and 5. Cut Story mode entirely and give us more game modes : challenge modes, special settings for fights (like, I dunno, spikes on the walls or whatever), maybe even puzzles.

Don't you think ?

Does anyone know if Journey did well, sales-wise ?

@Irem

I didn't say it wasn't okay to complain (even though it all depends on how you do it, and what you expect from it). I said Bioware shouldn't change the ending they've created, regardless of complaints.

For the record, I didn't play ME3 and I don't intend to (because of the From Ashes joke). I don't know if it gives me a better or worse position to talk about this issue than someone who played it, and I don't care.

Pathetic. Be proud of your work, don't change it because some people complained.

@James816

This is a vast debate and I have a strong opinion about it, backed up by arguments, but I've been going over it on various forums many, many times, back when I was still playing WoW, as well as shortly after I stopped playing. So, I have no desire to go much further in said debate here, I'm kind of tired of it.

I will say, in a nutshell, that I'm not talking about making the game more popular, I'm talking about making the game better. The gradual nerfs to the PvE content is possibly the worst thing that ever happened to this game, in my opinion, and it has been consistently making the game, and the playerbase, more and more insufferable since Wrath.

I will also say that I strongly disagree with several things you've said in your comment, but again, I have no desire to go down that path again, so I'll leave it at that, because it would require a hell of a lot of talking and explaining my stance. And, y'know, what's the point.

@ReadingRambo

Let's say that I'd like it to be good, not successful per se. I want the game to be good, and to be successful because it's good, whereas now, I think it's successful despite not being very good anymore.

@Jokkl

WoW being old is part of the problem, of course. I still say, however, that WoW's biggest problem is the constant string of stupid decisions that Blizzard has been making since Wrath.

@Torticoli Also, when they actually have new and innovating ideas, such as the Path of the Titans, that would have been an actual way of customizing your character's skills at max level, they dump them.

Yes, originality and new ideas. That's what this game needs.

Definitely not something like, say, stop nerfing the PvE content over time instead of encouraging people to get better at the game, stop giving away raid-level epics for running 5-mans, stop selling 25$ mounts, stop giving players one single raid instance per tier and obsoleting all the previous ones every time a new patch comes out (and, while they're at it, including more than 7 or 8 bosses in said raid instance)...

Nah, WoW's recent decline can't possibly be linked to Blizzard's decisions lately. They can't be wrong, can they ? It can only be that "the WoW formula is getting old and Blizzard needs some new ideas". Nothing else.