Confirmed proof Blizzard simply doesn't CARE.

I always wondered why the portal to Dragon Soul was in The Caverns of Time. It just... didn't make sense.

But then, I discovered why they did it. It was for player convenience.

You know what I wish? I wish the old gave developers were still working on the game. Simply put, they cared more. They respected the game, and they respected the player. They created a beautiful world from scratch, with care, and made it as magical as they could. They treated the lore with respect. They didn't just put portals to Thunder Bluff, Undercity and Silvermoon right next to the Org AH. You actually had to TRAVEL there. They thought up a Zeppelin. And made it solid, so you didn't fall through it. They put NPC's on it. See what I mean? They CARED.

You don't just click a button on your screen to repair all items. You have to talk to an NPC to do it. You don't just click a button on your UI to sell loot, you sell them to an NPC. You don't loot items called "Armour #453", it's called Titanic Shoulderguards of The Eredar"[/i] or something. And so on. See?

But here's how the conversation went with these new hires at Blizzard:

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"Okay, all done! We've finished Dragon Soul! All the bosses have been reskinned and renamed, all the locations have been successfully copied and pasted; we're done!"

"Wait, Bob. We haven't put up an Entrance Portal, yet."

"LOL WHO CARES, dude? Most players will just teleport there through LFR!"

"Welll... no, Bob. The normal raiders will still have to travel there."

"AAW, WEAK, dude! Okay, okay... let's... um... we'll put in the Caverns of Time!"

"What? Why?"

"DUDE, we just finished putting the End Time 5-man portals there. We'll just put DS next to them!"

"But they were actually in different times, so it made sense. Putting DS there doesn;t make sense at all."

"DUDE, it's just more CONVENIENT, okay? For us AND the players!"

"But it doesn't make sense, Bob. The last guy who sat in your chair... he put the entrance to BWL and Molten Core in Blackrock Mountain. He put the entrance to AQ in Silithus. He put the entrance to Naxxramas near the Undercity. He put the entrance to Ulduar at the front door of Ulduar. He put the entrance to ICC at Icecrown Citadel. He put the entrance to BoT at The Bastion of Twilight. He put the entrance to Firelands at the front of Sulfuron Spire. See the pattern here, Bob? You can't just throw the entrance to a raid just anywhere in the world. That's silly, and a tad disrespectful to the world we created, and the players who dwell in it."

"DUDE WHO CARES, IT'S JUST A GAME LOL!"

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And that was that.

But they may as well have just put the DS entrance portal in Org & Stormwind. Or just forget portals and flying mounts entirely, and just put a button in your UI to teleport to anywhere in Azeroth. Why not? If you're going to break immersion for the sake of convenience, just go all the way.


There have been many changes to World of Warcraft since Vanilla. Some good, some bad, many great. But each change was made with respect. But this is the very first time Blizzard has made actual alterations to the WoW world that utterly breaks player immersion for the sake of convenience.

And that's sad.


EDIT: I remember the first time I saw Naxxramas, hovering overhead. I remember the first time I saw Black Temple off in the distance. I remember, the first time I saw I Icecrown Citadel. Blizzard didn't HAVE to create those places. They weren't necessary to the RAID INSTANCES. They were just CG architecture models in the open world. But they did anyway. And it was wonderful. But now we have Bob. He wouldn't have created any of those. He would have just put a portal to BT somewhere in Shattrath. With BoB, the Icecrown zone would just be empty lands with quest hubs. Sad. So very sad...


*This is not a constructive discussion. Please refrain from future such posts. Opinions are not proof of lack of care on the part of the developers and is a misrepresentation of the work they put into the game.- Nethaera