Lay offs, Cata, and other things

I've been reading the forums for a while now and I've noticed one universal constant and that is no matter what Blizzard does no one will be happy 100% of the time, let alone 50% of the time. So many people always complaining how bad Cata is, I just don't see it that way. Taken as a whole I think Cata has been pretty cool. For one thing you have to weigh all things, and doing that, I can honestly say yeah, several aspects of cata have been outstanding...other not so much.

For starters. I just finished lvlg an alt and redoing the new zones made me think how much I liked them. The visual aspects, the creativity behind them, the linear questing (I'm a huge fan of that, so thank you! One thing that always irked me was running all over the place for a quests. Keep it linear PLEASE in the future!!) so yes the new zones two thumbs up from me.

Again, with my alt, doing the old heroic dungeons, that brought back all the old frustrations of when I first did them. Some were definitely too long, and way to hard to do with PUGS. But it's part of the game and you suck it up and do them. I know I wont go back to do them for fun though.

LFD And LFR, LOVE these tools. It more than allows me to play when I'm able to. THANK YOU! Keep these. I couldn't disagree more with the " it's destroyed they community" nonsense. I use these tools every week and will continue to do so. Two thumbs up!

The raid nerfs. Again, THANK YOU. I’m not a hard core raider, but I do raid every week with DS on regular mode and We’ve cleared DS twice. The nerfs serve a good purpose for the upper middle players. I don’t like heroic raiding and I have no where near the time to devote to it. So to all those that say it’s destroying the game, utter RUBBISH. For the upper elite who want to strut around showing of their new HEROIC gear and achievements, good for you, you have heroic, but get off your high horse. There’s a huge population base that never gets to that point, so don’t get all high and mighty and begrudge them a nerf on reg DS that you don’t even bother with it anymore. You have heroic, leave us alone.

A big downer, low population servers. with this I just scratch my head and wonder why blizzard does not combine them with other low pop servers and the only thing I can come up with is greed. You'd rather have people get so fed up that they fork over the $25 to move and, to add insult to injury...they are only allowed to take a certain amount of gold. Two thumbs down!

Guilds, how many times has this happened to you? You bust your butt to get a guild to level 25 and it falls apart. GM takes his guild and switches servers and your left holding the bag to regrind rep again. NO THANKS.

My main is a hunter, and we all know the QQg about hunters. I think the switch to focus was a blunder. and the quick, short term fix is not acceptable with tier gear. Unless the plan is to always have the double focus regen on all future gear...I feel like it's meant to just shut up the Hunter community. But a band aide on a broken system is just that and I really do hope you are going to fix it. I don't want to get on a rant about this so I'll leave that for a later time.

Last Friday my company laid off workers and those that remained received pay cuts. What I would like to note is that this action was a last resort and it really is the way of the world now. I don't think it will negatively impact the game. Just like for us, it does not mean we are going to start building a shabby product, we slim things down get by till business picks back up.

On a good note, I want to leave off saying which ever group you have that does the sound score, music for the game, Zone music...you guys have good tastes and are a huge contributor to the success of the game. Just outstanding, TWO THUMBS UP!!

WOW is game that beat out every other game I've played. AS my PS3 sits there and collects dust, I will log in again tonight and have some fun. Cata could have been better...yes, but it's pretty good as is.

Just had to get this off of my chest.