Today in Pandaria: Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011
by Adam Holisky 
Oct 27th 2011 at 11:59PM
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Seriously, that was nice.
I liked the filtered set up very much and it's that kind of interaction that needs to happen more often.
I hope you guys can find the time to post more of those.
Thanks
Seriously, that was nice.
I liked the filtered set up very much and it's that kind of interaction that needs to happen more often.
I hope you guys can find the time to post more of those.
Thanks
Thanks, man. We really appreciate it. :)
That was our first run using CoverItLive for a public Q&A and we already have a lot of ideas for smoothing out the process for future chats. We plan to hold these events for StarCraft II and Diablo III as well.
But right now we're working out some details in the hopes of doing a class-specific Q&A as early as next week with Greg Street and his design team. The focus would be class balance/design for patch 4.3 and beyond (not just about Mists of Pandaria).
Again, thank you all for being a part of our first real hands-on experience with this format! <3
Blizzard employees playing the game
We play the same as anyone else. Some of us play together, some of us have other affiliations we play with, family, friends, long time guilds, play solo etc. We don't have a specific guild everyone plays in. We do play incognito though so that we can experience the game the same as anyone else does.
WoW news from other sites
- MMO-Champion Tyrael's Charger, PTR Build 14899, Mists of Pandaria Live Developer Q&A
- Wowhead News Mists of Pandaria Live Developer Q&A and Transcript
- Mists of Pandaria live developer Q&A transcript
- Pandaria to eschew capital cities for scattered vendors, separate faction hubs
- WoW Rookie: How to choose your realm type
- Addon Spotlight: Addon Roulette and win a Razer Nostromo
- 15 Minutes of Fame: Honors student hits the mark in WoW and life
- World of Wardrobe: Plate tier look-alikes for death knights
- Why you might like Blizzard DOTA
- Choose My Adventure: Conflicted and confused
- World of WarCrafts: The stunning cosplay of Christina Sims
- Patch 4.3 PTR: Valor point gear gallery
- WoW Moviewatch: Outbreak Lordaeron
- The Queue: Three questions for the dev chat
- Around Azeroth: Ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties
- Scattered Shots: BlizzCon hunter info roundup
- Breakfast Topic: Who should play your character in the WoW movie?
- Editorial -- Nintendo's creeping doom: how the company came to misplace $926 million
- DC Universe Online to go free-to-play on November 1st
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Fletcher Oct 28th 2011 12:44AM
We also got an official apology from Mike Morhaime for the homophobic bigotry displayed at the L90ETC event:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3424798330?page=1#1
Kylenne Oct 28th 2011 1:23AM
And a real apology, at that, unlike the halfhearted "we're sorry for offending you" BS from before.
This was a good step.
Hih Oct 28th 2011 1:37AM
This just in: Bashiok is actually Mike Morhaime!
On a more serious note though, I'm surprised he doesn't have his own avatar and had to borrow someone else's.
Also, it's nice that he's apologizing, I just wish the apology wasn't necessary because people had thicker skin and could understand what a joke is. PC these days... a little outta control.
Al Oct 28th 2011 1:51AM
A joke would have been "How about those Alliance? they're so stupid that something something."
raingod Oct 28th 2011 2:11AM
@Hih Homophobic remarks are never a joke you douchebag.
Fletcher Oct 28th 2011 2:47AM
@raingod: While I agree with the first part of your post, I don't agree with the parting shot, and I beg you to leave such things off in future. As I'm continually reminding people on the forum I moderate: attack the post, not the poster. PLEASE.
Snuzzle Oct 28th 2011 3:56AM
I think "homophobic bigotry" is a bit of an exaggeration, it was more meant as an over the top joke that hit a little too close to home for some. Still, the apology is nice.
Muse Oct 28th 2011 6:38AM
@Snuzzle: That's a good way to put it. The same over-the-top "you're all lazy asses" insult joke that works great when hanging out with the guys at the pub on Saturday night can fall incredibly flat when used to cheer the exact same guys up when they find out they lost their jobs and are getting evicted. It's not that they don't have a sense of humour, it's that they're not receptive to the joke at the time and place it's used.
Kylenne Oct 28th 2011 12:32PM
@Snuzzle: When the point of the "joke" is predicated on the idea that being queer is shameful, it damn well is homophobic bigotry. And considering those exact words are used toward real queer people during real hate crimes, I fail to see the humor. Maybe I need to be straight to see it.
RiderGeshtar Oct 28th 2011 12:59PM
@Muse: That's a pretty good explanation, actually. I am not a humourless queer, kthxbai; I just get very very tired of hearing that sort of thing directed at me and my friends day-in and day-out. I'd argue that the 'lol gay' manner of joke is a tired, immature, trying-too-hard washout sort of humour, as I've never seen anyone I'd call thoughtful actually LAUGH at these, but hey.
@Snuzzle: Listen. It's like this. For LGBT people, THIS IS NOT OVER-THE-TOP. I know that yon metalheads meant it to be. They probably believe that no one could seriously say anything that hateful and miserable and ignorant and MEAN it. Or, if they do understand that people say this--well, it's part of their jerk@ss metalhead persona, and they're still going way farther than anyone really does and MEANS it, right?
No. People do go that far, and farther.
Honestly, it's not over-the-top. People really do talk to LGBT folks like this. We get told to kill ourselves. We get told that we're mistakes. We get told that, because of who we love, $deity hates us and wants us dead. We get told that someone should 'straighten us out' with the implication that they're going to DO VERY BAD THINGS TO US to ~*magically make us het*~. And on, and on, and ON. And this is every day. And ths is just the VERBAL crap. And verbal crap often precedes physical.
If someone wearing steel-toe Docs kicks you in the shin every day, in the same place, for a week, you're going to have a huge bruise. If they keep it up for longer, they will do permanent damage to you. Consider hateful BS as the kicking. That's how it works. That's why we are apparently 'sensitive'. We're all walking around with Doc treads imprinted on our shins.
Words have power. Think about how catchy slogans get stuck in your head. Hell--think about how factions' battlecries get people pumped up and stuff. Think about how songs can make you really happy or really emo. WORDS HAVE POWER. And those of you who whinge about 'sensitive people' and 'only words', and then get all upset-cakes when someone in trade chat or a pug calls you a homo: congratulations, you've just proved my point, and blown yours sky-high. Actual douche-hounds will hear these metalheads' rhetoric and take it as support for their hatred ("LOL HE AGREES WITH ME") and thus as permission to go beat the $hit out of us. Words have power. Do not ever deny it.
Swallowcraft Oct 28th 2011 12:50AM
The more I keep reading about MoP, the most painful it is for the wait. I fear we might have to wait all the way until next December to play MoP just like how Cataclysm was sometime in the summer and was released a year later in December. What if MoP comes out Q1 2013 instead.
Hih Oct 28th 2011 1:40AM
I doubt it will take as long for MoP to come out as Cata did for two reasons.
1) They've stated in the past that they want to get expansions out quicker. Granted, you shouldn't take that for much, but it's something to "hope" for at least.
2) Cata was kind of like two expansions in one. First we got the normal new max level content, but they also redid almost the entire old world from the ground up with a tons of new quests. They're just doing expansion stuff this time, not old leveling stuff, so it should come out quicker because they're focusing on less things.
Fletcher Oct 28th 2011 2:48AM
That's wonderful ... but does it work on Dwarves?
Pugs 'R Us Oct 28th 2011 3:41AM
or panda's?
Ryan M. Oct 28th 2011 1:21PM
I find myself rolling characters that either tank, heal, or both. I have a level 85 Paladin, Druid, and DK, and my other highest level character is at 54 and he's a Shaman. I can't find the will to level a DPS character. So I guess I tend to be things that aren't dps.