Horde House

Episode Seventy: #YOLO

One of our frequent guest hosts has gone through a big server and faction makeover! Allen is back with us this week to talk all about his transition from Alliance to Horde, as well as the Hardcore raiding to Not so SRS raiding lifestyle.

In the news this week, Valor of the Ancients will allow your alts to get valor points faster, but is this REALLY a good thing? Also WoW has lost more subscribers– QUEUE MASS HYSTERIA AND INTERNET OVER-ANALYTICAL POSTS.

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Comments

Flaco_Jones
8/9/2012 9:41 AM

I don't understand the hate for accelerated Valor points for alts. I think it will for sure help with queue times because so many players will want to cram in as many dungeons as possible where before they may have just not had the motivation to do it all again at the same pace. Plus it will really motivate people to hit the cap on their main as soon as possible.

Kenmoe
8/11/2012 4:23 PM

I'm excited for the Valor buff. I always Valor cap my main for gear, then for Conquest Point exchanges, every week. This buff will make it easier to gear up my alts which is great for altoholics like myself.
My suggestions for Blizzard (40:45) would be, if subscriptions hit some predetermined "low", to slash prices in half for the monthly fee and the client (digital download or boxes). This could be the middle ground they fall back to instead of going Free to Play like SWTOR or LOTRO.

My other suggestion would be to stagger out content releases. For example, drop new quests (hubs) first, then dungeons/raids later.

Lastly, I would like to see Blizzard release content at a steadier pace. If that means making tough decisions and cutting out some content, then do it, but having long periods of time with little (4.1) to no new content (4.3: 10 months) breeds boredom and lower subscription numbers. Note: D3 throws a huge wrench into this because D3 is likely cannabilizing some subs from WoW (lower WoW subs but Battle.Net activity increase).

Flaco_Jones
8/11/2012 11:14 PM

I like those ideas, then another popped into my head. What if Blizzard made everything up to the previous expansion free to play? It would solve the issue of buying all those past expansions and still makes a subscription required for new content. They can even promote leveling up to 85 on a free account then paying to transfer that character to a subscription account.