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[zeylos]

Activision has no creative control over WoW, so that's why blaming them is incorrect. Very very very few people on official forums ever specifically blame Blizzard though.

I think that it isn't fair to blame WoW fans tho, considering how many yoshiP fanboys we have on our community,it only makes sense they also have many blizzard fanboys

[Aramina]

I think that it isn't fair to blame WoW fans tho, considering how many yoshiP fanboys we have on our community,it only makes sense they also have many blizzard fanboys

I wasn't saying blame the players, I am saying people should blame Blizzard (not Activision) for the poor choices made in regards to WoW. Blizzard is not some poor little thing being taken advantage of by the big evil Activision like people claim.

[Shurrikhan]

But me personally? I hate Whinecraft with every cell in my body for what it did to the mmo genre

To have (not at all single-handedly, but very significantly) birthed it from obscurity into a familiar term and widely loved genre?

I think that it isn't fair to blame WoW fans tho, considering how many yoshiP fanboys we have on our community,it only makes sense they also have many blizzard fanboys

I have yet to meet a Ion fanboy/fangirl. The guy picks up more flak than would a zeppelin over wartime London. Much of it deservedly. The WoW official forums most hays are comprised of one half hatred for the dev team, one sixth hatred for Blizzard, and one third hatred for Ion himself.

I have seen literal shrines to Yoshi-P. Ion dares to scapegoat or red herring an issue and he's downvoted into oblivion and even his mother's name likely sullied. Yoshi-P does the same and is praised for it.

The difference, I suspect, is that the typical WoW player has either played longer personally or spent their formative years in the franchise among those who have, and skepticism and (the ability for) close analysis both increase in frequency with time invested in any given person, company, or franchise.