For WoW refugees. What was not announced?

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I wouldn't mind the transparency blizzard has
Love or hate their decisions: they tell you what youre going to get. Also ptrs are great!

Transparency? This "transparency" was non-existent for many years at Wow and it was not until the last expansions that they began to speak more with the community and often with lies or half truths.

We were used to having something announced to us and then canceling it a day before like the dance academy or making changes without any prior information like the nerf to the Zandalari dungeons during Cataclyms.

WoW: "Oh, the new engine gives you motion sickness? TOO BAD. We won't just do nothing about it. We will let the forums relentlessly mock you, with even our paid representatives joining in. We will immediately break any addons that address the issue. And we will add NPCs to the game to mock you as well. Screw you."
FF14: "Our playtesters found that diving underwater gave some of them motion sickness, so here is a setting to turn it off, which we are even announcing before Stormblood's release. Please look forward to it."


While I'd been playing both for awhile and had admittedly come to the conclusion that FF14 was a better game; that alone was enough to get me to uninstall WoW and never look back.

It may not be a big issue for a lot of people; but it's basically a microcosm of the difference between the two companies.

Come on I have to remember how they haven't done anything with the Blacklist system in this game just because the Japanese mentality tells them otherwise while you have a lot of people suffering constant harassment in the game? While practically the presence of GMS in this game or of "blues" are almost non-existent in this forum?

I also have to remember when some Dragoon players in ARR discovered a problem with ice resistance in battles against Shiva and started to delete which post in the official forums regarding these reports even banning people for their mistakes?

None of the "teams" is better than another, both SE and Blizzard have shits in their games