The New Sage Icon, Thoughts?

[Goji1639]

See there you go again. It benefits SE because they were able to help other human beings with little effort. The fact that you think there needs to be value in this decision beyond that flabbergasts me.

That's not a benefit to SE; that's just altruism. It makes SE look good now, but it will also be a precedent to reference in disappointment when SE can't/won't show similar consideration in the future. Impractical altruism can often be bad for a companies image in the long run.

Transparency and wanting to look good as a result of it. That's likely all there is to it from a business perspective. It's probably no coincidence that they've been laying it on extra thick lately considering recent events with another game studio. So yeah, it probably does benefit SE, at least in the short term. The dev team has seemed overall to genuinely care about the game and its players, but something about this particular change seems like strategic PR to me. Either way though it's definitely harmless enough in the grand scheme of things.

SE going over the top in an attempt to contrast WoWs recent issues is an interesting take. SE doing this now to further capitalize on WoWs problems is an argument for the benefits of this I can buy into.

[Sathona]

Needless to say, this thread is literally twitter overflowing.
How low can some people get damn

[Deceptus]

I think one of the other things to think about is this change does nothing to lessen the perception that the Japanese playerbase is listened to more than anyone else.

Because there have been loads of things brought up on other forums but it seems that the devs only really address issues that come from the Japanese forums.

[KizuyaKatogami]

But this one's okay? Give me a break.

Well you see, LTW is old news. Sage is the new shiny thing so it’s much easier to get people’s attention with that than something that’s been in the game for awhile that no ones complained about hehe.

[Lauront]

Transparency and wanting to look good as a result of it. That's likely all there is to it from a business perspective. It's probably no coincidence that they've been laying it on extra thick lately considering recent events with another game studio. So yeah, it probably does benefit SE, at least in the short term. The dev team has seemed overall to genuinely care about the game and its players, but something about this particular change seems like strategic PR to me. Either way though it's definitely harmless enough in the grand scheme of things.

Having seen several such rather fake gestures from Blizzard, many of which were received poorly, I doubt this will do much to impress many from the WoW newcomer demographic, anyhow. Maybe some will take the bait.

[Vahlnir]

SE going over the top in an attempt to contrast WoWs recent issues is an interesting take. SE doing this now to further capitalize on WoWs problems is an argument for the benefits of this I can buy into.

Food for thought, mostly. Businesses gonna business.

Having seen several such rather fake gestures from Blizzard, many of which were received poorly, I doubt this will do much to impress many from the WoW newcomer demographic, anyhow. Maybe some will take the bait.

Maybe. Even so, it might not be about the change itself. The transparency they have shown is a pretty big thing in an industry full of mistrust.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

But this one's okay? Give me a break.

Pretty sure they aren't holes. Those are different colored fur splotches.

A hide with that many holes in it is useless.

But keep at it folks.

[HeyMcFly]

If they're willing to make changes like that, then they can update the character creator >

[Big_Bap]

Pretty sure they aren't holes. Those are different colored fur splotches.

A hide with that many holes in it is useless.

But keep at it folks.

Same background color.



Also, how do you know an entire animal hide with holes in it is useless?

Truth hurts?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Same background color.



Also, how do you know an entire animal hide with holes in it is useless?

Truth hurts?

Because it is as a hide? And it's not the same color. They are black splotches, not gray.

Have you ever seen a deer hide?


And I'm not the one throwing a fit over a job icon change lmao.