Patch notes - do we really need to know everything?

[GreyJorildyn]

Why NOT tell you where to find it? They do want you to go and get your new shiny. Something you have to understand about the average mmo player(/human) is that they are dumb. If it's not spelled out for them, it's "too hard". That's the world we live in sadly.

Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FpigqfcvlM and you'll see. It's been part of the decline of gaming for a very long time that things are too forthcoming, and now we're kinda stuck with that trend and it's become the rule rather than the exception It is almost insulting to the intelligent people who play games these days.

edit: a similarly related example right here in our own game...

Gee, I never would have figured that one out. Not in a million years.
(maybe you should tell me how to make linen deerstalkers of piety first).