Hello everyone, here is an uninvited ten-year warcraft fan, Dr. X.
World of Warcraft nostalgic suit is about to usher in the first expansion pack "Burning Expedition" (hereinafter referred to as tbc), for many friends, this time the opening of the Dark Gate is not only a journey to relive the memories of the past, but also a new and unique adventure.
Because according to the blue sticker and test suit information released by Blizzard at present, they have added many elements of "magic reform" to the content of the version of "Ten Thousand Years TBC", making this version independent of the 3.13 special edition in our national service memories, and there are a series of differences with the initial version of 2.0 expected by foreign service players.
Good guys, this year, even the Warcraft nostalgia suit is not going to stage a wave of "original" nostalgia? Why did Blizzard take the initiative to give up the original intention of restoring the bugs of the nostalgic clothes? And listen to Dr. X speak slowly with you.
Key point 1: Is the national service characteristic change too successful? Blizzard designers are full of confidence, the tbc version will continue to change?
Talking about the topic of "World of Warcraft" nostalgic costume magic change, in fact, everyone has experienced the Warcraft nostalgic costume for nearly two years, which is itself the product of the magic reform. Because Blizzard decided to use version 1.12, which has a relatively stable content, to recreate the replica wasteland experience of that year.
However, just after the Blizzard designers were so meticulous that even the bugs were restored to the player, hardcore bugs such as "Tuanben Infinite Drop Bulk", "Zug Malicious Enchantment", and "Epic Mission Card Terrain" also began to hit the embarrassment of the nostalgic service economic system again and again.
(Zug malicious enchantment)
On the other hand, NetEase's operation team has made special changes in the national service version and achieved a series of achievements that have been admired by nostalgic costume producer John Hight.
Such as the arrival of the national costume on the hour buff, the trading system of the time badge, the mount reward of the copy challenge, and the huge number of online people inspired by the nostalgic costume production director have forced the nostalgic costume production director to "humbly" ask for the "advanced" experience of the national costume.
In this way, under the situation that the vicious bugs are difficult to eradicate and the characteristic changes of the national costume are remarkable, the world's Warcraft players have ushered in a magic version of the tbc nostalgic suit based on the 2.43 version.
Theoretically, the TBC version of the content that will be launched this time is obviously the culmination of Blizzard designers' two years of nostalgic service operation experience, which can give nostalgic service players a more pleasant wilderness experience, but is this really the case?
Key point two: change the method of cutting leeks? tbc nostalgic service mall service, taking the opportunity to increase the price is worrying
According to Blizzard's updated blue post on TBC nostalgic clothes in the past month, it is not difficult to find that the upcoming TBC is based on the magic content of "it is version 2.43, but it is not exactly version 2.43".
However, from the mall service of this TBC nostalgic suit, it has given Dr. X and other ten-year-old fans of Warcraft a magical experience that directly fast-forwards to the "cyberpunk" period.
The 498 gift package that came up with the national costume instantly aroused a number of discussions of "catching up with Britain and the United States" in the Warcraft Forum and Tieba everywhere.
If you say, for the sake of this 10,000-year-old TBC feelings, let our old players willingly pay 498 yuan to pay for the feelings, even if it is, after all, there are unique mounts, small toys, hearthstone special effects and other special props to send.
But the biggest problem is that your 498 gift package (about $77) of your national service is not only more expensive than the $69 price of other people's beautiful clothes, but also "shrinks" a lot in terms of gifts, and deducts the custom entity perimeter of the collector's version, which is very excessive!
In addition, the 58 character promotion service of up to 258 yuan has reached the point where ordinary players weep and the studio team is ecstatic.
Although everyone knows that letting the studio help them practice the character level is an in-game "illegal" behavior, if it is discovered, it will face punishment ranging from several days to several months. But our old players spend some gold coins to hire a "high salary" to hire a master, and take their trumpets to "lie down" in the wild to train, which is much more fragrant than spending this 258 yuan "huge amount"!
The most intolerable thing for Dr. X is that taking advantage of the popularity of this wave of nostalgic clothes on the TBC version, the national service mall service also took the opportunity to increase the cost of character payment transfer, from the previous 88 yuan to 120 yuan, an increase of 36.36% ???
If you follow this price increase momentum, it is difficult for us to spend 164 yuan to pay for the transfer when the version of "Wrath of the Lich King" is launched, anyway, this pricing increase can be much higher than the salary growth of Dr. X!
I have to say that compared with the 10,000-year-old TBC era of drinking Coke to find some cards and exchanging various redemption codes for free "white prostitutes" rare pets and mounts, the excessive pricing of the special edition of the national service mall service is obviously hidden in the suspicion of harvesting warcraft old players "leeks", and dr. X also began to miss the time of a machine and a few bottles of Coke playing a day in the Internet café in those years.
Key point three: professional balance is difficult to flatten a bowl of water, face roll keyboard stream is sanctioned, trumpet benefits increase!
After complaining about those things that care about the old service TBC version of the mall, let's go back and look at the "magic reform" content about the class balance, quest tasks, economic system and many other core gameplay aspects.
The designers not only optimized a series of class mechanics bugs such as hunters, warriors, mages, etc., such as the number of skill codes, damage anomalies, and target loss, but also adjusted the skill intensity of the Tbc version of the Son Punishment Rider. Players who love knights cannot relive the crushing happiness of the "face roll keyboard" in the nostalgic suit, nor can they use the bug of the card "liquidation" mechanism to go to the world boss of the second day and second.
However, the designer's preemptive TBC career balance has also caused a lot of criticism throughout the forum, except for the "flawless" warlock players, almost all players believe that their own life class has encountered a wave of targeting.
In any case, we want to revisit the PVP card attack distance of those years in the TBC version of the battle has become a dream bubble. Because this group of "brothers understand" designers are also in advance in the TBC nostalgic suit, plus the "treatment inhibition" mechanism updated in version 5.0, so that the treatment effect of our characters will be reduced with the extension of the pvp time.
In addition, in response to the too slow training rhythm of the nostalgic suit, the designer not only canceled the limit on the number of copies of the daily character, but also greatly improved the experience of the quest, weakened the strength of the monsters in the wild training area, increased the flying points of multiple running charts, optimized some side quest chains, and also installed the collection stone pulling mechanism to reduce the "garbage time" of everyone's trumpet running copy.
In other words, in terms of pve, the TBC version of the magic change is more suitable for the fast pace of the current mainstream players, and does not reproduce the boring time we spent a month or two practicing the number.
In terms of the sideline manufacturing and economic system, TBC nostalgic clothes will even directly introduce the one-stop price sorting mode of formal services, and according to the order of npcs selling drawings, to inhibit the phenomenon that some goblin players monopolize drawings and maliciously raise the price of by-job products.
If you're just an average player, you'll obviously get even more out of the details of these economic adjustments.
Post-lesson summary:
In fact, for the national service players, the TBC based on the 2.43 version and the magic change is not the 3.13 version of the 10,000-year-old TBC in our impression. In the process of upgrading, everyone will no longer encounter the embarrassing moment of "Karazan's quest threshold, it must be Karazan's graduation dress", nor will they have the joy of switching 80-level dual talents and card air wall single brush bosses.
As for this version of the magic that is no longer nostalgic, how much nostalgia will inspire us, obviously we have to experience it ourselves to know!