Follow In Battlegrounds Broken After 5.2

[Oldboxer]

I just did the chat thing with tech support. He confirmed that was intentional, it's not a bug. He said the support people were told about it last minute, given no reason. He said it might not be aimed at multiboxers, he thought it might be people who just do follow in BG's to avoid being reported afk. He suggested I use the in game suggestions to let the developers know my concerns. I said I'm sure the developers thought of it beforehand. I said that I didn't mind so much that they did it, they make the rules, but the way they did it was cheap. I've played for 7 years and I get treated like this. He said "Well have a great day." So I'll cancel my accounts, I've downloaded Eve and I'll see what that's about. If that doesn't work out, something else will.

[heyaz]

I just loaded Linux into VMWare 9 and gave it 60GB RAM and 12 CPUs so I can feel better about this ridiculous rig I just built

After this I'm going to run cudahashcat against a million MD5 hashes of 20 character long passwords. This GTX 680 is going to be working very hard for the next trillion years or so.

[luxlunae]

My wow accounts have all been expired for about a month now, I was just considering reupping when I saw the thing about collection quests getting better. With CRZ now they are making the only way to level a non-traditional team by sitting in a LFD queue for ages waiting for a tank. How fun.

I got five lotro accounts a while ago to try out boxing in that game but then was annoyed that the class I wanted to play was one of the restricted ones (ruke-keeper? or lore master. one of those two), maybe I should consider trying again with base classes and just see how it goes.

Only problem is that after rift and tera, warhammer and lotro just look bad.



Heyaz bitcoins are up to 45 dollars today, maybe you want to just fire up a mining program?

[Fusionsouth]

Soo... If follow doesn't work in BGs AND arenas then it seems like it is intentionally to stop multiboxers in PVP....

I think that Blizzard has the right, and maybe even the responsability, to do what they think is in the best interest of their game. But the way they are handleing this is terrible. Not putting the change in the patch notes and not putting it on the PTR when they clearly intended to do this is a cowardly move. IMO they knew that they would draw fire for this, and they didn't want all the hype of their new patch clouded with people arguing about multiboxing.

When WOW came out Blizzard seemed to me like a fairly successful company full of people who just wanted to make a great game. They cared about their fans and their product. Now they allow paid server transfers, paid name/race/character changes, they let you buy vanity items, ect. Somehow they have turned into this huge company that seems to be just farming us for money. And they do shadey things like intentionally break an entire style of gameplay that they have allowed for years without any warning.

That is the real problem I have with this. Yes, I am upset that I can't do BGs like I have enjoyed for years. But I am more upset that they just did this with no heads-up, and still no official response... Even if we are a small community, we are big enough that they made this change, and big enough that they prepared their phone jockies to take our calls... Springing this on us, and they ignoring us is just classless...


GRRR


I have to decide what I am going to do now. I have been farming Ulduar and ICC to make the legendary weapons. I am still probably 3 months away. But I want to show Blizz my dissapointment with them by cancelling. I also don't want to reward them by buying the new Starcraft next week. But doing these things would be like me taking poison in order to hurt someone else...

Nothing super valuable to anyone else in this post I guess, just me venting a little.

I have been coming here for 6 years, you guys have been great. I will still be around even if I can't 1 shot flag carriers anymore.

Fusion

[heyaz]

Somehow they have turned into this huge company that seems to be just farming us for money

A for-profit corporation turning a profit and expanding? What is this? Capitalism or something?!

[Wokomehee]

Omg... im so sad ...

[F9thRet]

Rift..old DAoC...SWtOR...Warhammer..not sure about others

I could have sworn I read that Warhammer was closing down all together.

[Narij]

We all feel the same way Fusion. I'm sure most of us will agree that Blizzard has the right to change their game as they see fit, but to spring this on us is just cowardice

[Palee]

If your subs renewed in the last couple of days you should be able to get a refund. I just got a refund for 8 or my 10 accounts. I subbed to try the new patch and this happened...

[sethlan]

let's do this: …..”Regarding the /follow command in PVP/BGs being removed, If you feel that the /follow command should be put back into the whole game then while in game press ESC Menu > Help > Submit Suggestion > Enter Your Suggestion.

let's do this! - I'm going to do this on about 17 accounts.