We take a look at World of Warcraft's new Quest Tracker system
World of Warcraft - Quest Tracker
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We take a look at World of Warcraft's new Quest Tracker system
World of Warcraft - Quest Tracker
Very much in line with how the world is going. Simply put, lets the community develop, test and take the risk of the project. Once it's been a success, profit off it. Valve is good at this, and it seems blizzard is following suit
^^ It's quite sad lol.
I can definitely see people getting mighty peeved in future and laws possibly being put into place to prevent situations such as this. Even though it's for the benefit of the community, it is quite unfair.
I think it's better this way. Now I won't need to spend time looking for updates for mods when there is a new update for WoW.
I don't really see any laws being created to protect mod developers in the future because the mods are free. If users had to pay for the mods, it would be different situation.
Next thing they have to do is integrate xperl and bartender and I'll be a happi chappy returning to wow
I was thinking more about the ideas behind mods than their actual profitability value.Quote:
Originally Posted by Endev8003
Blizzard has unfortunately been known not to take into consideration the effects of their actions upon the fan site communities that have constructed themselves around World of Warcraft.
I do think it is important that Blizzard updates the game with these features given the fact that majority of players new/pre-raiding do not even use a single add-on. Quest Helper's features could assist a new player extensively since they are most likely nowhere near experienced enough to start downloading add-ons that provide levelling ease. This addition makes these features native to out of the box gaming.
Having said the above I agree that it is sad for independent developers in the community to be put aside because of Blizzard deciding the developers idea was great and making it their own. I would like to see some more recognition from big blue focused at the former mod developer (in this instance Quest Helper) in the event their idea becomes part of the native game.
Blizzard has done this before in the past and I'm sure as Activision-Blizzard we can see many more "interesting" things in the future where the dedicated community can throw stones at them.
Interestingly enough, Valve has actually been pretty good to that mods it's scooped up.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrG
TF team actually works for valve now (TF2)
The guys working on portal is another example
They even got a hold of the guy who did DOTA.
Actually when you look at it, it's kinda inspiring.
Hey theres one good thing about this...No more insanely high memory usages from Questhelper
Yeah, agreed!