World of Warcraft: Beta Begins

[negitoro]

As it is now, the biggest pain is that you don't get partial credit for resting.

Like you can play a 3 hours, you have to rest 8 hours.
You play 8 hours, you still rest 8 hours.

It's really weird.

[Rumpy]

Now that's some bullshit.

[Diff-chan]

The system will be tweaked. You know, because it's a beta. That's what betas are for.

Quit bitching, people.

[NoFace]

The bitching is what tells Blizzard that gamers want shit tweaked...

And I'll repeat that I know it's going to get changed, since it's just so shitty and that doesn't jive well with a Blizzard product.

[Mr.Sparkle]

Have you actually played the system? No? Then perhaps you should actually play it before you pass judgement.

The general idea of it is fine by me. I play 4-5 hours before I go from the 200% bonus to 150%--that's plenty of time unless you're unemployed or irresponsible. Resting is a flat cost instead of scaled prevents power gamers from playing 4 hours, switching to an alt for 4 hours, then switching back, which defeats the intent to help casual players from being left too far behind.

It's probably about 8 hours before you see fatigued, and if you play to complete fatigue, you will average the same xp as if you hadn't gotten any bonus in the first place.

[NoFace]

Oh excuse me for having an opinion on something I wasn't lucky enough to be a part of. I do have that right don't I? It sounds like a shitty system, so I'm merely voicing my discontent with that system.

Believe you me, I'd very much like to play it and pass judgement that way, but I wasn't as fortunate as you. So to repeat, from my unfortunate outsider's point of view, where I can only read up on matters such as this, it sounds pretty shitty. That is all.

Edit: In a foul mood, so I'm sorry for how that sounded. Opinion is unchanged however about the system.

[Lobo]

I don't mind it because I have a life.

But don't worry, they are gonna fix it so all the fatties whining from their mom's basement can play until their hearts explode, so there will be a happy ending no matter what.

[NoFace]

I don't care what their reasons are for fixing, whether it's appeasing the whining fatties with no lives, or because the system is annoying, so long as they fix it.

I know there will be days where I'll get a lot of WoW time in (not for lack of anything better to do, but by choice), and I'd really rather not have the designers impede my desire to not play their game.

Bisonian: and the inn thing
Bisonian: you must stay 8 hours in an inn
Bisonian: if you stay 7h59m
Bisonian: you get no credit
Bisonian: if you take a step outside with 1 minute to go the entire "resting" 8 hours resets

(Elaborating on the partial credit for resting mentioned earlier...)

And here we see the first part of this flawed system that will be fixed in beta (taken from the Blizzard forums). One of many changes I'm sure.

[LOL]

Jesus Christ. STFU.

It takes about 10 hours before you get fatigued to the point that it bothers you. You can play the game all day and turn it off at night when you go to sleep, and you will hardly notice any effects of the resting system.

It is pretty silly, and while I can see what they're going for, they need to find another solution, but you're overreacting to something that affects only about 5% of the WoW players.

You're allowed to have an opinion, but we're not kidding when we say this really is one of those situations where you actually do have to be playing it to understand what you're bitching about. Because there really isn't anything to bitch about, and this is before they tweak it to make it better.

[NoFace]

Broken record time... as I've said from the beginning I know it'll get changed, I realize it's beta and hey, that's the whole point. Once more let me very genuinely apologize for sharing opinions on a videogame message board on something that bothered me, silly me!

There are some things about it that sound good to out-of-the-loop me, like of course 200% experience at well-rested. I really wish I could play the thing first-hand and see just how wrong I am, but I didn't have that luxury, so you get the uninformed bitching instead. Let's see if I can stop talking about this point now, that'd be good.