The WoW community council interviewed Ion Hazzikostas and Jeremy Feasel on Solo Content and Open World Content discussing Tier Acquisition, Soloing BFA raids, the Trading Post and more!
The topic of this interview was Small Group, Solo or Open World Content.
Highlights
Here's a very brief highlight of the interview, please listen to the interview for the full context:
- No plans to have smaller bundles for Tender, they were an experiment.
- They're looking at additional ways to provide players to earn tender in game.
- Arfus was too low a drop chance and going forward they want to make limited time events have more accessible cool rewards.
- Organizational requirements are considered when thinking about rewards. This is why Delves are capped at Heroic raid loot in War Within.
- BFA raids that are unsoloable due to mechanics will likely be looked at before Dragonflight is done.
- No plans for Mythic+ Bad Luck protection.
- Warbound loot is tradeable until equipped and will drop at much higher item levels.
Interview Summary
Do you have any thoughts about the Trading Post feeling increasingly expensive when combined with the ability to pre-purchase upcoming sets?
- The overall cost of things isn't increasing over time, but the amount of things in the catalogue is increasing but that's because they're adding back catalogue items.
- They're looking at providing additional ways to provide players to earn additional tender in game.
- The Trading Post isn't something they're looking to use as a major vector for monetization.
- There will continue to be occasional bundles (e.g. expansion pre-order) that contain Tender.
- There were some smaller bundles for Tender. Those were an experiment and there are no plans in the short term to
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