Update on Battle for Ashenvale, Layers, and Fixes - Season of Discovery
Blizzard has shared a lengthy Blue Post covering the development adjustments for Battle for Ashenvale, How layers have been involved, and fixes that will be implemented for Season of Discovery. Additionally, Blizzard shares that they will be taking the lessons learned and applying them for development on future Phases in Season of Discovery.
In the past when we’ve hit such situations, we’ve done our best to remain transparent and take some time to explain what our intent was, what went awry, and what our next steps are. We’d very much like to carry that forward with Season of Discovery, where it’s especially important to be open and honest.
Season of Discovery is, by its nature, highly experimental and we were bound to hit some snags along the way but we think it’s a best practice to simply explain what happened and learn from it.So, we are going to really dig in deep into what has been happening with the Battle for Ashenvale, but word of warning, this is going to be an extremely long, extremely dense post. I’ll be taking time to explain all of the major systems at play so if you aren’t in for the technical details, you may want to skip to the end for info on what exactly we are doing now.The IntentThe intent of the Battle for Ashenvale was fairly simple; use a fairly compelling carrot on a stick (Warsong Gulch reputation and a mount) to get people into Ashenvale so they could fight.
In that respect, it was a success. As Ashenvale is a hotly contested zone that houses several quest hubs as well as our “end-game” raid for the level 25 level band, some conflict was assured.
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