Exactly. I completely agree with you.

Marketing Executives =/= Programmers.

The suits upstairs are nothing in comparison with the code monkeys and server maintenance crews that are pounding away at WoW and actually, ya' know, doing their jobs.

I'm sorry, they're not working on the game? WTF Is Patch 2.4? A cookie?

>.< Compare WoW to other MMO's and where they stood at 3.5 years into the game. The diversity of game play and the massive amount of customization when it comes to your play style in this game surpasses them all, let alone the massive story line and content.

You can't fly in Azeroth? *gasp* How EVER did we survive for the first two years we played? -_-

Seriously, people on the forums will find anything to bitch, whine, and moan about.

Personally, I love that Blizzard has expanded the series so far. It makes for more ways to get into my favorite franchise and be a fangirl. I'm not about to complain.

and to the using flying mounts in azeroth, can you imagine trying to lvl up your character with tons of bored lvl 70's divebombing you every minute, and lvl 80's when wrath comes out. Blizzard has already stated that they dont plan on making flying mounts available for azeroth, besides northrend, so how is that a viable argument?? and like it has been stated, these other projects (movies, creditcard etc.) have totally seperate teams with their OWN totally seperate budgets and income, so there isn't anything stopping Blizz from expanding their dev base, besides the fact that they have enough of them. more devs = more money put into the development of the game. sure it will come out faster and probably with a bit more content (if any more), but that will come at a price, the game will cost MORE money to play. I say leave well enough alone.

You can't just hire programmers and solve problems, that's how companies tank.

Think of it like recruiting for a guild. You want someone who will fit in, adapt, and enjoy themselves. Finding someone like that takes more than a "WTB 375 Engineer".

Come on, be real... Blizzard does a decent job of adding content and updating their game. Remember that there is always a timeline, and that patches and content are released on a schedule. You may feel that it's at a snails pace for You, but the devs won't release something until the 'average' player base has progressed enought through current content to warrant new content. If you want a mule to follow, you don't give it a bucket of carrots, you give him one at a time. Thus we still pay our monthly fee, and are hooked for years lol.

Oh you mean the 2.3-2.4 content patches that have delivered more new content then most pre-BC patches combined? Or you mean WotLK which is in final development as we speak?

The devs always get quiet before a major expansion, because they are working on it.

@theRaptor

Well, 2.1 came out in June. Since then we've gotten 2.2, which had no new content at all. 2.3, which had a pretty mediocre raid (ZA), and a levelling revamp (which isn't new content). 2.4 is the first patch to have actual content.

Now, lets compare that to Turbine and LotRO. In the same timeframe, they've added hair changing (something Blizzard promised for WotLK), a wardrobe system so you don't have to look ass-ugly in mismatched gear until max level (like you do in WoW), player housing (something Blizzard refuses to do at all), and four (soon to be five) content releases.

Other then arena gear inflation, what has Blizzard given us that compares with that?

I'm not really sure brook's law really applies. The content packs in WoW are largely independent. You could create an entirely additional content team to craft a set of instances in blades's edge or skettis or something while the current team continues on their merry way polishing up the sunwell stuff.

Sure there's some universal issues like drag as new employees learn the tools, but the communication complexity of a traditional monolithic software development effort don't really apply to adding content without changing the rules.

In short, more manpower could easily produce more content in less time, even if it wouldn't speed it up in the first month or so.

"Or in other words: The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned."

That might have been the worst analogy ever created compared to the situation.

Jrod is correct, more people could only help in creating more dungeons, graphics for armor (god knows we are getting tired of the same suits, especially with sunwell previews of class's having same suits, different color like old school battleground 60's), content (quest).

It's like this: There are always other fish in the sea, but that doesn't mean that with other people you can catch them all.

That is officially the worst analogy of this topic.

Once again id like to point out blizzard themselves arnt actually shelling out anything to make swords, card games and any other WoW related items, all the do is give permission to another company to produce said items and charge them for the use of the blizzard company name.

As for the "blizzard are making lots of money so they should be able to make WoW more than just better" yes they will continue to develope WoW but as a company the also want money in the kitty to cover any hard times and new products they are producing, after all WoW does have a finite shelf life and Blizzard as a company will be developing much more in the future.

I for one support Blizzard in this and the more money they make hopefully the more quality games they can produce.