icycrits

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[Zepla 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 @Xepla]

I played 50+ hours of WoW Forever Beta and came out of it with a frog, a faction identity crisis, a loss of innocence about "cider," and a new MMO obsession 😭

This video was a labor of love and I'm really happy with how it turned out! ♡🐰

Watch here 👇
https://t.co/byvcZH9JfL

[시ᩚ빵ᩚ삐ᩚ @bbangbbi05]

고1때부터 기상알람 이건데
정확히 10초부터 지랄시작돼서
10초전에 일어나서 꺼야함
매일아침이긴장의연속

[Josh Greenfield @AggrendWoW]

As I mentioned in the previous episode of the podcast, we've been listening to feedback on the Skyborne and have some adjustments coming. Check it out in the blog post below!
https://t.co/eay7MgEqEF

[ziegfield 🐕💨 @mziegfield]

testing out a face rig i put together for Mina 🧍 i've been meaning to animate some of her voicelines for a WHILE now

[🎃Javi🎃 @ItsJaviGD]

This mod is so awesome

[icycrits @theicycrits]

@yunayuispink Your art is gorgeous and warms the hearts of millions.

[Ilya Volodichev (Nobel) @Nobel_via]

Finished a new lady geist skin, concept by @anthrospray
The mod is available for download, enjoy!

#Deadlock #DeadlockFanart #Ladygeist

[icycrits @theicycrits]

@madseason_ Deserved. Congrats!

[MadSeasonShow @madseason_]

Pretty blown away. Thank you Jagex, and the Runescape community!

[icycrits @theicycrits]

@Mvqdh @AggrendWoW This goes insanely hard

[🥉 Pipkin Pippa 🔌🐰 Phase-Connect @pipkinpippa]

looking for a klukai cosplayer who will let me sit in the cuck chair while they get railed on my stream so dan clancy will have mercy on my soul

[kjun @ben_kjun]

THE ASSHOLE 👊🏼

[kjun @ben_kjun]

MINA

[icycrits @theicycrits]

@Marmstrongwow Stuff like this really restores my faith in Blizzard. You have the vision, integrity, and honesty required to make a game like this in the modern age.

Leadership material.

[Cornfed Nebraska Boy @Marmstrongwow]

I'm seeing a lot of discourse about who WoW Forever is being made for and while I cannot speak for anyone else on the team I can speak for myself. I am making WoW forever for the classic gamer and for the millions of people who have had their accounts lapse over the years because they were not satisfied with changes that were made to the game. Whether those changes were to the art style, the story, social aspects, game design, or changes to their favorite class.

I did not spend the last year of my life relearning and mastering how to do things like we did it 20+ years ago for retail players. I could have taken it easy and just kept doing things like I had done for the past 8 years on retail...because I was much more familiar with it and it actually takes a lot less time to do (height maps on textures do a ton of heavy lifting). Because the reality is that the majority of retail players wouldn't care and would probably actually prefer it. But I felt I had a duty to uphold an artistic vision and integrity that millions of people expect from us. But not just for our players, but for my co-workers past and present who worked on it over 20 years ago. If I could not create something that resembled their work then I failed not only them...but myself.

Please do not take this as me throwing any shade at retail players or the retail team because I am one myself...but I wanted to make Forever as authentic of a Vanilla experience as possible. This involves making decisions wildly different than retail. It means holding the line against changes that create a domino affect down the road. It means keeping friction and inconveniences in the game. It means finding friends and forming groups with strangers and being social!! Because WoWs social aspects have always been the pillar of the game and over the years it has slowly been chiseled away at with changes that allow you play alone.

Since the day I started working on the Riverglades I have lived by three sayings.

"Convenience is the death of the journey."

"If you're making a game for everyone then you're making it for no one."

"Every change we make incurs a debt to the authenticity of the game and sooner or later that debt will be paid."

These are my core beliefs and I had a specific group of people I was targeting with my work. These beliefs cannot be shaken and I will try to hold the line against anything that goes against them and will continue to pester the team about things that feel out of place.

That being said, my hope is that Forever will pull in as many people as possible, whether you are a retail gamer, a classic gamer, someone who hasn't played in years, or even a new player. I hope you can all remember what made this game so special in the first place and that starts with understanding why we are so passionate about keeping it authentic.

[icycrits @theicycrits]

@tr9nket @allyparser Yes. That's exactly the point. All of these people suggesting QOL that speeds up the game are trying to make Forever another seasonal game. That's why there's so much pushback.

[icycrits @theicycrits]

@LimitKams Retail gets new content regularly.

Classic players haven't received new content in decades.

Why can't you people just let them have their own game that receives updates regularly? The greed is insane.