Latest Blue posts on the 2.4 backlash
 Here are as many blue posts as I can find all responding to either complete nerdrage outbursts about how terrible the patch is, or just simple questions of clarification. Keep in mind all the implications of these changes when 2.4 goes live and how it’s going to affect where you stand right now in game progression.
This patch is obviously geared for the end game but don’t forget they did add some minor touch up to the mid-level content as well in the patch are updates to the Midsummer Fire Festival that begins in June.
Blizzard ignoring class issues - No one is ignoring anything. We’ve made it clear that we are taking in class feedback from the feedback threads and that players would not see big changes to classes when patch 2.4.0 went on the PTR. Instead we’re focusing on making changes over a period of time during the ptr as we feel they are necessary. This allows us to get better results out of testing and allows us to get the best data available.
We’ve made lots of changes in the past only to sometimes remove or tweak them during a patch to equally negative reaction, so while we may get some people upset that were expecting more right away, we are going to still progress through the testing period with all due care.
Many people are reacting to the notes as if these are final. There will no doubt be additions and changes to them during the period of time in which it is tested. How many or how few depend on the actual testing and what we think will work out best. (src)
Nerdrage posts about the lifting of attunement restrictions - I’m not going to share opinion other than passionate people that care, post. That is to be expected.
Change happens. Some people will appreciate the change, others will view it as the end of their world as they know it.
When we changed the requirements to get into Heroics, some viewed it (and still do) as a horrible change, in the meantime, many people have been enjoying this change and have been able to rejoin their friends and guildmates in taking on the Heroics they were struggling to get to in the past.
What I think is best is what I tend to say every time we release a test client for people to participate in, go, test, give feedback.
I also find it unlikely that too many people are going to find it to be a walk in the park in either Hyjal or Black Temple. They will still need to have the ‘right stuff’ so to speak to get the job done. But, again, it’s about the opportunity being opened up to players that may not have had that chance for a long while yet. (src)
Public Test Realm update - With the 2.4.0 PTR, we will be allowing US, EU and Korean players to access all available PTR realms. Players will be able to choose which test realm they wish to play on without being restricted by region. We currently plan to make all PTR realms available in this way for all future patches. (src)
2.4 LOL, people calling the patch lackluster or garbage -
Q u o t e:
I could swear it added a 5-man instance too.
Not to mention BT quality badge loot… *cough* (src)
Drysc on the fallout concerning fansites (like this one) reporting wrong information or information taken out of context -
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Hey Drysc,Honestly, you do a great job. Thanks for being here and doing your best.
It’s not you, or some interview. I just think that much of the player base right now sees the game one way, and the devs see it another. Arena is big! Blizzard made it big. That’s great. But it puts so much focus on PvP, and since players bought into it, they’re concerned with PvP. I think the disappointment comes from the complete lack of anything having to do with what were blatantly obvious problems in PvP not being addressed at all.
I know Shaman were very hopeful that the patch would help them. Speaking as a Mage though, i just can’t even believe there’s… nothing! Nothing at all. I took all the fake patch notes with a grain of salt. Yet even i hoped for some help with pushback in the Frost tree, or a little help in some form for what feels like a forgotten class.
I know sometimes when patch notes are released, there’s a lot of complaining, but this feels different.
By the time this patch comes out, and another possible one after that…. who knows how long we’ll still be playing with the problems that players were REALLY concerned about.
I mean, fixing the interface, combat log junk, guild bank changes, hell even the entire Sunwell… I’d trade it all for a pushback resist talent in Frost. I guess that sort of thing is why so many feel let down.
Respectfullly.
The compliments are unnecessary, but thanks for at least talking to me like I’m a person. It’s appreciated.
I didn’t mean to give the impression (by showing why people’s expectations were unfounded) that 2.4 will not include class changes. I was merely trying to understand why there was such an expectation, and then after figuring it out share with people where the disconnect lay. It obviously lay with fan sites reporting misquoted translations. That’s just too many muddy hurdles for information to cross, in my opinion, and end up clean on the other side.
I didn’t mean to give that impression because we’re taking a different tactic in 2.4 than in previous point releases. Usually, a point release comes out, and that would be 2.2.0, 2.3.0, 2.4.0, etc. The large patches inbetween expansions. Usually those come out with a large amount of class changes, POW, lots of stuff, and throughout the PTR… those changes start to disappear, they start to turn into something else, and by the end of the PTR usually the class changes are half removed or half altered to the state of being unrecognizable from the original patch notes. Not exactly satisfying, and it really just stirs things up too much, too unnecessarily. The PTR process on these patches is very long, and over the course of the weeks or months (!) they last our minds change, our ideas change, and making huge changes out of the gate doesn’t seem as appealing.
So, anyway, with 2.4 we’re moving in a different direction, starting small, and working our way through the PTR with changes in-mind, but not a huge glut of changes we throw out at the start.
Kind of a tease I suppose, everyone wants to see crazy changes and yell and pull hair, but we weren’t happy with that approach. It’s a more subdued approach, and it’s sure to put focus on specific changes as they go in one or a few at a time. We’ll see how it works out, hopefully it’s for the best.
Still though, heh, just to manage some expectation, there’s no huge amount of sweeping changes announced, we’re going to make changes we feel are able and necessary to be implemented at this time.
Oh, and when I said “enjoy your weekend”, I meant it just the way it is. You guys read too much into things. 
[ Post edited by Drysc ] (src)
That about does it for now folks, the CMs are either posting from home or from heir cubicles pulling OT so when Drysc said enjoy the weekend, I guess he meant for us to get psyched about these new releases Also who’s the say the PTRs won’t be brought online before Monday?
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