If Blizzard was hoping to keep spring hopping with interesting content and exciting additions for World of Warcraft, this past week’s reception to Patch 11.1.5 certainly tossed a bucket of cold reality in the studio’s face.
Almost immediately following the rollout of this mid-tier patch, outlets and fans started blasting World of Warcraft for its time-gated content, a botched world event, and massive bugs, including one that outright broke the hotbar. And you know that a patch is bad when normally cooperative content creators are giving Blizzard what-for in videos accusing the studio of rushing patches through the pipeline and going back on promises to make dinar (currency to buy raid-level gear) accessible to all.
Meanwhile in WoW Classic, Blizzard is selling catch-up character boosts in preparation for Mists of Pandaria Classic to anyone who wants to bypass the leveling process and get to 85 in exchange for $60. Previously, the boost was available only in an $80 bundle.
