World Of Warcraft: Legion Remix Was Supposed To Be Full Of Lawless...

The juiced up old expansion shows the disconnect between developers and players.

Blizzard has always been divided when it comes to its old-expansions-revisited Remix mode, and the latest update shows the studio isn't quite sure exactly what it should be, even when players share their ideas directly.

The whole point of the mode, Blizzard says, is wild, frenetic fun: getting super powerful and collecting every transmog armor appearance, pet, mount, and toy an expansion offers in a short period of time. But the decisions the company makes about the mode, including the most recent update, are often not in support of that goal.

Players level up their strength so fast and so far in Remix that they're ridiculously overpowered, tackling even the toughest group content in the game solo, romping through old dungeons and raids as if they were new-player zones.

In the current Legion Remix, players are called Timerunners, and the same buff they build up to become OP levelers and fighters also gives them a speed buff—they literally dash everywhere they go. So far, so good.

But even when the first Mists of Pandaria Remix debuted last year, there were signs of trouble on the horizon. Players discovered they could farm power quickly in areas with constantly-respawning elite enemies, and cheerfully did so, earning the title "frog farmers" because of the most popular Timeless Isle locale to grind.

Blizzard could have chosen to turn a blind eye—after all, the whole point of Remix is to be silly and strong, and most of those hulking players were using their might to help carry others through dungeons and raids, the core of Warcraft's "play together" ethos. But instead, the farms and the farmers were nerfed, in some cases rolling back gains by players who hadn't even taken part in the farms and had instead done the content as intended.

Legion Remix launched earlier this fall, offering players the chance to collect not only all those appearances and mounts and goodies that MoP Remix had, but also a shot at collecting new decor items for its player housing feature, which just launched on December 2.

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Once again, farming spots were nerfed, though the company took a slightly lighter touch with players this time around. But unlike the MoP version, the whole event was time-gated.

Source: PC Gamer