WoW: Neuer Knopf für den Ingame Shop
Bereits mit dem vor einigen Wochen aufgespielten Patch 5.4.2 wurde neben dem auf der offiziellen Seite von Blizzard vorhandenen Shop auch noch ein eigener Ingame Shop im eigentlichen Client von World of Warcraft untergebracht. Aktuell kann man diesen Shop im Spiel über einen kleinen Knopf im Mikromenü des Interfaces aufrufen, was den Entwicklern aber scheinbar noch nicht offensichtlich genug ist. Aus diesem Grund wird der kommende Patch 5.4.7 einen weiteren Button für den Ingame Shop einfügen, der sich dann unten links im Charakterauswahlbildschirm befinden wird.
Dieser kleine Knopf hat allerdings bei den Testern des kommenden Updates ziemlich viel Ärger und Missmut ausgelöst, sodass sich derzeit viele Spieler in den Battle.Net Foren über diese Anpassung aufregen. Community Manager Taepsilum hat sich daher vergangene Nacht diesen Beschwerden angenommen und einmal versucht die Beweggründe von Blizzard hinter dieser Änderung zu erläutern.
Derzeit handelt es sich bei dem Ingame Shop für World of Warcraft noch immer um ein recht neues Feature, welches leider von vielen Spielern übersehen wird. Dies liegt teilweise daran, dass viele Spieler bestimmte Addons nutzen, die entweder absichtlich oder automatisch das Mikromenü bzw. den Button für den Shop ausblenden und somit den Zugriff auf den Shop über diese Leiste verhindern. Aus diesem Grund haben sich die Entwickler dazu entschieden einen Knopf einzubauen, den man nicht einfach so ausblenden kann. Ansonsten bittet Taepsilum die Spieler darum, sich nicht so sehr auszuregen. Schließlich handelt es sich dabei nur um einen einfachen Button, der keine Auswirkungen auf die Spielerfahrung hat.
I know that for those of you who are just not interested at all in the store, these changes might seem somewhat redundant or even a bit annoying. I get that, I really do.
But please understand that a lot of players do like to use the shop, and since this is a fairly new feature (the in-game version of the shop), we want to make sure that everyone is aware of its existence and that you don’t actually have to tab out to a web browser to use it.
The buttons outside of the micro-menu exist mainly because the micro-menu is one of those parts of the interface that some addons and UI packs actually hide by default, and we want everyone to know about this new functionality.I really don’t think that this is being in any way obtrusive and/or preventing you from playing the game as you have been doing all along. Now, I do understand that some players might have some more philosophical reasons to dislike it, but I still think that some are just blowing this out of proportion. It’s a small button that you can choose to use or to completely ignore, it’s not a pop-up window that forces user-interaction with it.
Of course there is a fine line that we don’t want to cross when it comes to the number and the positioning of any kind of button within the game, too few buttons or poorly positioned ones often leads to unused/unknown features, too many, and they can become redundant or annoying. I can see that some of you are of the opinion that anything over one button is already too much.
You can rest assured that we will forward all of your feedback to the proper channels, it’s important to us that everyone knows about new functionalities but obviously we don’t want to cause any discomfort to anyone while doing so.
But please understand that a lot of players do like to use the shop, and since this is a fairly new feature (the in-game version of the shop), we want to make sure that everyone is aware of its existence and that you don’t actually have to tab out to a web browser to use it.
The buttons outside of the micro-menu exist mainly because the micro-menu is one of those parts of the interface that some addons and UI packs actually hide by default, and we want everyone to know about this new functionality.I really don’t think that this is being in any way obtrusive and/or preventing you from playing the game as you have been doing all along. Now, I do understand that some players might have some more philosophical reasons to dislike it, but I still think that some are just blowing this out of proportion. It’s a small button that you can choose to use or to completely ignore, it’s not a pop-up window that forces user-interaction with it.
Of course there is a fine line that we don’t want to cross when it comes to the number and the positioning of any kind of button within the game, too few buttons or poorly positioned ones often leads to unused/unknown features, too many, and they can become redundant or annoying. I can see that some of you are of the opinion that anything over one button is already too much.
You can rest assured that we will forward all of your feedback to the proper channels, it’s important to us that everyone knows about new functionalities but obviously we don’t want to cause any discomfort to anyone while doing so.
