A few precisations about the leaked patch notes.

Yes, I am a goon. Not only, I’m more gullible than what you expect. In fact a part of me still believes and hopes that those patch notes are real.

You see, the point is not what I believe, what I predict or expect. The point is that those patch notes, beside a few lines here an there, were damn good. They raised my faith on Blizzard by a fair amount in a way that doesn’t happen in months. A few days after, that Shane kiddo posted the Battleplan about the future of the game. And that battleplan, for the most part is crap. It completely fails to deliver any exciting information about the development of the game and, at best, is able to to get a yawn out of a reader. It basically says: “Don’t expect much if not what you see and what was already repeated at exhaustion”.

I believe the hype. No, I don’t believe bad hype because I can see that it brings nowhere. But the good hype is always good. Even when it’s faked. I think that who put together those patch notes, no matter if a dev, a normal player or a kid with too much time available, did a way better work to arouse the attention than that lame “Battleplan 2.0”. That’s the major victory. Whoever put together those patch notes kicked the ass of everyone at Blizzard and put to shame that official letter.

Whoever put together those patch note is a very good designer. Yes, it’s easy to think about stuff and write about it without actually specify much and do the work. But a lot of what was written was about usability features that are already possible with the infrastructure of the game. The fixes to the battlegrounds, the changes on the queues, the changes to the meeting stones and so on. Those are all features that should have been available in the game LONG AGO. And it’s a shame that so damn good changes are confined to be just a joke to entertain us bloggers. It’s Blizzard that should arouse our interest with innovative ideas and new features, it’s not our work to imagine stuff to entertain ourself while the game arduously wobbles forward.

Now tell me. What would you have chosen to be a fake, the battleplan or those patch notes? You know my answer.