No one is safe from the ire of players who feel like their toys were ripped away from them. Not even Blizzard when it tried to balance World of Warcraft's next Remix event after players overwhelmingly loved how unbalanced the last one was.
The concept was simple: Break off an old WoW expansion as its own mode, add powerful new gear to it, and let players earn rewards to take back into [[link]] the live game. After , it worked for last year's Mists of Pandaria Remix. Players got to experience what it was like playing the MMO like it was Diablo with ridiculously strong characters capable of soloing its hardest dungeons.
Compared to MoP Remix, Legion Remix sounds so drawn out that it could just be called Legion Classic. I can kind of see what Blizzard is going for—weekly progression to keep you logging back in—but once you let players gobble up as many cookies as they'd like, it's going to be hard to make them eat one crumb at a time.
The and over the last few days [[link]] caught Blizzard's attention, however. Earlier today, Blizzard community manager wrote on the forums that the PTR will return next week with "major improvements with a goal of adding speed, power, and fun to the mode."
Nobody is quite sure how much Blizzard will change with only one more week of testing and a month before its in early October. Number tweaks could do quite a lot by the sounds of it, but it also seems like nobody wants to wait for new updates to come out every few weeks, which Blizzard might not be willing to budge on. All [[link]] I know is that players want Remix to feel distinct from other versions of WoW and a time-gated grind is absolutely not that.