Comic #784: Bug Report (Patreon)

I was trying to make a lighthearted parody of some of Blizzard's game mechanics problem solving in WoW. Hopefully nobody takes it too seriously.

When a design choice has a flaw, players will often try to find workarounds in order to better enjoy the game. If the workaround runs counter to the intended design, you end up with a choice. Change the design to better suit the needs of the players, or remove the workaround. The later seems to be chosen most of the time.

The hardest part of writing this comic was figuring out what the bug was going to be. I already had the basic outline in my head: Player 1 finds a bug, Player 2 finds a workaround, Player 1 submits a ticket, the workaround is "fixed" instead of the bug.

I needed to find an idea where the workaround could be "fixed" in such a hyperbolic way that would read in a single panel without dialogue. I also wanted to make sure the fix was so over the top that nobody would confuse it for a real in-game bug.

Also, just to be clear, I don't think the chest spawning underground thing is a real bug. At least currently. I just made that up. Though I do recall that happening often with herb nodes.