The honor tokens are only in the game so there is still a way to buy old stuff that isn't just gold. You know, so you actually have to pvp to get pvp rewards.
You can just make twinks and farm them if you want as well. Nothing this serious.
But its obvious you aren't actually interested in discussing the issue properly and are just here to complain so best of luck!
Gonna be a long expansion for you.
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Blizz even said they considered just selling it for gold, but that it would trivialise it. BS. The time vs. reward is a fucking laugh if you are there JUST for transmogs, and I think once legion starts they will be forced to adjust it as it is WAY too time consuming for cosmetics. I did one BG for boots, got my token, and wont touch it until nerfed. If they never do, fuck em.
Honestly, yes. There were plenty of people who lost Bgs purposely or just spammed chat saying *lose already...* because they still got honor either way. If they spammed 5 BGs and lost really fast on purpose you could get 5 marks through doing that before someone actually won a BG. Im not saying its highly likely, Im just saying that there are people who would ruin the experience for others. Its already happened with honor being earnable through winning and losing.
That right there would discourage playing. Ive seen a lot of people who wanted to lose on purpose just to get quick honor. It would be the same but a lot worse with marks of honor.
This is implying that a great effort on the part of one individual is going to ensure a win, and that a loss is the result of not trying. Unless you're willing to create a premade, the outcome of a random BG is essentially in the hands of RNG in the team that it deals you.
I get what you are saying but the blue post expressly talked about implementing the marks of honor on OLD gear as a transmog price. They could issue and alternate transmog currency instead of marks of honor if they wanted to, and were dead set against selling it for gold. So I get it, PVP is for PVPers. THey are just trying to implement a "behavior forcing policy" to pad PVP participation. It could have been done in other ways. I am 100% sure they will have to nerf it.
The AFKers and botters are more likely to be going after actual progressive rewards in Legion, and not the Marks of Honor for transmogs. Still, I could have picked a better person to quote, as I was really referring to the attitude of not getting stuff for free that wasn't specific to your post.
Yes, BUT...even if I lost I got points still right? (I am litterally asking, as I a filthy casual who was just in the BG's long enough to farm what I needed for transmogs). If you lose a BG now, you get shit....ZERO. Which in many players opinions is too harsh of a mechanic to lure in casuals to participate in PVP for the reward of transmogs.