Microtransactions are expensive for retailers for small amounts to the point where they lose money. In order to create cost savings, you add amounts which are higher than the few microtransactions you were going to purchase and blizzard loses less per transaction in merchant fees.
Sucks for the consumer, win for the merchant.
cant wait to see what we are gonna be doin in pandaria
Hummm...
"we don't have resources"
"we're alread working on MoP in may 2010"
Wonder why cataclysm seemed like a half xpac...
Also,
"Currently, we think that Frost mages have too much control in PvP."
Gratz on knowing that after so much time...
As I always say... the main problem in wow pvp... few specs with so much and many others with so few... and most of it without much effort to use (procs, lol).
So like Guild Wars 2?In Mists we're attempting to take that one step further and have the world react to the players, and not just have the players react to the world. It gives the game a dynamic, “alive” feeling which is very much needed in a persistent-world game.
Lmfao uhm... yeah... it is entirely optional. Don't want to spend real money on cool things in game? Then don't. Want to spend real money on cool things in game? Go ahead.
There's absolutely nothing mandatory about it. Want =/= need. If somebody gets so hooked that they feel they can't help but use this feature then that's there own problem and whining about it is unwarrented.
Account wide achievements? Great, achievements being nerfed for those with ADD and can't focus on a character. Awesome.The worst part is not even the points per say, but it allows people to get a cop out on some achievements. For example, if they play X class, but X class is harder to get a high arena rating with, they simply have to log over and play with flavor of the month Y class to get their achieve for the old toon. Same goes for raiding, or other achievements that may be easier or harder with a class. This is a massive nerf to those who worked on hard with one class to accumulate points
One million times this ^
I dropped my sub as soon as I realized how boring face smashing into DS week after week on heroic with my main, and LFR on my 8 alts would be. Then they felt the need to accelerate the farming process for DS with a raid-wide buff, so not only can you queue for it via raid finder, but you can also easily blaze through it on normal via pugging through trade. Twice a week, 9 characters... you do the math. It's not "raiding" anymore in any traditional sense, and they seem to think it will hold everyone's interest until MoP. Enjoy leveling your alts until then for those of you that haven't done so already, and if you have, well... sucks to be you (and me, and probably thousands of others.)
Except for the part where there are arenas in Diablo 3 and you will essentially be able to buy the best gear, putting everyone else at an immediate disadvantage.
So you're basically saying,
"Just because you WANT to be competitive doesn't mean you NEED to be competitive. You have the OPTION to pay extra money every time new gear is released. You can just spend weeks at a massive disadvantage while you spend hours farming while others have already bought better items with real money. See, totally optional and fair!"
Granted, I haven't kept up-to-date on whether there will be different sets of PVP/PVE gear, etc. But last I checked, there weren't. So this is essentially like allowing players to buy the *best* arena and raid sets with real money, and then telling everyone being facerolled while they spend months raising their rating/downing bosses for the same loot that the field is totally fair. Yeah, LMFAO is right. LMFAO @ Blizzard.
Did blizz JUST figure out frost mages are OP in pvp... FINALLY account-wide achievements! been waiting for ages..
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I do hope they extend the account wide achievements to titles, or at least the rewards from them, say, Invincible's Reigns or one of the meta achievement mounts. Since the key part there was " players will at last be able to proudly display proof of the full scope of their adventures around Azeroth". At least that's how I see it. I just don't think it has much of a point if all you're doing is allowing people to transfer achievement points over to another character.
I don't know. Something.
casey >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> curse girl
Great MMOReport!
Funny story: One of the Fan-arts they released...
... is stolen and had the signature erased on purpose.
http://k-rocket.deviantart.com/galle...et=24#/d3c2zbg
Some of the fan arts are really great, great job on them