That's not the same at all!!!! I don't support the shop, I hardly even play anymore, and what I'm against is players being ostracized for a cosmetic item. Someone plays like crap (and doesn't want to listen to advice) fine kick them, someone thinks they are better than everyone else (and really aren't) I can understand wanting them removed. Someone in the group that plays perfectly fine doesn't say a word to anyone, and just wants to get his dungeon done and get out, but gets kicked for having a transmog item that he thought looked neat and just happened to have $15 dollars laying around for it. That is completely different and it is complete bullying.
It's like crossing an intersection. There's shit going on all over the place and you don't panic and act like an idiot then do you?
Nothing you do can cause me to feel shame or modify my behavior. I'm a tank and I get instant queues, and my alt is a healer and gets even more instant queues. If anything I'll go buy more hats and gift them out. It was caterwauling like yours that caused me to buy a hat in the first place after all.
If either of us puts the other on ignore however, then we'll never see each other in any LFR ever. Win for both sides. You don't want to see people with hats - you have the very real power to do something about it - out yourself so you can be ignored.
I think it is self-evident that this is way worse than getting kicked out of a LFR group.
However, the principle stays the same.
Just like people call BS as long as nobody provides a single screenshot of a kick solely because of someone wearing the helmet.
You're just a bully trying to justify being horrible to others. Nothing more to it than that. You pay for a virtual game each month so that pays for blizzard directly just as much as buying from an in game store (hint they are experimenting with other game models free to play market has a BIG impact on this_)
Not only was it 200 pages. But every post that was created elsewhere was deleted (not moved). The name of the 200 page topic was also changed few times to try to make all talk about anything related to the store end up there. I think we can safely say that BLizzard tried their very best to keep this under wrap and as low profile as possible.
People being mad because I have disposable income and can spend it on things I find aesthetically pleasing, and they can't/won't out of arrogance/pride.
I honestly think that is partly why players who disapprove of this are as angry as they are and why they are taking measures like the ones stated in this thread. In the past, it always felt like when disapproval was so large Blizzard would listen (like Real ID on the forums), but in this instance it was just shameful to watch how they handled this situation.
The only way you can protest in the game is canceling subscription and not playing the game. Sadly not enough will do this and blizzard will continue to add items to the cash shop endless.
Stat gear is inevitable. It will start of with low quality armor,their excuse will be that the armor is worst then dungeon armor and it's sold to help alts get into dungeons faster.
Last edited by Haytham; 2013-07-20 at 08:47 PM.
It's not harassment to vote kick.
Only when you start repeated name calling and whispering ill will is it considered harassment...... and even then you have the ignore function.