Thats one way of looking at it. I for one just consider myself passionate and hate to see the game steering into this direction.
You can't have a box price, charge for expansions, charge a subscription.. and then also make people pay for ingame items. That's just too much fuckery.
I want a game where everyone is equal, like we had in the past. And I'm standing up for it.
You won't guilt trip me into not standing up for what I believe in.
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There are so many contradictions in your post it's embarrassing, honestly.
well since they introduced transmoggin i don´t care. the old days where you saw a char and were like "damn look at that sword he has from "omgwtfboss", he is a real badass" are long gone so they can sell whatever they want.
Sure.
I know. I played them. And I was more accepting of these kinds of things there because they didn't triple charge you for all sorts of shit.
Yet the games where none of these systems existed and there was just one monetary (or at most 2, in case of expansions) method have always been an objectively better user experience.
I can apply literally all of your arguments here to you as well. I can play the game however I want.
You don't own the game and you don't have a right to anything I do or do not do within it.
What? If I can literally turn your own arguments against you without even changing a word, that is a contradiction.
I see it as activism, you see it as spiteful. Which means you are missing the point entirely.
That doesn't surprise me really, I'm just way past explaining myself.
Yes, provided it looked good and I liked it. I'd totally be down for more fall/winter/summer themed outfits. Blizzard, for whatever reason, does not like to spend time on stuff like holiday rewards, etc. If paying them extra gets us more cosmetic stuff I actually want, I'd be all for it.
I will never understand why people care so much about this. Don't like it? Don't buy it. The fact that it's there and I won't be buying it doesn't negatively impact my gametime in the slightest.
I don't like bullying, but I hope people who spend real money on transmog gets every bit of ridicule they deserve ingame. Don't support Blizzard's greed. Don't buy stuff from the ingame store. They get more than enough money from the monthly subscriptions, it's frankly ridiculous that they spend development time on content locked behind real money.
It will in a future where the shop takes a more prevalent spot in the availability of quality items. This is my concern, because where does it end?
As more and more people are indulged, the shop will keep expanding and ultimately it takes away from what is available in the game itself.
The problem is people are already paying for these items via a subscription and by buying each expansion. It's using money from customers to develop more content to sell them rather then including it into the game. Worse the cash shop items tend to look an entire expansion ahead in terms of details in their design then mounts and transmogs that are currently obtainable.
I rather the resources are spent improving the quality of the game rather then hunting whales.
You...don't know how a public listed company actually works...
Yes, they do get enough money, but a public listed company needs to show CONSTANT GROWTH. That means that even if the profits are high, they need to be ever higher, otherwise it's considered that the company stagnates, and the shares will start to drop in value, shareholders will lose money and sell their shares, etc.
You see, it doesn't work like in the case of a mom&pop company that has good and constant sales, ensuring a steady profit. A public listed company needs to grow forever, so it has to look for ways to sell more and more shit no matter how ridiculous it becomes, OR to reduce expenses, such as firing personnel and selling assets should it come down to that.
Blizzard fired 800 employees, despite having profit, because that profit was just not enough to show GROWTH, so it had to be supplemented with some cost cuts, namely some expenses with salaries.
It's stupid and it's one those anomalies that occur in Capitalism, but they have to work with it.
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