You think you’re psychologically causing me anxiety, forcing me to check the Shop every day, which will lead to me spending Money because you’re having a sharp decline in Sales.
What you’re really accomplishing is annoying me into begrudgingly checking the Shop, seeing something I like, which I then CHOOSE not to buy out of sheer Principle and slightly out of Spite because you’re pissing me off by trying to shove the Cosmetic Shop down my throat every day.
The real reason no one is buying is because of your terrible decision making. It has nothing to do with whether or not we’re checking the Shop.
It’s also because you charge $25 for a single Pet Skin, morons.
The bug where the ! exclamation mark never goes away (despite clearing all ‘new’ items) is extremely aggravating though, and it’s counter productive, because when it persists for as long as this (what is it, weeks now that it has been busted?) I just start ignoring the shop completely.
I’m happy to buy stuff when I see something I really like, so the proper functionality is useful to me… when it works!
It’s a cheap parlor trick to get you to check the shop to clear the !!! Seems it is too difficult for them to offer something people might actually want at a reasonable price.
Think about it. This is what these people sit around and discuss at a meeting. No wonder the game is in the shape it is in with this mindset.
Some folks are …shall we say: quite averse to advertisements, to put it very mildly.
In the case of the shop - it’s an obvious “Yes I get it & I know what you’re doing or trying to do”.
Yes it’s just a but it’s also pretty lame to leave it up there.
“But Data suggests that …!!” Haha. Yup I’m sure there’s a solid “reason”.
As far as “not seeing it” - I find it remarkable that with TV/Radio adverts folks say “oh I just don’t pay attention to it”… whereas I’m looking for the remote or a baseball bat.
For me it’s one of those things that’s a constant, so I stopped paying attention to it. I see the little ! Or stars or whatever constantly in D4. Whether it’s the shop, or when I pick my cosmetics, or going into my inventory. It’s present everywhere in this game.
Now when games first started doing this crap, I had OCD, I had to get rid of it. It bugged me to have something just constantly there calling out to me. Eventually I grew numb to it, since it seems to be everywhere lately.
Yup.
Numb is the keyword.
I still catch myself trying to clear it and then go “oh right heh”.
Also, admittedly, I’m hoping for the odd freebie to be there as well.
But while that persists - as op said: I refuse to purchase anything out of general principle. Not that I’m even remotely a ‘good customer’ or demographic on the best of days(or my worst to illustrate moments of bad judgement lol).
I’d like to point out that the shop UI is(was?) so poorly designed that it would skip rows of items as I scrolled… granted, this seemed to only happen when the ‘rows’ contained freebies. I won’t jump to conclusions & say that it was deliberately designed to make the user scroll back up (having been exposed to the $$ goods above & below) only because I didn’t conduct a proper test - but it sure seems so. So I’ll be generous & guess they suck at UI design.
I haven’t even involuntarily looked at the shop in… months(!)? Kek. I don’t even feel fomo over the seasonal bird… though I gave him a sincere chance to hook me. Those mud clouds (what they’re calling witch “auras”) & buggy gerbil wheel exercises seasonal mechanics were like an invitation to avoid even seeing that stupid mobile-style shop notification (taken straight from Immortal btw) altogether.
I’m actually clinically diagnosed with real OCD. So things like this are in fact quite a trigger (sometimes. those with real ocd know you have your good days and your bad). On a bad day, this stupid symbol can be like a blindingly loud siren going off in my head. Blizzard doesn’t consider that though, when they’re trying to force feed me the shop.
Yea I’ve always advocated for there to be an option on these games to just to turn it off. While I’ve grown fairly immune to it, that doesn’t mean everyone has, and it’s a rather predatory gimmick if we’re being honest.
but it’s also pretty lame to leave it up there.
better if use 
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