This has become common in all mmos lately, people play through patch cycles and rotate to something else until the next patch
what kills me is that they take a very large cut after a sale in auction then when you convert gold into battlenet balance, they have the nerve to charge sales tax for item purchased with gold.
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All part of their gold sinking plan.
The company has no control over what the State of California requires in taxation. Companies dislike to administrate tax collection because it adds another accounting layer and more responsibilities.
Ironically, Pathfinger and other time-gates were intended to extend your sub time and to end so-called âcyclical subsâ (i.e., as you described). However, itâs backfired, because now people unsub between Pathfinger Part 1 and X (when you can fly). The longer the lapse, the fewer months subscribed.
I would say that time-gates and Pathfinger arenât accomplishing the desired goals.
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With WoW, a lot keep their subs going while taking a break, so they can come back whenever.
The devs are learning all the time how much the players will tolerate.
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/sigh
You do it to yourself. Itâs not the devs. Itâs you. You and only you, that is the real problem here.
You want everything right now. Without having to wait, or pace yourself. You are addicted to instant gratification. Youâve forgotten how to earn something.
This content has to last. Weâre in the expansion end-game, and weâre going to be here for around the next 12 months. If you could max out your cloak and fully deck yourself out in 440 gear tomorrow, how do they keep you entertained until Shadowlands comes out and free up enough resources to actually build the expansion?
Maybe take a beat, relax, and realize that it doesnât matter if you miss a day or two. It doesnât matter if you donât maximize your Coalescing Vision income to run one vision full-clear every 24 hours for Curios.
It doesnât matter.
None of it matters.
If you fall a week behind, guess what! Youâve got somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 more weeks to play catch-up.
If you fall thirty weeks behind, you should still have around 15 weeks where you can continue to slack off and still have enough time to catch up.
You are burning yourself out. Not the devs.
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I have always maintained year-long subs in six month chunks. Iâve always found something to do in WoW, despite how horrible the game has gotten recently (in retail I just farm and twink). Now that I can play Vanilla again, Iâm doing that.
However one of the primary motivations for these stupid changes and the introduction of Diablo and F2P elements, was allegedly to curb the cyclic-subs. Iâm merely noting that what theyâve done to facilitate more, prolonged subs has had the opposite effect.
I really hope thats not how people would call the next expansion by the end of itâŠ
What do you even do in this game to consider yourself informed? Because your armory makes it look like nothing.
Nonsense. I raided in Wrath without shoulder enchants and did just fine. I raided in TBC without either Aldor or Scryers trinkets. Back in those days, your characterâs power was intrinsic and not reliant on rental items and although the enchants were a nice plus, they were by no means, absolutely essential.
And pushing that envelope as hard as they can. Perhaps they view us as frogs in the proverbial boiling pot?
I donât give them any extra money anymore. Donât buy store goodies (and I used to buy them all) and I donât buy expansions anymore. But Iâm having fun in Classic and totally looking forward to other legacy servers -->MoP.
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The funny thing is, if part 1 enabled flight in release content, those people would likely remain subbed, and those that donât would likely be the ones that would unsub with or without flight anyway.
If Blizzard payed attention to what players want, they would see some of us would take pathfinder if they cut out the dumb time gate, make it a âdo this get flightâ not âdo this, wait an arbitrary time, do this new stuff, get flightâ Carrot and stick only works when the carrot is actually there once the stick is gone.
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Bigger problem is, Blizz keeps doing the carrot on a stick thing, and, people are giving them the finger =/
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Because Blizzards carrot and stick amounts to removing the carrot and attaching it to a new stick when the first is dealt with by the players, in essence a different take on âthe cake is a lieâ. Blizzard is just lucky players canât take the first stick and beat them with it for all the stunts they have pulled.
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Youâre right. The content drought in WoD would have been better received if people could have flown at max, I know it would have been by me.
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Itâs only fair, since Pathfinger is them giving us the finger. Worms are too.
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Agreed. Getting real tired of the Pathfinder crap
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YoU hAvE tO eArN iT.
Ah yes, because games are supposed to be WORK : )
That is why im currently enjoying Swtor that has better gearing system, classes, pvp and story and can get geared within a week leaving only the last 10% of my characterâs power to grind unlike WoWâs 50%+ damage coming from azerite+essences+corrupted gear
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Perhaps it is a sign that the company hasnât learned anything from player feedback. However itâs, also a sign that the player base hasnât learned anything either. The company isnât responding to the feedback. And yet we keep buying the product.
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