I remember the exact moment I first decided to get into raiding.
It was seeing somebody outside of the auction house in orgrimmar. wearing big blue spiky armor with a big bony axe.
It was that moment I realized that I wanted to join a raid group.
ended up raiding with the same heroic/mythic guild for almost 7 years. made a lot of friends even got top 100 in North America on restoration druid for some time.
do new players get motivated like that? I dunno. I see the ever-expanding Blizzard store and I see a lot of reasons why people would just swipe their credit card instead of going on a journey.
I have some real doubts about the new traders and how people are clamoring to pay real money for that currency.
Getting the warlock felsteed in vanilla. I got it, mounted up and ran the ironforge circle over and over for over an hour. First memory that jumped to mind.
You get the traders currency, 500 by default for every month you log in (subbed) and then 500 from doing all the missions, I think.
You care too much, that’s it really. Rare mythic mogs are still different from the store ones though. There’s still some value in getting them early on.
Also don’t care about how Bliz runs their show. I try not to care about what people do, it affects me less and I am less stressed. If someone’s getting burned, remind them. Don’t listen, its on them.
To me it was fun. I told a friend “ok, I do this in WoW, but this game raiding is awful, you can do it watching TV and none would be the wiser”.
That is actually the reason boosts are both profitable and a problem, btw.
If the game actually required attention and skill to raid, boosting would not be profitable because it would demand work, and would demand everyone does their part. Since it doesnt, it isnt.
Like… the $60 boost or the expansion one? Cuz I can’t fault an expansion boost. That’s what helped me kickstart this account in MoP to make up for losing the old account I played on.
Unless the only toon is boosted. I’ve long since moved on and made many more legit.
Watching my friend accidentally death grip the whale shark.
I mean I got better memories but watching its fin just fly forward and him instantly dying in our group was funny.
Since the game is crap and they are only there to earn, no one is there to play the game, hence, no one earns well either.
It is the reverse in WoW, but due to the same reason, people are not there to play, they are there to “get stuff”, and since you can “not play and have stuff” by being boosted, many people do.
If the game were good enough to be the reason to play, people would not mind “getting stuff” more than they would mind playing, so they would not pay someone to skip gamplay.
Since getting stuff is pretty much what wow is about now, people dont mind not playing and just getting stuff. So boosting is a thing, and just grows.
Kids these days just want to swipe their credit cards and have epics mailed to them. This is morally wrong and makes them bad people.
We are good people who do good things and work hard. That is why we earn good things. We deserve them. They are young, new, low skilled, and bad people. The do not deserve what we have.
The new generation is going to be the end of everything. They don’t want to work for anything. We loved to work for things. We love to work through our lunch breaks without getting paid. We love to work overtime without being paid. We brag about how we are working hard for free/nothing. We are proud! We are good! We have what we have because of merit!
The first time I walked into Molten Core. I had done a ton of Scholomance, Stratholme, UBRS runs but stepping into the raid with 39 other players and seeing the giant mobs path around was truly epic.