Thanks GD…
I just lost my job for taking a shot everytime someone incorrectly uses fomo.
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What’s incorrect about it? Limited-time events are normally intended to motivate people to login for them lest they miss them. They inspire a “fear of missing out”.
Insert “anotherone” meme here as I will never have tl3.
No, becvause you are not considering some jobs. For example if you work during Winter in a mountain or during Summer in the middle of a country field with no internet you would understand or even in a ship in the middle of the sea. Not all people could return home to play the game at the end of their work shift you know.
And this falls under the “limited time events in a video game are the least of their concerns”.
No matter how you try to weave it, it falls under two categories.
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time management. If you say you do not have time to log into WoW, youre saying you do not have 15 minutes of time to yourself in that day. Which is a lie and a result of bad time management. In the event you do have time, but have to do other things with that, it leads us to number 2:
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Priorities. What you choose to do with that free time. Picking a job that leaves you without a computer or internet access periods of time was a choice you made. If the limited time event is so important, remove the object thats in your way (job). If thats unrealistic, then realize again that a limited time event in a video game is the least of your worries.
Take a little personal accountability
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why? I love time limited events and I am enjoying it…
you can not have everything but I am sure you had something from one of those events right? what if you had love rocket and saying this you are an ixxxx!! 
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That happens all the time lol
I didn’t think it was possible but somehow this worse then the “won’t someone think of the newplayers” arguement people try to push.
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Fun fact: a lot of Navy ships have and allow access to wifi/internet. So you can still log in and complete said events even while youre in the middle of the sea
Not all are Navy ships.
I mean i want Blizz stop with them. Diablo event, HS event, now Pirates event. Or at least they should state rewards would come back again in the future in some way like in TP or something.
I don’t mind the odd one IF they aren’t buggy. But since Blizzard can’t make anything that works correctly they shouldn’t be doing these.
Two in a row is way too much though.
We are paying for this party though…
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They at least shouldn’t be limited time events with low drop rates.
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Things still have to be scheduled though, and not everything can last forever. Not everything has staying power, and that’s by design. They wouldn’t make something like love is in the air or headless horseman permanent not just because they are tied to a specific holiday. But because they are basic, and not very engaging gameplay. It’s made to be mildly entertaining, not difficult, but offering a chance at a sweet reward. It gets lots of people involved, which builds a sense of community. It’s their impermanence that makes them fun.
Ok but if their lives are that busy, why do they care? Sounds like they don’t even have time for WoW so what difference does it make?
Either they have time to log on or they don’t. I don’t get this logic that it can be both.
Not saying this is coming from you, but usually people like the OP start or follow up this kind of post with “I’m an adult.” Example: “I’m an adult with 10 wives, 30 kids, 5 jobs and a goldfish. I don’t have time…” Well, part of being an adult is saying my life is so busy with real life stuff that I don’t have time for a computer game. Also, part of being an adult means you can’t always get what you want.
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They aren’t fun if they are a buggy mess, they are frustrating. And that is all blizzard seems to be able to create, buggy messes. A lot of these events blizzard doesn’t fix things for a month after they are introduced and when you put in a time limited one people get stressed out from bugs.
Then, why does it matter? Seriously, why care about things you spend little time playing with anyway?
“BUT I WANT ALL THE THINGS”
is that the reason?
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If they’re particularly buggy they get fixed. And maybe even have their duration extended and frequency of occurrence increased, as we’re going to get for the hearthstone holiday.
That doesn’t stop people from getting frustrated before the bugs are identified and ‘fixed’. A game shouldn’t make people so mad they don’t want to even play it.
You gotta realize that this is what the loudest vocal part of the community wants. They have a lot of free time for these event’s. They aren’t beholden to anyone but themselves, and because of that they can collect the items in these limited time events to show off to others who couldn’t. In this way they get the satisfaction of superiority, it makes them feel better and accomplished over others.
On top of how these vocal players feel it is statistically factual that “fomo” or “limited time events / items” does bring in tons of money. And Blizzard is all about that money. The reality is the players who disagree with you OP and the company, they don’t care about you, they don’t care about me, they don’t care about anything other than money and satisfaction and thats exactly what they get.
But yeah these are the forums, empathy and compassion don’t exist here, and they don’t exist in corporate America.
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