It’s the principle. You put other things aside to help out. And then you get shafted?! That is, you held up your end of the bargain. A healer was needed. You did the job. And then you dont get what was promised? Even if it was ten gold, or two. The thing is a deal is a deal.
Again, it’s the principle. In other words, it is not right. It is taking from others without the promised reward. Maybe you would like to get a job to do something. Then you do it and your employer says. Oh, sorry. It was only a little money. It was only a little bit of your time. Someone else in the company quit. So we are not giving you what we promised. We are not paying you one penny, let alone the $5 an hour. Sorry. It wasn’t much anyway. The lost time and other associated expenses you footed are your problem.
I would add that I am not alone in feeling shafted. There are lots of people who feel the same way. There have been countless times I have not gotten that satchel and wondered if I did but forgot. There are times when I thought, Oh, must be a glitch. But in the end, it really annoyed me deep down.
I would add that if you wipe even once, then you end up losing not only your time, but also gold out of your pocket. If that is, as one GM put it, “working as intended” then it is the equivalent of punishing those who want to help. And if this has been the rule for years, then Blizzard has effectively been punching people who want to help straight in the face.
Lastly, and most importantly in my view, doing a bait and switch on paying customers is probably the last thing any company wants to do. Let alone to the ones that want to help out. In the end, effectively shooting itself in the foot. I wont be queueing for LFR rewards again, that is for certain. And I hope people like you who condone such practices as
are truly happy helping perpetuate such practices, which in the end lead to even longer waits for other paying customers when healers like me simply opt out and refuse to be the patsy of a very very poorly thought out and very poorly designed system. And, if working as intended, intending to pull a fast one on the unsuspecting.