The ridiculously-priced mouse has already been mentioned (cheaper than TWW Collector’s Edition, but still). Then there’s Watcher of the Huntress: instead of watching a twitch stream for several hours, you must now subscribe to twitch streams. Again, I wonder, what does Blizz get out of this? And now Warcraftpets has announced a Discord, 17 days only, promotion, where you must livestream your own game, and have it watched by a discord “friend.” I think I’m jus’ gonna give up.
Awhile back, I had a discord invite for something non-game related, and after staring at the screen for an hour, and pushing all the buttons, I could not understand, at all, how this thing (apt name, “discord”) worked, so I declined the invite. Just reading the directions for how to unlock Parrlok, again I can’t make sense of this-it sounds like something a warcraft guild with all the chat thingies turned on would only be able to do. Isn’t Discord free? What’s the ultimate goal of all this? Outside of sacrificing my first born to the Burning Legion, that is. Region-specific pets were one thing, but now it’s starting to get absurd.
As much as I cared to decode the Discord offer, it just means you find some sucker willing to receive and watch you stream while you play WoW for 15 minutes. A lot of players use Discord for their active social gathering system and already stream stuff to each other in the Internet-mediated equivalent of past generations’ gathering together and doing “hold my beer and check this out” shenanigans.
It’s all irrelevant nonsense to this old antisocial gamer, who never did “hold my beer” stupidity even when young and slightly more sociable, so this is a promotion I think I will do without.
Now, the Trolli sour worms cross-promotion with WoW? That’s naked capitalism I can get behind.
On the warcraftpets forums people are saying they’ve had to make several failed attempts before getting the pet, so even those who regularly use Discord are having trouble understanding the instructions (I’m so screwed). The gummies makes sense: buy a worm to get a worm-that’s what it should be. I don’t know why Blizz doesn’t attach codes to its plushies or funkos: we buy more of their stuff, they get more money, we get all our pets, and we got some toys for birthday presents.