Punishing folks who like the trading post

blizz, why do you keep doing this? folks enjoy the stuff your putting up on the trading post, they buy them… and then you put up more stuff that they’ll never be able to afford if they buy even a single thing the previous month.

why? why are you making this feature that should feel like a win, into a big loss?

your game is mostly about collecting stuff now, yet for some reason you feel the need to punish the folks who do just that! why? just… just why??

…that is all. :wave:

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The goal is not to buy every single thing and be done forever. They’ve already told us everything will come back around, so just triage your desires and that thing you kinda wanted but not quite as much as the other thing will be back.

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Literally nothing is punishing you.

All of this stuff circulates back in. August already has stuff that’s recycled from months past.

You aren’t supposed to buy it all right now.

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Like, I’m a BIT salty I messed up my math because I kind of wanted the spectral cub.

And I would have bought the dragonrider’s harness set if the chest hadn’t been bugged.

But I’ll still be there next time they show up… and if I’m not, I don’t need it.

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Checks out.

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Yep, pretty much. Blizz deleted my Treasure Chest from the frozen spot, so I can’t buy it now that I have the Tender to do so. But I’ll either wait until it comes back around or just not get it.

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I’d rather have a bunch of things to wait to come back around than months and months of garbage I don’t like. :dracthyr_blob_dance_animated:

Not mad about the lack of cool 2h swords or anything.

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Bc the goal is to keep people subbed long term. The items rotate, we’ve already seen some repeats. They don’t want you to buy everything every month.

If I didn’t buy into the concept they were going to eventually sell these (tenders) straight up for cash (someday), I’d say don’t even bother.

People take a free gift and turn it into an expectation

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The point is you’re not supporting to buy everything and be thankful that you can save an item.

They’re already recycling stuff from previous months. It will come around again.

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Those darn trading tendies are gatekeeping you!

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Because they’re going to put tender on the game shop for real money and they want you to buy it so you can get everything.

Except they have literally told us they aren’t going to do that and that the datamined bundle images were for things like Collectors Editions and such, which they plan to include tenders as bonus for.

Sure, because they totally haven’t lied before…

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are folks struggling to aquire currency?
edit: dont worry. there where shop options datamined

It was an eventuality that they’d “ramp up” the boiling frog experiment with needing to do more and more MAU metric boosting content.

I already ignore trading post as I’m burned from timegating in DF content. Most trading post quests are DF related so I have to pretend trading post doesn’t exist just like how I’ve been pretending DF doesn’t exist all year.

I just do legacy content solo, if I don’t get cosmetics from not doing DF content ohwell, I desire fulfillment over feeling like I gave into worthless timegate.

Sometimes you can’t get what you want, like how I want meaningful group content that isn’t sabotaged by timegate, but I guess I need to satisfy myself with legacy xpac farming.

They did say they’ll only be available for one month but there is a chance it will cycle through again at a later date. I mean to literally go against their own promise that everything in the trading post will do this by not allowing items to do that would be like shooting themselves in the foot. Granted they did promise Sylvanas wouldn’t be a raid boss and we all know where that went so… who knows at this point. Most the armor is ugly, the druid is colored and styled mainly for alliance so…if I buy any of it I may snag some nice weaponry skins but the evoker armor is awful looking. The monk armor I might try for…I’d need to put a set together for the scarlet crusade pally pieces… despite the fact that purple and silver weaponry looks like that armor set you can get from BC dungeons. For sure snagging that worgen themed warrior gear as it looks amazing…maybe the wolf shaman stuff despite it oddly named after the frog loa… so…uh…yeah

And yet you managed to play an Evoker? Gotta love the irony

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I would rather them add more new items than cycling stuff back in. Let us earn more to get more and we’ll keep coming back. Let us buy the Trader’s Tender as well, like a Battle Pass, do in-game activities for some and buy the rest with real money. Those that don’t want to, well they don’t have to do they?