Oh so someone who bought an Olympic gold medal achieved the same thing as someone who won it because they “worked” for the money to buy it??
See how dumb that sounds
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I mean, they achieved the same gold medal. But I’m pretty sure there’s a cash prize that goes with olympic wins, so the difference in achievement would be that figure.
You can’t buy a cash award, obviously.
This is an argument I’d expect from a boomer who goes on about ‘kids these days and their vidya games’.
We’re both gamers here, obviously. Why do you turn up your nose at the idea of someone improving their skill in their hobby?
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False. Few boomers read recreationally.
Millennials and Zoomers read more than boomers on average.
of course, put “I’ve read books” on yours. So has anyone with formal education.
I’ve read the DSM and ICD enough times to memorize them, and write about 10k words a week for work, I’ve been certified by CARF international and the Joint Commision. I’m really good at my job… but I can ALSO play videogames. The two things are not mutually exclussive. If I didn’t have hobbies, or a healthy social life, I’d probably burn out.
In fact, having hobbies outside work and being able to talk about them is great for making friends AT work. And personally, most people in my field are as nerdy as I am… or more. Even if you love your job, it’s unhealthy when that’s the only thing you talk or think about.
If you swallowed your pride and stopped thinking you are better than other people, maybe you’d be able to learn a new skill. Stop complaining about what you don’t have and work on getting it.
PS: since you like to say you read so much… read about self-serving bias.
As someone that hates working for things but loves getting things I completely agree!
why should peoples effort be rewarded when doing nothing can give you the same reward!
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In a game we pay to play, effort should be meaningless. Rewarding effort in this context is like charging people $15 for a movie ticket and then giving out free popcorn to people who insert improvisational dialog into the film. When someone else tries to buy popcorn, you refuse to sell it to them and suggest that if they want it, they should participate in the bizarre and pointless activity that is currently awarding popcorn. 
Effort should be required on free-to-play games because nobody is paying and so one’s right to achieve must be earned. When we pay by the month, we deserve to get nice things frequently so long as we continue to pay our sub.
That’s one reason I’m a fan of the 6-month mount bundles.
You’ll get a picture book of scantily clad fruit.
That’s an extremely clever comment. 10/10 for creativity!
/Polite golf clap
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This is a recipe for a truly awful game, good games require goals to reach and rewards for reaching them. If effort was meaningless than playing the game is meaningless and if playing the game is meaningless than its dead.
I’m confused by this, are you saying that any game that you need to buy should have 0 challenging content, or if it does have some than no reward for it?
You deserve to play the game you bought not get handed things you choose should be yours. If I go to that movie theatre and buy a ticket for a horror movie I don’t get to start saying “Why is this horror and no a romance? I payed $15 and I deserve to watch what I want” so when you go to a part of the game that’s challenging why would you say this shouldn’t be a thing instead of going to one of the other parts of the game? or if it is a thing it shouldn’t have any unique reward for attached to it?
I left Final Fantasy XI for World of WarCraft because it was advertised as “easy,” “casual-friendly,” and “soloable all the way to cap.”
This is the casual MMO. That’s why it was successful.
Video Games are a storytelling medium. There is no reason to gate enjoyable content behind stupid mini-games. Every player should always have access to the coolest mounts and the entirety of the story. It is somewhat upsetting to me that casuals often have to watch YouTube to see end-raid cut scenes to complete the expansion’s story. That’s a plot point. Everyone deserves to see it.
Challenge trophies are the aim of sports. I don’t play or watch sports because I don’t like that dynamic. I watch movies and read books. I play RPGs and ARPGs on story mode with console commands if necessary so that I can enjoy everything right away without having to strive for anything. Striving is not fun for me. I find it stressful and unpleasant. If I am forced to face a challenge to get a specific reward, I give up on that reward entirely.
That is what has happened with me and the book mount.
That is why I would like a completely different book mount to be offered on the cash shop, so that I can enjoy riding on a book as well. Because if a book doesn’t come to the cash shop, I’ll never ride one. 
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I’d prefer if these were earnable in-game.
You know, like the crab, or spelltome.
It’s nice to have a quality mount locked behind a meta challenge, rather than a simple recolor.
I have the crab but I never use it because it makes me feel like a tryhard.
Honestly, I hope you get your book mount.
I’m not going to hold my breathe for it, but I do hope you get it.
It’s unfortunate that people have to devolve into insults towards people with different priorities. It’s not like you’re saying to remove the book from the tower and put it in the shop. You just want something -like- the book. which isn’t unreasonable.
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Blizz design a flying leaflet. You know, like a 4 page fold out Azeroth tourism brochure.
And this moving of goal posts tells me how thoughtful you really are. I didn’t turn my nose up at people getting better at their hobby. I turned my nose up at the concept that it matters.
Got a few bites, but this type of trolling is what devolves the game.
We need less unique store items and more unique in-game items to reward players that actively play the game.
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Agreed.
It feels super nice to get a high quality mount with unique animations for playing the game.
Mist of Pandaria was Blizzard’s love letter to me. I resolved then that I would never stop fishing for another.
I wouldn’t really care if they added a store mount version – provided it was plastered with dollar bill signs.
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How about a bank ledger mount?