Did I ever claim not to be short-sighted and selfish? If I wasn’t short-sighted and selfish, I’d be a game developer myself. Unfortunately, all I care about is what I want, so I can’t develop games for other people.
I’m just someone who pays Blizzard to maintain a world I enjoy inhabiting, and I refuse to do challenges or group content, so I’m voicing that in the hopes that I’ll see more content that I’m willing to do.
I’m not sure why you felt the need to point out my selfishness, but I make no apologies for it and continue my campaign to enrich my own experience, no matter if it is beneficial or detrimental to others.
I haven’t hidden at all. I am quite upfront about my motivation. There are other casuals it would benefit, and so that is an argument I can use to strengthen my point. So I use it. As for the challenge-seekers and social butterflies who would be saddened by whatever Blizzard chooses to do for casuals, I really couldn’t care less. I don’t like those people and their enjoyment is of no concern to me. I’m looking out for my own interest, and anyone whose interests align with my own is welcome to join me.
What you are suggesting I did implies that invoking other people is somehow necessary in making my point. It is not. All that matters to me is how I feel, and that is all that I have ever expressed. How I feel is that Blizzard serves my needs pretty well, but they could serve them better by upping the amount of solo, non-challenging content and boosting the rewards those activities bestow. That’s really all there is to it.
Raids can get phased out for all I care because I don’t do them.
You keep suggesting things “for the community”. When what you mean is “me”.
This is hiding your intent.
You do not care about the game.
Therefor, you are showcasing why you will not be taken serious. Your suggestions will fall on deaf ears.
Why should anyone with anything to do with listening to feedback about the game, take under consideration the view point of a person who literally does not care about the enjoyment of anyone else in the game?
Its nice you want trivial content. Guess what. WoW is a diverse game that can cater to multiple playstyles, and it will continue to do so.
You are just showing how you are useless to participate in a conversation with, because you have no intent of coming into the conversation honestly, rationally, and giving worthwhile feedback.
I’m all for having more things in the game that reward time spent, grinding etc rather than tying everything to high end content, but there will always be better rewards at the top.
There has to be impressive things to shoot for that make you want to be a better player or participate in harder content. That’s how reward structures work. The same is true for real life. If you could afford a Lamborghini working the cash at McDonald’s, why would you want to go to school to become a lawyer?
I care deeply about the game. It’s where I spend the majority of my time.
None of us will be taken seriously and all of our suggestions fall on deaf ears. What are you even talking about? We’re a bunch of geeks quacking into the void, hoping somebody at Blizzard catches a stray bit of one of our posts someday. They’re not going over these forums with a fine-toothed comb in search of ideas. Nobody at Blizzard said,“You know, this Akston guy has a point. Who does this ‘Shreds’ character think he is!?”
Stop bein’ silly.
They don’t.
All content is trivial. Nothing you have done or will ever do here matters beyond whatever meaning you assign it and maintain for yourself.
Then stop talking to me. In fact, put me on ignore. That’s what the option is there for, after all.
Yeah, I’m pretty much done with him at this point. When he said the game could be better by catering to the risk adverse I thought it was coming from a genuine desire to make the game better for everyone. Now that he’s admitted to being nothing more than a selfish player who doesn’t like certain segments of the game’s community and doesn’t care how his changes would affect them or the game I can put pretty much put him on ignore.
I don’t want to be a better player or participate in harder content. Where did these strange and arbitrary goals originate? I signed up to have fun, not to “test my mettle.”
You may have a point there. I was unemployed until my mid-30s, and then I got a security job and used my wages to enter the crypto market. SafeMoon’s launch turned $750 into $88,000 in a couple of weeks, and I put that into Doge before it ballooned due to SNL. I cashed out before the dip and now I don’t worry about money anymore.
I will, therefore, never become a lawyer. I’m fine never working another day in my life.
I guess I just don’t see how that’s anything but desirable.
Hey guys. I have a great idea to implement my feedback.
Tell everyone I don’t care about anyone elses gameplay, only things I personally like should be included. Any form of gameplay I do not like, should be cut. Because my wallet is enough to justify a MMORPG’s existence.
People who want the “best” rewards behind the “hardcore wall” is as entitlement as the people who want everything to be easy and fast to obtain.
The game should be balance, it should reward the hardcore and skilled, as well as the dedicated but less skilled, even if they do it at different times, the game currently does not do this and also strongly encourages FOMO.
The lawyer thing was just an example of a high paying job. Not inferring anyone would want to become one.
But to your first point, if you don’t want to get better or participate in higher end content then some rewards will just be unobtainable for you and that’s ok.
People wanting the best things to come from casual content aren’t really ever going to get what they want, but I do agree that there should be something “best” from casual content as well.
In Legion with archeology you could get the spirit moose mount. The amount of people out there farming for it that never would have touched archeology shows that people are willing to do things they don’t want to do to get something cool. The only difference there is the moose wasn’t hard, just took some time investment.
Holy what a bad idea… This is what people are avoiding for? Bleh man, the second this happens in writing this game.
Why don’t you just play the freaking game? There’s a ridiculous amount of cosmetics or there that are easily obtainable. This mentality of needing everything without doing anything is crazy.
