Trading post is fine. It’s clearly there to keep people subbed and coming back every month, but i understand that’s just business, and as far as business tactics for player retention goes, it’s pretty benign, so that’s good.
My only complaint is I kinda wish there was more variety. They seem to mostly just do recolours, simple basic things, and cutesy / cartoony things. I’d love to see more themes. Like, one month have a tonne of goblin technojunk and explosives, next month have a bunch of gnomish gizmos and contraptions, then a bunch of draenei themed gear with all the crystals and such, then some orcish spikey gear… etc.
There’s so much stuff, so many themes in Warcraft that they could use. I just feel like they’re limiting themselves too much by just doing colours, seasons and seasonal holidays.
Indeed, and ESO has something similar for its subscription option. If you are subbed, you regularly receive a reward for logging on as subbed. Its a bit like that little loyalty card I have with my local cafe for every time I buy a capuccino from them, now and then I get a free one. Its a popular business model.
This is the only legitimate criticism of the TP system. It’s pretty clear the prices have steadily risen over time to the point where the most you can get is one of the big ticket items and some random really cheap item.
But the trading post doesn’t always cater to my specific tastes and desires and when my personal wants and needs aren’t met the entire community suffers!
I don’t hate on the trading post I look at it more as at times there’s stuff I want and others stuff I don’t want, I do however wish there was more colors for the dress I’m wearing though like black, white, red, etc. that probably my only gripe with it honestly.
Maybe when they start putting some good stuff on the trading post people will stop complaining. In the end, people will do what they do and you have no say in it.
They should go back to the monthly free item being a big ticket item like a mount, giving us a cheap pet for free while adding a bunch of really expensive things every month is a major issue.
It’s fine to put us in a position where we have to make some hard decisions, but making the deficit grow every single month is insane. The only way it makes any sense to me is if they’re going to start selling tender bundles on the store at some point in the future, like they’re in the middle of creating a problem so they can sell us the solution later on down the track.
It’s not about getting “free” stuff. I rarely engage with the trading post bc 90% of it is crap. There is so much they could do with it and they chose to create garbage or low budget recolors instead.
That is because no one on here knows how to manage their own finances or currencies in terms of getting stuff from the trading post. When in fact it is designed in a way that you can’t buy up everything every month.
How is it dishonest to say the things they have put out this year is garbage when it is? You’re opinion isn’t any more valid than mine or anyone else’s.
To say that “they chose to create garbage or low budget recolors instead” is absolutely invalid. Not even about tastes, but objectively speaking you’re not being honest. They have been putting out brand new transmog sets in there every now and then, complete weapon mogs, mounts and probably other things I haven’t remembered.