Yeah I did fishing and made a couple more warriors to level with the sick demented friends I have that wanted to come back and try WoW after being MIA for 16 years.
I just ran out of things to do, that interest me. Mounts used to be a thing, but I have so many and only use one, or two. Raiding while probably best part of the game, my work schedule doesn’t really allow for it and social is non-existent unless you’re in a clique for M+/Raiding/PvP.
I still BS with the people I met in WoW 17-18 years ago, getting people to say more than hello is like pulling teeth these days.
I’ll be honest I don’t think there’s many people out there who are basing their playtime solely on the Trading Post. If you like the rewards on offer, buy them since you can easily do so by just playing the game normally. If you don’t like the rewards on offer, just don’t buy them. Not sure why you would feel compelled to grab rewards you don’t want. If you don’t want to do the steps needed to get the currency (ie: play the game normally)… then why the heck are you subbed? No seriously. If you don’t like playing the game stop paying for it.
The TP is really just a way to make old cosmetics and whatever else the art team comes up with available to players without needing to tie it to a specific form of content. It’s supposed to be low commitment. If you want something more meaningful to do, run a raid, run a dungeon, run some PvP, do some Mage Tower, grind rep, grind professions, hunt for battle pets, hunt for mounts… the list goes on.
If you want to be cynical, then sure the TP is a carrot to entice people to remain subbed. But I don’t see any of the rewards as significant enough to warrant throwing a fit about. As far as I’m concerned, it’s just a little extra cherry on top that I get for free just for playing the game. If someone can’t control themselves and continues paying for a game that they don’t want to play just so that they can get their silly pink cape this month… honestly that’s a personal problem that they’ll need to work out on their own.
Problem really is, people come back, they play and they leave. This is more to keep people doing content they would usually ignore because you can, the reward is to keep you doing old dried up turd content for said metric and it won’t work.
Those same people will come, get their raid/pvp fix and leave to play other games.
They don’t need to add rewards to keep people around that stay, that isn’t how it works. If you want to pretend, or even if you don’t understand what is happening that is fine; however the trading post won’t keep numbers/hours.
Blizzard needs to put in the effort in actual content with rewards to keep the majority logging back in.
I didn’t think it would be. But I also never thought it was supposed to. The main difference seems to be…
I don’t see this as a problem. WoW is a seasonal game. There’s nothing wrong with people logging in when there’s new content that they want to play, having their fill, and then leaving. I’m not sure why making sure every single WoW player is actively playing the game every day is a goal we want to pursue? I play a lot of different games both single player and multiplayer and none of them are games that I thought needed to offer me something to do that regularly.
It is a problem for people who play this as their main game, or only game.
It used to be the only game I played, but with lack of meaningful content and lobby style mmo that it has become, removed much of what made the game worth playing for hours a day.
Blizzard wants to shoehorn everyone into a path, and put limits on it.
Not my problem anymore, I have all of like 2 hours left on sub.
oh man. there are still raids i’ve never done. (mostly bfa). 2 days ago, heroic guldan in nighthold kicked my 70 mage’s rear end 3 times in a row…no idea how, since the day before my lock and hunter ran mythic guldan without a hitch. that was strange. i get huge nostalgia in tbc content. so much content, its almost overwhelming, and you’re bored., which i dont get. maybe you just need to do something else for a bit.
Look at it for what it really is, a fomo way of sub retention. Some of the stuff requires completing it multiple months in a row without skipping a month in between.
I wouldn’t have said that WoW lacked for content to play. As I alluded to in my previous post, there’s plenty of content available for you to do on a daily basis. If you don’t want to actually DO any of that content… well then the problem is that you don’t actually want to play the game. Cancelling your sub seems like the proper response in that case. Maybe you’ll come back in the .1 patch when there’s actually new content for you to enjoy. I actually strongly encourage people to pay their subs month to month so that they can pay when they want to play and not pay when they don’t. I’m not a fan of the large sub bundles because they force you to commit to a long time playing in a row. That’s not really super good for the consumer.
This is a 0.5 patch. We all knew it wasn’t going to include a ton of new content to do. New content takes time to develop, it’s not going to drop every other month.
I’ve already gotten over fomo, when I left in WoD early because it sucked, coming back to find out I could no longer get mythic weapon skins. Then skipping most expansions after Legion.
Oh dang I missed more pixels, oh well. Good luck Blizzard, I hear people love loot crates.
