I don’t mind being laughed at. I am not that delicate.
Though if I were given the option? I would prefer to be laughed at by someone who actually understands what I said. I am not certain that you do.
My comment was entirely about new players, or players returning to the game. These are people who may not know that things are on the forums, or have forgotten this.
You keep saying ‘people choosing’, and that is not what I am speaking about. I am not talking about the people who are actively using the forums. I am talking about people who may have been asked to come back or play for the first time. These are people who are playing a game, and have a reasonable expectation that things that impact the game will be addressed at some point in the game.
If you went to buy groceries from the store, I’m sure you would probably like to know ‘Hey, this product does not work/is recalled/is mislabeled’ at the store, right? Or to receive a notification?
I don’t think you would be appreciate it if the store already knew about that, and told you ‘You should just pay attention to the company website’. It’s the same principle.
Oh, I am well aware of what he is doing. It’s the whole ‘ragebait’, or ‘agent provocateur’ kind of thing. “Haha, I want to belittle people I don’t know because I get some kind of satisfaction from that.”
When I respond to people like this, I am rarely doing it for their sake. I know full well going in they are not interested in discourse. But I also know that other people who remain silent may also be curious about this kind of thing.
If someone started in Dragonflight, for example, and they’ve never played a druid? They may not get how extremely limited druids are when it comes to transmogs. They might see the Amirdrassil drops and go “Well, there’s already an option, so what’s the big deal?”
When there is a huge amount of support for a topic (and make no mistake, the vast majority of the replies from the first 800 or so posts I have looked at are very clear that people are supporting making the skins available in some way), it can be daunting to admit or even ask ‘Hey, why is this important?’ or ‘Why should it be this way?’ I’ve seen people - online and in real life - essentially be belittled for not knowing about a topic. That’s not an effective way to have a discourse, nor is it an effective way to actually progress one’s own goals.
People may not know (or may not have linked) that Blizzard is already putting things in that were from limited events, such as the Ahead of the Curve Mount or the Mythic Trial of Valor set.
People may not know that the difficulty of the Mage Tower dropped precipitously with the next patch. They might take a moment and recognize how much easier the Awakening the Machine weekly is in the Ringing Deeps as new patches were released, as an example. That can give them a more nuanced eye when they hear someone say ‘This is supposed to be prestigious’.
This person is not my intended audience. They’re just serving a purpose, even if they don’t know it.
And it helps a bit, y’know? Even if people don’t comment, they tend to read. And they notice things, like me saying ‘I have some free time to respond’ and being answered with ‘haha, you wasted time’.
So, they can kind of draw their own conclusions.
