Very Disappointed in the Trading Post

[Baridorielor-malfurion (Baridorielor)]

@Bridalcake-emerald-dream

I’ll never understand people using these arguments.

Again, if the problem you have is wording, trading post came in a game update, and game updates often have no extra cost upfront (not by sub, important distinction) to access like it’s DLC.

@Bridalcake-emerald-dream

it’s a live service game,

And live service games also have free game updates. Not just minor itty bitty ones, but entire content patches. Nobody was saying that “oh WoW is free”.

@Bridalcake-emerald-dream

I agree it’s asinine to say the Trading Post is bad just because you dislike the current items there, but you can’t just ignore how lazy Blizzard is with that stuff.

…Wait, how their lazy?

Maybe you’re talking about TP using old items that have no way to obtained like Pandaren Monks, but i would hardly call that lazy.

Mind pointing out the laziness?

@Bridalcake-emerald-dream

Just take a look at other game’s battle passes,

Trading Post is nothing like a Battle Pass. At it’s core, it’s just a collection of meta challenges to do while you play the game to earn rewards. It’s a thing since like nearly 20+ years ago. I’ve even talked about this on my thread.

@Baridorielor-malfurion

Something i should talk about is the monetization concerns. I’l be honest with you, i personally don’t see how this is a Battlepass prototype honestly. I mean, as i’ve eluded to earlier, this sort of thing isn’t new recently, it’s been in games forever. It’s just it’s monetized version of that. This is what happened to unlockable costumes for the most part.

Not to go lengthy here, because some people might not like that, so here’s a short list of examples of what am i saying here when i refer the Trading post as “mini-meta challenges to earn rewards”.

• Saints Row 4 and Far Cry 5 has their mini challenges for XP and perks.
• NFS Carbon with their challenge cards. It has 4 challenges, if you complete all 4 challenges on that card, you will unlock the reward
• Gran Turismo, i would imagine have a challenge that is like… “gold 3 races to get $200 and 2K XP.”
• The Sims 2 and 3 has little challenges in their Wants/Wishes where upon completing them will grant you Aspiration points/buffs and some points to spend on objects/traits.
• Or in Overwatch, it gives you a challenge of wining 10 pvp matches and it will give you coins.

…Aaaaand adding to that list, is Legacy of the Warthog, having challenges to do while you play the game to earn cosmetics (which is btw, pretty cosmetic focused as well there).

So functionally, Trading post is not that different to the other feature’s from other games i’ve listed here.

@Bridalcake-emerald-dream

they all add lots of new stuff into the game, while the Trading Post is just 10 recolors and some old stuff that was already in the game.

And why does it have to be new, i ask?..

Why does it have to be new in order to be good exactly?..

I mean, that’s even going on the assumption that “New = good”. Some of the old items are still excellent. Like if i see flame-glaives on there, i wouldn’t go “THAT’S AN OLD ITEM!!”… i would go… "Oh neat! now people will get these because i thought their cool looking, and now you got flame-glavies! yay, go flame-glaives! "