Having been here on this GD for about a whole two minutes I think there is something that needs addressed, and that is why anyone who has a competitive mindset towards this game dislikes the casual player base that are also Blizzard apologists.
See, the forums for awhile were always a place for people to come and share ideas on what could make the game better, how to play it better, and to just socialize. I know this because I played this game since it came out and I’m still here. I’ve always played this game competitively too. Since I downloaded my first DPS meter I was trying to be first on it. In PVP I trive to do well each season now. I’ve raided in guilds that pushed hard mode before mythic was a thing. If I apply myself to something I can usually place myself in the top 1-5% which I consider to be pretty decent. At the very least it is competitive.
You don’t have to be me. That’s okay. You can be a casual. You can even have opinions. But god I hate when Blizzard implements something incredibly poorly, like the corruption vendor and echoes, and when someone brings up how it is being implemented poorly, y’all come out of the woodwork saying things like,
“They’re giving you what you want and you’re still complaining!”
“I can’t see the problem here, stop complaining.”
“You must not be participating in the content.”
“You don’t know what you want.”
See these things… they just piss me off. Echoes of Nya’lotha were unobtainable if you had already purchased all your rank 3 essences like I had. Lots of you fail to comprehend what the word unobtainable means so I’ll spell it out for you simply. There is no way, shape, or form, before this hotfix, that I could ever loot a single Echo. None. It was literally impossible. It wasn’t a bug, it was how the system worked. So when I walked into this hotfix behind other players that had offspecs on their main that had been stockpiling these upwards of 40k-80k, I got pretty upset.
You see, 40k-80k is enough to buy every corruption you need pretty much. Now if you’re a casual player, what someone else gets might not matter to you, but if you’re competitive in arena, raiding, or even m+ then that becomes an unfair advantage for someone else to have. It’d be like starting a football match down a player and just going out there with 10 on the field for the first quarter. It’s not realistic for me to farm 40k in a week. I’ll be lucky to get 10k which will buy me two corruptions that I want, not eight.
And like I said, if you’re a casual this probably has no impact on you. That’s great. However, it’s really annoying to have to fend off such stupid remarks when y’all fail to see the problem when it is spelled out for you. It’s really annoying when you just reiterate something the blues say about 5x the drop rate like that is going to magically make up for months of not being able to farm this currency.
So once again I’m asking you to stop for a minute, exit your bubble, and learn that other people play the game differently than you do. That just because they dislike Blizzard’s implementation of a system doesn’t mean they should quit. It doesn’t mean they hate the game. It probably means that person thinks Blizz did a really poor job giving the players what they desired.
