WoW gearing is socialism

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Prior to this current dev mind set WoW gearing followed a very clear path. We had a vendor with clear rewards and time invested. When you saw someone with a tier set bonus you knew that guy was a raider.

Now we have this odd system where Titanforging or Warforging has handed gear to player who have never stepped foot in a Mythic. I see a Mythic +10 player wearing worse gear then someone who got lucky from Darkshore.

WoW used to operate on the American Dream of working hard would make you be the best and people who fed off the system did not achieve as much as the top guys.

Blizzard embrace the American Dream again and return to your roots!

Discuss

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You realize that their roots had raiders wearing gear from level 50’s dungeons for resistance gear and there were no vendors, right?

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You had to work hard for that gear though, thats the point

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:black_flag: seems more appropriate

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By roots he probably means Burning Crusade / Wrath where there were vendors. (Vanilla had pvp vendors [RIP pvp vendors]) After they had a bit of time to learn from their mistakes with Vanilla, back when they cared, and made adjustments and changes that were for the benefit of the player and not their game time metrics.

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Socialism didn’t start in America.

Just saying

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When I left the term for Wrath was “Welfare epics” and it was a form of socialism where everyone is placed on a equal ground and not one group is allowed to really get ahead. Now it has been taken to an extreme across the board.

Top players need to reforge a lot so why not tax them very hard and penalize them for this.

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He didn’t say it did.

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The only content in this game is the loot lottery. Otherwise this xpac is a hollow shell of a game.

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true, but the “American dream” part implies that only Americans embrace socialism when in fact we don’t well at least not all of Americans

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That’s not at all what he’s saying. Go back and read it again. He’s saying that the American Dream version of gear, or simply gearing up before around mid MoP, was replaced with something more socialist in nature because it tries to keep everyone from the top tier raider to the bottom of barrel casual on the same level by just lottoing out gear for no effort.

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A discussion? Have you seen the thread title?

Or this? It’s obvious trolling for bites. Conflating video game numbers to sociopolitical systems. It has no place here.

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It does when you dont get offended over every little thing and try to have a discussion like an adult.

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Yah honestly when someone starts a topic trying to compare playing a video game to real life issues I don’t really feel it needs a second read. I had my laugh the first time reading it.

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BFA ftw!!!

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Feel free to dispute me with facts. One very confusing thing coming back is how in gods name do I have similar gear to someone who does Mythic +10 or a Heroic/Mythic raider and I have not stepped foot in that content.

Somehow the game has gotten to a point where people who invest some very serious time into their characters are barely better then me who just got back to the game on December 15th.

Socialism has invaded every section of the game.

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So you have nothing to add to thread and just wanted to try and derail it. Something that’s actually worth flagging.

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Me thinks you should learn what socialism is. One person’s epics aren’t removed from another who’s accumulated too many epics. One person’s loot is independent of others and does not influence them at all, outside of apparently making people feel less special.

So, in short, learn definitions before you try to hop on the razor sharp edge and stop being so emotionally invested in pixelated items you replace in 5 months.

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No I was simply pointing out that socialism doesn’t only exist in America, and it is not the “American Dream” and not all Americans embrace socialism.

"He brought up “Socialism” and the “American dream” so no I did not try to derail the thread.

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Centralized government type figure named Blizzard is ensuring not one group of people (Raider/Mythic+) players get too far ahead by taxing them to death and ensuring their gear is not worth anything.

They have removed all value from gear. In the American Dream it is accepted that some people are going to get ahead.

As long as there are not artificial barriers like paying to enter a raid then at some point you the casual could get to that guys level with hard work.

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