Traditions don’t really mean much to me. They matter even less if they’re deadly.
Food is required to live. They is no avoiding it.
The same cannot be said about alcohol, tobacco and drugs.
Alcohol causes 3 million deaths per year. Tobacco is 8 million.
That’s a whooping 110 million deaths per decade. Is tradition really worth such a death toll?
I’m French. Wine & cheese are quite popular over there too.
But I don’t care. If it’s both addictive and toxic, it needs to be forbidden, because that’s common sense.
You don’t sell people poison. Let alone addictive poison.
Cars cause millions of deaths too, as well as unhealthy diets and other things. Would you wish them forbidden too?
Anything can kill you if abused, the point is making a reasoned and fair use of everything. Also, forbidding things has only proven to backfire even more violently.
1 million per year. That’s nothing compare to the 8 million of tobacco.
Besides, it’s estimated that 31% of driving related deaths are caused by…alcohol.
And again, you currently can’t really live without cars. I’m all for plans to invest on trains and public transport, but in the meantime, we’re stuck with cars.
Although there are still many things we could do to reduce the likelihood of car accidents, such as encouraging buyers to go for high-visibility colours such as orange, which has been proven to be one of the least likely car colour to be involved in car crashes.
Tobacco starts hurting you the moment you’re in contact with it, even passively, by standing next to someone who’s smoking. It’s a literal cancer bar.
Forbidden drugs already exist. You can’t really go to groceries and come back with cocaine or heroin.
I wouldn’t be “creating the law” here, merely expanding it to other harmful drugs which are only allowed because their business is extremely lucrative.
COVID related laws were far, FAR more restrictive despite COVID killing fewer people per year than tobacco.
Something being the cause of 110 000 000 deaths per decade is absolutely a good reason to forbid it.
Borrowed power is fine till you reach the end of the expansion and you lose everything you invested so much effort into grinding and basically feel weaker when levelling up than feeling stronger, which has a very sour taste.
Borrowed power cannot remain otherwise we’d get insane numbers like D3 got into the billions, which also isn’t a great system.
If anything they should add systems that allows you to grind and will remain a feature you’ve worked for permanently, things notable like Pandarias farm, why was it removed after pandaria? Why couldn’t they expand it with new herbs from newer expansions.
Pandaria Farm, Mage Tower, Torghast, WoD garrisons, etc.
All these features were alright at best and instead of updating them and improving them they decide “Let’s just forget they existed”
Absolute garbage way of dealing with your time and effort developing imo.
I much be overly simplistic, WOW is a game I enjoy because when I play it, it relaxes me. I LOVE the aesthetic…nothing comes close, the cartoonish element really adds something unique to my mind.
I love the world, again for the cartoonish and bright way it is represented, and as a Role-Player for the huge amount of settings and environments that can be tailored to whatever narrative you are presenting.
I love the mog system that allows infinite possibilities only hampered by your own creativity…
if I didn’t like it, I wouldn’t play it…
Nowadays there is a huge diversity and varied supply of all games, all graphics, all styles that you can possibly imagine, so as a player you aren’t tied to this game. Heck one has been mentioned, one I personally can’t stand, but mentioned all the less…
What I fail to understand is why people obviously play this, when they don’t like it, or even worse try to make it into another game already on the market…why not, I don’t know…go play that one.
Summary, while I enjoy Azeroth, I’ll play and RP here, when I don’t, I’ll find another world…simple really.
That mindset seems odd to me.
What if they had used that same argument in the past for slavery, for instance?
That used to be ‘tradition’.
Being forced into a religion also used to be ‘tradition’. And there’s many more historic examples of things that changed because they were objectively ‘bad’. So why not this?
I guess my question is what do you think of when you think of macros because it feels like your argument only really makes sense for one specific type of macro functionality, castsequences.
Stuff like @cursor and @mouseover to make targeting less cumbersome on the other hand could very easily just be toggles, as evidenced by blizzard making overly simplified mouseover functionality a toggle. So is your issue with the ability to do the thing the macro can do, or with the fact you have to write a few lines of text to do it?
Yet you can still get them even if they’re not legal, and by doing that you are also helping organized crime. Moreover, those laws existed before, there are many reasons why they’ve been modified in time.
It’s really not, as other’s life is not for you (or anyone) to decide. But I’m stopping here, if we can’t agree on this principle there’s really nothing I would want to say more.
What does this mean? Are you an anarchist? Do you want to do away with the Law altogether?
Because “a bunch of people deciding what’s good for everyone” is basically how the entire human civilization works.
The problem is that they stuck with that design for 6 years. Artifact weapons and artifact power was new and interesting in Legion, and a unique system we hadn’t seen before. At the time it was seen as new and innovative, but it wasn’t new and innovative the second time arround, and deffinitly not the third time arround. Each expansion should bring something new and fresh to the table, and BFA/SL failed to deliver on that, because they were build on the popularity of Legion’s design rather than their own merrits.
DF has proven that that direction was the correct one. DF has much lower player activity then any previous expansions exactly because people have nothing to do in endgame after first 2-3 weeks.
thats why their desperte attempt to bring back those rings in 10.0.5 or whichever patch brought them - but it was to little to late especialy since they said those wont inpact 10.1 so nobody farmed them .
reality if people dont care about farming transmog - only thing that matters is char power.
DFis literaly expasnion aimed at streamers and wow it failed since day 1 - who could have predicte that if you cater your gameo nly to top 1 % you have all casuals gona in couple of weeks.
you may hate AP but it kept people playing and loggin on daily - now they play other games not wow.
AP was never problem - addicts who couldnt let go of wow and whined were the real problem . now even those addicts are gone and numbers are at all time low.
Dragonflight didn’t sell very well in the first place, before anyone could experience the content (or lack of thereof).
Dragonflight is sadly suffering the consequences of being a new expansion in a game where the two previous ones were BFA and Shadowlands.
Plenty of people can’t be bothered anymore and didn’t give it a chance.
Unlikely given how content rich DF has been so far. We get new patches and features every few months.
Even so, as a PvP player, I don’t really care. I haven’t played any of the raids, and I didn’t try the latest dungeon either.
