All the whales in Oribos sitting on a store mount, with store bought transmog ensembles.
This company has absolutely no self awareness or self control. Even with a scandal that stretches back years, sued by their local state and women harming themselves over mistreatment in the workplace they are still all about the 6 month sub and whale money.
They must have been sat checking their watches waiting for enough time since 9.1.5 dropped for enough people to be suckered in.
I find it outrageous at how disgusting and disappointing the new tier sets are when you see the art team can literally create assets like a murloc on your back but the new raid tier they couldn’t be bothered designing class specific stuff so they made the most bland and generic looking things ever. When was the last expansion they released armor worth going back and farming? Maybe Dazar’alor for the leather one, MAYBE. The rest would be Legion or earlier.
6 month sub and you get a murloc on your back? The downside is that you are tied into the same game you have been playing since launch but with the broken made purposefully less annoying as to trick you into thinking you gained something new. Shadowlands should have been released like this! Instead for the past year people have been playing sub optimal in every other aspect of the game other then their main focus.
They at least tried to hide their greed before but they are proud of it now apparently. I would rather play a game that is 10x worse than WoW but the creators actually poured love into the game and communicated with its audience in a positive way than drag on in this game any longer with the only people left the addicts that can’t let go. I’ve got ties here since 2005, I’ve collected what I think is a huge collection of rare things but someone please come along and put this game and company out of its misery instead of it dying a slow death.
I barely have any gold I wasted it all on legendaries that Blizzard want to keep moving the optimal item slot for so I drop insane amounts of gold every tier to have the exact same mandatory power but in a different place, with 30 stamina and 9 intellect more. EXCITING!
Expect Punyelf or Jito here any minute with their defence. “You don’t need legendaries to compete. You don’t have to buy store items. That’s YOUR opinion” ETC.
i agree OP, but i say they lost their way at the height of Wotlk… the popularity created greed and god sized ego’s within the company…
this lead to a china theme’d expansion and introduction of the ingame store …
i cant look at or take blizzard seriously anymore no matter how they keep trying to protray themselves as something they are so obviously not anymore. sure there maybe a few genuinely good staffers still working there afraid to let go because it’s their one shot…
but honestly for the most part… just greed and ego’s through the roof and they will never change for the better.
because people don’t change… they just get better at acting.
If you didn’t realise me saying I have no gold was my way of saying I’m on my way out so don’t bother asking for it. Keep that attitude and then be surprised and complain when you wait in long queues for groups or content oblivious as to why everything takes longer than usual and the only people you end up grouped with have bought everything and don’t know how to make a macro or download weakauras and bodypull 3 packs and alt F4 in embarrassment.
What others wish to do with their own gold and/or hard earned RL cash in the Store is frankly none of your business, put your green eyed monster back in its box.
I’ve spent the past two weeks finding chores in game not because I’m having fun but to fill time and then around me is like a news bomb going off about how vile the CEO is and every day you find a new low they aren’t afraid to stoop to in order to make money. They will sacrifice decades of fandom and passion to make easy money now, and every now and again they will drip feed you something to be excited about.
People that make a living playing video games can’t even bare to be paid to play or discuss this game anymore. Let that sink in. By the way I will not read anything you post from here on out so don’t waste your energy.
I’m giving my opinion. It’s me writing this post you see. I don’t care less how anyone else spends their money but I won’t pay for a product that cuts content from its live service that we pay monthly for to then charge us for cosmetics they could easily put in the game with a fun way to obtain them after a barren wasteland of content for the expansion and no signs of it getting better. Have a day off mate.
It’s the same since forever, 100000 people complaing and unsub, nothing in their rants gets acted on.
Just keep preaching that rant. Nothing will ever happend at Blizz, all they will do is make some more store mounts that will eventually be too good to resist to people that told they quit (and then they come back again because of said thing).
If you want them to change, act with your wallet. Stop checking blizz things, stop engaging in conversations about blizz things and let it be gone forever. Let the passion for the game you’ve had die for good etc. Show you are making a stand, not another mouth of the other bazillion of mouths that have had nothing for them granted since a decade of feedback to the Developer.
Nothing else matters to them than money, so make a stand or just let your hope die someone will make them change. Somewhere at blizz.
Personally, I love the new tier sets and want the same theme across classes. And the murloc is the least desirable 6-month freebie since I started playing hack in 2017.
I don’t get the hate in WoW for the small number of store items. Do you not play other games?
