That if you do pay, you get a little bit extra?
I kind of think it’s true but how could anyone ever know?
Like maybe if you did buy the silver chalice, maybe you did get +1% drop on the gauntlets?
Maybe it was that you bought it and then that mount just happened to drop.
Or further: You bought it so you kinda got into a pretty nice group, all randomly.
Any event in the game would be possible to create or manipulate. Wouldn’t that also be favorable to the company, that the more premium users would get a special treatment and as such would have a bit of an elevated experience?
Would of course be a scandal if something like that got out but these days I wonder if we know anything at all about what’s really cooking.
I can’t say I actually believe it but I can also not really say that I don’t. If I had a shop, I’d think that it would be a good idea to always see to that my special customers were happy. Is that even a strange notion, like that is going on everywhere so why not here then?
You actually don’t understand, I see.
You’d make a purchase, any purchase, and that would help for other things, your relative success in the game. But it wouldn’t be open that it did, it would just do that since you payed for things. The more you’d pay, the greater the benefit, but only up to some point and with many triggers and tresholds so that it would be impossible to know any relation.
The reason for that would be that if you were a paying customer you’d be more valuable to keep around than someone who payed less, which makes total sense right. So then it is reasonable to create hooks for the one paying and the best one would be success in the game, whatever that entails.
I think OP is saying that there is a possibility of existence of a hidden algorithm which is discretely (higher drop chances) rewarding players in game if they are purchasing thing in the store.
I got the Raz skin in LFR after my first and only fight against Raz. I also buy most of the store garbage.
I wiped the group on both bosses and I always suspected the game knew I did so bad that any normal person would never be back. So it gave me the skin so I’d tell this story.
I’ve always been a tin foiler regarding these matters.
But players who pay for the sub have an advantage over those who don’t: We get to use the Auction House, we get to level beyond 20, we get to have lots of gold etc.
Giving an advantage to paying customers is used by companies as ADVERTISEMENT in order to attract more customers.
Giving small bonuses to paying customers offer no advantage AT ALL to the company:
The paying customers do not know that they receive this bonus, since no human can understand the difference between 1% and 5% (clearly illustrated by the July event).
Creates a chance for backlash if database sites (like wowhead) find out and make it public.
It lowers the grind for the paying customers, without offering any bonus to the company.
So no, I do not believe that they offer any such bonuses, since it would not make sense for them as a business. They already have enough in their hands with trying to deliver the advertised features, no way they add hidden ones.
Another half-title forum thread. Whats up with these? Can you not form a coherent discussion-starting question? Or does a separate character limit get applied to your account?
You can demonstrate you vacuous trolling in other ways.
The only measurable impact of such threads is the amount of carbon generated to display it.
