I just think this is the harsh truth.
Normal people just farm a bit, not this excessively, ok?
Define normal.
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someone not doing things in an extreme manner could fly here?
Well, consider this: The harsh truth can get you banned (again).
So why not tell the truth, but leave out the ‘harsh’ part?
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So people farming the same legacy raid each week are less normal than people who farm current raids and M+ each week? Or people who just spam the same PvP battlegrounds over and over and over?
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You don’t do the right thing for a reward.
You do it because it’s right.
Actually - depends. if you do a few M+ runs a week, you are fine. But if you spam 30 M+ runs on a char, with barely any progress then you are also troubled.
Same if you wipe 350 times on a mythic boss.
Every extremity is problematic. People find virtue in pointless grinds. My friend ran azure vault 58 times for a trinket. That isn’t normal. I got the tome in vault xDDD
Well at least you apply it to everyone.
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That’s not what I’m saying.
And your comparison doesn’t really apply here.
What you’re doing is ‘breaking the law’ because you think it’s the right thing to do.
It’s not about getting a reward. It’s about not getting punished.
If there’s an alternative where you can still share your opinion, but you won’t get punished for it… Isn’t that the better path to take then?
If your answer is no; then you’re just as much an outlyer as someone who farms mounts on multiple characters every week.
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ok let me post it this way
"I say it every time - it’s just a gambler’s addiction - the gambling mindset - they just keep pulling the slot machine lever hoping to get the winning result (as farming legacy raids or 1-shot rares over and over and over takes 0 actual gaming skills)
They want the dopamine when they get it but it’s like that dragon game in South Park - it’s about chasing the dragon and you don’t catch it rly.
Then they think that having more farmed mounts than others makes them a better player because they usually aren’t good at the “endgame content” - so they spend time in the fantasy world farming legacy raids on 20+ chars every day of every week.
And they indeed hate it. I saw these comments too - no one ever enjoys it.
Why? People get obsessed over the tiniest thing in life and they pursue it for no reason. Gamers find virtue in the most pointless grinds and collecting mounts at least has minimal “point” to it."
OK, better now?
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You have 41k achievment points, stop projecting.
from playing since TBC and all achieves are the easy ones - did no “grindy ones”. like insane in the membrane or 5000 pvp battles or most of the crazy BG ones XD
Let it be known that after being called out he immediately limited what can be viewed on his account.
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Stopped chasing mounts along time ago.
Most of them are just recolours or put being a stupidly low drop rate that it’s not worth farming.
Since stopping focusing on mounts (I should note here, I still go for them if they’re in the current content patch), I found that I was focusing alot more on the game play. The game became much more enjoyable itself.
But honestly, there are so many mounts these days, they don’t really mean alot. Just find 1 or 2 that you like, and enjoy the game. Overtime other ones that you like will drop.
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what? everything can be seen on my acc i dont change any settings stop lying LOL
I’m flagging you for trolling I Guess 
Theres definitely a lot of people that suffer from addiction but for others WoW is all they’ve got. Though the two are not mutually exclusive. Whether or not thats sad in your mind is up to you. Don’t understand it either but who are we to judge.
Thanks to people chiming in to explain there reason! I want to adress a few points that were raised :
- Some people mentioned that you can replace my post object with m+, or raiding, and it is still applicable. As I said, I agree with this to some extent. Definitely, there are people that raid or M+ just to chase loot/score, and that don’t inherently enjoy the activity, which is to me as puzzling as the hardcore mount collecting.
I feel the difference is that many people enjoy the activity of raiding, or pushing M+. They enjoy the challenge, and would do it still if there was no reward. I feel this is not applicable to rare mount farming, because of how repetitive and tedious it is.
- Many people said that this is just a form of collecting, and that’s why people do it. People enjoy collecting things. I can see that. But usually (correct me if I’m wrong) people also enjoy the process of acquiring the collectible. In the case of mount collecting, it seems to me that people absolutely DO NOT enjoy the process.
In the case of very original mounts (as some people mentioned, Al’ar or Invincible) I still get it; you suffer for some worthwhile reward. Where things stop making sense to me, is when all this suffering is endured just to have a random mount unlocked in the menu, which will never be used, just to ‘complete’ a collection.
And yes, it puzzles me equally how people suffer to chase BiS or high M+ score.
To summarize, my thought process is the following :
If I remove the reward, would I still do the activity ? If not, then the reward better be very worth it. I think my misunderstanding stems from the fact that I do not see how ‘ticking a box’ is a reward, but it seems that a great amount of people enjoy this very much.
But then again, this raises the question : why do some people seem to want to collect mounts, but not pets ? If for 90% of these collected mounts, they are never used, why is ticking the ‘mount’ box more desirable that ticking a ‘pet’ box ?
I think what got me started on Mount Collecting was the achievement Awake the Drakes. I was doing some other achievements and found that one. So I sent some alts to various raids and dungeons (The Nexus, Ruby Sanctum etc). I got some mounts quite quickly. So I kept sending alt to other raids and dungeons.
It’s a goal I can set for myself to achievement. Something to aim for.
Ironically enough the very same achievement Awake The Drakes might be waht kills my mount collecting. I’ve been farming Blazing Drake for years and am not a single step closer to getting it than when I started. I could farm it another ten years and be no closer to getting it.
No other mount took me longer than a couple of months. I have every dungeon and raid mount up to the end of Cata except 2 from Firelands and Blazing Drake from Dragon Soul. So I have Ashes, Deathcharger, Invincible, Mimiron’s Head and a bunch of others.
But Blazing Drake just won’t drop. It feels broken and my will to continue is waning.
More accurate to say they are just obsessed with collecting.
It’s just something to do. A goal.
I personally get whatever i can but don’t go out of my way for it unless it’s a really cool mount that is within my reach.
Why climb a mount-ain because it is there?
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I think I’ve already adressed this argument which popped out many times. People like the process of climbing. People do not like the process of running the same raid dozens of times every week.
(appreciate the pun though)