[QUOTE="Nerkcon"][QUOTE="salxis"] If Blizzard wants to ruin their reputation by doing micro transactions that actually affects the game balance (i.e. selling items that are better than what you can get in-game), then yeah, it would be terrible, western audiences will never accept it, and at the end we still can't do anything about it :P Yeah we can, we can complain! IT doesn't get anything done but it makes me feel better! :D... :( I'm pissed because I know everyone is going to follow suit. Traditional MMORPGs are dead. Casual instant gratification MMORPGs that milk you for all you got are the future. Pretty much, if the biggest MMO's gonna do that, everyone would follow, I simply hope Blizzard care about their reputation, if they are gonna whore it out... well... thanks god I don't play it anymore
I've been playing MMO's for a long time but I've always avoided WoW. I can tell you from experience that Blizzard need to be very careful, it's one long slippery slope from here....
Nerkcon
It won't be a slippery slope until they start selling exp scrolls/items that are better than in-game ones :P In a way they do; people make new accounts and RAF themselves which is most likely why they support multiboxing. I would just call those "creative" (albeit money wasting and totally silly) way of abusing the existing system :P. I am sure noone would've thought RAF would degrade into a super easy exp system
[QUOTE="Nerkcon"] It does affect our fun, if they weren't selling it at a store it would likely had been a raid drop or a PVP award. Selling items for extra in a game you pay a monthly fee for is not fun.Nerkcon
It's a skin, that's really all I want to say, other than Epeen happiness, there's really no differences (minus the 30% speed) between each epic flying mount.
Since this skin is unique, we could assume that if it's implemented into the game, it would be
1: Meta achievement
2: Hardmode boss kill
3: Gladiator PVP reward.
If you could've gotten these, you already got a 310% mount, so how does a skin affect your enjoyment of the game?
For one thing I"m not even playing the game. It's not the price or the existence but the principle; if this sells like hotcakes they will continue to do more of this stuff and it'll get worst, to the point they will sell many important items via the store. And then other companies will follower suit, and then every MMO will be a monthly fee + a cash shop. If Blizzard wants to ruin their reputation by doing micro transactions that actually affects the game balance (i.e. selling items that are better than what you can get in-game), then yeah, it would be terrible, western audiences will never accept it, and at the end we still can't do anything about it :P
I've been playing MMO's for a long time but I've always avoided WoW. I can tell you from experience that Blizzard need to be very careful, it's one long slippery slope from here....
Kan0nF0dder
It won't be a slippery slope until they start selling exp scrolls/items that are better than in-game ones :P
[QUOTE="salxis"]How is this milking? It doesn't affect other players at all, if you care this much about how other people's fun... you really should stop playingNerkcon
It does affect our fun, if they weren't selling it at a store it would likely had been a raid drop or a PVP award. Selling items for extra in a game you pay a monthly fee for is not fun.
It's a skin, that's really all I want to say, other than Epeen happiness, there's really no differences (minus the 30% speed) between each epic flying mount.
Since this skin is unique, we could assume that if it's implemented into the game, it would be
1: Meta achievement
2: Hardmode boss kill
3: Gladiator PVP reward.
If you could've gotten these, you already got a 310% mount, so how does a skin affect your enjoyment of the game?
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