A new place to complain...

voodoodad · 06-25-09, 01:53 AM

Decided to open a thread dedicated to things we don't like about our favorite game. Whether it be things that could be changed by Blizz, or things that'll NEVER change, like trade chat!

My chief complaint at the moment is the prices for everything at higher levels! I reached 74 on my hordie DK earlier tonight so I ported to Ebon Hold for training. 3 spells. Cost somewhere in the neighborhood of 105g! I know that's not really a lot, but when you're still in the process of leveling and trying to maintain gear somewhere close to your current level, it REALLY adds up! Not to mention higher repair costs for higher level gear, and trying to keep up to date on mounts (my dk can't even fly in Outland yet, for god's sake!). It's really no wonder that gold farmers make money hand over fist! I don't buy gold, and never will, but I can see why some people become that desperate.

Landrell · 06-25-09, 02:26 AM

I've always had a big issue with Gold Farmers myself and still do from time to time. There have been a number of occasions where I would be meeted with an open trade box and several misc. items that I wouldn't have any interest in, followed by a whisper asking for a certain amount of gold from a level 1 toon with a name that makes absolute zero sense.

I wish they would implement what CCP (Eve Online) have done to deter people from buying gold off of illegal sites and then turn around and b**ch and complain about getting banned for it. For those that don't know, Eve Online allows you to spend say 35$ on what they call a "Plex". And what this "Plex" does is go up on the Market for a determined amount of ISK say, about 600-800 mill. But in the same turn about, people who buy up the Plex with ISK get free game time. So it's a win-win situation. No, it hasn't stopped the spammers in the game, however, CCP has implemented a legal way for people to make more money in the game and get free game time through means of the game itself.

If Blizzard could implement a similar solution to this problem, I'm sure that they would get more people hopping on the bandwagon. Then not many people would be willing to complain about not being able to afford that Epic Flying mount, or those level 80 non tier epics in the AH. It could really work in both theirs and the players favor.

voodoodad · 06-25-09, 02:34 AM

This sounds like an excellent idea! I was tracking the forums here earlier tonight, and a gold farmer created a thread and spammed it 3 or 4 times with the same message, just like in trade chat. I reported it and the thread was deleted within a couple of minutes, but it just goes to show how ballsy these people are getting. Here lately, a lot of people have been worried about North Korea lobbing a nuke at somebody.. I tell em "Don't worry, they're too busy farming gold!"

Verissi · 06-25-09, 11:21 AM

My top complaints revolve more around player attitudes lately, specifically elitism and blatant greed when it comes to virtual items. I have one of each class, so obviously there just isn't time to raid on all of them, yet I get looked down upon as a "baddie" when playing a few because there aren't 15 days in a week to raid? Just irritates me, especially since most of the time, their achievements reflect significantly less progress than my main raiding character...yet I don't feel any desire to criticise or deride them at all, even when provoked. Honestly, does it really matter that my druid isn't in full 7.5 to run the non-heroic daily, for example?

Greed is the thing that really frosts my flakes, though. Call me old fashioned, but if I'm doing something with friends and something drops that's a bigger upgrade for someone else than it would be for me (or they're a serious collector of something like mounts), I don't bother rolling against them. With people I don't know, I understand the "every person for themselves" thing, but with people that you consider your friends? I guess I'm just more considerate with my friends, and it's not like the items will just stop dropping altogether if I don't get them right that instant.

voodoodad · 06-25-09, 11:43 AM

Totally agree, Verissi. It's gotten so bad that I won't even associate with anyone in-game unless I already know them. I almost hate gear-snobs and elitists worse than the gold spammers. At least gold spammers don't try to pretend to be anything but what they are. I've only got one level 80 so far and he's not geared at all, simply because I don't want to ask to go on a raid and be embarrassed when my gear is checked. And I KNOW without a doubt that I would be heavily criticized on the gear issue. What am I supposed to do? Appologize for not being hard-core enough? I rarely even will do a bg anymore for the same reason. It's all a circular argument to me... You can't get geared without raiding or at least doing a butt-load of bg's, and you can't do those without the proper gear. Maybe I'm just too thin-skinned or something.

Whew... Better stop this here for the moment, I believe I'm about to have an episode...

Gemini_II · 06-25-09, 12:43 PM

Yes. The elitism and gear-whoring is bad. Always has been but I think it gets worse as time goes by. More and more players forget that they weren't born into WoW, they had to l2p as well. And there are still new players coming to the game, who unfortunately often get alienated.

Gold Farmers are Very Bad (TM). Not much else to say about them. The money issue has gotten way better over the years though. Between the ample gold that drops and dailies, earning money is nothing like the grueling experience it used to be back in Classic. My first toon was raiding MC weekly in mostly T1 (which also used to be ridiculous to obtain a set) trying to earn enough gold to buy epic land mount. To farm 100 gold could take hours and alot of luck. 1k gold back then was like 5-10k now.

Also checkout 3.2 patch notes. Blizz is again dropping mount costs to almost nothing, and first mount at lvl 20 and epic at 40 now. They also move faster. Lots of stuff coming.

voodoodad · 07-01-09, 02:52 PM

It's gotta be getting pretty bad when such major influences as Cogwheel are leaving the game. I mean, the man wrote a book on authoring addons! And now he's offering his mods up to anyone who wants to take them over. Of course, I don't have any idea what prompted him to leave, but its still a sad day in WoW Land.