Why do people like things that I don’t like? I don’t understand

I probably wouldn’t have kept playing it if a friend didn’t buy it for me and insist so I get it!

She dreams in color, she dreams in red… Can’t find a betting man…

I thought the story of Control was just ok but the gameplay was awesome.

It didnt land on my Top 25 list BUT…that one level (people who played it know exactly which I mean) was easily one of the best sequences I’ve ever played. I have no idea how they made it feel like you were still in control (hehe) as everything around you went crazy.

Unfortunately that level is very late in the game otherwise I’d implore you to stick it out to see it. But since you quit so early because you weren’t having fun, you probably will continue to not have fun until that part.

Regardless of the origin, it’s still a bit too close to corporate worship for me.

And as shitty as it is to selectively filter posts like that, I don’t think it’s a problem worth creating a bot for track. OP calling it out to make others aware was the right thing to do - let the users there decide if they care.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to create my own instance: McChicken.zone

Hexbear has been defederated for a long time and I don’t interact with any .ml users enough

Of the instances federated with Lemmy.world, the only ones I’ve formed a negative opinions about are awful.systems and hilariouschaos

The fact that the instance is named after an IKEA product was enough reason for me not to make an account there…

I get it, the shark plush is cute. Just a bit too…consumer? For me

Did you maybe consider that they did…both? Gold in the cash shop comes with a very minor downside to players and a big upside.

And where did I imply that I thought they did this for the players?

There is, the Interact With Target and Soft Target settings

Even if that didn’t come with a bunch of annoying downsides, how would that solve the problem better than dismount auras?

Important NPCs have a dismount aura but if they have that to any NPC with dialogue, you’d get dismounted a hundred times a day

thinking having access to the auction house without having to travel 2 minutes is pay to win in any way and that it constitutes half the functionality of an entire city

Doesn’t realize you don’t have to spend a cent to buy the mount

I’m just gonna copy and paste my comment from the other big thread about this but I want to ask: why are you lying with the post title? It’s $90, not $132.

TLDR: this is obtainable through in-game currency for significantly less than the price of the original brutosaur mount. Most long time players can afford it and I’d imagine most people who bought it did so this way.

Ok so I cackled when I saw the price on this thing but the more I thought about it, the less shitty it is. FWIW I am not a WoW lifer or Blizzard apologist. I got talked into Classic for a year then played a month or two of each expansion since before quitting but I know the background of the story. It looks way worse from an outsider perspective.

You could buy the original auction house mount for 5 million gold back in the day. It stopped being available regularly and now it’s available occasionally in the “black market auction house” and it always sells for the maximum bid.

To combat Chinese gold farmers, Blizzard started selling gold in a bit of a roundabout way. For $20, you can buy a WoW token to sell on the auction house. This token can be purchased by a player and traded for 1 month of game time. Some players dont pay a dime to play - gold is not hard to acquire.

When this new mount came out, WoW tokens were worth about 200k gold. You’d need to exchange them for 5 tokens to get this mount. 1/5 of the original price.

Now tokens are worth 330k. 1.65m gold. STILL significantly cheaper than it was originally.

Tokens will need to rise to triple in price to match the original cost which will still be a tiny fraction of what it cost a month ago.

By far the shittiest thing about this - and I think the only real reason to complain - is that the rising value of the token hurts players who pay for the subscription purely with gold as it adds a few hours to their “working” time in game. For context, watching TV and semi-afk farming will get you like 50k/hour. You can earn way, way more if you’ve leveled up a profession.

The other (not so bad) thing I don’t like about it is that…I hate those mounts. They’re HUGE and people just AFK on them blocking NPCs I want to talk to.

You are correct. Token value is decided by players on the auction house, not Blizzard, though I’m sure someone will argue that they are capable of manipulating the AH and therefore they are driving it up

A lot of people have been playing this game for over a decade and have hundreds of millions of gold. This thing is currently 2 million gold

People are just looking for a reason to be mad

That is so untrue lol

End game content - the stuff that “makes” wow - is tuned for active players, not casuals. They are catering to casual players in a way that doesn’t significantly affect hardcore players…unless you think there should be huge barriers of entry to the most basic things?

Ok so I cackled when I saw the price on this thing but the more I thought about it, the less shitty it is. FWIW I am not a WoW lifer or Blizzard apologist. I got talked into Classic for a year then played a month or two of each expansion since before quitting but I know the background of the story. It looks way worse from an outsider perspective.

You could buy the original auction house mount for 5 million gold back in the day. It stopped being available regularly and now it’s available occasionally in the “black market auction house” and it always sells for the maximum bid.

To combat Chinese gold farmers, Blizzard started selling gold in a bit of a roundabout way. For $20, you can buy a WoW token to sell on the auction house. This token can be purchased by a player and traded for 1 month of game time. Some players dont pay a dime to play - gold is not hard to acquire.

When this new mount came out, WoW tokens were worth about 200k gold. You’d need to exchange them for 5 tokens to get this mount. 1/5 of the original price.

Now tokens are worth 330k. 1.65m golf. STILL significantly cheaper than it was originally.

Tokens will need to rise to triple in price to match the original cost which will still be a tiny fraction of what it cost a month ago.

By far the shittiest thing about this - and I think the only real reason to complain - is that the rising value of the token hurts players who pay for the subscription purely with gold as it adds a few hours to their “working” time in game. For context, watching TV and semi-afk farming will get you like 50k/hour. You can earn way, way more if you’ve leveled up a profession.

The other (not so bad) thing I don’t like about it is that…I hate those mounts. They’re HUGE and people just AFK on them blocking NPCs I want to talk to.

It’s one of the most overhyped things in the game. I can more than afford it (both through $$ and in-game currency) but I just do not care. There’s easy to get mailboxes and the auction house is in every main city now.

Not to mention the amount of people who have the original auction house mount and the influx of people with this one - it is barely a convenience.