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[–] Muesli 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I've been saying this since TRH. It's been five years since then, and honesty, I'm a at a point where I am still interested in WoW, but not in the gaming experience, but in the human and marketing experiment it seems to have turned into.

You know the Simpsons episode where Lisa's experimenting low long it will take Bart to learn that the sweet he's going after is coupled to an electric shock? How Bart tries again and again? That's how the remaining customer base of Blizzard looks like to me now: They're getting the shit (or money in that case) taken out of them, and they still come back and ask for a second course (edit: or expect at least that "things will change. They have to!"). It's like they're completely enthralled by an abusive partner. I mean, hell, I know people who've bitched at those mounts when they were announced, and the second they were available, they would get them anyhow.

Players buying those mounts are just as much to blame for this mess as Blizzard is for even thinking of introducing an item shop to a subscription-based game.