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Originally Posted by Makata Still .. repairs (and other gold based costs) are the only price you pay to fail (and a smaller price for success, offset a bit by gold from bosses). You don't pay with exp loss (which was something you couldn't just buy, but we managed in EQ), or whatever. To me, buying gold for your repairs is like saying "I want a picnic dammit" and then wanting to pay people to: buy the food, cook it, prepare it, wrap it up in the basket, set up the picnic, clean up after you, dispose of trash, and put stuff away. Why is it unreasonable to think you should be required to spend time in-game doing things besides raiding to allow you TO raid?
Let's face it: people in positions such as yourself are privledged when it comes to warcraft. Take my roommate for example. The guy wasn't that great, and had crap gear. By some miracle he got into the #1 alliance guild on my server (I guess they were low on summon bitches). When he got in, I think he had 1 epic (from AV no less) while I had like 4-5 from MC/pvp. Fast forward less than 2 months. He's now almost completely decked out in Tier 1 or better (usually much, MUCH better). I think he's got over half of his Nemesis set at least.
And it sickens me. He didn't work for it. It was fucking spoon fed to him. He was DEFAULTED the majority of his epics. I put in twice the time in pvp (I won't derail into pvp vs pve .. I pvp because I enjoy it) than he does in his elitest cock-monger guild and the dude has better overall equipment than my rogue and hunter combined.
So yes, raid repairs (and other gold costs) are heavy, but that doesn't make them bad. Explain why grinding a couple horus PER WEEK is an unreasonable task. Obviously you don't like it or enjoy it. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be forced. |
Are you a sadist?
Why would I play a game (much less pay to play a game) where I have to keep doing stuff I dont enjoy?
I know some people take that attitude to raiding. They don't enjoy the 15th BWL clear, at all, they would watch TV and AFK autofollow if they could rather than actually take part in the raid, but they are there beucase they want the DKP or equivilent. If I didn't want to spend the 4 hours that night raiding, I would not log in. I would find something I wanted to do more like watch a movie.
In the post above I talked about gonig on Instance runs to get some repair cash. Obviously the location and the exact activity is based on my need for gold in order to raid in the week, but I'm doing it because I find an hour with some friends doing a nice simple activity a nice way to spend an afternoon.
If you start playing the game thinking that your 'earning' something rather than just enjoying your time then and there, then you are setting yourself up to be one of those guys that rage quits MMO"s after 3 years declaring that it was the biggest waste of your life ever.
WoW IS a game. Its a leasure activity. Your in trouble the second you start to put real world values such as putting in a doing things you dont enjoy in order to 'invest' in your character. You're not your avatar :-)