Thread 725260342

Another real money currency hit World of Warcarft

https://www.wowhead.com/news/hearthsteel-confirmed-as-new-real-money-currency-used-to-buy-housing-items-379155

>>725260342 (OP)
how many does that make now, 3?

>>725260435
Sub, cash shop, housing shop

>>725260342 (OP)
They hated him because he told the truth

Cool. More reason never to play it again.

>>725260475
do they really think no one knows why games use virtual real-money currencies

>>725260342 (OP)
this will either kill the housing feature or shift so much dev time towards it it will make your head spin

>>725260475
>inexpensive items
How much does a chair or a candle costs?

>>725260475
>appropriate financisl protection for both parties
(((SHAREHOLDERS))) ARE GETTING RIPPED OF BY (YOU), YOU SHOULD FELL GUILTY

>>725260815
he's right but this does also make him a dick sucker

>>725260342 (OP)
>interested in coming back just for this
>it's real money garbage

lmao what the fuck were they thinking
suddenly stopped giving a shit

>>725260475
>we're doing this so it's easier to, uhh, buy multiples of smaller items!
No, you're doing this to obfuscate the real price of items and make people subconsciously spend more.

You guys really have no idea the amount of hatred these people are capable of, it's not even the notion of making you pay real money they just flat out hate you spiritually.

>>725260342 (OP)
Just call it a retard tax like it is.

>>725262145
We're pretty aware of it. The current devs are trying to their hardest to literally destroy the characters people enjoyed while making the game the most unpleasant they possibly can.
Almost every single storyline now is about mommy or daddy issues.

>>725262343
it's why you should celebrate and mock when they are destitute, never let them stand back up, keep kicking them while they're down and don't ever stop stomping.

I wonder why they are still charging a subscription. It's basically a f2p game by now.

>>725262486
Personally i do. I try to revel in their suffering as much as they clearly revel in mine.
If you say this in /wowg/ though some worgen with less achievement points than you will call you a doomer.

>>725262486
Isn't that the mentality that they have? That just makes you just like them. Is that what you want to be like?

No, kick them, then help them up and show them the way. If they stray from the way, repeat.

>>725261226
Corpo-speak is built around saying horseshit with a smile as if everyone you're saying it to doesn't know its horseshit

>>725262053
yes, that's why his input is valuable to the discussion
he's a pro dick sucker, he knows the field

>>725260475
So now, besides a subscription fee, you have to pay for shit ingame?

>>725263569
yep. point and laugh, sure, but to fall for their pathetic ragebait of fag frogs, centaurs, tranny angels and girlbosses is exactly what they want; fag misery is real and their only goal is to spread that shit to as many as they can before they inevitably die of self-caused autoimmune diseases

>>725260815
This needs to be set in stone. As our civilization post mortem.

>>725263962
they're greedmaxing, just like in diablo 4

>>725263962
buy a sub
buy expansion
buy bnet for ingame gold
buy SINGULAR housing items

oh you wanted 3 candles?? better buy 3 separately

>>725260342 (OP)
>Another real money currency hit World of Warcarft
Anyone else find it wild that MMO's now contain economies that are more stable and legitimate globally than those of some literal third world nations? Where people in those third world nations would rather "work" in MMO's in order to buy food in their own countries.

Have we reached peak dystopia yet or is there more nightmare fuel to come?

>>725264397
wow's economy is absolutely fucked due to legions of bots farming everything 24/7. blizz doesn't give a fuck and has no incentive to fix the problem because every bot has to pay a sub
>have we reached peak dystopia
it barely started

>>725260342 (OP)
i'm kind of looking forward to blizzard being shocked when people don't really care for housing outside of a handful of erp trannies
like 90% of the playerbase are gonna fuck around with it for a few hours, import someone else's design and then never go back to it
such a colossal waste of time and resources

>>725264397
Virtual economies are nothing like real ones, might as well say its 'wild' that people would rather grind sea-shells in Maplestory than do a shift at Mcdonald's

>>725264581
>such a colossal waste of time and resources
This housing situation is definitely the biggest waste of time and resources in the history of the company. They literally pulled a "cut this expansion short and go full hands on deck on the next expansion instead" energy just into housing when it's a feature less than 1% of the playerbase even gives a fuck about. I really have no words to describe how retarded this whole situation is.

>>725264147
>never own a house so you can own a digital one
I can't afford a house nor can I justify even spending a cent on some digital one. I hate canada so much it's unreal.

every month i grow more proud i was able to beat my addiction with the abomination that was bfa after so many years and i never had to struggle through the utter trash they spat out afterwards.
truly disgusting.

>>725264607
>Virtual economies are nothing like real ones
Right up until you realise "real" economies are almost entirely virtual, speculative and are kept afloat by literally just printing more virtual currency.

>>725264581
I like how they spent so much time and effort to ultimately make their "mmo" feel even more isolated and dead as fuck because people will move from afking in the city to afking in their dedicated cuckshed where nobody will even see them. waow!!

No wonder XIV is getting intermittently DDoSed right now, they always take it out on us when their game is flopping and shitting itself, as evidenced by the notable uptick in antiXIV threads whenever shit like this happens to them
Pretty sad and pathetic desu

>>725264760
It's funny and sad how as a kid i was constantly told "money doesn't grow on trees" and "you can't just print more money" but actually you literally can and the world literally does.

>>725260342 (OP)
How does this compare to FF14's housing monetization?

>>725264976
Other than a handful of cash shop furnishings and past seasonal reward housing items every housing item is either from loot or crafted. Housing plots themselves are in limited supply aince they exist in a physical location (multiple instances of numerous housing plots), but you can bid on the plots and build/modify your house with ingame currency.

>NOOOOOO YOU CAN'T MAKE MONEY OFF OF YOUR PRODUCT
>YOU MUST GIVE US EVERYTHING FOR FREEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>725268752
>Game with paid sub, paid expansions and already shitton of paid microtransactions
>Free

>>725260475
Do you think it feels bad being PR guy who tapped that fucking nonsense at the behest of his shareholder overlords?
>hmm how best to word that the company wants infinite money by draining our stupid userbase while they pay me $30 an hour?

The milking of the damned is reaching new highs

To the last remaining rats running microsofts maze; how do you mentally justify paying a sub for a game with MTX? Traditionally an MMO had a sub, or it had MTX. You'd pay $10 a month because the alternate is playing some KMMO where half the game is gated behind a credit card. But blizzard increasingly want both

>>725269086
So far it was just cosmetic crap you had to buy with real money

>>725269267
Isn't GDKP still allowed on retail?

>>725262053
He is someone who used to be the Dicksucker King, and the game has gotten so bad that even he permanently pissed off from it for years now. That's how you know it's BAD.

Asmongold rakes Blizzard over the coals over their Hearthsteel controversy coming with World of Warcraft: Midnight

He even says that he'll have a house transmog competition if they remove it

"There is no benefit that adding an item to an in game store adds to a video game..."

>>725270464
thanks chatgpt

>>725260475
i feel like this is missing a paragraph explaining why it can't be the usual in-game currency instead. doesn't wow still have that? like the little copper, silver and gold coins? couldn't you buy the items with those instead