Hopped on WoW today to do the Pre-Christmas (aka Winter Veil) festivities. Did it a lot faster than planned. I thought it would take two days to do it. Got the Cooking quests done and killed the Greench, who was a pushover compared to 1-2 years ago.
When I first arrived, he was already dead and I was able to easily complete the daily. But I stayed just to make it fair and helped to kill him, who went down in 15 seconds. Wow. He seems almost soloable.
About the cooking quests. They’re the same as they’ve been every year. Make 5 Cookies, and get one glass of milk. I actually had people begging me(even offering to pay me) for small eggs.
Seriously? Just fly East and kill vultures for the five small eggs. Of course, most of these people were under Level 60. But why not just use their main and stop being lazy? 😛 Some people.
Blizzard also released a handy feature that you can access the Blizzard Store inside the game, and purchase mounts, pets, and other WoW-related stuff and have them directly show up in your mailbox a lot faster than before.
As cool as this feature is, it makes you wonder if this is a sign that micro-transactions are being done. Some would say no, as the stuff offered are just optional. But others as what I’ve seen in Trade Chat believe they are.
Micro-transactions are supposed to annoy you enough to pay for them to stop them from showing up. I really don’t think that’s what Blizzard is trying to do here.
They’re only offering an easier, simpler alternative for players to access the Blizzard Store. If they were seriously doing micro-transactions, they would be offering them as quest rewards for even more powerful stuff for a fee.
So really… they are not doing micro-transactions. They do stupid stuff like RNG’s and the like, but never anything like this. On top of it, some of their best selling items are on sale for half off.
Does this mean they’re hurting? … Hardly. Anyone that thinks Blizzard is hurting financially, is an idiot. No offense to them. Again, it’s just an easier way to access the store, and I personally like the feature. They should had done it a long time ago.