Oh look, another WoW post. Just because I’m done with WoW (and have been for months) doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to facepalm and laugh at Blizzard’s blatant stupidity.
Seriously, though.. I didn’t think it would ever get this bad. And it appears to be going south quite fast. Even to the point where a few of the well-known people who do these “WAKE UP, BLIZZARD!!!” videos are leaving the game as well.
Heelzvsbabyface is one of them. He’s already dropped his subscription months ago. And in this post, I’m going over his key issues with this expansion with you all.
So anyway, what’s so bad about 6.2? Let’s say how the elites have always said “WoW is tailored to casuals”, this remark is definitely showing itself in this patch. Heelz shows this by being decked out in the same kind of gear that I would possibly have. It’s mostly ilvl 640 gear.
It’s a mix of Crafting gear, LFR gear, and even some gear from the AH.
He goes on to say how the newest raid, Hellfire Citadel, requires 650 ilvl gear (as the minimum). So there’s no way he, or even I, would be able to do that content. Let alone contribute to the raid. Yet of course, he’ll have his Guild to back him up. I do not.
So what does he do to get the gear he needs to at least enter the LFR? You guessed it… more Apexis gear! Where do you find it? The new zone that we should had gotten in 6.0!
That zone, he describes being worse than Zangarmarsh in TBC (actually, he doesn’t. But from what he says later, I’m convinced it is). It’s Apexis. Crystal. grinding. HELL… nearly 100% of the content, is Apexis Crystal grinding that makes you feel you’re nothing but a tool. He mentions there are elite mobs to kill… yet they award Apexis Crystals.
He also mentions of a new gear set that drops, called ‘Baleful’. It’s rare, and it only drops a ilvl 650 Blue piece. If you were to upgrade this at the Apexis Crystal traders, it would cost you…20.. THOUSAND.. Apexis Crystals.
So let’s see. How many hours of your life would you have to waste to get that much, if you have started from 0 and just hit Level 100? I think you get the point here.
So, is there another alternative to get that 650 gear to do LFRs? Why, yes. And the way it’s done is quite..questionable. Remember what I said was “a good idea” of them doing? I take it back. Yep, it’s the WoW Token on the Blizzard Store. It’s the only way a Casual player can get a lot of gold, pretty fast. And it’s not cheap either.
Yet why do you need tons and tons of Gold? I’ll tell you…
The former 6.0-offered Apexis Crystal gear, is now available as Gold. All of that work you did in Draenor, running around, wasting your time? It was worthless. It’s the same slap in the face that raiders get when new currency-based gear comes out after an expansion release, and the old currency-based gear gets converted into Gold.
So yeah. Have fun spending gobs of your hard-earned money, so you can go play with your Guildies and/or your Friends! They got to get that money from somewhere, as they lost a quarter of it from their own stupidity!
To say Blizzard has their remaining customers by their privates, would be an understatement. Some people are all “Well, it’s an MMO. It’s supposed to be grindy!”.
Let me give you a good game-related thing here. Most of you know Vass, the druglord from Far Cry 3. He keeps asking that one question to you; “Do you know the definition, of Insanity?”
If he was to look over Blizzard’s practices of when it comes to this, he’d be shitting his pants and saying “THIS.. is the definition of Insanity!”
This is clearly a ‘Pay to Win’ scenario, and it’s worse than what Guild Wars 2 would had ever thought of. I mean, sure, they got the Gems which you can pay with real money. But unlike Blizzard, they have an alternative which is using Gold instead, via their currency exchange system.