Posted by Spooner | 6 Comments
Something smells Fishy in WoW Patch 3.3
El's is a great place to learn fishing!
If there’s one recurring issue with gamers that I will never understand, it’s the sense of entitlement many of us clench so tightly when it comes to our accomplishments in a game. Case in point, fishing is being changed in Patch 3.3 to make it once more easier to access. The change in particular happens to be the following:
Don’t forget, in patch 3.3.0 you never catch trash from fishing pools, regardless of skill. (source)
A lot of players are typically up in arms feeling cheated or slighted because they had to suffer through leveling their fishing skill to the cap in order to reap above average results from tapping schools of fish. I don’t really understand what the problem is though. How can you possibly be frustrated by this? The player throwing the fit is (removed because I’m not going to be a jerk about it), the guild tag Ad Nauseum doesn’t surprise me in the least though.
What does any of this have to do with the price of rice in China? The single argument about cooking materials for raid foods (fish) becoming less lucrative in the Auction House is pretty weak and feels a lot like a cop out to me than a legitimate position. I’ve leveled fishing to the cap on a few characters, it’s easy and takes very little effort and a modicum of time invested compared to vanilla WoW. The same goes for Cooking especially with the advent of the Thanksgiving holiday in game that allowed just about every player this past weekend to go from 0-350 cooking without being forced to scour the entire original game for recipes and materials.
Does the cooking change bother me? Hell no I used it to get my new character’s cooking up to near Northrend level. Did the new cooking boost affect any of my characters and their accomplishments or future? No, that’s making a big deal out of nothing. Will this fishing change do anything to my maxed out fishing characters? Not in the slightest. If anything the market values for fish will not be immune to competition and thus the radically inflated prices we see now will dwindle and be moderated under the normal rules of economy like all other gathered materials like ores, gems, and herbs.
People need to chill out on the open jealousy posts and try to not make themselves seem so petty.
Agreed
I think the sense of entitlement comes in to play when you log on and decide that you deserve to level from 0 to 350 cooking in one afternoon. What ever happened to the sense of pride you get from actually working hard at something and earning the reward? I guess its that etitlement mind set we all have. Look I actually took the time to log on today. I deserve Epics. Just send them to my mail box please.
Agreed in most part except the “ease and ltitle effort of fishing” part. Leveling to 350 from about 280 took me approximately 5 hours fishing in the goddamn dalaran fountain. The effort part comes in the “dont fall asleep while fishing” aspect of this exceedingly mindumbingly boring task. And the hours I spent in Zangarmarsh, urgh, I dont want to remeber. All in all I must have taken about a day of /played to level my fishing. Do not belittle that effort! For time is money, friend.
i’ve always felt entitlement in WoW was similar to the entitlement certain car guys feel toward the younger crowd.
“you’ve never had to clean out a carb, you little smug bastard”
“you won’t ever flood your engine, you waste of a penis/vagina”
“you have fully independent suspensions and larger, more capable brakes. we used to just crash. i hope your mother dies in a fire.”
i just don’t see how one can complain about things being easier for the new guy, no matter what the new guy was going to have it easier because all the older guys were going to be there to tell him what to do.
The old guys are the guinea pigs, we are the test subjects. The new group of gamers get’s to benefit from the results of our trials. And the generation after them will do the same with a new set of tests and experiments. It’s the all encompassing cycle of improvement in gaming. You learn what works, what doesn’t, what’s fun, what’s not and you apply those to the next iteration. Just like Slayer said about cars. Cars today are leaps and bounds more advanced than those of the past BECAUSE the lessons of the past have been learned and new knowledge applied. And I’m sure by the time my kids are old enough to drive, there will be an entirely new set of rules and standards I’ll bitch about to them.
I want a new mmo where the right button activates dopamine and the left button removes toxins from my brain. Normally this would be done by peeing and shitting but I am ready for the next level where I dont have to leave my chair