Quote Originally Posted by Collin_Sky View Post
Can't believe there are people now defending MTX in a subscription MMO as a preferred way of obtaining items as opposed to actually earning it in game. Good lord.

Maybe you guys should just bookmark playerauctions.com instead of the forums
I mean, you can ignore the actual, salient points about the amounts of time involved in doing these things in a video game vs the time a lot of people actually have to do them along with their real life responsibilities all you want, but it doesn't make those isses with the MMO genre any less real.

Nobody's "destroying vidja games." Everyone's doing the best they can to enjoy their hobby.

Quote Originally Posted by AllenThyl View Post
The logical end result of "hipster culture". Having the status symbols of a subculture, but just for fashion, not for the culture / status associated with it. You'd think that zombie graveyard of pay2win MMOs would serve as lesson of what not to encourage in a game that one likes, but alas, here we are.
"The culture"? Holy hell.

Look, man - I'm old. I've played about a billion video games. And until now I figured that playing video games for about 50 years (give or take) would have been enough to be a part of "the culture."

What I've discovered, however, is that what I've needed to do this whole time is to earn this specific haircut in this specific video game by beating my metaphorical head against a wall-slash-boss' fist 300 times, with each beat followed by someone telling me I suck, followed by getting kicked, followed by waiting an hour for the next attempt.

With all due respect, I'd rather not be part of that. I have better things to do with my time. Here's $10 for a haircut for my cat girl so I can bypass that. Please.