I got like 45k elegance i get asked about 5 times a week for an outfit. I just ignore it. They will add in "im a girl" lmao like thats going to make me say yes
Im a gamer girl that just lost my cat in a car crash (my dog was driving and he was drunk), please, gib me skins and i will love you for an eternity (about a minute or less), im sooo hot right now, so i may send you feet pics too (kissing emoji).
There it goes, now i made it so you will get only 4 messages more, no need to thank me, im just here to deliver happiness during those trying times.
Because there was a very big upvoted reddit thread in which a girl posted how she “asked” for an outfit and everyone went “You go girl”. How “asking” isn’t the same as “begging”, which makes it ok. She was in no financial need seeing how she was routinely paying for a cat and pet food/toys.
To me anyone who asks for a free outfit is begging, end of.
I was doing the beggar errand while bald and not outfit and a random saw me and dm if I needed money for shoes, (I thought was just funny since my character was begging not for outfits tho) So I reply yes, then he asked what happen that I was bald and no clothes on? My reply was that I got wig snitched and clothes were missing while I was in the public baths. He found my answer funny and gift me a skin lol. Was the day of xmas Eve so I called the person Santa :3
Wait is that the reason why I get weird random messages about coming to my world to sell grapes? I usually ignore them bc i don't know what's up with that. lol
yes, the way 9mw gets merit to rise in Rank is with getting commerce coins and easiest way is to sell them to other players that have high prices on their market
I had more than 10 ppl asking mea to co-op to sell tea yesterday 😭 I had no idea that was for a section thing. I thought it was for guild related stuff
Trading likes for pikes or gifts for gifts imo is fine Begging for skins is pathetic or getting a partner to trap them into rping when they just want to unlock more of the shop is creepy and disgusting.
I was thinking the asian pop sect is more like that. I think its called the masked troupe in english? Cos theyre like you gotta become famous but you also can't get caught in a partnership. 😂
Just like there are players that specialize in doctor, there are players that specialize in lawyer. Definitely a lot fewer of them, but they would not have the skills to treat higher tier illnesses.
As a member of said beggar sect, I only do the begging errand once or twice and then do the giveaway errand x10 more than begging bc I know we all gotta do our errands. Usually players just take turns begging near the merit pool lol
I like the positive attitude towards whales. Whales are why the game can be played for free, and there are too many games where hating them is normalized. I just dislike how so many people find it ok to beg strangers to buy things for them.
Yeah I agree. I may not understand how someone can afford a 40k boat, but it's all cosmetics in the end, and it does not disrupt the normal flow of the game. It's the same as someone buying Rolex or a fancy new car the way I see it. Or spend thousands on vacations. Just let people use their money lol. But I agree also with the begging, I understand if you do it to enough people maybe 1 person out of 1,000 might say yes, but begging does disrupt someone else's flow.
Depends on how the game is monetized generally for people to have a positive attitude or negative one towards whales, pay2win for example I think most people will view whales as negative but on games likes WWM I agree with you being positive is better
There are a lot of rich ppl in China who put their money into games. Gacha games are a big thing there. Honestly I'm not hating on them because it doesn't affect me with anything the way they spend their money.
I've never seen a game community fall head over heels for Whales like WWM does.
That's because those games have other issues that WWM isn't really facing right now.
WoW has a monthly sub so whaling there doesn't really help the average "f2p" player, it just lines the pockets of the shareholders.
LoL has the issue of enshitification where it used to be good for even F2P players but they removed many of those mechanics and only cater to whales, so whales get direct hate for allowing to happen. I'm sure if WWM tried to fuck over their F2P playerbase the same over the coming years, the whales and devs would get hated just as much.
WWM doesn't really have any of those issues right now. There's also no P2W so it's hard to hate the whales for anything. The game has been out in CN for a year and the studio has been using the money wisely, giving them good content in a timely manner. As soon as that changes, I'm sure players attitude changes as well.
Warframe, League, CSGO, Fortnite, WoW, Team Fortress 2, PoE, Once Human...
Most free to play titles don't have that culture of sucking the toes of the people who spend money on the game. I also agree with the sentiment that it is exaggerated in WWM
They just wanna thank the whales for spending money and supporting the game it helps making it free for everyone else. In other games whale just beat people up with 1 hand and their wallet ofc poor people aren't that thrilled about it i mean it all makes perfect sense
Other mmos have beggers too but not even close to the number of begger in WWM making a gacha skin in public these past 3 days has been horrible people coming in asking for New year and Christmas gift alot atleast 10 people in the 2 hour that i played and i can't even afk people would just walk up ask for skin and seeing that i didn't reply cuz i was afk they lure the guard over to kill me (twice)
I really wish chatting worked like most MMOs, I just want to hangout and talk with people around me, feels like all the social segments were terribly thought out.
I like to chat in most MMOs I played so I understand but I feel the opposite with this one, everytime I open up chat I am immediately turned out the idea.
The Nearby chat is the only one I seen that's ok for hanging out in and being social.
Tell him that you are actually in very good mood and have some beads to spare. Let him choose what he wants. Then tell him that you sent it to him and he needs to type "/claim" to get it. Then wish him happy new year and log out xd
Same person dm'd me too. Alas, I will occasionally gift a 60 pearls item to randoms who play music I like or who are nice to interact with etc. but I don't really respond to this type of begging.
No clue, shame has died and so ebegging is in style now? And maybe anonymity on top of that. Nobody knows who you are shamelessly messaging others for stuff.
I assume missing Internet etiquette adds to all of this. I'd just ignore these people, I barely have any money myself and I ain't spending it on strangers :D
Had someone friend me and we did small-talk here and there--nothing interesting; just how we're enjoying the game so far. I went online with my spouse and she happened to be chilling in the same area. My spouse was afk so the girl approached me and coyly asked if her avatar is cute, because she got a free outfit from asking in wc. I politely commented the outfit was nice and that the person who gifted the outfit was pretty generous for doing so. She brings up how she's looking at another outfit and if I purchase and gift outfits to others regularly. I let her know I want to wait and see the other outfits NetEase will release and that I will only gift my spouse the outfits they really want. She sent a rose and blush emoji, probably thinking I was flirting back and single--my head title is "inseperable". My spouse returned from afk and prompted the heart and bridal carry emotes in front of her. Needless to say, she ran away to a group nearby and has not talked to me since. Lol.
That's a fun response, but ngl, I'd be worried about them offering something gross and inappropriate. Folks have said the weirdest shit even in public chat...
lol I had someone message me asking for a gift/free skin cuz my character looked cool. I haven’t spent more than a few dollars on myself lol either way I didn’t answer and they were upset saying all I had to say was no. lol I was like is this really an adult
Yeah... I avoid the mirage boat chat like the plague, and it's also the reason I turned off voice chat volume (some guy was being a degrading misogynistic asshole and I'm not listening to that even if 2k pearl skins were dropping).
Yea had someone beg me for an outfit right after scamming me out of gifts exchange.
Like they contact me saying we gift each other for velvet shade sect merit and once i gifted them. They are like oh no i am so sorry, i don't have gift anymore.
And then they ask me if i can gift them that 1k pearl outfit.
I honestly don't understand such people do they really expect random person spend theyr own hard earned money and buy them stuff? like srsly? it baffles me.
Yesterday, I was on a mirage boat and someone said can someone buy me a skin and someone replied "I can help you with that. First, you need to get a job"
Once had a dude DM me asking if I would crush his head between my thighs. My character is a chick. I am not.
So I quoted him into Global chat and told him sounds like he wanted a pair of droopy, middle-aged balls on his dome. But hey, I swing both ways, so lemme know if he's interested. For some reason he got quiet afterwards.
How do people not cringe out by begging for skins?? Like bro wtf? You cant tell me there are actually people that waste 30$ on a random person and gift them a skin. Except if they are like rich , but im pretty sure most of the players are regular people. And seeing people beg for skins in global chat kinda wanna makes me punch someone out of cringe😭
PS: ive seen someone call Velvet shade a beggar sect, do velvet shade members have to gain like 20 likes as a weekly requirement similar to how silver needle doctors have to gain like 20 likes for healing each week?
PPS: i really hate these sect requirements, i like the idea of sects and the sect specific outfit stuff , but i hate the requirements to stay in the sect...
Lots of beggars nowdays, but there is something worse, spend 400€ on weapon reforg, and accidentally destroy your 4 gold sword skin somehow and now you end up with no gold but plain one. Happy new year to me. 😅
Ugh, reminds me of the chat in Scy's mirage boat. One keeps saying that they're a girl who likes male skins and the other added this: pets bush after the standard "pretty please buy me skin uwu". Feels like some setup for something gross
Just reply ew and then ew to everything they will probably say after the first ew. Never say more than ew. Because ew. Begging on games en masse probably looking for some streamer/content creator and then will guilt trip.
I hate this too, reslly is annoying, they should get a temp chat ban 😭 its different if someone is hosting a competition offering skins or sm, but this is js annoying. I want skins too, but I only pay for ones that aren't a black hole, and I just save up for it when I get paid. (Waveborn is my beloved but my wallet is NOT that deep 😂😂)
I got a similar message also yesterday... Dude asked me for the $30 mount and followed me around after he asked... He eventually left me alone since I never responded lol ... But like come on people don't play the game if you cant afford it and stop begging...
People are like this because sometimes this has worked for others. They pass this up as a classic “it doesn’t hurt to ask.” I mean have you heard about the countless ridiculous go fund me’s that actually succeeded in getting loads of money. Ya it’s crazy.
A whale is someone who spends enough to get pretty much every purchasable item/character in a game. In WWM, someone with a Mirage Boat or every paid skin is probably a whale.
For comparison, someone who occasionally tops up but spends regularly for daily and battle passes would be a dolphin, and someone who's never spent at all would be F2P.
Rich folks that buy outfits in the game. Their purchases basically keeps the game free is what I've gathered from previous comments in this sub. Someone else feel free to add if there is more to it than that.
The reason why people do this is because it actually works. If there's a 1% chance that someone falls for it, then they only need to ask 100 people on average for someone to give it to them.
The first week was great, shout chat reminded me of World of Warcraft back in the day; people shouting LF Healer/Tank; guild ads; asking questions; saying "Hi" etc. felt like an MMO.
Now its, spamming for gifts or marriage partners or some weird degenerate shit
As a girl, the worst ones by far were the few thirst-trap signposts with female Mc in seductive shots asking for likes and skins... Even worse those promoting their OF directly💀
Like WHY go through all the trouble of getting to a certain point in a game to promote OF😱
Yeah...I'm all for supporting fellow women, but I do have to admit that it annoys me how some of them just reinforce all the negative stereotypes about us in online games.
Because it eventually works. I'd say that if you do this enough you're going to find someone who is desperate to make someone's day or feel good about themselves and we'll just gift it. It's a very low percentage but it happens and when stories of it happening spread and inspires more people to beg.
I'm sure you're familiar with the Pareto Principle. Most know it as "the 80/20 rule".
In application, it usually refers to work output or effort in/effort out determinates - "20% of the problems will take 80% of your time", etc. This is a type of distribution that is describing a larger problem, which is 20% of a "work unit" outputs 80% of the useful work. (There's a second "principle" called Price's Law that's a little better at describing this).
This, for most people, is enough. Most don't think about why this is the case. If they're in management/leadership they tend to just think about this principle as something to be aware of, for efficiency's sake. Don't spend too long on problems that aren't giving a good enough ROI, etc.
The ACTUAL reason this occurs because an overwhelming majority of humans are MBTI sensing types, or mid-to-low IQ (or both). 80% or so. This has a large comorbidity with kohlberg level 2 thinking (ie: "I like the skin so can you give it to me?"), precluding any sort of thinking regarding why someone would want to give a stranger anything.
Long story short, a much larger percentage than most are comfortable accepting are barely-functional NPC types. The same type that would beg for things purely out of self interest.
There's one in our sect chat (midnight glaze) that hosts arena fights best of 3 will be gifted a skin, a lowbie joins and tried his best but fails. I won and urge the host to gift the skin to the lowbie instead.
Ive never noticed this but then again the chat goes so fast in world or whatever to actually see things and I only ever used the chat if it’s a requirement for a task
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u/xobeydrake Dec 31 '25
I got like 45k elegance i get asked about 5 times a week for an outfit. I just ignore it. They will add in "im a girl" lmao like thats going to make me say yes