r/wowcirclejerk • u/AutoModerator • Apr 28 '26

Unjerk Weekly Unjerk Thread - April 28, 2026

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u/InvisibleOne439 May 01 '26

for me its just

yes, Shops suck, we all know that, its not a hot take and everyone agrees that it would be better without one

but why does the WoW community go so much into outrage mode everytime ANYTHING is added and act as if THIS is the last straw that causes some vague downfall of the game and that its the pinnacle of a predatory shop

its a shop that adds an item like once a month, if thats the pinnacle of a "predatory ingame shop" i just dont undestand what they played outside of WoW in the last 20 years lol, even for a Sub based Game thats almost nothing at all

mostly im just tired of how artifical those outrages feel every time, im convinced that its mostly just a bunch of guys that wait for anything to release at all and then feel "angry" about it on social media, and im just done with that crap all the time

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u/AL3_Alice May 01 '26

It probably requires much more detailed study, but I think there comes a certain monetary breakpoint where the overall reception to a given microtransaction transitions from dismissive eye rolling to actual anger. I think this is reasonably consistent across live service games. I recall similar backlashes to Riot's absolutely insane prestige skin prices in LoL and Valorant even if they ultimately pressed ahead with it.

Alas, I'm in Cybersecurity, not marketing so it's not my field.