Having a purpose and putting effort in obtaining something is motivating. That's the theory and that seems to be the case.
But the amount of effort you have to do in comparison for what you actually get for it is a difficult thing to decide upon.
Most obvious tell is to simply look at your population, the people you are theorycrafting about how motivated they must be about it.
Yet all I see is about 9 in 10 people saying how awful the new requirements are. Not that the idea of having a purpose and putting effort into it is wrong, just merely the amount that is required.
All I see is staff members fencing it back saying "more effort is being more unique" as if they want to say: DONT YOU GET IT?
The problem is: apparently you dont. Because the majority people that actually PLAY this server are giving you a CLEAR SIGN that being unique is apparently not their main concern. Or that for them playing 1-2 hours a day max. is pushing it for them. Something that you seem to have a hard time fitting in your skulls.
To top it all off, staff seems to make a lazy-*** case in fending their idea off by putting people in two camps. You are either with them (and "get it") or you're not, and you MUST be lazy if this amount of effort wasn't enough.
With that argument you might as well ask 100.000 honor for every token. What's the differece, right? Either way it's pretty much a no-go for everyone that plays here except for a handful.
Not only are you insulting AT LEAST half the population here. you are also insulting every donator that actually decided to not put ANY effort in it whatsoever, and simply pay money for it.
The same people that Malaco told me gave this server a nice money boost in the last few days.
Good job, keep writing replies that totally miss the purpose.
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If this picture doesn't scream EFFORT =MOTIVATION I don't know WHAT will!
Welcome back to vanilla WoW, where you are rewarded for joining an awful lot of games. And by awful I really do mean awful.
Cause there's nothing more motivating than see others waste all their spare time to get something that was easily obtainable at first, but has since turned to be neigh impossible.
But hey, let's all be happy. We all got free gear after all!
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Even blizzard understood this when they introduced TBC and WOTLK. And you're talking about the company that invented ****ing CATACLYSM and PANDA's as a new race.