Quittermike wrote:
After a quick Google search I see that a ticket is $500 and includes a Blizzcon ticket ($175) so it's an additional $325 to go to the benefit dinner. It's a benefit dinner so I'm assuming Activision didn't profit from it at all, or very little, and most proceeds went to charity.
If Blizzard wants to donate to charity they can do it out of their own money. Thinking they're doing you a favor by letting you give them money is folly.
Quittermike wrote:
I couldn't find any demographic information but I would be bet it was heavily slanted towards male. I couldn't think of any big games Activision makes/publishes that appeal to girls. WoW is the most appealing one I can think of so I went to their website and checked out their
store main page and had a good laugh, it's plastered from header to footer with some of the most anti-girl appealing games I can think of.
WoW has been reconceived with the intent to appeal to girl gamers. Hence emphasis on cutesy appearance, shallow content, lack of in-game confrontationalism and groupthink. This is also a major driving force in MoP.
Quittermike wrote:
Also, [citation needed][citation needed][citation needed] on everything you said.
SOMEONE SAID IT ON THE INTERNET SO IT MUST BE TRUE
Quittermike wrote:
I don't know what's worse. A person (or did the guys who buy the tickets have different motivation than the girls?) who is willing to spend a $325 extra for an annual/one-time thing for a chance to mingle with significant personalities that are responsible for a hobby that they enjoy. Or Aestu, who thinks that the people responsible for WoW are retarded, the current game sucks, the direction of the game sucks, yet has invested what I'd imagine is probably hundreds of days played worth in to it and continues to play.
I still play WoW because, like you said, I've invested my time in it. I'm committed. And I have no regrets.
I'm a personality. I don't need a company ID or blue text to stand out. My personality does it. These people aren't "personalities", they're cardboard cutouts inflated to larger-than-life size by corporate BS designed to separate fools from their money.
Kaldoreii doesn't "enjoy" WoW. She's a hanger-on. Like I said, if coprophagy was trendy, she'd join a club. What has made WoW popular is the people who actually enjoy the game itself. When they're gone, the hangers-on will move on to whatever the new thing is.
So then the new execs and dev team got this brilliant idea that the tail should wag the dog. Then people who enjoyed the game as it was left by the millions. That's what they're "responsible" for. One of the most dramatic commercial fiascos in history. You go, Blues!
Quittermike wrote:
People have different beliefs, values, attitudes, financial backgrounds. For example, I find it crazy that you've probably spend that amount of cash on server transfers/name changes and still find it a waste of money along with whatever other arsenal of insults you have to go with it. Personally, I'd rather drop $325 on a nice dinner and some socializing with top Blizzard personalities, but that's fine if you don't.
There is a difference between paying for something you enjoy in its own right, for what it is, and paying to get lied to and used as a tool.
Quittermike wrote:
After reading your posts on-and-off for a couple years I wouldn't expect you to grasp this though, you seem to have very little empathy or open-mindedness about a situation you don't understand or agree with. Being in computer science I spend a bunch of time around other people in CS and engineers, lots of them hold that holier-than-thou attitude I get from your posts. I fucking hate it, I make an active effort to not be like that.
Sounds like you're insecure. Confidence follows ability.
Quittermike wrote:
If someone can afford it, enjoy it, and it doesn't harm anyone then who cares? Why can't you just say "Kaldorei, I don't like you" and in some other place instead of ruining yet another one on here.
It does, and I explained how and why.