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Duping not WAI?
Oh! From Turbine's POV. I getcha now.
Well, of course not.
Turbine has a business strategy that encourages P2W and gets people to pay for poorly described virtual items which have really shitty conditions placed on them, like BtC.
The new customer gets his or her first free taste of P2W in Korthos when he gets to buy his first sibarys cake for 5tp (that came free).
Storage a problem? You can buy more!
When you out grow the large bag, you'll find you can't upgrade you can only buy newer and bigger. But what happens to the old product? That character will never use it again, but can you give it to an alt who can use it? No.
The only thing you can do is destroy this digital representation of time/effort/money, or it will clog up your inventory and be a burden.
They have all kinds of products like this.
They named their game DDO Unlimited. The pitch was that if you subscribe, you get unlimited access.
But they get greedy. They decide to create new things that don't violate the "unlimited" scheme, but in ways to make you pay for them, like the FvS, champion and veteran I&II deals.
This worked well and the marks, I mean customers, didn't piss and moan and quit (well, it happened a little, and most came back), but most importantly people paid.
So they created a new class, that you couldn't immediately earn through favor unfortunately, but coming Soon (TM). And when it was earnable, it required earning favor through challenges, which they know many people wouldn't be able to earn through (yeah, I know you're all 'leet but we're talking about the more casual gamers).
Again, this worked, so they decided to gamble big and create an "expansion pack" and now the subscribers have to purchase content.
They expand Epic from a quest difficulty level to more levels, but to really get much out of it, you need to buy EDs; it's not part of the unlimited access, sorry.
During all this time, there is so much that is not WAI, and the only things you can be sure they'll prioritize are the ones that impinge on their revenue streams (like crude vials and cannith crafting).
Eventually, after realizing how much you're being treated like a sucker and fucked financially, you look at going Premium and discover that it would take a fairly large immediate investment to go premium and maintain access to everything you have, despite the years of subscription fees.
Then along comes this really nice guy from the Vault and he tells you how to dupe.
Now you can have huge bags for all your toons. Large devil scales, dragon scales, jewlers tools, commendations, +3 ability tomes across the board, +4 skill tomes, keys of destiny, bells of opening, XP pots and rez cakes, my god the REZ CAKES!
At last, you have to choice to grind or not to grind. You can grind 50 times more efficiently, or you can now just run shit for fun.
Finally, some little schmuck comes around whinging about duping not being WAI.
And while I know you should be entitled to your opinion, all I really want to say is "STFU, GTFO, and DIAF you wheezy little cock-munching fucktard."
Sorry I can't empathize with your point of view. I like to think that I can see multiple sides of issues, but I just don't have it in me this time. I'm also sorry that you bring out the worst in me, because I'm actually a pretty nice guy.
So, yeah, sorry.
P.S.
I think there's something on your chin there, buddy.
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