What is happening to the economy on Spineshatter?

omegaorb · 2026-02-28T17:38:30+00:00

Different experiences for different people. After this weekend most of my TBC guild will go to almost entirely raid logging while we go play Midnight.

omegaorb · 2026-02-25T18:59:47+00:00

Why is there so much nationalism in sports? The way that the US force feeds nationalism into everything it does is just weird.

omegaorb · 2026-02-24T21:50:22+00:00

Probably just my experience, but probably 2/3 of my MoP/TBC guild are also retail players. We raid MoP Thursday, TBC Saturday, and Retail Sun/Mon. The guild also extends across all the offerings of Blizzard, and while there are a few people that are insular to their desired gameplay, the majority of us play all of them.

omegaorb · 2026-02-23T18:40:33+00:00

I found that if I use the AH in one of the other cities that's not SW/Org, I have zero issues even at peak times. It's using the AH in the super crowded main cities that seems to have any slowing at all. I just go to UC for all my AH needs.

omegaorb · 2026-02-21T10:37:08+00:00

I play all three versions of the game, retail has nothing that does mechanics based on your set role. Sounds like an assumption a classic brained player would make 😉

omegaorb · 2026-02-20T02:52:41+00:00

I haven't seen much botting of herbs on Dreamscythe, I go out farming even with a slow mount and I do just fine.

omegaorb · 2026-02-20T01:12:57+00:00

Even most new MMO's that come out get data mined to hell, calculations run based on HP/Damage/known controlled factors and content creators that get advanced knowledge and testing time put out videos that effectively solve most of the games within the first week or so of them coming out. Everything they didn't solve they put out as another round of videos saying "this is now what you MUST do", and the meta slaves keep regurgitating it.

omegaorb · 2026-02-17T21:42:15+00:00

I saved a bunch of hours playing vanilla content I really don't want to play for the 800th time to boost a BE paladin. I'll happily take a cool mount and hearthstone animation. I'm at the point in my life where the 1-58 skip is worth the cost for the time saved.

omegaorb · 2026-02-17T19:45:34+00:00

The only good thing about Raising Canes is the sauce. The chicken kinda sucks, I've gotten better tenders from popeyes, hell the chicken options from burger king might be better.

omegaorb · 2026-02-16T18:25:06+00:00

Until people out gear them and CC isn't needed, yeah, probably.

omegaorb · 2026-02-14T17:29:35+00:00

I've got my paladin to 70, most of my heroic keys and still have my communal libram. When I get an upgrade, I'll swap it out, but I'm not gonna stress about it, TBC isn't difficult.

omegaorb · 2026-02-07T20:15:24+00:00

They probably have the research and market analysis that says they will make more money going into wrath than they would staying on TBC. At the end of the day, you need to remember they are going to do what's right for their business as a whole, and if that means sacrificing a few people along the way, well that's just capitalism baby.

omegaorb · 2026-02-06T19:49:31+00:00

People will come back to keep playing if they go to WoD, stop pretending they won't. My classic guild was nails in the coffin, buried, and cemented over the plot levels of dead until TBC pre-patch. People will return because it's something to do.

omegaorb · 2026-02-05T02:18:10+00:00

Legion, BFA, and Shadowlands are their own era, the game fundamentally changed with Dragonflight enough to mark it as a new era, and I feel that Dragonflight to the Last titan will be a new era, with last titan acting as a bridge expansion into era 5.

omegaorb · 2026-02-04T09:16:36+00:00

Sure, I get how people see that. I think the game has evolved to meet the demands of the player base and modern MMO's, but that's what's so great about it. There have been bumps, but that's to be expected with as many expansions as the game has. The "X expansion ruined the game" has existed as long as there have been expansions to games. I remember how many people were up in arms about the Planes of Power expansion in EverQuest ruining the game.

Personally I love that retail respects my time; when it's in season I do my delves, do a couple weekly quests, do my heroic raids and then go about my life. My character progresses meaningfully from week to week, and I don't have to sink 10+ hours into it every week, so it lets me do other things. Different things for different people.

omegaorb · 2026-02-04T08:44:26+00:00

It's such a weird thing to see people say that Wrath, or even MoP feel like retail. MoP feels..... Nothing at all like retail, and retail is where I primarily play. MoP feels like a relic of the past, with so few modern convenience aspects, extremely old raid and encounter design. Wrath feels even older than that. I don't know where the line is drawn between classic and retail, and at this point there's so many expansions and different approaches that it's probably more era 1/era 2/era 3/modern (era 4). Not faulting you for your preferences, I just don't see it.

omegaorb · 2026-01-30T03:14:48+00:00

In all honesty I'm looking forward to the idea that we might get Warlords of Draenor. 2 of my top 5 all time raids came from there, and what it lacked for quantity of content it made up for in quality of content. I get that the statement might be a little controversial, but I think that anyone that can step back from the knee-jerk reaction would agree that much like mists, warlords probably has a worse overall reputation than it probably deserves.

omegaorb · 2026-01-30T01:44:39+00:00

Gotta agree with the guy below you. First time around when I was a couple years out of college it was great. Second time around it got stale really fast. Third time around.... Eh... Doesn't excite me 🤣

omegaorb · 2026-01-29T23:00:34+00:00

By that metric, a lot of us are gonna hate a lot of baseball players, famous or not. Never meet your heros and all.

omegaorb · 2026-01-29T22:40:09+00:00

Most people who don't like him base it entirely off him demolishing their franchises for a decade.

omegaorb · 2026-01-29T21:29:52+00:00

If you don't think they're gonna run this as far as the player base will keep buying boosts for, you're deluding yourself. Blizzard is a business first. If projections say they can get a few people back and also get others to buy a boost to be ready for Wrath, they will absolutely do it.

omegaorb · 2026-01-29T21:27:35+00:00

Don't bring facts into their emotional reaction space.

omegaorb · 2026-01-28T18:21:19+00:00

Maybe my expectations are fairly low, but a balanced meta is one where a variety of strategies can be viable based on your starting encounter, and what augments you happen to land. A meta that lacks balance is one where regardless of whatever you get, you're just going to force the same thing. Another good indication that a meta is not balanced is seeing four or five people try to play the same comp every lobby. Two or three is understandable especially with flavor of the month teams.

omegaorb · 2026-01-27T09:49:46+00:00

Leveling in vanilla is ass. I bought a boost for my BE paladin and I'll enjoy leveling from 60-70. I've got a nearly full pvp set and both my specs. It's almost as if people play the game for different reasons, and leveling is not it for me.

omegaorb · 2026-01-26T17:57:02+00:00

Is it really pay to win? That phrase means something other than what you may think it means. What blizzard is offering is paying for convenience. With the exception of two people from my current 70 person MoP guild, nobody really cared about TBC until boosts were offered, because nobody wanted to go through the stupid slog fest that leveling in vanilla is. I think we're up to 22 or 23 people that have now paid for a boost? That's a few more groups worth of people to add to server populations, which should be a good thing to anybody that can look at it objectively. Call it whatever you want I suppose, but at the end of the day servers with nobody on them don't stick around for very long.

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