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"Shiflet" <rshi...@charter.net> wrote in message 
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> "JohnR" <repr...@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> This reply is a bit tangential but the idea that investment of effort is 
>> rewarded in the official live game is debatable. Everything is so 
>> ridiculously simple and largely effortless now. Frequent class and 
>> mechanic changes have seen performance and abilities bouncing all over 
>> the place and nothing a player can invest will alter that. Each new 
>> expansion resets all that invested effort anyway regardless of how much 
>> or how little was made. Only vanilla really saw an effort invested 
>> yielding any significant advantage and being rewarded in a (virtually) 
>> substantial way. As the game became more popular and lucrative the 
>> increased volume of casual players whining about it resulted in blizzard 
>> killing off many of the RPG aspects in the game in favour of an instant 
>> access shoot'em up.
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> Some of your points are valid, but it still overlooks a few things. On the 
> live servers for example, if you don't raid, you won't have the best gear, 
> this is simply a fact-you can't buy your way to BIS gear no matter how 
> much gold you have. Likewise, while doing dailies or farming isn't hard, 
> if you don't do them, you won't have a netherdrake, or netherray, or the 
> mini sporebat, or Mr. Grubbs, or various other "collectibles" that some 
> people desire. If you want those, you still have to devote the time to go 
> and get them. You can moan about casuals all you want, but I assume you're 
> still able to see the difference between the stuff I just described and 
> playing on a private server where you get 50k gold upon logging in, and 
> can buy literally every item in game from a vendor...
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For sure, it was just to make a point about the concept of "investment"