The Queue: I don’t think I can convey my disappointment

Yesterday, while I’ve been busy being too ill to move, y’all had a discussion of the new Hearthstone pet, an adorable baby devilsaur that out-chibi’s Chibi Godzilla. You know, the one where you have to play a gatcha game and spend up to $158 dollars to get him? Y’all remember, it was yesterday’s Queue.
It’s a good thing the CMS has me afraid to write long responses to things here, because otherwise I’d literally be ranting for 20,000 words about how much I dislike this.
50 USD. I assume it’s in USD.
There comes a moment in everyone’s life where they are so utterly done with a concept that they can barely even get themselves to contemplate it. The brain literally forces them to skip past it for its own survival.
My brain is really trying to do that now at the idea of spending more than I have for some triple A video games on a pet from Hearthstone.
Ignoring the available prizes, the mechanics of that gacha system are already incredibly gross and exploitative. But if it was a chance at 10 different pets, with certain ones rarer than others, it would be a little less ridiculous.
Instead, it’s one highly desirable and unique prize with a lot of other cruft that is normally much cheaper elsewhere. On top of that, all those other prizes are completely useless in Battlegrounds, while the pet is usable in that mode. I thought I couldn’t be surprised by naked greed anymore, but this one actually managed it.
For me it’s more the unwashed cynicism of the whole thing. It makes me miss Diablo Immortal‘s store, it’s that naked in its disdain for people.
I feel like this is a terrible decision all around. I get so few dopamine hits in my brain as it is, we had to try and harvest the few things that generate them into a gatcha game?
I honestly wouldn’t spend $158 if that was a live dinosaur.
I mean, I’ve spent that much on a cat at the humane society, and we have actual live dinosaurs for sale in stores at the mall right this second that I know will go for more than that. My wife feeds a whole bunch of dinosaurs in our backyard all the time. We even have a special feeder with a camera so we can record the dinosaurs eating the food.
So I think I probably would mark out pretty hard for a cute baby Albertosaurus or something, especially if our hypothetical InGen made it so that the dinosaur didn’t grow up to eat me.
Kind of feels like they missed a major character…
What I’m amused by is the fact that in the comic books, there are two major ships created by writer Larry Hama, and Overwatch managed to get both of them in here.
Good news for fans of turn-based Square Enix RPGs (and those who were getting worried that all modern FF games were leaning action).
This isn’t a Xenogears remaster, Red.
So FYI there appears to have been a major purge of deleted characters. Looks like every character under 60 that was deleted more than a year ago has been sent into the void for good. I have DKs that existed for ten minutes and were in my deleted characters list for over a decade finally gone.
Some of the removals make me a little sad tbh. They had some cool transmog.
I’m not even going to look. So many Warriors I made just to level up with friends and then discarded as I already had one for every race/Warrior combo at max.
Okay, it’s the Queue. I’m going to sink back into my stupor and fever now.
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