Cortyn will start complaining again. Especially in World of Warcraft, players love to pull out the “€13 joker.” And that is incredibly annoying.
Yes, a complaining Wednesday. It’s been a long time, but it’s about time again. Over the past weeks, months, and years too many topics have piled up that need to be addressed and about which I just have to rant a bit. It feels therapeutic for me and might be entertaining for you. So, you can roughly look forward to hearing me complain again every two weeks. Or reading it. You know what I mean.
Of course, we’ll start again with my main game – World of Warcraft. But we won’t talk about the game itself, but about a very special faction of players that you just can’t get rid of:
The players who like to pull out the “€13 joker.”
What is the €13 joker? For those who don’t know: World of Warcraft costs money monthly, after all, it’s a subscription game. In addition to the base costs for the current expansion, you pay a monthly subscription. A one-month subscription costs €13. Whenever something in the game isn’t how you’d like it to be, you can ironically pull the “€13 joker.” After all, you are paying €13 per month, so the game should please be exactly how you like it.
By the Nether, these people get on my nerves.
No matter if in the official forum, on the World of Warcraft subreddit, in the game’s chat channels, or on any conceivable internet platform. Whenever anything is disliked, the €13 joker is pulled.
- Maintenance work on Wednesday morning at 3:00 AM? What are you actually paying €13 for?
- A bug at the launch of an expansion requires an additional 30 minutes of gameplay to be made up? What are you actually paying €13 for?!
- Your class is nerfed because others complained about their performance in PvP? What are you actually paying €13 for?!?!
- The Blizzard support only responds after a day and can’t restore your deleted item? WhAt ArE YoU aCtUaLlY PaYiNg €13 for?!?!
- Other players won’t take you into dungeons because you are acting like an unsympathetic idiot? WhAt ArE YoU aCtUaLlY PaYiNg €13 for?!?!111
There is a very simple answer to what you pay €13 for: For access to World of Warcraft. For the game that the developers built. Nothing more and nothing less.
I actually don’t like the descriptions that start with “These are the same people who then …” But here it’s just so fitting. Because the €13 joker faction are likely the same players who complain every day in the trade channel that there’s nothing to do in WoW anymore and that the game is being led more and more towards the abyss.
Likewise, typical players, who are stuck in phase 6 of their WoW journey forever. After all, one is only here to witness the misery live and to watch all the “dumb sheep” let Blizzard pull money out of their pockets.
Or you are simply incapable of filling your free time with a fun hobby and letting go of old habits that haven’t brought you joy for a long time. Ah, sorry. Once again, thinking out loud.
I always wonder if these people also act like this with other services. Do they also pay for a Netflix subscription for 2 years, only to complain month after month that their favorite childhood series like Dragon Ball Z or Sailor Moon aren’t on Netflix? Do they still hold a season pass to the student cafeteria, even though it switched to strictly vegan food three years ago – while they would love to have meat every day?
At some point, doesn’t the point come where one simply realizes: “I’m paying here for something that no longer brings me joy. This €13 would be better invested elsewhere. Maybe I should take a look at another MMO or treat myself to a game on Steam.”
I have the suspicion: These people are not paying the €13 to play World of Warcraft. They are paying €13 to buy the right to be dissatisfied.
If all these players who are only dissatisfied and haven’t been able to detach themselves from WoW take their €13 and simply do what brings them joy, everyone would be helped. Them and all the annoyed fellow players who don’t want to hear the whining every day anymore.
You would really be doing us a favor. Thank you.
The complaining Wednesday will be more frequent now. You can look forward to many different topics – I used to write about an internet driving license, for example.
