Apparently not. 6+ years after release, there are some players who are still lost as soon as an heroic encounters involves more than a tank and spank fight.

 

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Thanks for your sympathies, luckily I have my wrecking ball achievements to wipe my tears with. Just because I don't think punishing everyone is an acceptable change to dealing with afk/bots doesn't mean anything beyond that. It is a lazy solution to an annoying problem. They don't reward winners and losers EQUALLY. If you got 100 honor for entering the BG and everyone got the same, you might have a point. What you are saying is that the guy who has entered 8 BGs and carried his team every single time should get the same amount of honor as someone who never even logged on? Yeah, how have the devs never thought of this brilliant system before?! Perhaps they all have common sense, that might be the hold up. Don't worry though, even if other players have access to the same pixels you have, you'll always be my special little snowflake.

 

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And you're explanation is that WoW is so hard that some people just don't have the talent for it? I think I will go for the more understandable: they just don't care enough to make an effort to actually learn their class and it's abilities.

 

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No matter if you're right or wrong, it still shows that not "everybody" can be "good" at WoW. Some suck at it and will always suck past very basic stuff, no matter the reason why, be it laziness, lack of skill, or talent, or whatever you call it.

 

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At this point, all the decent players have already seen the content and geared up / wised up to the point where it's all easy anyway, so it doesn't really matter.

Now we can run our alts through with the LFD system and not be worried about PUG woes.

 

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Not being rewarded for failing a task is not "punishment", though I do understand most overly entitled people, whether it is today's special snowflake youth, seniors who think the world owes them their heart's desire, and yes, mmorpg casuals, all seem to think it is.

History demonstrates that if you aren't rewarded for failure, you tend to get BETTER. You think it's a coincidence the easiest mmorpg also has the worst players?

Will the people who either can't or won't put forth the effort to get better fall out of the system? You betcha. I don't know how they will ever manage to get over their jealousy of those who did put forth that effort - it was the over entitled casual players whining that put WoW into this situation in the first place, and somehow I doubt their ability to whine is any different than their ability to suck - above and beyond the average.

 

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Fair enough. You can rewrite my original reference to "catering to over-entitled and under-talented players" as "catering to over-entitled players who refuse to make an effort" and I'm equally happy with the statement.

 

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