Talk:Baro Ki'Teer/@comment-212.242.172.246-20150404211203/@comment-26203093-20150408183546

"but people knew they were signing up for RNG when they joined the game." This isn't fucking hearthstone. And if blizzard started having temporary exclusive cards with actual number differences that I can only know about through esoteric handbooks or by channeling arcane energies to get the appropriate data through their newsfeed, only to find out I'll never get them because I never knew they existed in the first place, or was inconvenienced enough where a game simply isn't the top priority for a whole day - then blizzard just started applying the kind of randomness I can't deal with.

Hearthstone I play because of the randomness - Warframe I play despite it. Fun fact: literally no one - not me, nor anyone I know, or have spoken to - thought this would be an RNG centric game when they first started playing it.

You know? My point has been made, but let me just babble for a while here. Randomness that builds implied patterns that you can think and plan around on your own time is fun. Randomness that causes you to play a game like it was farmville where you have to make sure you leave you dates open for the right time or be arguably permanently punished, or - since I smell semantical arguments brewing, let us go with "not rewarded" - is also great fun. For masochists.

And if you think the people who get the items and their happiness makes up for whatever antonym you deem appropriate for those who don't get them, then look up loss aversion.

My friend decided to sign up to play warframe, because he's hilariously superficial and thought 'space ninjas are cool'. I envy his enthusiasm. Got cut short pretty quick though: He saw a frost prime and said "holy shit. I want that. How do I get that?" He signed up 2 days after it went off the table. He asked why and I didn't have an answer. DE is tearing this family apart with its arbitrary exclusivity.