Sigh. I might almost agree with you if they actually gave you nothing.
Getting nothing would in many ways be fine since it’s not exactly a slap in the face. It would just be that you don’t get anything. Your reward is finishing and you kinda RP imagine all the feasts and hot scantily clad babes that will throw themselves at you for saving them.
But they do give you a reward. They give you a exotic colored loot bag! And since you’ve just been given a big speech by Traehearne about what a hero you are and how you will be REWARDED for basically saving the world you think hey, that makes sense. It’s not that I want to be babied or handed things on a silver platter, it’s that it kinda makes sense.
After all I have been saving ever vigil soldier over and over again since claw island. Maybe it’d be cool if I had a fancy shield like they ALL seem to have. Maybe since I have saved everyone over and over again they’ll throw me a bone and let me have one of those shields… which by the way nobody can even craft so it’s not like it steps on anyone’s toes or anything.
I mean think about it for a second. You just finished this big huge story where, as they say in all the promos ’it’s all about you’ and ‘you are the hero’ and when it’s all said and one you open your big reward and it’s 7s worth of vendor trash.
Too bad I kept banner healing all those vigil guys. I guess I shoulda let one of them die and picked up one of their cool shields and kept it for myself since the kitten turned out to be so ungrateful in the end anyways.
I mean seriously. My character KNOWS there are all these cool weapons out there. I see them at all the local shops, and I guess I just gotta wonder what gives. I saved the world and all and my buddy Traehearne (I don’t wanna even talk about how many times I saved that guys life….) tells me that since he’s the supreme commander and all, the sky’s the limit. But then he gives me 7s for my trouble, which I can literally make in about 10 minutes killing bears back home.
It’s a slap in the face. I’d prefer nothing at all to that loot bag and I suspect we wouldn’t be having these conversations if the L80 back item was the reward for finishing. Or even if it were nothing at all.
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Let me put it to you another way. Imagine you saw a guy at the local subway station fall onto the tracks as the train was rushing in and you jumped onto the tracks and pulled him off risking your own life to save his.
Now imagine he hugged you and praised you and said you were a hero and that he’d never forget you and generally couldn’t stop gushing about how great you are. You’d probably feel pretty good about yourself. I don’t think I’d expect a reward exactly and I wouldn’t feel too bad about not getting one.
But imagine instead he praised you and said you were a hero and that he insisted upon rewarding you. Then he pulls out his wallet which is overflowing with hundred dollar bills and grabs you …. a quarter. Here, since you saved my life and all and you are such a big hero, have this quarter. Yup I think that’s about right. 25 cents for you my friend.
I’d feel a bit insulted. It doesn’t make sense. And it doesn’t make sense in the game.
