[MUD-Dev2] [DESIGN] Rewards

[Dana V. Baldwin]

Jean, Yannick wrote:
> Mike Sellers wrote:
>   
>> (...)
>> ask yourself what your main WoW character's uber
>> set of purple armor *means* to you if there was never anyone else around
>> to see it
>>     
> The player of single player game, and to a lesser extent the "solo-only"
> player, love their loot as much as the other guy without any kind of
> social reward.
>  
> Social reward is not the cup of tea of all players.
>   

I am one of those players for whom "the look" is extremely important.
Probably one of the reasons I no longer play WoW is simply that I don't
wish to spend man months trying to get a set of armor that doesn;t make
me look like a clown school dropout. The only things that match are the
tiered raid gear and I don't particularly care for raids for probably
the same reasons I don't try to get my "look" on as a social reward.
Yet, at the same time, I am in a very social, completely immersed RP
guild with its own language and a strong focus on socialization.