Originally Posted by Soralin
Don't expect that to change. World of Warcraft is a pay to play game, its in Blizzard's interest to keep people playing - and that means timesinks.
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You say that, but in fact the ideal customer from Blizzard's point of view is someone who keeps paying month after month but doesn't actually log on much. Less stress on the servers that way. That's clearly the intent with the dailies. Come on, play for a short time, then log off again. Wouldn't be at all surprised to see weekly or monthly quests pop up in the future (there's precedent for the monthly quest with the Consortium gems).
If you have a guaranteed carrot ahead of you, that's all it'll take to keep some people subscribed. So if it's a case of "Do this monthly quest three months in succession to receive loot", that just bought Blizzard another three months' playtime from someone at the casual end of the scale. They get their rewards without the grind, and Blizzard gets their customer.
Blizzard's best interest is actually in developing
real-time timesinks, not
game-time timesinks.