Tyler Durden educated us to fact that we are not each “are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”

Well, that’s depressing

I am one of around 11 million players of the World of Warcraft, a good percentage of who strive to acquire ‘uniqueness’, be that rare mounts, unusual armour or weapons or even titles. A smaller group spend real hard cash getting items from the trading card game…all with uniqueness as the goal.

Yet, given that even I know this, we find that the items on offer are usually far from unique. The current trend seems to be the ‘recolour’. You dps? You get red. Heal, here have the same looking armour but in blue…humm. Did the art department go out for lunch and not return?

Help is apparently going to come in the shape of dyes for kit, but honestly, isn’t that a little late guys? And really, I can buy a massivly powerful 2 handed sword for half mooted price of a bottle of dye! (I might have been lied to, but I’m rolling with the info I have)

But unique can come from my character in other ways can’t it? Surely I have unique abilities that other classes don’t? Ah no, I’m replaceable by about 4 others in any given situation…damn. So perhaps my choice of talents is unique to my specific requirements…oh no, wait, I have no flexibility in point now either…joy!

Oooh, wait here’s an idea…if there are 11 million of us, I can come much closer to unique with just button press!

/quit?

We’ll see…