Reward From Nowhere: Difference between revisions

* Most quest rewards in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' are given to you by the person who gave you the quest, or give a useless object with a new quest to take an object to someone who will give you a reward. Occasionally though, they seem to just show up when you collect an object. The simple explanation would the reward is next to the item, but it tends to be completely at odds with other things lying around in the area.

** The ''Cataclysm'' expansion ups the ante on this by implementing "remote turn-in" quests, which you can complete (and often pick up the next quest in the series) without physically traveling back to the questgiver, if there even was one. However, these quests offer the same gold and item rewards as others do. So, basically, you do the thing and your reward literally materializes out of thin air. Only in some cases is it justified by you finding the reward in the world as a result of your actions, and even then fails to explain why you have to choose from among different rewards rather than just taking them all.

* ''[[Anarchy Online]]'' has mission rewards appearing literally out of nowhere as soon as the mission is complete, even if you are far away from town. This is at least somewhat plausible due to something known as the grid, which can apparently transfer matter around the world in data form. And, of course, you [[Money Spider|receive credits]] from every kill, and various wildlife, monsters, and robots can drop armour, weapons, and even precious stones.

** You receive credits from corpses on Rubi-Ka because ICC, the organisation that governs the planet is paying you bounty for them (tracking you by surveilance satelites or whatever). You dont get credits from corpses in Shadowlands.

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