- Developers do these deals to different retailers or digital distribution platforms so you're forced to buy every version of the game or you will never have the items.

- Pre order bonuses so I have to pre order the game on the off chance it is good.

- Special event achievements or pets like at Blizzcon where I can't afford to attend so I'll never be able to have them achievements or items.

- MT like TCG in SWG where I have to put out real money for items I can only get via that system and not in game. Cause they're like gambling you could put $400 into it and never get the item and SOE are laughing cause some rich completionists are willing to do it.

- When things are charged extra which should be in game or on the subscription fee. Changer transfers, character customization Blizzard charge for which they coulda made a new profession like SWG. Gender and faction changes aswel which coulda been a betrayal quest or something.

I hate the way games are going these days where if I can't complete them like get all the achievements cause I didn't attend one thing or I have to pay money to get items on top of my subscription then I just can't play them anymore.

This is what puts me off coming back to them because they feel so bloated and a mess of items that nothing is special or unique anymore. I remember in WoW when Mounts used to be special and now it's like theres so many mounts they're giving them away and it just feels so bloated it's something they've ruined. Items are just pouring outta everywhere these days.

In EVE Online the one thing I love about it is CCP know how to run an mmorpg where everything is earnt in game and frigging theres none of these exclusive items or paying money for special ships. Battleships are still as special and nearly as expensive as they were back in the day and the world hasn't become a big bloated mess of special items and everyone having everything cause the developers have dumbed it down.

Thats why I love Vanilla WoW because it's the perfect mmorpg with all the crap left out and you know where you stand, it isn't a mess of content the devs have added to try and please everyone. 
 

That is ironically true, EVE implemented RMT in a form that doesn't harm completionists.

Anyway, my completionist side also feels this frustration.

Hehe. I feel your pain brother. Its called OCD and I have it too... :)

Same here.  I always tend to waste soem vault space with useless event crap just for the sake of having it.  Not to mention I had to start over my FFX game because I missed the one chest that I need to get one of the summons and it is the ONLY dungon chest in the game that you can't go back to ><   OCD sucks

Corporations. Where there's a buck to be made, the focus intensifies. Everything 'underground' one day will become 'hip', and the core and enjoyment of said thing will be mined and rigged for profit as the sole purpose. Once it's been 'mainstream' and the new 'hip' thing comes along, it is abandoned to its former loyalists.

MMOs, hell gaming in general, used to be about having fun. It is disappointing indeed when developers go back on statements and twist concepts to make a buck, alienating fans and running through their pockets. While it's not the end of the world, it is one step closer to being void of enjoyment.

all i see is another reason its good to be a slacker hehe.

I totally agree with the concept that has been brought up, but for the completionist in me I'm not quite OCD as some.

For when I was playing WoW I would have loved the opportunity to progress through all the raids in order as to get the proper feel for the toughness of the fights, but like many evolving games it's all about timing, and I simply joined too late.  As fun as it was to go the ZG, and AQ at 80 it still didn't seem right.

I did have heaps of fun going through the content I was involved in and IMO if the new content hadn't come out and Vanilla was forever then I believe I would have only gotten through a much smaller amount of raids than what I did.  This i think is coz as those who had done everything finished off their last encounter knowing that there would be no more they would have moved on, leaving the population to dwindle.

There are heaps of times in games ike these and in real life too - I would have loved to have seen Wresltemania 1 live or watch Babe Ruth hit some home runs but I wasn't able too, and as much as it pains me to acknowldege the fact that there are some games I will never feel like I completed - that is the cold hard reality.

So I'm going to go drink a cup of cement and focus on getting the most out of my next game.