An Example of Why I Don't Like 1 Month "FOMO" Events

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So, last week a very powerful storm front ripped through Northeastern US this past Tuesday evening.

In my area alone, some 190,000 people were without electricity for one or more days (and still counting for some unfortunate people).

I got my power back on the end of Day 5 (which was last night).

Between work and that power outage, I’ve only been able to really put any time on WoW on exactly 3 (or was it 4? I forget) days out of the, what, 14 that the event has been going for?

We only have 16 days left.

Now, before anybody pipes up, I am not trying to be entitled, and I am not asking Blizz to cut me specifically a break. However, the circumstances of the power outage, and work, and RL obligations can happen to anyone, not just me.

I think this event would have been a lot less anxiety-inducing and a lot less stressful if it had been two months instead of just one month. It’s not like any of the reps buffed are current, and it’s not like leveling fast is going to make you suddenly win at endgame, so what’s the harm in having the event stick around a little longer?

But, given the really good bonuses, I’ve been finding it hard to pass up time in WoW, but yet there ARE other games that I would also like to play now and then, but the event only being on for a month means that I feel like I am punished if I don’t put every second I have to do gaming with, into WoW because of this event and it is actually causing some burnout. I know should log a character on and get on those reps and alts, but sometimes I look at my character list and groan because what I really wanna do is play something else as I’ve had plenty of WoW for awhile, but I’ve stuff that needs caught up.

I’d love to get my alts levelled and reps caught up so I can just log on for a couple hours a week on a chosen character and not have to feel like I’m forever playing catchup while they’re releasing new content at breakneck speed that I just can’t keep up with anymore.

So, Blizz… how about making these events 2 months for reasons like these? It wouldn’t hurt anything whatsoever.

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With what time remains, farm the 10% xp potions.

A better XP event is coming up anyway with the return of turbulent timeways in 11.1.7.

To farm the potions, move alts to the pools SW of valdrakken. Each day, log into an alt to kill 1 mob (large frog, large dragonfly). You’ll get an epic prize bag. Rinse and repeat.

If you don’t have alts, vulpera monks are apparently fast for reasons only archvaldor could explain.

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This is the #1 reason I’m not interested in playing WoW anymore. There are so many limited time FOMO events that if you ever stop playing this game and missed out on something you really want, it just feels like why bother.

This is a known phenomena, if there is too much “FOMO”, people are no longer afraid of “missing out” and they just stop participating all together.

There are so many other great games out there where I don’t ever have to deal with worrying about missing out on something I want if I decide to take a break and play something else or have a life or some kind of mishap. I’m just tired of dealing with this in WoW and it completely turns me off from this game all together lately.

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Just how online games are now, seasons, events, only escape is single player, and I don’t find those fun

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Plenty of MMOs/Multiplayer games out there don’t do “FOMO” style events and generally content in a lot of those games is earnable/accessible forever, not just for a week/month/whatever only and then never introduced again.

I know people hate it being brought up, but FFXIV doesn’t do FOMO events except for a very few things, usually seasonal stuff and the occasional crossover promo, but then even then, a lot of times it’s brought back a year or two later, sometimes multiple times and you only need to do it once and it takes a couple hours to do and you’ve 2-3 months to do it usually, if not longer.

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sorry what is the limited time part? the daily quests to kill spider people for vet armor or the bonus exp for leveling alts? or both?

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So “fomo” in this case is the rep/exp buff?

I am confused.

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Given that I mentioned rep and leveling alts, I thought it was clear I was talking about the leveling event.

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Ff has had a lot of fomo events that never come back, and their holiday events are much more fomo than wow

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I suppose if you are REALLY REALLY that hard up for a temporary furniture item or two, I suppose?

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No it wasn’t. You had several paragraphs where you never really stated what you were upset about.
And tbh these events happen so often, idk how this can be remotely considered fomo. I feel like we are just blanket applying fomo to anything that is limited time regardless of how often it comes full circle again.

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They have had mounts in those events, in wow everything comes back next year, in ff those mounts go on the cash shop

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I don’t recall any time that they buffed rep gains by 200% in one area, and 100% in current expansion.

Can you point to where this has happened before? Oh, and getting random equipment drops from anything you kill so that you don’t end up having half the item level you should while leveling up.

Those blue satchels are night and day difference.

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It’s not like you need the gear from the satchels though.

Reps nice though

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During timewalking weeks, you can straight up BUY that xpacs rep as well as the rep bonus for that xpac.
Granted they’ve never done it this soon with a recent xpac. It’s impossible that this is the last time they will do this.
Are you not max rep from DF?

Now what are we referring to? DF content still?

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If it’s just leveling, just wait for the next event. It’s not like Blizzard doesn’t continously do stuff like this. Turbulent Timeways is in 6ish weeks.

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The gear really helps with keeping the kills fast. Faster kills, faster leveling.

Like I just finished a rogue this morning, and I was mowing through delves faster than I did before the event on classes like paladins lol. A lot of the reason was, my avg. item level was only 5-10 below what max you can get for that level is.

The blue satchels (and sometimes purple past the once/day!) also drop while you’re leveling in TWW, too.

No, I committed the grave sin of taking a break from WoW during DF. Valdrakken Accord is like 1-2 from being done, but Loamm is only I think 4 and I haven’t started the Emerald Dream yet and the rest are done.

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What satchels? Your lack of clarification on anything is painful lol.

So what if you took a break? It’s legacy content at this point. Why do you need to max it RIGHT NOW?

If it’s gear to do tww stuff, dreamsurge gear is more than enough for fresh 70s.
If you want to level, just wait for a tw week where it becomes insanely trivial.

Idk why we are entertaining spreading “fomo” to everything that is limited time. This is wow. Everything ALWAYS comes back around unless it’s xpac/event exclusives. Which are such a tiny minority.

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The ones from this event. The Mysterious Satchels that give the XP potions? Every Blue Satchel also gives a piece of gear for your level.

Only because, well, it’s 3x faster than it would be otherwise during the event? Maybe I don’t wanna have to grind it for 3 times as long after the event?

I’d think that’d be surely a fairly simple thing to understand. “DO IT NOW while it’s 3 times faster!”

3x faster is… quite a large step up.

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So it’s self induced fomo. Not actual fomo because the rep isn’t going anywhere.

Yes, but it’s just a bonus. This isn’t actual fomo. This isn’t “do this now or miss a mount forever” kind of thing.