Today, each collecting achievement (e.g. mount) gets extremely easy with each successive expansion and release of 100+ mounts. We need an achievement that celebrates users who completed it when it was most difficult, ie the first few months after the achievement is released.
This would be an Ahead of the Curve for collecting achievement that is only available for ~6months after achievement release. This achievement would then come back, with the same rewards, the next time an achievement is released. Re-releasing the achievement, but now pinned to the newest max-reward, would make it so you only needed to complete it once and wouldn’t encourage FOMO behavior patterns.
Example
January 2025: 600 mount achievement released
Jan-June 2025: Completing the [Max Collecting Achievement], in this case 600, will grant an additional achievement with whatever reward
January 2027: 700 mount achievement released
Jan-June 2027: The original achievement above comes back for another 6 months with the same rewards - but this time you’d need to complete it for the 700 mount achievement.
mounts from the Trading Post (which you can get on any level of character without any level of difficulty)
Shop mounts, which are earned via $$
Mounts earned by any previously collected ingame currency
Those are just a few that immediately spring to mind, if you are limiting an achievement to the time between the introduction of a mount achivement and a close off date.
True, but you can save up your gold earned ingame over however long you want to work towards it, buy a token off the AH, put the gold onto your bnet account and buy a mount from the shop. So it can happen over a long time.
If you are creating an achievement that covers a new specific timeframe, wouldn’t it be more realistic to allow mounts that are either more difficult to get or that have been recently added to the game?
Anyway, I doubt they would do it, but if you think its a good idea, why not put through a suggestion via the ingame Suggestion option. Those go directly to Blizzard and might have a better chance of being seen than a post here. Nothing wrong with doing both, of course.
This is for the high-level meta collecting ones, though. Things like ‘collect 600’ which are more difficult at the release of the achievement and trivially easy years later.
I don’t know. It makes more sense to me to make one for each xpac. Look at the crazy cat lady/ man achievement, I think it would look something like that. Leave store mounts out of it and you can make it so you have to collect most if not every mount on the list.