Exclusivity and rareness is something mounts still have. If anything they need to stop add so many mounts…
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Why does it matter though? I thought you said it was all virtual pixels with no meaning. Or does your account that you play on have meaning to you?
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Natural disasters, anyone?
So, you did understand what I meant. Got it. 
Exactly because it doesn’t matter, I argue it should still be obtainable. Like, if someone else getting the same mount as you did in an ‘easier’ way bothers you, that’s a you problem.
You have 5.5k AP
Stop whinging and go play the game and earn something for once.
Y’all lost.
Cry harder.
“It doesn’t matter” says the people that don’t have it.
So if it doesn’t matter why do you care so much? Why are you so salty and why are you trying to ruin it for everyone else?
It matters to people that got it. Despite your apathetic opinion. Your apathy for something isn’t shared by the rest of us.
Go earn the Fyrakk mount if you want something.
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Can’t wait for this nonsense to pop up again in (possibly) May.
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Wait until wowhead “datamines” a gladiator mount or spectral tiger from the in-game shop or something. 
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You got called out for calling those without it bad while being a toxic jerk and you’re still whining.
Stay salty :3
Thanks dude. It’s not like I was a 12 when that was available and was allowed to devote my time to get it. It’s not like 12+ years of exclusivity for something you potentially don’t even use is a a good idea.
But yeah Elitism FTW Go you.
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Kennie,
there is no prestige in MOP mount (or any other mount),
nobody cares about it,
nobody “WOWs” when seeing it,
nobody even seeing it because nobody uses it.
This is just a video game, the more you gatekeep, the more people will leave.
There is no prestige in playing a video game.
It is extremely sad that blizzard decided to not put that mount on store.
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It’s more the precedent than the stupid wolf itself.
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Were there actually people who saw the article saw the cost of the trading post datamine saw it was over half a years budget of tenders and thought “yeah thats going on the trading post” and arguing with that in mind. It is so obviously going in siege timewalking that its kind of funny to see how many people immediately went full pitchfork and are currently relieved despite the fomo mount more then likely coming back anyway. Especially since the blizzard correction was very specific in how its not “we aren’t bringing these back” vs “At this time, we do not plan to offer mounts or other skill-based prestige rewards from achievements such as Cutting Edge or Ahead of the Curve or Gladiator in the Trading Post.”
I would say the reasonable people were able to make the connection that actually made sense.
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Hate to blow you all out the door but its not going to happen …NO AOTC mounts are coming too the Trading post…as per posted story from Blizzard…https://www.wowhead.com/news/blizzard-clarification-no-previously-available-skill-based-rewards-will-come-to-337448?fbclid=IwAR19er7rKuu983Y5CmCf-4nBSJ3fkptqCpM6xUARMUVCkkiGkllzy0Fze5Q
Precisely nothing about this has to do with “elitism”, it does have everything to do with folks feelings of entitlement towards something that was in the past.
Oh-kay. you were 12 at the time. So what?
When there’s a set time to earn something, that’s the time period you can get it. That’s the end and full of it. There’s no “but” or “if” to be added, that’s the full of it.
Nor does the word “gatekeep” anything to do with this either. Or prestige or anything else like that. Like seriously, ya’ll just keep using buzzwords without a moment’s thought and keep thinking “Yeah, this is what it is”.
No, it genuinely is just about entitlement from folks for “stuff that other people have but you don’t have”. That’s literally all there is to it.
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It’s not about entitlement either, nobody has said they expect this just given to them. They expect to earn it with Trading Post currency which could be done in an interesting way, maybe some hard Trading Post tasks that require more than just coin or basic activity. What people would like is a chance to get these old things, like my Amani War Bear.
And power to the people, cause these assets are just wasted, sitting in defunct accounts or in dusty archives that don’t get used in game. Each time these “Shiny Trinkets” are brought up though, morons like Ammund come in screaming and being toxic, calling anyone without AOTC “Bad” and less worthy as if they’re the arbiter that decides who gets what in game.
This entire discussion has been people saying it’d be cool while others come in to gatekeep their pointless pixels, it’s like a giant NFT market and they are coping so hard to justify keeping their trinkets all to themselves.
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A 21 year old playing this game today (maybe the age we all started playing this game in 2004) would have been 9 years old when this achievement was available. They were in elementary school. Think of how silly it sounds to be like, “Well you should’ve been here, scrub!” … lol, ok.
The idea of bringing back an opportunity more than a decade old to allow the next generation to experience this epic part of the story they missed, because they were literally in elementary school, is not a bad idea business-wise. It was obvious this mount wasn’t going on the trading post (lol), because it’s more likely going to be tied to the Pandamonium SoO event, so it can be obtained again like it was originally.
It’s been 20 years. There’s an entire department with metrics on this that knows re-cycling some of those limited time events for a limited time again for a new generation is good for business and will attract a whole new group of players that missed out the first time. Sure they could (and should) create NEW limited time things (and they do), but bringing back something important to the history of the game is a marketing win and they know it.
That same department probably also can tell you how many currently active accounts have that mount, and it’s likely not very many. Even if every single one of them left over this, (which wouldn’t happen), the popularity and participation in the return of the event will more than cover it. It’s business, after all. Remember, the value of these pixels is subjective. Your value in the mount is based on your feelings, while Blizzard’s value is based on their profit and a need to obtain & retain new players, too.
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Per Merriam Webster:
“You are promoting elitism because you are insinuating that people who were there can only be the ones who got the thing [when it was limited to those who were there].”
“This is gatekeeping me because I am being kept from this item [that I otherwise would have the ability to get].”
Or as you put it…
“You are advocating for it to be kept from us because NFT-buzzword and also gatekeep-buzzword, all for these pointless pixels [so if you are arguing there is value to them you are arguing for something pointless but this argument doesn’t work in terms of why I feel such an obsessive need or entitlement for the item].”
This entire thing is literally just folks feeling entitled towards stuff they never were there for in the first place. Sometimes it’s stuff that can easily be put back into the game since it was just a participation thing, and the stuff that is a no go is anything that was seen as a reward for something you did at the time it was current content.
It is literally just entitlement and nothing else.
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The way entitlement, in this discussion by those defending the limitation, is being used to garner malcontent at people simply wanting to play with the assets of this game. I am advocating for letting the players play, let them get that stuff in the game.
Here’s a definition of your cherished buzzword that perfectly defines the situation.
gate·keep·ing
noun
the activity of controlling, and usually limiting, general access to something.
As for NFT, ain’t a buzzword either here as it defines a handful of worthless pixels.
So this turned out to not be a thing. I’m shocked. Shocked I say!
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