challenge modes stopped in WoD… then they evolved into mythic plus in legion.
Then literally everything in life is FOMO and every expansion is.
If you have longer than a few months to think about and decide whether you want something or not it is not FOMO. The whole point of FOMO is you’re driven by fear of missing out to do something you may otherwise not do. If you have plenty of time to sit and think and make a decision you’re not being driven by the fear, you are making a choice.
If it goes away in any shape or form it’s FOMO.
That’s LITERALLY the definition of FOMO.
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Wrong. I can still go back and get every mythic set from every expansion.
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Then everything is FOMO, because everything has or will go away.
Lost cause.
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You can go back and do every expansion. The only things you can’t get are the Gladiator armors and mounts, the AotC moounts (which are actively noted as FOMO as a ‘push to get folks to do the last raid’ thing) and Veilstrider
MoP’s one of the few exceptions with it removing the cloak quest which, frankly, shouldn’t have happened. Same with WoD and the ring. And frankly, they should re-add the AotC stuff after a time to justify the inclusion in the game. A generation has been born since this game launched, they should be able to experience stuff and “Oops you weren’t born yet” is a stupid excuse given we’re talking about video games. I can go back and enjoy the entirity of Super Mario 64, despite the fact it came out years ago
Oh, and as for games that you can’t enjoy? Isn’t there a bit of a lawsuit going on about a couple of games having an end of service thing? That’ll be interesting to see how that develops and if there’s knock-on effects
FOMO - Fear of Missing Out. That’s it. That’s simply it. The time frame doesn’t matter.
If something is listed as a limited time thing, its a psychological effect on the human brain to get it. This is like, an actual studied thing. Produce two identical things, but call one Limited Edition, and folks will go for that one more because of that psychology part of it.
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it’s actually not, no.
if you didn’t know something existed, then it cannot, by definition, be FOMO for you because you didn’t fear missing out on it because you werent aware it existed.
You’re right I completely forgot about the weapon exclusives from WoD. And yeah, they added ilvl gear to them, and suddenly a lot more people wanted to do 'em lol.
Yes. And how much did they go back on and how significant was it and how many times did they say no before?
The quality of the change is important too. Sure theyve reverted little things or dialed back some of their nerfs/changes, but hardly ever have they done a complete rollback on anything major.
I like.to dream too, but the amount of devs left working on/with retail/timewalking is minimal. Wouldnt bank on it
Case and point lol
Time absolutely does matter. The whole point of FOMO marketing is to make things a limited time so people do not have time to make a rational decision about something and act purely on the fear of missing out.
The ‘lost cause’ remark’s making more and more sense now.
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Two years is a limited time. Plus, the whole pushing the fact its going away near the end of an expansion
People don’t make the decision right at the start of an expansion if they’re getting it or not, and they absolutely pushed the “This is what’s going away with the pre-patch!” stuff to get people to sub in more at the end of it. It was FOMO.
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How much time do you think is needed for people to make rational decisions about whether they want something or not? I think 2 years is more than enough time.
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Myself being as someone who has most of the Mage-Tower appearances? …
— Honestly, I agree.
If it’s just as challenging, I feel like really it’s just gate-keeping from other players. Except there’s no way to bypass the lock on said-gate.
For returning & new players especially.
- It’s especially dissuading when you see a cool gear-set or weapon piece, that you would LOVE – To strive for, only to find out that it was a limited time feature that’s NEVER coming back, despite Blizzard having the ability to do so.
- The Azeroth Horde Chopper I understand not being available, due to legal stuff – but the rest? Hmm, less so.
There’s a few different avenues for the way they could go about it too.
- Classic WoW — Earn it within the content of expansion it was released in, earn it in retail.
- Timewalking — Perhaps make ‘Ahead of the Curve’ mounts available via the raid in timewalking, but give it the original drop chance of the Love-Rocket from the Valentines event
- Mage Tower — Honestly I feel Mage Tower in its own right being scaled, still quite difficult and such is fair dinkum for being able to earn the appearances if completed.
- Challenge Mode gear — If they had mythic versions of the said-dungeons that were completed on a certain high-key difficulty? I’d argue they 100% deserve it, especially given it’d probably be harder than the original.
- PvP mounts & gear — Made them earn double the amount of wins to earn 1 token to either purchase a previous PvP gear set, or a PvP mount.
However I understand there’s going to be ragers, as there always is. 
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It did exist. People knew about it. It’s FOMO.
I’m sorry, are you a person or a robot? Folks don’t do rational decisions if they want something or not. Its feelings if you want to do it
You might try to push for it some weeks, but then something’s come up IRL so you put the game down, or finances are thin. Maybe you’ve a test for study for. Maybe you’ve a new job you gotta move cross country for. Maybe there’s a death in the family, a marriage of a friend, all these many factors of life which are keeping you away from a video game that is, let’s be honest, minor in comparison. Maybe you get burnt out for a bit because early MoP was Daily Hell. The level of rationality is irrelevant to the fact that this is a video game
Then after all that’s done its a while later and they announce this thing is going away at the end of an expansion and now you have to grind from baby “Just hit 90” gear all the way up to something that can actually help. Well, that’s FOMO in action, ain’t it?
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If having 2 years to get something is FOMO then basically everything is FOMO. Everything is going to stop being sold at some point.
I have an original copy of Pokemon blue. Those are no longer being sold. Is that FOMO? Does it hurt other people that they missed out on it?
At what point does something stop being FOMO because it stopped being available?
you didn’t know about it, so you can’t claim FOMO…
i’m sorry but that’s the way it works.
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I’d love for no FOMO to exist. Digital prestige in a game like this is silly at best.
They shouldn’t be handovers though.
Challenge is subjective, sure, but the hardest part of MoP CMs to me was getting the hit cap on the mage. I wanted silver and so I got it. It was really easy after a few tries too.
You can’t use physical goods when talking about digital scarcity, which is almost always artificial.
Digital goods are pretty much endless and permanent, unless they delete all related data and backups.
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