Maybe maybe not who knows. I couldn’t care less about Elite PVP or AOTC mounts. they happen every patch or at least every expansion.
I want quests back in the game that have been removed because Blizzard FOMO.
I would add Wrathgate and Theramoore to that. While I can’t recall worthwhile items or mounts for wrathgate you did get a title for it. and for Theramoore you got a unique pet or toy IIRC. Correct otherwise and that’s still more than it should be. If it’s happened before what stops it from happening again? Nothing does. And it probably will. Maybe even the upcoming prepatch will feature more FOMO questlines that are very important to the game’s story. It’s nothing new.
You can still get Green fire, but not “Of the Black Harvest”. So obviously, removal of a quest is not needed to remove some rewards, especially titles.
I can almost guarantee missing transmogs/mounts on a limited time are not the cause of a decline in subscription. If anything, the vocalization of such request are in the minority compared to other things that actually do affect the player metric of retaining retention.
As for restoration, I don’t care if they do or do not. Always going to be a group of folks who are not happy with a decision. There’s a saying, you can’t get everything you want in life and you certainly don’t deserve everything either. If there was something you wanted, you would of had it by now or you were just SoL due to not being available during it’s distribution period.
There’s a lot of pretty elite sets and some CMs I missed which sucks because precious designs go vaulted and never seen again but it is what it is. There will always be new rewards in the future.
I also feel if everything was accessible to no disparity, it would diminish any kind of value in why an individual should put in effort aside from being an early adapter. But that’s entirely a whole different discussion on whenever that would play a positive or negative effect if no value was set and everything was open arms to everyone.
I agree. and that’s what they should do. I looked up why Wrathgate was removed and it seems it was actually a tech issue with the cata undercity map compared to the classic tirisfal map. So that one actually wasn’t FOMO surprisingly.
And adding unobtainable items others earned under time limits will also make players upset. Keeping promises to players is always > than “rewarding” a new player for roflstomping old content.
It’s fun to have items that are gone. There are tons of items and mounts I will never have and that’s okay. I didn’t earn them and so I don’t deserve them. There are SO many more items though that are still obtainable that new players are free to go get.
I doubt they’ll ever do it. Blizzard is lazy. Their response is most likely to be “just play classic if you want to reexperience wrathgate” even though it’s one of their most remembered cutscenes.
It’s always the people who get that last word in that tell someone else to stop posting. You’d think if you wanted me to stop, you’d ignore me.
I will say this, if it makes you feel cuddly in bed tonight. Pay attention now.
REGARDLESS
Of whether content is a mount, or a quest to get a mount, or the idea of questing to get a mount, or seeing a mount in a picture, or the word mount, or the guy who designs mounts, I just…
Okay, I’ll leave now, if it makes you feel better. I should probably go play some more Wrath prepatch. Maybe some content like a mount will drop for me. Doh! I mean a reward! Sorry.
So give people a buff when they are using the mount/item that they earned during the initial time frame. Something like “This item makes me special” it can even be a gold star. That way people will know who is an original gangsta and who is not.
I was mostly joking but to be serious, I don’t think that unobtainable items/mounts should be sold in the BMAH. Either bring them back so everyone gets a chance at them through extremely low drop rates, or just let them be retired. It’s silly that only two groups of people can buy stuff from the BMAH: the uber in game rich, and the folks with disposable income and no concerns over spending hundreds of dollars on in-game currency.
Once upon a time I tried to explain why this is a bad idea, but proponents of bringing it back ignored the substance of my arguments and strawmanned my position of deflating the value of my items because they’re digital (an ironic position), and simply being “haha I get it and you don’t” and “look at my E-ween.”
Like this, for example:
So with that in mind, no. I get it and you don’t. Let the salt flow.
Ideally, nothing should be available in a limited time window. If the goal is to keep people subbed, might as well have as many sticks with carrots on them as possible (and yes, I have some unobtainable titles and items).
I couldn’t possibly care any less if someone else gets access to them - or if they get access to them by sneezing on the keyboard for credit.
