With out a doubt but it’s become far more common in this day and age everyone has to one up eachother on socials for some reason.
You got your head on straight good for you smart way to go about it some it takes years and alot bad relationships to get there.
OH I was pushed into trying a few blind dates some folks never get out of the 16yr old mentality and wonder why no one wants to stick around.
The word gaudy came to mind a few times both in accessories of a far younger generation think neck collar things from 80s/90s and attitude to the waiter/staff.
Nobody cares what mount you have unless it’s the current season… and then “care” is a strong word.
Having items available for a limited time turns off a lot of completionist-types and this is a common game archetype.
I was going to try Ashes of Creation but then I saw that even pre-release there were already items that I could not get from the pre-pre release kickstarter. I literally had my wallet out when I saw that. This is also a big reason why I didn’t play WoW for 10 years.
I don’t care what mount you have, I only care if I can get it myself if I like it
Your memories aren’t an item. An item holds no value without a story behind it.
The Spectral Tiger was obtained with money, there’s no story behind that, you just swiped your credit card and scratched a card off. Same with Mini-Tyrael.
Tyrael’s charger was first obtainable in the store. Again, swiped a credit card. The promo was up for 6 months I think? So it wasn’t a big fomo “I had to be in this particular event during blizzcon or I didn’t get it” kind of thing.
If they put the Uncorrupted Voidwing (Ny’alotha AOTC mount) in the store, it wouldn’t take away my memories of acquiring it. It wouldn’t take away all the memories I collected during that raid.
If they put the Mighty Caravan Brutosaur on the trading post, it wouldn’t make my effort to get 5 million gold go away. It wouldn’t diminish my memories or make my experience disappear. I earned that gold and I got the bruto, and I have my own story to laugh at it and to share.
They put one mount I already owned in the drops, I couldn’t care less. New people, new users are enjoying that mount and streamers with low view count got a nice boost on their viewership. I was happy for them. It didn’t affect me at all.
The concept of perpetual “prestige” items is outdated. You’re talking about items that stopped being available 10+ years ago. You had 10 years or more to “flex” those items.
Only if you measure your wins in WoW with items and not experiences. Up to you.
the only thing being hurt here is your pride.
i got item like those too, i have been playing sense the first expansion came out and i honestly don’t mind or care if blizzard bring these items up.
all you manage to explain in short is that the things that made you feel “special” are coming back in a way that is easy to get and you no longer feel “special”.
this “make me feel special” ideal is just dumb.
Think this should be dubbed mage tower syndrome remember the anger over the notion of them bringing the tower skins back lol.
To quote a certain metal clad avenger, if you are nothing without these “flex items” then you shouldn’t have them.
There’s nothing prestigious about a mount you didn’t even have to log into the game to get.
Glad mounts are prestigious, Mythic+ mounts are prestigious, glorified shop mounts are not prestigious.
This is a VERY big reason why I never played SMITE. I wanted to play with the Avatar Skins but they were FOMO.
funny that you complain about people buying gear (which technically, the can, just much more expensive than 100 bucks), when your flex is having money in 2012…
That’s some dumb / weak flex.
What are you on. All i am saying is you are wanting to remove prestige from historic items and im against it. That is all it is, Blizzard agrees with me so at the moment its not changing.
Get new gear stop trying to ruin prestige items
sure… they agree so MUCH… that they put Tyraels’ horse on sale
Yea tyraels horse was never a prestige item. It was a item you buy with real money, i am talking about mage tower and challenge mode skins, old unobtainable stuff.
Store stuff/TCG buyable stuff is not prestige.
Before you create your first character.
If you tie your personal worth to digital items, you’re going to be in for a rough time (at some point) down the line.
Putting a Gladiator Mount for sale on the Trading Post is one thing. That cost $500 to pretend you didn’t get carried. Blizzard is not doing that, you can still pretend you earned it.
Putting up some Tabard or Mount that you only got because you were logged in back in the day, is another thing entirely. That’s no achievement, that was not even a flex back then.
I’m not sure which items have been made available that Bliz had promised would never return. They REALLY never promised a re-skin wouldn’t exist, since a re-skin is considered a totally different item. Yes, not all of the items are re-skins, but some are, and the same rants are happening for those.
In the end, these are pixels. You don’t own them, Bliz does. If the concern is that when something becomes available to others devalues or makes your time meaningless, perhaps a more physical hobby is in order. Pixels in a game that were never promised to be exclusive, and that you don’t even own, and that can be taken away from you at any point, should not define you.
Some years ago I would have agreed. I wanted my harder to obtain items to remain harder to obtain. That was part of the fun to me. Now I don’t care either way. Keep them rare or not, it doesn’t matter to me. I’m excited to get my favorites, and maybe someday I’ll get a hold of the other rares. 
I see both sides, I just prefer they continue the direction of releasing more stuff.
some people are saying really strongly that it was. which is dumb, IMO
Neither of these are accomplishments, and also the Spectral Tiger lost its rarity back in WoD when it got duped to hell and back.
Mythic raiders will sell the mounts and titles of end-tier bosses for huge sums of gold. It happens at the end of every expansion, and there really isn’t any complaining about that. They sold the heck out of Mythic Sylvanas, something I earned through and through, and I’m not bent out of shape about it that there’s a bunch in the game on players that never earned it. There’s always new challenges and accolades to earn and show off.
But there’s nothing wrong with people wearing the same T-shirt. youre equating rarity with uniform somehow.
By that logic you should want rarity to go away so you can recognize people with like minded interests.
Unless it’s advertised as being an exclusive item, there isn’t much to get upset about.
They’ve been true to the things that were advertised as exclusive…just look at the mage tower.
Now look at the mounts from the yearly subs. Those are advertised as “free with 1 year sub”. If they want to put them on the store and charge for them later on, that’s their prerogative because they actually “gave” you the item as a thank you for buying a 1 year sub.
So basically you saved the cost of the mount which is still a great deal.