I think we are reaching a point where there are so many armor sets, mounts, pets, toys, and tittles that they have almost all lost their meaning and value. We are inundated with cosmetics every expansion and the rate at which Blizzard is creating them is extremely unhealthy for the game.
Take the amount of mount that 9.0 launched with : approximately 80 mounts across the game, that is an insane number to start an expansion with.
Battle for Azeroth had a total amount of about 97 mounts for the whole expansion. Shadowlands almost started close to that amount, and will surpassed it by almost 15 mounts when 9.1 comes out.
To put this into perspective, The Burning Crusade had in total of 31 mounts and Wrath of the Lich King had about 40. From which I could count with my finger which ones were prestigious.
This doesnāt even begin to account to titles, toys and pets bloat there is. It seems like almost everything has lost their meaning. Even seeing invincible or Ashes of Alāar in Mist of Pandaria was cool, now, with so many mounts from so many sources - I mean whatās even the point?
When was the last time you got something that you felt cool about? With so many things out, I hardly get this feeling anymore, maybe it is my own mentally, who knows but I think we will reach a point players will stop caring about cosmetic rewards all together.
I donāt care what anyone else is using, I care about what I have on my character. Collecting stuff is fun. Having options is fun. For lots of people out there, collecting different cosmetics is their end game.
I stopped collecting mounts and pets outside of the easy ones. Collecting them was a fun activity when there were only a handful, and they were noteworthy for it.
Now we get double digit mounts and pets every patch. I just canāt be bothered to keep up anymore.
Perhaps, Iām just sharing my perspective. I have no idea, I got the Sin Touched Mount today and felt literally nothing and I tried to find why, and it doesnāt even have to do with the difficulty of obtaining it that even gives it values, it just there are soooo many mounts that it just doesnāt seem special anymore.
The same with almost every cosmetic, there are hundreds of sets out there, titles and toys and petsā¦ just so many - nothing feels unique to me.
The one title that catches my eye is Hand of Aādal, everything else to me is meh.
Ehā¦ yeah that was my end game too which is why I made this post. There is going to be a point where your brain chemistry will stop rewarding you for collecting cosmetics because you would have done it so many times. I guess this is true for any experience in reality, you get diminish returns.
First time I got a 1% mount to drop, I scream, clapped, took a screenshot, show my friends, showed it off, showed my family which donāt even play this game. The 20th time? āThank god I donāt have to come to this place anymoreā. It just happens, I guess there is no solution since this game is about to go into itās 17th year?
One thing that gives WoW a kind of monopolistic advantage over other MMOās is itās managed to leverage itās entire existence into a collection side game with mounts, mogs, pets, and achievements. So while other games can temporarily gain some ground with better content they quickly lose it because itās back to WoW, at least it has something to do with the collection game.
And while Iām not sure if itās been the extreme content drought causing me to play the collection game too much in the last two years but Iām to the point where I think the system is starting to collapse under itās own weight. I just donāt care about collecting these things anymore. They have become meaningless and pointless.
Thereās way too much of it for completion to be realistic goal and nothing really sticks out as special enough to really put work into.
But launching with 80 mountsā¦ Itās like theyāre desperately clinging to any hamster wheel that shows signs of working and spinning it so fast they break it.
This is where I am, as somebody who loved collecting things back in other expansion. I have reached this point. The fact that they are releasing so many cosmetic at a time compare to other expansion made this feeling worst.
Is this a problem with Blizzard or just that the game has been out for too long, maybe I should stop caring about collecting things and just play the game, do PvP, AOTC, and KSM as goals and stop there. Iām just going to have to reflect on this weird feeling I never got before.
If the intent is to brag to people and show that your collection is superior then i can see that being boring?
If the intent is to just have a lot of things you enjoy and you can use a mount to match every new outfit perfectly then it shouldnāt feel like a bad thing to have more mounts available?
I personally donāt collect things unless i really want something specific. I would absolutely love the green voidtalon from the mount achievement but iāll never go out of my way to grind for mount #
I definitely enjoy doing mount offs against people though lol
Is that the new āāwe should go back to the rootāā thing? Doesnāt it always fell when we try to go back at how it was before?.
Like how we tried to go back at faction war againā¦
Or how having just 60 was going to save the gameā¦
Or even more recently, how gear being hard to get again was so popular?
Retail is call retail for a reason and it should continue to go on. If you donāt like, classic whatever expansion you liked might be best for you.
With the exception of mounts, I disagreeā¦ There are WAYYYY to many mounts in this game, its almost like a new mount is available bi-monthlyā¦ Its kinda ridiculous. Mounts def lose their value much faster than they shouldā¦
Everything else is fineā¦ We actually need MORE armor sets, toys, and titles. Removing dungeon class sets was a HUGE mistakeā¦
Current game has somewhere in the ballpark of 1500 pets.
You can complete EVERY bit of pet battling content with about 28 of those 1500 pets.
The handful of people disagreeing with the OP are missing the point. Yes, collecting things is fun. But weāre way past that. Itās absurd. Weāre collectingā¦ just to collect.
Itās not a fun hobby, itās a disorder. lol
The worst part of all of this is how much these things are hidden behind FRACTIONAL percentage drops now.
Collecting things is fun. Mindless treadmills are not. Blizzard is quite a few miles down the RNG-as-content road that was the very premise of what they were AGAINST at the start of WoW.
