Dear Diary; Got the love rocket last night, but

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Dear diary;

So last night BLR dropped, 16 or 17 years (from day one), I was a mount farmer for the entire time I was in this game, I remember the patch they dropped that let you ride faction mounts besides your own in bc, I farmed rep so I could be a tauren on a raptor, or a wolf. It was so awesome, I was so proud.

16 years been chasing this thing, just one of those checklist items I wanted sooo bad, and got it last night with the old starter account level 10 first box deal.

And I wasn’t even happy. Just a relief that it’s over. Wasn’t even a smile. Like sure, I barely play this game anymore… I haven’t for a long time really, but it wasn’t even joy. Relief that I don’t feel obligated by sunk cost fallacy to continue to run 100+ chars through for a two week event. Every day. Mindlessly. Relentlessly.

All the excitement for this mount is long gone. It’s literally just sunk cost fallacy, and it was surreal to sort of realize that, after getting the mount. To realize that there wasn’t even joy in the chase anymore. I was just ambling along chasing it because I had spent sooo much time chasing it before, and now it’s just relief.

I feel like that’s the last big standout for what I wanted from wow, forever ago, when I played the game a lot and had lots of friends who still played. The last big ticket item.

So, I guess the bigwigs were right, putting in a stupidly low rng drop rate on a extremely limited time holiday event has gotten extra time out of me… but the “victory” was hollow, and the realization of that is making me question the sunk cost fallacy of bothering at all.

What was once fun had become a burden.

It’s funny because I used to quit in frustration almost every year after this event, because all the effort spent on building up to give it everything was, in the end, meaningless.

Now I have it and I’m realizing the real treasure was meaningless all along.

TL:DR;
Yes, hi, I’ll get a whaaaamburger and an extra large french cries to go please, thank you.

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It’s just +1 mount in a 20 year old mmo. Not sure what people expect from acquiring it.

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Closure.

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Heck its my go to normal flying mount on my mage. But hes in a mostly pink mog so it fits. :slight_smile:

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This mage. Hes all valentine themed to even the love hearthstone. :slight_smile:

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Well…it’s just a mount. If you’d gotten it easily 15 years ago, you wouldn’t be feeling much either, I suspect.

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People talking about the mount, I don’t think the mount really has anything to do with the point of his story. :confused:

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You mean it is a story about how when you are trying to acquire something for so long and you finally do you have nothing left to look forward to because the thing you got wasn’t really the goal, it was the chase? Like how I feel about the Shadowlands and how it pretty much made the rest of the wow storyline pointless?

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I dunno, if you experienced relief when you finally got it, for me personally that’s a good feeling as well.

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It may not bring you joy but when you whip it out so that others can see it you might get a little giggle knowing that they’re jealous that you can whip it out and they can’t.

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I get your Maiev and the mount was your Illidan. But on a deeper level super low drop rates slowly kill any joy you have when farming for something. I gave up on farming for things and if they drop I am surprised, if not I am unbothered. It is easier to keep enjoying the game this way.

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Anyone else unable to handle the title of the thread?

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The point being that people take things too seriously?

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lol

:rofl:

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It’s 2025, everything gotta be clickbait to get any engagement :sleepy::sweat_smile:

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To me this post is just another way of saying "I hate wasting countless hours/days/weeks farming for things I don’t really care about but do it anyway and am surprised im not happy when I get the thing. "

That’s what all these posts ever say.

If you don’t like chasing something don’t do it :woman_shrugging:

Love rocket is a gaudy mess anyway at least chase something decent lol

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this is a sign its time to move on.

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Lotta stuff in this game is purely a time waster. Kinda sucks honestly.

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I got the rocket this year.
But didn’t want that one, I’m after the broom.

The firstest world problem I’ve ever experienced.

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I don’t have either one. Honestly - I can only drum up enough enthusiasm to run the dungeon once a day. I used to run it on all my alts that could get the mount - but it just isn’t any fun any more. Feels a bit hopeless.

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