I find it terribly frustrating when players are locked out of content and rewards simply as a matter of timing.
Many times it’s justified as the prestige of having achieved goals when a particular expansion or season was active, but I believe this is a self-defeating principle. I do not believe there is prestige in luck or timing, I believe in merit. There is prestige in saying, “I earned this through skill and effort,” but none in saying, “I was here in the summer of 2015.”
I know that WoW was not designed with evergreen content in mind like other MMOs are, so keeping old content fresh and challenging is not a high priority to Blizzard. Regardless, preventing players from earning rewards merely because they may have had a medical, financial or family crisis at the time, does not make those rewards “prestigious”.
I believe there should be a means to obtain older rewards, even if it requires high achievements in current content and going through some extra hurdles. Perhaps a bit like how rated PvP allows players to earn tokens for mounts, or something. But I find absolute lockout to be unreasonable.
If you didn’t play at the time and didn’t earn those rewards while not fun is just tough. When games release time limited items or rewards those a time limited. I wish I had the wooly mammoth transmog but I wasn’t playing when it was available.
This is more of an entitlement issue imo
I 100% disagree as the challenge is
No longer the same and can’t be replicated.
Classes change literally every expansion and there’s tuning every patch. The challenger would never be replicated the same. That’s why they are called seasonal rewards.
Mage tower perfectly showcases this and how that’s not a reasonable thought.
It very much does. It’s a digital game with digital rewards. There is no physical or storage reasons to why they can’t continue to distribute rewards. (With the exception of the bike due to legal reasons.)
So while people requesting the rewards return might be entitelment, the demands from others to keep the rewards locked away is also entitlement for it is trivial for blizzard to bring those rewards back, even with a comparable difficulty requirement.
Because? Personally i haven’t bothered with the pvp sets because quite frankly, most of the ones i fancy are no longer obtainable because reasons. The fomo nature also dissuades completists from participating because they know their collection can never be complete, again because of “reasons”.
And no I’m not advocating for the rewards to be just handed out willy-nilly.
It isn’t FOMO in this case, you’ve just M’edO. Sorry! There will be new limited time rewards for challenges in the near future. Plan to enjoy earning those!
Seasonal rewards motivate people to play content while it is current, rather than waiting six years for the right combination of scaling and out-gearing issues to make it trivial.
It also lets them control where and when people are playing the game most, which is important for managing expectations and driving interest in specific activities that supports groups and general public discourse about them.
Time-limited rewards aren’t going away. Might as well get used to it. The overwhelming majority of cosmetics in the game are not locked in any way. Go get those.
As for PvE then it mostly means that they made something fun again. And even then, the reward would be one item so you’d still be years behind on the collection.
Hate to say it, RL takes priority over fake gold and pixels. I missed half of an expansion for medical issues. I had to unsub for a few months due to financial issues.
Life just be that way sometimes. The only person that creates FOMO is you. (general “you”, not specific you)