The demon hunter was cooked up, and it was nice actually. But the rest, I wouldn’t be caught dead in!
they broke the one weapon that fits with the warrior recolor and they havent fixed it yet. the weapon from amirdrassil
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Because people would whine if someone else got to have a transmog.
It would be more accurate to label this thread ‘time-limited’ items.
FOMO is a feeling, an emotion, therefore it is specific to an individual, not an event or reward, whether is time-limited or not.
And once the time frame has passed, guess what, it is no longer a situation where you fear missing out because you already have.
So those mage tower items, which is what this post is really all about, are not FOMO items, they are just things that you want and can’t have.
Why do you want things that are no longer available in the game?
The amount of mounts, transmog, ect that are no longer available in the game are minuscule compared to what is available.
It’s like a spoiled child being told they can every candy in the story but the reeces pieces and he immediately has a melt down because he can’t have reeces pieces.
No one that is actually interested in playing the game quits because they can’t have a pretty.
That is toddler-level behavior.
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My whole point in bringing up the Overwatch thing though was really this. The whole Pink Mercy situation is example of how times change. People once thought that game that Pink Mercy was never coming back in any form. They used all the same arguments why it shouldn’t, but not did Blizzard bring it back, but as a recolor they also straight up brought back the exact once limited skins like Nano Cola DVA and some others. One has to think that years are going go by. More and more people are going to ask about this, staff are bound to change, principles change over time. So at some point without any warning they could change their stance on this someday. And besides that.
I don’t really get the mentality behind this. There are multiple unobtainable that have, but I wouldn’t really have any issue if they were obtainable again in some fashion. To me limited content is wasted real estate. Like imagine one day if they decided that demon hunters couldn’t be playable anymore because it a feature specific legion and only people who created demon hunters during legion could be demon hunters. If you have some content that could be appealing to alot people and you put a time gate on it then its effectively limiting the value it can bring to the game as a whole.
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Lol even if a lot of these items came back most people don’t have the skills or the money to get them.
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Some people have all the original mage tower rewards. I certainly do not lol. But I do have all the feral forms. I want to earn a new thing too. A recolor is really the only way to make people who don’t have any happy, and make people who have them all happy, too. I’m all for that. I just don’t believe Blizzard will ever bring back the originals is all.
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I think we can agree on that.
Lol even if a lot of these items came back most people don’t have the skills or the money to get them.
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Thats fine. I am not against people have to earn them. Just against good challenges and transmogs being completely barred off like is right now.
Slightly unrelated, but I also think the loosening the restrictions on transmogging certain kinds of clothing would also be ideal within certain limited.
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I fully accept limited time rewards and I certainly don’t feel “FOMO” if the reward is for content I’m not interested in doing. People do the content, they should get the reward and I’m not entitled to it. Pretty simple concept.
That said, if you’re still of the belief that rewards from past expansions hold any sort prestige or outward value … Then I’m sorry, it’s time for bed grandpa. That mindset is soooo outdated. At this point, most people won’t even be able to identify a mount or xmog that is no longer in the game. No one cares. So if that is the only reason why Blizzard doesn’t bring back some really old rewards, then it’s just stupid reason … one that I accept, but stupid nonetheless.
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To be fair, what’s actually being discussed in this thread is not FOMO in the sense that OP is trying to imply. The point of FOMO is to manipulate people into doing something they otherwise wouldn’t do by making them feel artificially pressed for time. For something to be the toxic kind of FOMO there has to be intent. The AH mount is a solid, recent example of actual FOMO marketing.
The type of FOMO OP is talking about is a personal character flaw. He’s talking about things which by their nature cause him and others to feel FOMO. The type of FOMO he is talking about is their responsibility to get over as adult human beings who are at least trying not to be horrifically pathetic. Trophies and commemorative items have legitimate reasons to be time-limited, and in fact would cease to be what they are intended to be were they to lose that status.
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Also to be fair, it’s impossible to have a fear of missing out on something that is already long gone. That’s just called regret.
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I mean, skins are not really the same as mogs, despite both being cosmetic. It’s possible for there to be overlap in the case of skins being given out in commemoration of an event, but if it’s just a skin that was arbitrarily removed from the shop that is FOMO marketing and not related to things such as the MoP CM mogs.
It’s stupid because… why? Because you say so?
I didn’t realize there was a time limit on items being legitimately commemorative. If anything it feels to be like the older they get the more they age into their intended purpose.
Very good point. In the case of people who weren’t even around at the appropriate time I’d hesitate to even call it regret. It’s more just entitlement.
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I always love this argument in these threads because if “nobody cared” then why are people like the OP whining about them?
If they’re “just pixels” then why can’t they stay gone?
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It’s a particularly silly stance to take with a game like WoW, where the playerbase consists primarily of veteran players.
Never mind the fact that commemorative items (in general; not being specific to WoW here) are probably more commonly conversation pieces than they are something that’s recognized at a glance. You see an interesting mog or toy that someone has and you ask them about it, or you look it up, and you end up with a new piece of trivia under your belt.
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And when Blizzard routinely violates this “contract” … why would anyone take it seriously???
I can’t believe anyone that’s been around this game for more than a year would try and present this argument without falling on their face laughing at the hypocrisy of it.
That “contract” is an all-or-nothing thing. Either stuff is rare and sacred… or it isn’t. And once they broke that rule… it’s shattered. It’s broken forever. There is no going back.
And they did that a LONG time ago.
As I’ve said for a long, LONG time: after 5 years, bring it all back. Five years is plenty of time to strut your stuff and show off “you did the thing.” After that, bring it all back. Don’t just put it on a vendor or the BMAH. There should still be a relatively comparable method to acquire whatever it is you want.
But after 5 years, bring it all back.
No, I’m not a “I want it all, I want it now.” I’m a top5 collector on my server cluster. I LITERALLY HAVE IT ALL. Pets, toys, mounts, xmog … ALL OF IT. I’m in the 90+ percentile for EVERYTHING.
And I’m saying: BRING IT ALL BACK.
No it doesn’t. Because by that weak logic, if you brought it back, the existing player (who wasn’t there the first time) … would… work to get that item. If it’s never brought back… why stay?
You “incentivize” players by making a quality product. Not by pushing lame fomo garbage out every 6 weeks.
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Show me the numbers on that- surely you have access to Blizzard’s internal data on players’ quitting and are privy to statistics the rest of us are not. Publish the numbers bro.
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Hear hear!
And you answered your own question.
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Is it working? Because PvP queues are… well… not doing that great.
I completely agree. And it’s nice to hear that from someone who’s simply a collector and has pretty much everything in the game.
Look, five years from now, the person probably won’t even be playing anymore, or they’ll be using different items/sets/mounts and won’t even remember that achievement.
I myself had the Tyrael’s Charger mount… I hadn’t used it in ages until it became available again — and you know how I felt? Good, because now other people could have it too.
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