Let’s talk about some more issues, ranging from FOMO to quality control and class fantasies again.
Tyrael’s Charger is one of the more frustrating FOMO experiences you can have in World of Warcraft. Either you purchased it through the Annual Pass promotion in 2011 or a few years ago through a Chinese promotion for ~$35 which unlocked the mount account-wide. While the FOMO-aspect is awful enough on its own, people have started to report several incidents of their mount getting removed without a warning or reason. To this day there hasn’t been made an official statement regarding the situation.
Why has it to be this way? The best action of course would have been to rotate several FOMO-mounts on the cash shop, so everyone can have their shot at getting them. For a company, which values money, the developers do a bad job at rotating their recruit- and promotion mounts, to keep everyone happy. Speaking of, who remembers these mounts?
This is something what Final Fantasy 14 does best. It honors their players in every possible way.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/d2cya2/isnt_that_swell/
Speaking of. The current RAF-reward, the renowned explorer’s attire is not only something what League of Explorer-fans wanted to have happen a long time, it’s also on another timer until Blizzard decides to remove it, while even NPCs wear this outfit in the upcoming Dragonflight expansion.
This outfit could have been splendid archaeology-profession rewards for an abandoned feature but someone decided against it, in their quest for more money instead what the game actually needed: Class fantasy and evergreen content.
This is another example of how things turn sour for the players. Three sets which would improve the overall class fantasies of the game but they are either too hard to get or too limiting for their own good. What do I mean with this?
Basically, a heritage armor for the Mag’har Orcs has been limited to Leather-wearers only and the developers stripped the set of the headgear for no real explanation either, while the inGame NPCs are represented as warriors, shamans and hunters. It’s one of the more unwise decisions made by Blizzard during Warlords of Draenor and it still shows. Doesn’t help either that they released a Mag’har Heritage Armor recolor variation while other races still only have one heritage armor color available to them but this is a story for another day.
The mirroring set for the Alliance is one of the Karabor Finery designs (which will return time to time in various colors in Legion). The displayed Frostwolf- and Karabor-sets can only obtained in WoD with a specific armor-type in mind, after they earned the revered reputation status with a certain group. Given the lengthy nature of the WoD expansion, both of those sets should have been unlockables for every class the players plays, instead forcing them to grind a specific armor type so they can buy the -otherwise- hidden ensemble from the vendor.
The Kor’kron Dark Shaman armor set is one of the few Orc Shaman fantasies and groups which stayed relevant up to Battle for Azeroth. While the set is still obtainable, people have been reporting several issues in unlocking them, ranging from taking up to years to acquire it. Like with most desirable items, the game needs a pity system so they don’t spend years farming something they want to have until they get burned out. Something, what FF14 still does great and it harms nobody. Instead encouraging to farm people in every content the game has to offer, people still are conditioned in doing the same thing, even decades later. It’s the love rocket farming method but with a bit more freedom. Let’s just hope that the upcoming love rocket changes will do their wonder.
More topics are to follow another time.