i would recommend reading the body then? idk what to tell u. it’s right there
That would take me a couple days of sleuthing as it was way back in 2013 or so and it’s likely buried on some now defunct article site. I literally tried looking up the interview on WoWhead cause I’m pretty sure that’s where I saw one of the mirrors posted but WoWheads infrastructure has changed drastically over the years and I don’t think they kept most of their articles from several changes. And everytime I’ve tried to search for it it’s only posts like this popping up complaining about a promise being kept.
Not everyone is going for some ‘Gotcha’ It’s an Emoji, it’s not that deep.
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I’m just curious why they didn’t just edit their one post and instead replied to me three different times back to back… 
Back to sleuthing! I feel I’m getting close!
Sometimes the truth hurts. Pixels don’t matter.
I spend money on this game because it entertains me. Through it, I’ve met folks here that I keep up with now, even though they haven’t played in a few expansions. That’s value, pixels naaaa
Here! You can borrow my Deerstalker cap and Monocle! hands them over
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Unfortunately my sleuthing has ended. As I suspected a lot of the articles with interviews on the future of the TCG loot and where it goes from TCG’s discontinuation were on sites that are no longer working.
A lot of wiki pages that linked to these articles come back as broken or no longer valid which includes an article that I presumed to have been posted officially by Blizzard which is where I recall initially reading about TCG loot being brought back in other ways in the future.
The official site has undergone many overhauls since Aug 2013 which was when TCG was discontinued and a lot of official articles/dev interviews seem to have been lost in time due to this lengthy period and changes to the websites format.
The myriad of Pro/Against threads spanning several different mediums since the Fel Drakes reintroduction also have muddied the search parameters and has made looking for the exact interview article in particular rather difficult if not impossible. Forgive me friends but at this point unless the developer who was interviewed chimes in on this I’m afraid you’ll have to take my word for it provided that developer has not left Blizzard.
I personally don’t mind it too much, but I do think that giving out items that were previously unobtainable due to time or experience is watered down when everyone and their mother can pick it out of the clearance section of WoWmart.
It strips away any symbol of you “being there” when it happened or was released. Obviously the large majority of people who are hating on the players who feel bad about losing their veteran badge are the people who… don’t have the item and now are glad they have it too. Some of these items aren’t even going to be used, and instead just collect dust in your collections tab. Thus they are now meaningless and you are pushed back onto the factory conveyor belt with your average Joe hero.
Guess this means they are fine with people using downvotes as a dislike button.
What the hell.
And before someone acuses me of faking the mod note:
There are no 'downvotes", and there haven’t been for years.
It’s also easy to dismiss people born with skill. You didn’t earn your fast reflexes. You say, “earned through skill” you really mean you were born better and it’s your birthright to have rare and special stuff.
I’m not dismissing the skill argument though. That’s what you’re not getting. I think you should keep your rare and special items, even if it would make others happy to have them. Because if you value something, for whatever reason you value it, I would not have it taken away.
I’m just asking you to understand that other people can feel that way too.
Oh bs. Go spew that to someone who will buy it. People learned how to play this game as we actually played it. Earlier on the playerbase didn’t know much and were not very good. Being good comes with practice and actually playing.
Promoting what was equal to loot boxes should always be dismissed. It’s damaged gaming.
You seem to be unaware of the Customer Support forum. You should pop on over there and take a look at all the topics created by players complaining about account actions.
so you traded something to get something, which had no value then, has no value now, got it.
There are barely any rewards that are sacred to the current bliz team
Current team just considers wow a huge hamster wheel with arbitrary limits on how much time they will spend making new rewards
Grossly and disgustingly profitable yet if profits aren’t increasing the mgmt treats the wow franchise like it doesn’t have an extra dollar to spend
An amazing franchise utterly broken by greed
Those two things contradict each other, but at this point, i’m not expecting consistent logic, let alone any from the “Muh rarity” people anymore…
I just like to watch you guys melt like ice cream over exclusive things not being exclusive, just like those sony fanboys losing their minds over spiderman 1 going to PC. 
Summer is a-coming. 
I’d prefer they add new items.
Getting a TBC transmog with 2 pixels is kind of lazy when you consider what they could do with today’s tech
I don’t care if they bring that stuff back. I have my feat of strength. That’s not going away. People who think that having a rare mount is a status symbol are strange and elitist gate keeping.
It’s not. Everyone practices. Everyone cares about their DPS and their parses. Everyone studies and learns mechanics. Everyone watches videos of boss fights and finds whatever ways to practice that they can. Maybe a piddling few don’t, but by and large everyone in this game who is not good, is trying to be, as best they can.
You were born with faster reflexes, and to people who weren’t, the idea that your feelings should be respected at the cost of the feelings of others, is exactly as silly as it is with TCGs. Maybe more so, since you sacrificed nothing, and they gave up money. But I wouldn’t take it that far since you at least combined your time with your innate reflexes to get that reward.
In fact I agree with this and hope they don’t do it again. It’s similar to the idea that maybe overworld flying was a mistake, but the solution to that is not necessarily to pull the rug out from under people and invalidate everything.