This person said it best.
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Because multiple people could get it if the did the quest and rang the gong. Look at this, I already linked it, but perhaps you missed it.
This is the Scarab Lord mount that very few people have.
This is the archaeology mount that everyone can get, even someone today.
Blizzard brought back the modelâŚ
As I said, Iâm happy with them adding new retextures (or a new form altogether) that are available today. Be that in an equally difficult challenge, or elsewhere
But I want what I worked for to be preserved. I think itâs a happy compromise
Mage Tower, Iâm not sure, more referencing the Legendary Cloak story line from MoP as it actually wraps up the story for pandaria, and is what allows access to certain areas in the Timeless Isle as well
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Most achievements are not exclusive.
Are you quoting your alt? How droll.
I just disagree fundamentally. But itâs a compromise, I suppose.
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Not my alt so you lose again.
Congratulation
Donât get me wrong. Iâm of the opinion that content shouldnât be made limited time.
But once you actually make it limited time, and Iâm put into a situation like that, I expect some degree of consistency.
The worst possible thing that can happen is Blizzard saying something is âgone for goodâ and then adding it back later. It makes you wonder when something actually is gone, and could very well cost you something later if you assume itâll come back
They already eliminated that requirement with the Scarab Lord mount recolor. I can go spend a few days and get it, whereas the Scarab Lord folks spent months the first time around getting that and it was very few people per server.
I just wish they put more stuff for archaeology. Itâs such an underused profession and would a good way to get recolors into the game.
Like I said, if it was advertised as limited time they shouldnât have done that. I think thatâs a poor way to treat people who go into a crunch to obtain a limited time thing, only for it to turn out to not be limited time later. That does not mean I think it should be limited time, just that I think they should follow through
And yeah, Iâd like to see more archaeology. I definitely didnât appreciate them outright ignoring it this expac
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By these people here it ruins there sense of collection
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Get back to me when Blizzard randomly decides a Raid is going to be completely removed from the game after that Expansion for⌠reasons.
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Is it bad that I prefer that, though? I think the âforced scarcityâ design is really crappy. I went through a lot to get my appearances, but it feels awful to tell friends that werenât around then (or, in rare cases, didnât even know about it then) that you canât get it because⌠because.
You listed the story you went through. I get it. Try and extend that same thinking to a new person, though. That same frustration. Something they may really, really want but theyâll never have due to a sales strategy.
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As someone with the title you mentioned and other time limited or promotional only items, i say bring them back. It doesnât hurt anyone, except those who want to feel special.
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No. Listen, I donât have any mage tower appearances. I didnât play during that expansion, and I missed them all. Iâd love some of them. But no.
Every time someone brings this up, I pull out this very true story:
I worked on âWhat a Long, Strange Trip itâs Beenâ from nearly the first day they gave us achievements. The reward was the Violet Proto-Drake, an ugly recolor of an ugly flying mount from Wrath that came in about 8 colors of an identical model. The reason it was worth working for is that it was the only mount in the game with 310% flight.
I worked on that thing for a solid year, making sure that I skipped even a raid night if I was down to the wire on a holiday and might miss a sub-achieve in the meta. Any missed sub achievement would mean another whole calendar year before it could be completed. So I didnât miss any. I wanted that faster flight.
I was one of the first people to get that mount.
Next expansion, they let EVERYONE buy it with goldâŚnot the mount, but the speed. The mount isnât worth anything, and everyone knows it.
I will NEVER forgive them for it.
Donât wish that on the people who worked for their mage tower appearances, which they had to grind content for with the promise that the rewards would be exclusive.
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It wasnât the same thing no matter how much they want to use it as an example of Blizz adding things back to the game.
It was a server wide event where the first player to ring the gong got the title and the mount. Completely different.
Plus, the Scarab Lord Title didnât come back which was the thing only thing that mattered.
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Intriguing how opening mage tower appearances back up is getting more support over the years now. a year or two ago the entirety of GD would bully the OP. Nowadays the Op has more support than exclusive fans.
Thatâs not what Iâm seeing in this thread.
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the overall like ratio still disagrees.
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Youâre likely seeing what you want to, then.
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