They really don’t. Reddit has them and I can’t think of a more cancerous site. Maybe if people used them as they’re supposed to it wouldn’t be an issue, but they tend to be petty and stupid so of course they abuse it.
4-chan… But yea, abusive systems will be abused wherever people can.
Boo! blizzard, horrible move
I seriously don’t understand how people even support the removal of content and take pride in false scarcity? 
And before you accuse me of being a free-loader, i understand the value of work, and i understand why certain challenges require you to do a specific thing, those are completely fine, going irl for a sec, i even worked part-time to get me a pretty decent gaming computer and a nice graphic card down the line.
I just hate the idea of exclusives and want as many people want it as they can possibly can. It wouldn’t do any good if i just go like “ha ha ha ha, i got this mount, and you don’t, you all stink”, it just stinks that not everybody can’t get it, not just being limited by skill but by time, like if you don’t get it now, you will never get it later.
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time limited content is good.
Its a reward for being with the game at that point in time.
Its part of your story either way.
Taking away the mount without the expectation does not fit the bill
It childish to ignire feedback just because they dont like complaints.
Are you sure about this? They combined threads and then they were locked. My bet is they locked it so that like the water-strider and portal threads, they’d get buried and forgotten about.
No there’s a system that automatically locks a thread if there are enough people who report it. Like it says at the bottom the thread will reopen in 24 hours.
This topic is the new high elves meme. Except this time the complaints are legitimate.
Why though? Just for the prestige of just saying “you done it, now were going to remove it at this date”?
And also, while were talking about the Brutosaur mount, lets not forget Blizzard removed things over the years like the entirety of WoD and MoP’s legendaries, cutting a good chunk of the story of those two expansions… well half in WoD’s case. And BFA’s Pre-patch that gave context to how BFA started is also removed, i didn’t like the pre-patch, but i didn’t want them to remove it either. As for the Mage tower, i liked it for the time being a pretty great challenge to work towards, but i seriously hated the timed exclusive aspect of it. I just want things like that (including pvp stuff) to only be obtainable though skill and time dedicated without fearing the ever ticking clock that is counting down to get them and have unlimited amount of time to get them and be maintained or have their rewards lumped in with the newer stuff as an option to buy or get. (and not purchasable via by microtransactions, which is even more insulting) 2 years or 2 weeks, is no less or more disappointing. Even more so when you take a look at the video game industry as a whole. I mean P.T. doesn’t exist anymore.
Veering a bit Off topic one more time, but somehow related question, if time limited content is good… why Classic exists then? I mean WoW’s expansions with it’s features been removed over the 2 year span of each one, why is Vanilla in the form of Classic, gets the dubious honor of forever remained unchanged or not going anywhere, but Retail just keeps on going? I know this sounds silly, but this is a question that also sprung up that i had to ask. Why is it fine to experience and obtain the removed content in classic, but it’s good to have limited time stuff in retail?
What story exactly? I’m confused on what you mean by that.
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You are right. When its made clear its time limited from the start and not in the final bit of the expansion.
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I said that a million times in the original thread but people kept saying “They did warn you!”
Yup this. After so many flags, it gets auto locked for a while. Because people aren’t capable of using the report system properly.
^This
I’m fairly sure every post on these forums is “upsetting” to someone. Heck, the forums as a whole are pretty “upsetting”. Maybe the entire thing should be auto-locked.
they could always put in a dummy ‘thumbs down’ button that does placebo duty, like the ‘close elevator door button’ does in a lift
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Nah they don’t need to bring it back, they just need to actually action these people so they know lol.
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This is what I found ironic: being told to go to that thread by a Blue.
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That’s would be throwing all the posts into the trash can.
Locking the thread for “reasons” is taking out the trash.
And yet, no one had their post deleted.
They started using this tactic with the Hong Kong mess both here and on the WoW subreddit.
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This issue seems have brought out an unexpectedly ugly side of the community just as things seemed to be improving around here.
People didn’t abuse the flagging system to get the thread shut, they were abusing the flagging system to try to squelch those they did not agree with. Also cannot determine who the ones abusing the flagging system to result in the thread getting locked.