Exactly, which is why when people post this as some sort of remedy, they should be reminded that:
They already “discredit” the effort of people who raided for tier gear and pvp glad gear when I can go spend ten minutes in BWL and get gear that took people months to get back in the day.
High rating for old expansion glad gear? I can buy that with honor tokens.
Your effort isn’t discredited. You still had to do what you did to achieve that item. It should be a badge of personal accomplishment.
Should you care how others got it? No.
If you care about how others got things in life, you’re going to be extremely disappointed.
Your example isn’t the same. That’s group content, so going back and soloing group content later, isn’t a big deal. WoW has a verical progression system, so it’s natural to phase out old content.
Mage tower was meant to be and was advertised as a LIMITED TIME solo content challenge with LIMITED TIME rewards. I think they even announced that LIMITED TIME part for over a year before the prepatch. The only reason why the warlock green fire quest didn’t get the same treatment is because they didn’t advertise it as such, hence why they left it in the game (other than the unobtainable title now). The green fire title is basically the same as the mage tower appearances: Unobtainable now and that’s that.
There are many other LIMITED TIME rewards in the game. PvP mounts and gear have a ton of them. There are plenty of PvP sets that I wished I had gotten, while they were LIMITED TIME rewards, but I didn’t. Sucks to be me, but that’s what happens when you snooze on LIMITED TIME events that yield LIMITED TIME rewards.
I think Arthas is a much better “break glass in case of emergency” option then the mage tower.
The last time they ‘broke glass in case of emergency’ they dredged up an alternate universe’s Gul’dan to bring back Illidan. Emergency solutions have to do with the narrative, not with a piece of content that they would need to nerf dramatically and basically make free to run to avoid the potential backlash.
Unless you’re suggesting that the content will both be challenging again and also require nethershards to run. You think Korthia’s boring? Try farming nethershards for just one more run when the Mage Tower’s due to expire in two hours without an invasion on schedule.
I have already addressed this mistake in the thread. But points to you for being late to the party and wanting to sound smart. Have some internet brownies. Seems like you are the one who has a fragile ego.
What I posted in that second quote came from the actual blizzard post.
Aw, sounds like it cut you deep. Wanna talk about it?
Nah
I don’t need to feel smart by replying late to a thread, while ignoring everything else in the thread.
I mean you’re making a big deal out of the fact that I wasn’t in your personal schedule and trying to lob it at me like it’s relevant. I’m sorry it stings that I don’t care if I’m responding to a bad idea on my own time. You might want to find someone to can talk to about that.
Or you could’ve just read the thread instead of cherry picking one part to boost your ego. But you do you. If it helps you sleep at night go for it.
You’re really that entitled. I don’t owe it to you to sift through a triple digit number of posts. You’re ascribing it to my ego but you really can’t stand the idea that you were criticized in the first place. I genuinely feel bad for you if this is such a huge deal to you. Life must be difficult.
Honestly this sounds like a case of pot meet kettle.
What about if they tell us ahead of time, multiple times, and all the way through the event, that it’s limited time? Or are you just going to drag people who weren’t even playing into this?
Sure, let’s go with that. You’re still not letting this go while claiming to be the bigger man. Seems pretty suspect.
Neither are you. You can’t handle the fact that you got called out for trying to score some cheap internet points for coming in late and intentionally ignoring the rest of the thread.
That’s correct. Would you agree we’re no better than each other then? Or are you somehow morally superior after that rant about how people owe it to you to read full threads and not criticize your bad ideas?
All I said was that someone beat you to it and I had already corrected myself and admitted my mistake in the thread (hence why I said you should read it first). I just called you out for being late to the party and how you are trying to score some cheap internet points as a result. Don’t take it so personally kid.
Sure, you admitted it and used it as an excuse to try to make a dig on me personally. Which I maintain is pathetic.
The only person trying to score brownie points so far is you. I’m reacting in kind to a personal shot that was unwarranted.
What’s that? Something about a pot and kettle? Truly, truly sad.
I can say the same, as I said. You came late and tried to act smart.
I really, unironically love how irrelevant my timing is and how much it bothers you, and how you’re trying to belittle criticism as “trying to sound smart.” Keep those thick brick walls up around that eggshell ego, my friend. It’s providing immense entertainment.