My thoughts on “FOMO” items as a veteran player

I fully respect the grind/skill required to earn these items, never asked for anything for free. But it would be great to have the chance to earn them as well.

I’d love to see them added back into the game in a way they could be “earned” again. Permanently. No limited time nonsense.

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FOMO is a terrible business model.

The more content available the better.

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No? When servers shut down the memories, effort, and pride don’t vanish. Just like how people cherish medals, photos, or stories from past experiences. earned in-game achievements are part of that personal history.

Bringing back the exact same rewards doesn’t affect me physically, but it does affect the meaning. If everything is always available, then nothing ever feels earned. It’s simply about prserving the integrity of effort. Recolors or alternate versions are a great compromise, are they not?

Which contradicts this:

You people can’t be consistent. Bringing them back to be earned again would not affect

At all.

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How does letting others earn it through the exact same means as you did devalue the worth? It doesn’t and it shouldn’t.

If players are doing the SAME challenge as you for the SAME rewards but just at a different time than you did, I don’t see how that could POSSIBLY make an item worthless to you. And if it does, then there’s some self reflecting to be done.

People have “manifested” many “pixels” from WoW into real life $$.

And? So what? If you make extreme threats in WoW via pixels you dont think theres going to be no consequences?

Lets say a players says something terrible in game and the police turn up to their house and player tells the police officers “lolololol pixels!” that the police will just say “ok, yeah, pixels” and walk away?

And tell me what is your /played across your characters.

Does that time mean nothing to you? Its just “lolololol pixels”?

Comparing items in a video game to threats is actually crazy work

I’m not contradicting myself. I said the memories and pride don’t disappear, but the shared meaning of the item can change if it’s reissued. Personal value stays, but community recognition depends on context.

If something was earned during a specific time-limited event, part of its value comes from when it was earned, not just how. Repeating the challenge later with the exact same reward removes that context and uniqueness. That doesn’t mean I’m insecure, it means I value the integrity of effort tied to a moment in time. Recolors or alternate versions let new players earn something meaningful without erasing that history.

You listen to Joe Rogan don’t you?

Obviously this debate is too complex for you.

FYI threats and in game items are just pixels remember. JUST PIXELS.

Or are you supporting my argument that things aren’t just pixels.

Get ChatGPT to explain what I just said like you’re a 5 year old.

The chad kor’kron war wolf is cooler than the virgin purple birb.

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This is actually such a wild thing to comment.

And no it’s not too complex, you’re just taking one minuscule part of what was said and writing novels about it. Your comparisons are actually reaching to the full extent.

Are you promoting selling accounts that violates the ToS? Sounds like it.

You’re comparing an item in game with a person behind a keyboard. Disingenuous and disregarded.

Disingenuous and disregarded.

I lost count around 960 days about 9 years ago.

Not really. I had fun. That’s the bottom line. Fun. I don’t hold my wow pixels in high regard. The servers could shut down tomorrow permanently and I’d be like:

You’re so clueless it’s almost painful.

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I think you’re genuinely misunderstanding the meaning of “it’s just pixels” being said in this context

Translation: I can’t respond to this argument so I will just dismiss it.

Out of curiosity what is your education level and how do often you read?

What is it then?

Tell me, what is your /played.

But hey, this game is “just pixels” and means nothing to you, right?

You came in here completely derailing the topic and then proceed to throw insults and attempt to insinuate further argument for attention because your comments on this have been almost entirely irrelevant to the topic being discussed.

Blizzard said no.
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Wow. This stunning and brilliant arguments like that I’m sure you have a PhD.