The community didn’t vote for this mount, though - they voted for the tree.
Which definitely felt weird at the time.
I wonder, if the cat mount was given to everyone at expansion start, and the tree was for season 4 Fated… would there be an uproar?
I’m thinking not.
(I just keep wondering… who were all those people who voted for that tree? Because I hardly ever see it, in-game.)
I feel like a lot more of it hinges on the time limited nature of the mount. This will be the third community vote mount added. One was given to us directly (does it get sent to brand new bnet accounts?), one is available to obtain at any time, this one is limited to 4ish months during a season that shouldn’t even exist. The whole thing feels kind of lousy.
I voted for the cat, personally. Everyone I know did as well. Still feels pretty scummy for the people who wanted the cat and are now likely to miss out on it entirely.
The tree won, yes, but not because everyone collectively voted for it. A lot of people, myself included, did not. I personally voted for the cat. Honestly I don’t know a single person that voted for the tree, or anything else really. Literally everyone I know voted for the cat.
I’d probably be still be upset about the achievements saying any difficulty and them then changing their minds at the last minute even if it was the tree. They still says any difficulty as for right now.
This.
And this.
Indeed.
I just keep wondering… where on earth did all those tree votes come from?
I have an idea. Hear me out.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/022/524/tumblr_o16n2kBlpX1ta3qyvo1_1280.jpg
You people getting all bent out of shape over changes to a “patch” that hasn’t even come out yet. Maybe stop hanging on every datamined thing you see and life will be a little easier.
That isnt datamining. Its data we can access on live servers. The achivs are displayed to the entire playerbase. And the source that he posted is from Blizzard that covers how the patch goes live comming tuesday.
Kretias is 100% correct - open your achieves menu (default Y) and search for fated. Check the fates of the shadowlands raids, then check each achieve - it states in game right now that any difficulity awards ther achievement.
Ah yea, I see that. I find it weird they would add this before the content was out. But even so, considering the patch isn’t live, no one should expect this to be cast in stone. I do the see the point. The hysteria on the other hand, I don’t.
What datamining are you talking about?
The first screenshot is from the live servers. The achievement is already there.
The second one is from a news article on the official warcraft site (link provided).
Did you even read my reply or just angrily typed your answer with the first bs that came to mind?
They’ve never done a seasonal raid mount like this before either. Why are you purposely being dense?
It’s not hysteria. It’s calling Blizzard out for lying to their players and holding them to their word. Everyone who pays a sub has the right to express anger and discontent when they are lied to, and players were lied to.
Yep, determination. Blizzard knows that LFR has to be balanced around the lowest common denominator because it’s queue content. You could end up killing the boss with 50% more HP, damage and healing than you would otherwise have.
I was referrring more to myself with that .
I’ve done the normals in SL and got aotc for Sanctum and did most of heroic SotFO .
So I know I can do them but with the way this expansion has been I just don’t have it in me to run them again on anything higher then LfR.
Thanks for the info. 
I don’t understand every one arguing over who does and doesn’t deserve X from X content when that isn’t the issue at all with the Slime Kitty. The issue is for months, the only information at all has said it was gettable on ANY raid difficulty, not normal or higher like other achievements are worded.
It doesn’t matter what you think or feel about this issue on who deserves what. It matters that even right now, THIS SECOND you can go in game and see the achievement still says “ANY”. This is some major miscommunication that needs actual clarification, considering we have a Blue saying one thing, 5 days before season start, and the game saying something completely different. THAT should be the only issue being discussed.
I would also very much like one of those “dev reasoning comments” behind the miscommunication/reason for changing the definition of “any”/letting people assume the game was giving them the correct information for months with zero clarification.
Yea exactly. That is and always was the issue. PPL started bringing up past complaints, but it’s really about that.
Please share your team’s thinking on removing the slime cat mount from LFR difficulty last minute. The achievement that’s been on PTR and live servers for months now said it would be available on all difficulties. Why the sudden switch?
To be honest this reeks of an attempt to sell more WoW tokens. I hate saying it.