Theres so much removed exclusive timed content in this game. Why is this baked in as design? Let players get removed mounts, removed gear, removed appearances, removed titles, removed tabards. Any new player who gets into this game and gets into Mount collecting, transmog collecting and starts to get serious about it will drop it when they can never beat anyone who just happened to be there when they had this time content. At least let people who have these rare collections be able to trade them to other players like people do in collecting communities.
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So… what exactly did you miss?
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Horde breaker title, dragons from Nax, the transmog gear from the Wrath pre expansion event.
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Be there. Do that. Reward participation, reward showing up.
Support showing up 15 years later, but being there, when there was there, and not then, needs to have value. When someone say “you should have been there”, it should have some meaning other than “oh, I’ll just farm it later”.
If you don’t want to miss stuff, show up and play the game.
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ok…So if collecting is gonna be a part of the game then they should give those rare stuff value by allowing collectors to trade each other other wise give us a way to get them.
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I’m not generally a fan of removing content but I do thing that a certain amount should be somewhat exclusive. As much as I’d love to have them, I think that it’s OK for people that downed the end boss of a patch on the hardest difficulty to have the title as a badge of honor. On the other hand, rewards based off of luck (eg.rare drops) and meta achievements should be held.
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Or, and this is extreme i know, but perhaps blizz could focus on returning this collections game to the rpg section of the store.
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Sounds like being entitled and wanting a participation trophy to me.
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No, new players have no idea what “removed” stuff is, at all.
A legit new player gives no damn about the whole issue.
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You have perfectly described the “special snowflake syndrome”, the obsessive need to remove story and other content necessary to understand what is going on in a zone so earlier players can lord it over new players and blame them for not having heard of the warcraft decades earlier.
“You should have been there” just means “You lazy worthless scrub, it’s your own fault you weren’t there back then and you deserve to be dumped on”.
The story they should fix. Nobody deserves to have their egos stroked at the expense of driving away new paying customers. But the mounts… There’s loads of mounts in the game. I barely care about mounts and I have 170+ in 5 years.
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I bought one of the 100 cars made in 1974 of that mod. The other 99 cars were all smashed while making a movie. I was offered 1mill for the car i turned it down.
Years later Op came to my door with a check for $1220.50 demanding i give them the car…
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All the transmog and mounts in the game.
“But I want that one!”
SMH…
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Just consider for a second what a new player would thinking if you said that to them.
Here, I’ll give you a quick hint:
- Well, that was rude.
- I can’t get this stuff… ever.
- I REALLY don’t want to play with these jerks.
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No it doesn’t, unless you think you are special because you found the game earlier. Removed content, dare I say it, is a slap to the face. Lol
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Keep the items/mounts etc unattainable but add in the removed quest/story lines for people to at least experience the lore.
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Agreed. There is no reason why we shouldn’t be able to click an NPC in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms and say “show me what this place was like before” like we can in Darkshore, Arathi, and Dustwallow for example.
Karazhan questline was removed. To this day I have no idea why Kara was part of the TBC expansion. I just know that it is and there is some Eredar end boss at the end.
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A new player wouldn’t be thinking of that stuff at all, they wouldn’t even know most of it existed in the first place.
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Unless they see it for themselves while in game such as the druid wearbear form.
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This is something I can agree with. The wrathgate quest line was amazing.
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