It’s a great idea. Buy a copy from Blizzard/Microsoft and it creates the idea in the heads of the suits that there is risen interest in the Warcraft franchise in movies and tv. Then we get another movie or streaming series.
I don’t support Twitch drops. Just don’t like the concept. I also don’t support people demanding a promotional item from an event they didn’t support.
I still can’t tell if you’re serious but I’m just gonna say a big ol’ no to that for so many very obvious reasons and leave it at that.
Lol, it reads pretty serious to me.
Also don’t take that as I agree or disagree, I wish transmog in general was more open in WoW but maybe one day.
I get that the movie part is not entirely realistic but I’m completely serious about the promotional items deal.
You didn’t buy a ticket to the concert/sporting event, you don’t get a t-shirt from the t-shirt cannon.
You didn’t buy a ticket to the Oprah show, you don’t get a “free” car.
I mean nothing is stopping that concert/sporting venue from re-using the same shirts at a different event. And I’m sure Oprah gave away identical cars a few times.
But you still get neither if you don’t buy a ticket to those events.
It’s a terrible idea
Yes, but you could get either if you buy a ticket for a future event.
The Blizzard side of this analogy is them re-using assets for different promotions. Like I said before, promotional is promotional. Nothing wrong with them trotting old stuff back out to help promote the game.
And, again, we didn’t pay anything extra for the Gul’dan staff. All you had to do was log in at the right time.
As it has been pointed out, the items were from a venture not solely run by Blizzard. There were other companies involved with the film and as the items were taken from the film to use as an in-game promotion, it is not up to just Blizzard to use those items again.
This is why buying the movie and getting the items for it would be a usable solution to making them available again. Blizzard would just have to get the distribution rights or it could be given for owning the movie on Microsoft’s movie and tv platform after the merger finishes.
I doubt that, but it’s possible. You can’t be any more certain than me, though.
Again, convoluted and pointless. They don’t want to promote a failed movie, they want to promote their game. Boosting Twitch viewership boosts the game’s visibility, so putting promotional items there has a measurable and pronounced market value.
I get this feeling that someone is being contrary for the sake of being contrary.
Nobody cares if these items are put on the TP. They should be put on the TP.
I am entirely certain. That version of the Staff of Gul’dan was not made by Blizzard, it was made by the visual design team at Legendary Pictures. So it is either owned by Legendary or by Universal Pictures who owns the distribution rights.
This only works if they get non-WoW streamers to play the game. The people that are already streaming WoW don’t increase visibility by promoting in-game items to people already aware of the game.
Put em there if it’s legal to do so, but keep the faction restrictions.
Sure, I don’t care. Just let people have them.
And the only promotional item I’ve ever heard of having a “legal issue” is the Horde trike, which I’m hoping expires next year when it turns 10-years old.
10 YEARS!!! 
Yeah dude. Time sneaks up on ya.
It was made with limited rights granted by Blizzard to use their intellectual property, though. Gul’dan, Warcraft, and that staff still entirely belong to them. Unless you can link some kind of statement as proof I am not going to be convinced that you are more qualified to know anything about this.
Which games are trending and being watched is visible for all of Twitch. Boosting WoW’s rating there increases its visibility for anybody using the app.
Chill mate, your pixels will be for everyone eventually.
Items like this obtained during events and such should remain that way.
I think things obtained during a season that were a challenge (whether easy or hard) should remain that way. Example: gladiator, KSM and AOTC mounts.
However, something that was just arbitrarily removed? Like the Brutosaur, 2007 Brewfast Ram, legendary cloak and ring from MoP/WoD? Or, things that were out-of-game promotions like the Flamesaber, Scrolls of Resurrection mounts, these weapons and TCG items?
Yeah those should come back in the TP.