It’s the same reason you can’t earn all the rewards from the trading post that you posted about in your other thread. They dangle the carrot in front of you to get nips of it and keep coming back. They don’t want you gobbling it all in one sitting.
i mean yeah but… like dang is it hard to try to gear every job on one character in FF14… let alone how its even harder due to rng in wow. Like if i dont win a roll in ff14 i can just rerun till i win a roll. but in wow if i go through ICC and raid lead doesn’t give me a loot, i can’t rerun ICC till next week with 0 progress on gear at all 
You’re not making zero progress though. In Retail you get Crests which can upgrade other gear and make crafted gear and in Classic you get badges.
Realistically all letting you farm infinitely would do would make people “finish” patches (especially classic) in a couple weeks and then no-one would want to do the content that you need to do. We already see this in Retail, where people finished with Zaralek Caverns in the first few weeks now any new alts or returning players basically can’t do any rares in the zone because no-one else wants to do them and they’re not soloable.
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oh yeah i’m one of those people T-T i can’t gear up alts at all because no one is doing the world content and normal dungeon ques take forever. I been more focused on ff14 over wow and now i’m being punished by exactly as you described. So now I feel like well, better just put almost all focus on ff14 and maybe i can actually enjoy the group content solo when the next expansion drop and i can just over power it solo.
No, because “FOMO” means “Fear of missing out” and happens to be a social pressure thing
Let’s say you have broken a leg, or is in a wheelchair, and a friend of yours is coming up to you and telling you for days, weeks, MONTHS! That you HAVE to come to a concert, or go on a cruise with them, or do literally anything you are physically unable to do so - and they just keep telling you that “It’ll be once of a lifetime”, “You’ll regret it if you miss out on it!”, “You can do it but you just don’t want to, c’mon live a little”, and so on
No, most of the things people claim on these forums to be “FOMO” aren’t even in the ballpark of the conversation of it being that
So you would rather have us rebrand fomo as “Limited Time edition” then? Cause tbh it feels like the same thing.
You can pretty comfortably make the argument that the Trading Post is FOMO simply because you’ve only got a month to get the rewards. Yeah, they (may) come back eventually but it could be ages before they do.
However, I would argue that most people terrified of missing out on cosmetic rewards are so terrified of letting a single apple drop off a tree, they’re ignoring the fact that there’s hundreds, if not thousands of apples still on the tree that they can get whenever they want.
Limited Time rewards are fine. They encourage people to play the game (especially when it’s in a slow period) and the Trading Post especially is a cool way of introducing stuff that is either not thematically relevant to the content that exists, or revisiting thematics that used to be relevant, like with the Blood Troll xmog for the August rewards, or the Nether Drake for July’s reward.
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I don’t care what you “feel” about in this regard, because no - this has literally NOTHING to do with FOMO
What you are talking about is akin to going “But I missed out on a sale”, or “I missed out on a concert” - there are more of them, arguing that a lack of selfcontrol is the same thing as (unintentionally usually) injuring people is one of the most stupid things I hear on these forums
Go and look up the terminology and actually read the articles about it
No, “limited time edition” is a business practice to drive up sales (which incidentally, this barely even gets close to in the first place; its more like a ‘reward’-program for staying ‘loyally subscribed’ (if you wanna go off on that then please do that)) - not to try to force people do something they are physically incapable of doing and pushing people to hurt themselves in order to do that
How much new currency are we getting in August? 1000? Or 1500? If it’s 1500, most people can prob get the 2 mounts and whatever they froze from last month at least.
I think a primary issue surrounding the post and how it could drive FOMO (when it’s really supposed to be doing the opposite) is the lack of transparency on which items will show up, and when they will show up.
I agree with those who think Trading Post communications need improvement. Waiting until the day before or the day of doesn’t help people plan.
No, you cannot
Look up what FOMO actually means - because this isn’t that, and you literally disproved yourself immediately afterwards:
FOMO refers to when someone is pressuring you to do something which you physically or mentally is unable to do, and as a direct result causes injury to a person through that
It is a social pressure and dynamic, you can literally cause “FOMO” by going “I am going to go to the café and I know you are poor and don’t have money to spend right now, but I am only going to go to this café that you can’t afford this one time this month” - of course I’m saying a lot of the quiet parts out loud in that example, but FOMO doesn’t have to do with the actual limited availability of something but the social pressure surrounding it
Again, I implore anyone and everyone to read up on what FOMO actually means considering how badly these forums misuse and abuse that term
Items are now circulating back, at least over the last couple of months. It’s a matter of when you’ll see them again, though you will see them again.
I do wonder what will happen If you missed the big ticket items from progressing the bar, will those be recycled back into the end of the bar rewards or will they be added to the Trading Post to buy as items at a later date?
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And just to explain the reason this misue of the terminology pisses me off like it does is because … criticize limited availability, criticize the trading post as the ‘loyal subscriber rewards’-program that it is … but don’t misappropriate language that turns you into an ableist which misusing FOMO like this does
Again, read up on what it actually is, what it means, and when people inadvertedly do it because it ain’t something people (at least usually) do intentionally
Alright since you dislike limited time and fomo. What adjective would you use to describe when a item that can only be obtained at this specific time and once said time is over, it will forever be unobtainable moving forward?
Its the same reason they used to limited WQ refresh to twice a week and not every day and honestly if they are brought back and there is currently evidence of this I don’t see the issue with a little patience. Also you know that if people could buy things every month the month that they already had everything you’d have complaints of “WHY IS BLIZZARD SO LAZY I ALWAYS HAVE ALL TRADING POST ITEMS!”
Also the freeze feature is pretty nice, can hold an item and buy it on a month where I’m not bothered with anything.
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when did they say that?
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… learn to read, it is limited time and availability - it just ain’t FOMO
Those two are EXTREMELY different from each other
The Trading post is on a rotating cycle of items that are new and previously unobtainable, it is limited availability but nothing about it is FOMO - stop misappropriating the term, that’s literally all I’m telling you
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Not trying to be rude here but i really can’t see the difference, if i’m afraid i’m going to miss out on an item because i have to choose from limited choices in a limited time frame, i’ll have to choose and when i choose im not going to be able to get the others at all. So i’m afraid i’mma lose it forever. so the term “fear of missing out” missing out on collecting all the collectibles seems legit in this mind frame.
That is the most limited definition of FOMO I’ve ever heard and I can’t find any definition that limits itself that strictly.
FOMO is basically what it says on the label. Fear of Missing Out. What are you missing out on? That can be literally anything. Experiences, physical objects, social prestige, whatever. Missing out on cosmetic rewards in video games is literally one of the examples used in the Wiki article for FOMO.
Hell, that’s entirely how the “Battle Pass” model of F2P games like Fortnite, Apex Legends or Overwatch operate.
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FOMO is just “Fear of missing out”.
If you are a collector, and love to collect things having an item being available for a limited amount of time with no way to get it again is in fact missing out especially if you know of other collectors. Its missing a opportunity to keep your collection up-to-date.
Also, people use Literally to mean Figuratively. Language has a way to change the meaning of words depending on how people use them. This isn’t that serious.
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