Yeah no theres a reason they remove them so they can be unique and rare…
Nice try there, CupCake,
But I am not demanding anything. My position has, and will always be adding back unobtainable items, even all of the ones that I have, back to the game would not diminish my years of enjoyment that I have already been receiving from them. Add them back today. Heck, just put stuff in everyone’s mail box and I still would enjoy the things I have already had for years, even if everyone else got them mailed to them for free.
My enjoyment has not, nor will it ever be diminished even if every single other player instantly gets what I already have.
Nice try there, SugerPlum,
I didn’t say you were.
Nothing. Unobtainable items have always been a thing in MMOs
exactly, they are clones and, like you said, know it… and they cannot be called one from the original year.
if they offered whatever mount in a different color or something… fine. but why rob the owners of the “classic cars” the nostalgia they deserve for getting the rare/promo/whatever items?
it’s mage tower all over again.
My guess is you are wrong! Thanks for giving it a go however.
this requires the majority of people you’re speaking towards to agree with you lmfao.
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To you maybe. Not to others. And monetary value is only one kind of value. My friend wouldn’t sell that car for any amount of money.
Seriously, I guess its one way to tell when someone is way too deep into a video game.
Perhaps some of the super angered posters in this thread plan to tell everyone on their deathbed,
“I may have not done anything with my life, but god dangit, I got the hand of adal title… just knowing nobody else will ever have it… I think life was worthwhile”
And then your nonexistent grandchildren can ask what a world of warcraft is because the game has been shut down for at least 30 years.
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Obsessing about it the other way carries many of the same implications. I won’t tell you how to make your MMO.
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I’m just going to throw out a little anecdote.
During the Darkspear Rebellion, there was a reward you could get called Griftah’s Authentic Troll Shoes. This was a unique model because it wasn’t a model at all. It was the only way to have a barefoot transmog.
As someone who played a feral, berserker Worgen at the time, this was a must have. I understood this would only be available during the event, and did what I had to do in that time to get them.
Then in Legion they returned it, and some of the toys, to a vendor you could access only during the Assault the Broken Shore scenario. Years later, it’s now just a default toggle anyone can use.
No one else can tell I’m using these boots unless they hover over the mog - and then there’s no way to tell when I got them. Except me.
It was that moment I stopped looking at exclusives as things that will never come back, but things that have a giant ? next to them. It means that I won’t be able to get them after the event for an immeasurable amount of time. That could indeed be forever, but it could also be a few years. I can’t be mad either way because I don’t actually own these things, and I definitely don’t own Blizzard.
Worry less about things coming back or going away (and I direct this to both sides of the debate), and focus on what you can get now.
I don’t obsess about it, everything I want I either have or is still obtainable, I just think the entire idea of digital items being exclusive is stupid, and I think people who are on favor of such exclusivity get some kind of sick pleasure out of seeing other people’s disappointment when they find they can’t get something.
But if a neighbor purchased another car of the same year, make, model, and color as your friend’s car and also restored it to equal quality, would that affect your friend’s ability to enjoy his own car in any way?
Yeah. He loves how exclusive it is. That’s part of the draw.
Surely you understand that, so why do you refuse to acknowledge it? The exclusivity is part of its value. You don’t value exclusivity, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a factor.
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I honestly never have, except when the exclusivity (rarity is more accurate since we’re talking about a real world item) increases the market value of an item, and I doubt I ever will understand it. Even when I was a kid I never cared if someone had the same shoes, clothes, toys, or games as me, and in many cases it actually made me happy to see someone else with the same things I had.
The rarist thing I had as a kid was a Pokémon TCG base set Charizard card I got lucky enough to pull from a pack I got at Target one day, and I loved it (still have it tucked away). I didn’t love it because of it’s rarity though, I loved it because Charizard was my favorite Pokémon, and if one of my friends had pulled one too I would have been happy for them as well. The only disappointment I’ve ever felt regarding it was when I discovered the price difference between my Charizard and a first edition Charizard, otherwise I don’t care that other people have the same card and I’m happy that it’s been reprinted a few times over the years.
That’s one form of value. Exclusivity is another. People take pride in being different from other people. Having different things, etc. Sentimental is another. There are many types of value.
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