CM Reward Design: Pure Cringe, Zero Transparency

WoW Classic Mists of Pandaria Classic Discussion
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We’re literally two weeks away from the end of the season and we still have zero official information.
No blue post, no confirmed requirements, no clarification - just nothing. Blizzard first announced that for the mount and title you will need to maintain “one realm-best time”. Then, they said you will need need 9/9 realm-best level times. Announcing something like this at the very end of the season instead of the months earlier is bad design.
We still don’t have official timers!

And here’s the real PATOLOGY:
Players are expected to dig through random Discord server to figure out how an official Blizzard mount will be obtained. No communication, no transparency. It’s genuinely embarrassing.

And what about the discord?
It’s an echo chamber of completely detached elitist. A tiny circle where a single Blizzard Dev casually hangs out with some 5 top US players the entire system was clearly built around.
These guys are literally posting videos of themselves abusing specific CMs to force impossible times (like warlock teleporting under the textures and stuff like this). Nobody does nothing about this.
No bans, no fixes, no statements, no action.

The whole setup is basically designed around a microscopic group of players - maybe 10 people around the world - and the rest of us are expected to act like this is some grand fair of the skill.

This is not an exclusivity.
It’s a clown show.

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Worst part is, they’re basically saying that kind of “clever use of game mechanics” is the endorsed way of playing these challenge modes.

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Maybe this is just hopium but I think they went back on that.. I assume now you will just need even faster than platinum time (this text was after the “realm first time” announcement).

"Completing Challenge Modes doesn’t just come with prestige and rewards; achievements, Platinum Coins, and the chance to be the realm’s best are at stake! At the end of the season, players who achieve an exceptionally fast time will be granted the following rewards (the time required for each dungeon will be communicated soon):

** Season 1*

    • Title: The Mistwalker*
    • Mount: Reins of the Celestial Tiger*
      ** Season 2*
    • Title: Mistborne*
    • Mount: Reins of the Celestial Serpent*
      ** Season 3*
    • Title: Heir to the Mist*
    • Details about other rewards for Season 3 to come at a later date."*
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The rumors are it’s going to be like the PvP bracket, an unknown cutoff time.

However, it still appears like official endorsement of teleporting underneath the terrain to pull the entire dungeons and trigger the RP events etc.

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The community will be rightfully salty and would demand constant checking of realm records by real GMs and bans of exploits. This would lead to overload of understaffed support and acquisitions of incompetence of automated systems that passes through game exploitations. Bluzzard would probably give up ans leave out something minor like a title for server record and just add these exclusive mounts to platinum vendor but for a ridiculous price like 1000 or something like that.

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It’s all “AI” crap now no one with an ounce of intellect employed anymore.