Im sorry but I have no respect for what anyone else is wearing/riding. I simply do not care.
I hate FOMO, I make characters in a style I like - cba where they come from.
I collect things cause of old habit + getting pieces I like here and there.
Let people get whatever, imo.
I play content for the content I enjoy, not the appearances, it’s purely annoying when an appearance is locked behind something dumb-hard (In My Opinion; I know others disagree.)
Mounts got diluted by too many recolours, low quality reskins and with the highest effort mounts being on the store, so mounts are no longer a representation of any effort or achievement in game, no longer tied to shared experiences but a representation of your investment to the shop.
The actual achievement mounts are often so lacking that nobody wants to mount them, so they have no impact. It’s not that mounts are no longer rewards, but that the mounts associated are not considered valuable or desirable.
Shows you have both for Noblegarden for me
Meant toys, shows mount basket thing missing but ingame i got it 
Oh my bad!
20 years ago maybe when everything was new and seeing a Qiraji Scarab meant a lot about the player riding it. Nowadays, nobody cares what you ride/wear, except the few new players that are impressed by a non common transmog/mount, for most of us it’s either “good job dude looks nice” or “how much did you pay for your boost?”.
I’ll never understand this wish from certain people to gate tmog/mount because of a skill wall. The only image I can think of is of a kid taunting another because he got something than the other doesn’t, that’s to say the least pathetic.
There are still some long grind for some mounts and tmog available in the game, if that’s what make you play then go for it.
Because asking a designer to spend weeks on a mount to only see it being gated to 1% of the player base is not a waste of time?
Even this is like 50 levels above, than let them create 500th mount for someone collection, the mount which they NEVER gonna ride, the mount which they even forgot they have… the mount which have 0 value in any aspect beside sliding your achivment colleciton for +1
If they put some gate to get stuff at least journey/quest/efford than those rewerd means something.
Next event: Woltk remix Vendor: Invincible - Time lost proto drake - Mimiron head
People that were farming it for years and got it : Am i a joke to you?
All I’m reading is another elitist special snowflake that wants the game to be like it was in older versions of WoW.
If it really hurts your feelings what people should get and not get I suggest heading over to WoW Classic.
Classic is not true vanilla its tunned version of nerfed even, thunderfury to anyone !!! yeah, in the end retail is all what matter, its not up to you to redirect people…
PS. Vanilla, TBC, WOTLK builded WoW, attracted people, what happen after that? Blizzard increasingly started to obey people with stance “hand as the loot” and lost millions. Do I really need to remind you that WoW is in downspiral, because game become unicorn land?
It depends how skillfull do you need to be in order to get the award.
I rather have a reward like a mount for something that is in the higher but moderate skill but it needs to be fun and cool to do.
If it is too hard and you need a colege degree like glad mount or mythic last boss then no thanks.
Mage tower difficulty is the perfect exemple of a cool thing in the game with a nice skill cap to get, not too high , not too low either.
Even though I’m a collector, I tend to agree with the OP. When we see that they are going to add 32 mounts for the Pandamonkum event, that’s like circus rewards…
But I think that we should add more rewards on feats and dedication, like Taïvan, than rewards linked to skill.
Another doomsayer putting his own opinion down as a fact why wow is supposedly dying. If we believe people like you, who make threads for trivial things, wow has been dying since they announced TBC back in vanilla.
Do I really need to remind you that wow has been doing infinitely better since DF and actually brought back players?
A bit more on topic: more mounts mean a bigger collection and more choice to pick from. Plus you’re looking way way too deep into the issue about recolors. I know MoP remix is going big on recolor mounts but DF gave us a lot of unique mount models. Shadowlands, for all it’s faults, did so more than any expansion that came before.
Sure a bit of recolors here and there were added but to me it just means freedom to choose from what color I like best, same with T1/T2/T3 transmog recolors they added over the years.
Tl:Dr version: op is blowing this way out of proportion and is trying to highroad his argument with “dev time should be better spent on x/y” like he’s a dev.
Your opinion is not a fact.
I do agree that the game has so many cosmetics as rewards that the impact they make has been diminished.
Its hard to get excited for mount recolour 27.
However i dont see how making it so only top end players get anything good would be an improvement.
Sure the top end players would be laughing. But the rest of us?
And even if you did lose cosmetics as rewards, what would be the alternative carrot to chase?
i was waitin for your switch from “mog and mount for all is bad” to “wow is dyin cuz the unicorn rules”.
I guess you are unsubbing, yes? There are a lot of games where to prove your strong skill and have a challenge.
This is to keep you subscribed
They’re ancient, wouldn’t care.
I sincerely hope these “Remixes” become a mainstay prior to each new expansion’s release for people to get what they missed in a prety old expansion along with past Remixes so they can focus their collecting elsewhere instead of being so overwhelmed with 2 decades of content with low drop rates.
This is one reason why WoW is dying, just look at your people stance toward gaming its catastrophic… its like “Anyone must have anything”… “Gief us rewards” , “more loot now”… it is unicorn , look the lore of WoW even, from grimm lore into raindbow and unicorn, “we are the family right?” Disney stuff into WoW ? more colorfull loot?
Overwhelming distribution of loot/mounts/toys/mog destroys people reason to play, game in which you are hero who walk on azeroth in which anything is suposed to die in wrath of your left click so you can be rewarded its game not worth people time.
Quantity =/= quality… carrot on stick is also mounts which have some degree skill wall, some kind of journey, efford, which are rarer in number but means something when you get them.
Because hard challenges should be rewarding? Why spend countless hours trying to acheive something if it doesnt reward you with anything cool?
Good point… What he want is like being jelly on his boss why he drive ferrari and date hot girls, while he dont… but he cannot accept fact that his boss maybe working better deals than him, puting more efford in stuff he ignores.
He want to be equal in rewards, but not wish to put same efford this is bottom line, and he is jelly enough to proclaim anyone fault if he cannot get something.