Before achievements were released, pets meant absolutely nothing for me. The only point in time when I actually started caring about pets is when pet battles got released (although maybe the reason was because the actual gameplay was worse then).
I see people trying to sell pets in Trade channel all the time and I just ask myself “why?”. Why would I see a useless NPC that does nothing but run after me and annoy me as a status symbol? Is it pretty? Does it buff me? Does it help me in battle? Does it have any interactions? Does it do anything at all?
No, no, no, no, and no. On top of that, it takes a slot in my bags.
Believe it or not but people collect pets before Achievements. There are people who do things in game including collecting pets for having fun without needing an a.chievement point reward or being something “usefull”. If i having fun doing it then is usefull because at the end the ultimate purpose of playing a game is not having good gear or killing bosses, is to have fun. I bought myself the ozzling pet for 5k back in TBC
Why would you waste your time for something that has no implications, at least no positive ones?
Why?
I can accept doing things for fun and collecting pets after Achievements and Pet Battles, but before that - you’re just being illogical. It would make more sense to use that time to go out IRL than farming a useless, annoying bag slot filler.
As for the argument that they’re rare: they can drop from the first kill, so they’re not rare. If you win 1 million from the lottery, do you instantly become a celebrity or were you just lucky? It’s the same with “rare” pets.
If something doesn’t require a substantial amount of unavoidable effort and progress, like leveling 300 tailoring, getting the Truefaith robe pattern and creating the robe, then it doesn’t matter. I couldn’t care less if the person next to me has a crimson whelp or an oozeling or a parrot or whatever - they all mean absolutely nothing, both for his status and for his dedication.
The oozeling gives a nice green taint to your character. People like cool and somewhat unique things. And some people just are collectors and want to have every mount, pet, recipe etc. they can.
Are you saying Hyacint Macaw is more common to have than the Truefaith robe recipe? lol.
You mean a sickly green tint that not only makes your char look bad in any gear but also reduces your stats.
Except for recipes, which are all stored in your profession, why would you do that before the Pets/Mounts tab is released? You are intentionally gimping yourself, cutting bag slots, wasting time and money for something that can only be considered a drawback.
I don’t know and I don’t care because it’s a pet and pets are useless until Achievements / Pet Battles. Either way, it would take a slot in my bags for nothing.
As I said, some people like to collect things. You’re not a collector, I get it and it’s fine. I’m not a collector either.
It’s also a status symbol as people in this thread already said: “look he’s got one of the rarest and most expensive things in game. Cool”.
Not everyone cares about min maxing their bag space lol, why is this so hard for you to grasp onto? Instead of this unique thing only few other people have I could carry 5 more potions with me.
I already say you why: Fun. Back in TBC i enjoyed to collect pets and have all the pets available i game at that time. That one was 5k, others 1k, others less. I did it for fun, if is fun I do not care if there is something that it is more “optimal” or “better ways” to spend time.
I also used to collect old tier sets before there was any kind of transmog. I do not need achievements to force me to collect thing. I do it because I enjoy being a collector.
You will think is rare but I were not the only one who collected pets without any achievement who force me to did it. The site warcraftpets predates WOTLK.
I am - I scan the AH every day for recipes I don’t know. I just see no reason to collect things that not only do nothing but also take bag space.
If it was a status symbol, random people wouldn’t be able to randomly get it and randomly sell it, only for other random people who randomly bought it for cheap to randomly claim it as a status symbol. Again - winning the lottery is not a status symbol. Farming it up is not a status symbol, unless you’re after the title “So Bored That Preferred to Waste Sub Time Farming a Vanity Item That Takes Bag Slots”.
Give me an Achievements tab and a Pets/Mounts tab and I will agree. Otherwise - no.
The fact that you did it does not make it normal. Again - wasting sub time collecting stuff in WoW before Achievements, Companions tab, Pet Battles is just nonsense. No one cares, there is no fun in having your bank full with items you’re not gonna use, and with 100% certainty I can tell you that it’s not a status symbol, except for a minority of illogical individuals.
The only good thing about pets in vanilla is that they allow me to make easy money from the likes of you.
The Achievements tab gives me an in-game list of the things I collect and rewards me for it with points, more things and/or titles. It promotes collecting and it gives me a way to actually show and compare my effort & investment with others. Before anyone starts - the fact that it was mis-used by the community as a content gating mechanic is completely irrelevant to the topic.
The Collectibles tab removes the main drawback of collecting before it was introduced - the fact that the only end result for the player is “less bag space”.
People are different mkay? You don’t have to care, but there’s surely a market for pets, especially for this most-rare bird. It also makes a great companion for aspiring Bloodsail Admirals!
But yea I can’t see anyone spending few hundred on it now. Even the hardcore only hit 60 in 2 weeks, then they need an epic mount, they may want to invest in BoEs and consumables… Someone said a smart thing to me - wait for post-BWL “content drought”. This is when (richer) people really start chasing “achievements”.
Just because is not fun for you does not means it could not be fun for other people. Not everyone share the same opinion of what is fun. And being “normal”, if we call normal what mos people do then it was not normal, in fact was ver minority of collectors back them. But maybe you should understand that not eveyone care of what most people do
Should’ve expected this troll reply sooner or later, I guess…
Anyway, I’m done here. Nimerul explained it well enough. As with gankers, the most logical way to deal with collectors is to ignore them and/or make use of them.
So tell me if you only collect thing in a game because there is an achievement list to tell you to do it how did you play old games created before achievements? I remember old games like shenmue or zelda wind waker with a list of ingame toys to collect. A waste of time in your opinion to collect those because the game dont tell you do it with achievemtens
Someone driving an expensive Ferrari is driving a status symbol. No matter how he got the money to buy it. Even if every random person can win the lottery, does not make it less of a status symbol. It states that you have the money to afford a ferrari.
I would say someone who buys tickets and won the lottery has done more effort to it than someone born in wealth and driving the same Ferrari from their parents money.
Same if I would find a Rolex watch on the street and wear it proudly, it’s a status symbol. Does it actually adds anything to me as person, is it any more use in checking the time than a 10 euro watch? Probably not, but it’s a status symbol nonetheless even if it cost me nothing.
Same with the rarest pet in WoW. If you have it, and everyone knows it’s worth a ton load of gold, that makes it a status symbol. Either: I am wealthy enough to not have to sell this pet I found and use it myself, or I am wealthy enough to have bought this pet.
It can be a form of status you don’t care about (like myself) but that does not make it non true.