I will give you another example:
There is this mount in game a brutosaur i believe with an auction house on it.
When you could buy it it costed 5m gold.
I have seen several threads over the time demanding the mount returned to the game…
Most not all the people i read reactions about said i dont mind if they put it back as long as it costs 5m again like i they had to pay for it…
Because yeah human feelings are a real thing and seeing something in game changing to get it way easier then you got it can turn someone very sour…
Giving everything away for free and in this case the allied races is also not a good way to build a game…
Its like that mode in minecraft were you have everything endlessly and can just build whatever you want without putting the effort in of collecting the materials or fighting for your survival like you do in the standard gamemode there…
Please think of what you are supporting and defending. In a collectors game you put in effort to complete it all. And blizzard already makes things a lot easier to get after every expansion/patch and you want it even easier thats just lazy.
Since i played legion and bfa those requirements got passively achieved by just playing the game back then. I do not really see any reason to keep the same requirement. And i do not feel treated unfair when they would come available instant now for everyone.
And we are talking about a playable race here… not everything.
I know what were talking about and i also have said in several other comments which you can read back if you want “allied races”
But tell me this why does blizzard not give me the 5 rings of nihgahilmaht?
Why should i first level a character to 60 then get the gear to be powerful enough to survive the maw to then spend hours in the maw collecting the rings all a time waste if you ask me…
Same with the allied race were talking about why should someone level to level 30 then do the voldun quest line to then do the vulpera allied race quest line to unlock them? Also time consuming just like my mount example andca time waste why not give it all for free from the get go?
I do its the entire point of the game… its a collectors game and we collect stuff mounts,toys,gear,pets,allied races etc etc
if we get allied races or anything else just for nothing i can better go play another game entirely because that would change the entire purpose of what wow stood for and what we players did for the past 17 years ( if you played that long)
To me it is an adventure game that i play with friends. I am not a collector. I am not sure why people want to see a number go up on their mount-tab. And it also does not hurt me at all when someone else has more of whatever than i have.
If someone wants to play vulpera. Let him Nothing bad happens to me just because i actually got exalted in voldun (on at least 5 chars since that stuff happened passively anyway)
I tried to unlock Kul Titan a few weeks ago but let’s face it the unlock requirements are a joke when the content is old. Yes it’s easy to do the content if you are max level with gear but it’s far from fun. The quests seem to all be thrown at you with no sense and then you have to check through websites and achievements to see what tiny little thing you have missed that has caused a roadblock.
Death Knights used to be locked behind progress content - they are no longer. Allied races add variety to the game and to have them locked for new players (or old ones who do not want the useless grind) is just silly. Unlock them, make then start at level 1 like anyone else but only on the island so you do not need to make new starting zones or content.
First this comment. No it does not happen passively it happens because you put time in doing world quests and by completing them you got reputation with the voldunai.
which takes time to do… so you spend many hours playing a video game unlocking that races that was locked and now you can play them. and if all new players just play through the content once these days without the reputation grind the can also play them.
You know i do not know whats worse the lazy attitude of the new players/returning players… or the i dont care attitude of some of the current players.
How is it invalid if it serves a purpose? Lots of words and didn’t say anything worthwhile.
It gives you the story of your race, that other races get in their starting zone.
It is not a collector game. And if it has become one over the years it should rethink on what made it popular back then. I understand that nowadays solo play collecting stuff is something a lot of people enjoy but it shouldn’t be the main focus of the game.
You had your fun doing it back then because you did it when there were a lot of people around doing it too. You were playing a mmo. What you ask now is for new players to spend weeks alone in dead zones just so they can play the race they want. Most of them will get bored and probably leave. They will not have the same experience as you did back then.
Actually, they removed all reputation grind with Pre-patch Shadowlands.
I did that and didn’t like it back then either. Just because I and others had to suffer back then doesn’t mean that new and returning players should suffer now!
Nothing bad happens to me just because i actually got exalted in voldun (on at least 5 chars since that stuff happened passively anyway)
Could not have said it better myself 