Removal of achievements and rewards with cata

Is there really any point to this? I know this is how it was back in the day but what are we actually gaining from this?

Personally I feel frustrated because I’m stilling missing the ZG raptor, been very unlucky with it. Also figured I’d have the chance to do the TOGC HC25m immortal achievement during ICC when everyone’s geared out of their minds but unfortunately life intervened and I haven’t had the chance to play much in the last content patch thus unless I find a good group in these last few weeks I’ll end up missing that for a 2nd time around as well…

It leaves me with a very sour taste in my mouth at the end of what was supposed to be a satisfying and a “proper” redo of an expansion I didn’t play properly the first time.

So again, I ask why does this need to happen? It seems the same mistakes are being made in this way.

I had hoped they learned when they changed the rules for black proto drake & immortal nax, they also left onyxia 40man in the game. All this was received with positivity from the community. Disappointing they’re not keeping that streak of good decisions going.
Am I alone in thinking this?

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Don’t worry, after Crapaclysm dies they will need to launch TBC and Wrath era servers, there we can complete everything :wink:

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I’ve had good memories from every expansion up until SL, so Cata is still gonna be fun for me I believe, just makes me so sad they have to keep these “FOMO” things in the game, somehow there’s just never enough time, things happen, etc…

If those mounts are so important to you why didn’t you invested time, effort and maybe gold into getting it? If they are just +1 mount to your collection just move on and take what your free time allows you to in a MMORPG.

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Gold doesn’t buy you RNG, and like I said, the TOGC achievement life intervened, got the other ones :slight_smile: I don’t expect some people that sit behind their pc 24/7 to understand. But the game should not ONLY cater to them by having time limited rewards.

There is no logic that is in favor of consumers anyway, not one I can think of. It’s just a classic fear of missing out psychology manipulation “don’t unsubscribe/quit or you’ll miss out on this forever!” strat. I don’t understand why consumers like yourself support companies resorting to this since the adverse health effects of this behaviour have been proven time and time again.

Didn’t even unsub btw, just couldn’t play for a while anymore :frowning:

The reason TOGC “Immortal” reward (along with tribute system of tries and chest after Anubarak) was cut to make it matter the effort put. Naxx 25ppl bosses were easy, that’s why you have access to them further in Cata, however killing without single death was a no braider in Cata, so the title Immortal was cut because if that. In TOGC the chest loot (including the steed) is the confirmation of the effort made, while the rest of the items could be acquired even if you wiped 50 times in Heroic.

Even if you know the tactics and didn’t dies yourself the main problem is finding team who are like you and interest them in helping you. Usually that is made via gold.

Our guild has done the achievement, but we are not going for anymore.

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No need to cry about Cata on every single post to ever exist bro. Is not going to change the fact that Cata is coming.

There’s so many pservers running wotlk, go there and enjoy doing the same content over and over again, let others enjoy next expansions.

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just report him for trolling, that bs just cant be serios

seeing how many people sell this title \ seeing that wrath now is no mystery and farmed easily, honestly removing it now makes no sense as its not that hard anymore as it was originally and ppl just gold buy it aswell like crazy

you dont need 24/7 to farm mounts.
zg can be solod in wotlk and both mount bosses can be cleaned up within 20 mins or so depending on the gear.

just sounds like you don’t want to put in the time to earn high prestige awards

You can put all the “effort” you want, but if you are unlucky you will never get it, I have seen people farming LK for 10 YEARS for the mount in retail.

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‘seen people’ by this you mean you’ve read stories, not that this is something that actually happened? that is basically a mathmatical impossibility

Go tell my brother. 10 years for invicible, 5 years for both bindings for TF

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maybe your brother is lying. or maybe he just forgot to change the difficulty.

We still living togheter, and for the first 3 year we farmed LK toghether because he could not solo it at lv90.

How about people who installed game now, are they not allowed to enjoy older versions of game? An L take from you.

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So if I install the game final hour before next xpack I should get all the rewards of current expansion automatically to “enjoy” the game?

No but it would make sense that they could go back to old content and collect/complete collections instead of just unsubbing when they’re done with the new/current content. It’ll keep the game more alive during slower periods.

But no, sorry, it’s gone. Because “prestige” of a 10+ year old raid.

???
Want prestige? Play retail mythic, they can keep the fomo there. In classic it makes sense we just take it chill and collect stuff at our pace. Classic is full of dad gamers to begin with anyway…

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I understand lack of time and all that, many of us dont have the time they had during original wrath. I also get that these things dont carry the same weight as original release. Stuff like The Immortal, The Undying et al are several orders easier than 2009 because average classic player is way better…still, come on man, whats the point in farming the title when its meaning has gone if it isn’t current content (…arguably even within the tier itself as you outgear these raids so easy in wrath). You gotta let it go buddy thats all im getting at…either it means something or it doesn’t, you say in the same breath it holds no value second time around but then mourn the chance to still get it?

Why does it mean any less to people that have earned it that it stays in the game for people to get it later? You can still show the date on your achievement if you want to show off.
It’s seems more that people get off on others not being able to have their fun the 2nd time around. It’s not about the achievement, it’s about collecting. And honestly we had it their way the first time around. Why not do it differently now?

How about they let go of the fact that this is an achievement from 2009 and there is no prestige anymore. If your fun literally comes off depriving someone else of getting something over 10 years after the fact it’s time to get your head checked. No offense.
What’s the point in farming the title? So then they should remove light of dawn, bane, etc too. Maybe they should remove those 2 months after the raid releases or it’s not “prestigious” enough. C’mon now…
Don’t play coy either, if they gave a mount for something as silly as killing Hogger for a limited amount of time and you missed it as a completionist and collector, you wouldn’t mourn it because it was easy to get?
I’m not sure why some of you are so eager to swallow what Blizzard shoves down your throat and it’s weird to me that these guys are only on the forum. Literally everyone on the server talking about this agree that it’s stupid this is going away. Especially with the prepatch announcement and release being so close to each other.