By that, I mean, some people really return to cry about no longer obtainable things from challenges, which I personally don’t have ( mop, or wod ) and I’m okay with it never returning, because it would kill challange concept as whole in game, as people wouldn’t do this if they knew it would be back for free in few years. While challange concept as content is healthy and good for game to keep subs/ additional content, there are some people that will always cry because they want everything for no reason.
Here is solution to that, since you now release MOP, and it costs nothing to play it ( it’s enough to have retail/ sub) it’s perfect time and only fair solution to regain old challange stuff
1- Never delete version of games from now (mop+), always keep at least one server
2- Since it’s almost indentical as it previously was, with return of these challanges, after obtaining it in wow:MOP, make it being unlocked in retail too- possible to buy if you did that on wow:MOP.
This is only reasonable and acceptable thing to do and people who want it soo bad will have their way to obtain it any time, just require them to do the same challange as people previously had to obtain it. Everyone should be happy at this point.
well no one asked if you would do this or not, this is only fair option to regain old items which are locked though. If someone wants it so bad he will do this on their free time, both healthy for game subs and participation
Here is no fair way of adding these items back in retail, and would only piss of majority of players including me, even if I havent these items in first place, but for me challange concept would just die as a whole and I prefer games which don’t invalidate achievements of players
gimmick to boost classic stats is also good thing for game as whole, first of all people who are only interested in mop, will maybe come to retail later knowing their important achievements are semi linked to retail and more possible content = more subs running, so poeple bored with retail hoping on mop to get some stuff is also healthy for game
It’s not about expecting people to do a full expansion to unlock items in retail, it’s giving to people who want it so badly an fair option to unlock it and also gives motivation for only-classic andies to try out retail someday.
Only people who REALLY REALLY want it would do it and these who possibly ran out of content in retail, so they could keep sub to do things in mop if they wish, no one forces anyone to do anything, geez
Well to be honosted i would not mind being able to use my plagued proto drake would amani war bear or swift horde wolf that i got while playing classic.
My big motivation to play classic has been the opportunity to get the T7 proto drakes and finally with MoP coming soon i will able to do shocking in 25 men and getting the black proto drake.
These items are only obtainable if you go back and play a Classic is expecting people to go and have to do them.
That is why it’s a big no no.
However best of luck with your suggestion. I dont’ think there is much chance Blizzard will do this. Though they have been guilty of various make you play metrics in the past.
I previously thought only about challange concept etc, but even elite sets unlocking account wide seems fair because you have to do it literally same way, people were getting it back in the day - as long as only one server always stays open for each of game version.
And you wouldn’t do that for example, but people who missed out on old expansions and want some things, IF THEY WANT THEM SOO BAD, it’s only fair to force them to obtain them the same way other people were doing, very time consuming tbh, but game healthy for sure. I myself MAYBE would do this one day if retail will lack content again
Cheers for pointing out why they don’t really need to supply proper quality content on a regular interval. Control our FOMO => more quality content.
And if the FOMO is so strong that you end up doing content you really don’t want to do; talk to a mental health professional. That hole will otherwise only get deeper and deeper.
I don’t mind doing things in Retail for Retail. I do not want to be forced into an old version of the game that should be for people who enjoy Classic, the old skool gaming experience.
Not everyone is going to enjoy every activity but they are all in Retail itself.
Indeed and they are improving IMO. We saw them bring back previous rewards into the current iterations like Plunderstorm. You could still get all the previous rewards.
The SL end of season slime cat mount could be bought during the end of season event in DF.
Many would love to see the return of removed items. It would be so much better if they just stopped removing things.
That’s also not really what I said. I basically stated the opposite. If they add something to classic and people only do it because it gives a certain reward…then what the content is does not matter. So it can be pure crap. As long as we accept that, they have zero incentive to improve the quality of the content.
So, yes, stop the FOMO.
Also, ftr, I would like to see ZERO connection between Classic and Retail (other than the sub).
Oh no thanks! I love Classic for what it offers because I’m a big TBC fan, so I can’t wait to get back into TBC Classic again, but I don’t want to be forced into it to gain access to retail stuff.
