Nostalgia

Every once in a while I want to say “Stop messin w/ my game!”  Just read about the Arcanite Ripper and how it will soon have a model change.  Granted, I agree that it’s a cooler looking model, but that’s hardly the point.  They introduced something cool to the game and now, a few months later, they’re just changing it.  Now just adjusting the model isn’t really that big of a deal, especially since they’re making it more unique and obvious.  But what I wonder is how often Bliz crosses the line of messing with WoW.

Most of the changes they try for, are to balance the game so that everyone is on an, essentially, equal footing.  And new content such as the Ripper are great for those of us who don’t want to spend 20hrs a week raiding (4 is cool, 20 is a bit much).  But other times, the changes seem pointless and even annoying.  I don’t have any real specific ones in mind of what I mean, but one that does come up for me is the Swift Brewfest Ram.  A year ago, Sthis and I worked hard to earn it.  We actually got up extra early before work so that we could get an extra run in so we’d have enough Brewfest Prize Tickets to get them.  We didn’t even have epic riding at that point!  But we knew it was rare, and so we put in the wrench time and earned it.

Fast forward to this past fall…  Now as long as you ran it often enough, you had a pretty decent shot at getting one – no tickets/tokens necessary.  So since it obviously still took work (or a hell of a lot of luck…), I am still kinda cool with it.  No longer as unique, but still something special.  But the thing that really kicks you?  The Yellow and Blue Brewfest Steins…  So why couldn’t they just make a new mount or something?  Of course, reason drops in and points out that all they had to do was repaint the stein, not build an entire new mount, but still.  Oh well, I guess.  At least the Brewfest Ram is only for those that earned it back then.  That kinda shows we earned it in a different way.  And we got the Great Brewfest Kodo too, lol.  Can you tell we like the Brewfest Holiday?

Point being though, is does Bliz cross the line?  When should something be a ‘Feat of Strength’ because you were there at that point in time and earned it, and when should they just give it to the next person?  Overall, I think they did it right with Brewfest.  Sure, it’s a little frustrating it’s not as unique, but still – we have the feat of strength from the different steins to show we were there, back in the day.  And in all honesty, it’s more a personal ‘dude, we did that!’.  Besides, how many Brewfest Mounts do they really need to haul the beer…  As long as they have enough of one, that’s good enough.  If they were short and the beer disappeared?  Yeah, I think we’d be mad then.