At the beginning when I heard this news I was a bit sad, I really wanted an Olive Raptor :D
But the reason they gave is totally right: you would have a pretty large group of people rushing to 60 just for that reason, and that would have had an impact on the server as a whole
I guess I don't understand how an attractive goal like particular mounts at the end means you are forced to rush and that's enough of a reason to remove something. To me there's lots of shit I'm super excited for at level 60. It IS motivating me to want to level faster and it would royally suck if they were removed because of it. Maybe I'm not understanding something fundamental here.
"We didn't want to make players feel like they had to rush" is going to be the "Extra deckslots are confusing to new players" of this game.
It's totally silly but typical for today's out of touch game developers. There are many more advantages to leveling quickly to 60 and obtaining an early mount, but the graphical representation is the most tangible thing so that's what gets targetted.
"We didn't want to make players feel like they had to rush" is going to be the "Extra deckslots are confusing to new players" of this game.
It's totally silly but typical for today's out of touch game developers. There are many more advantages to leveling quickly to 60 and obtaining an early mount, but the graphical representation is the most tangible thing so that's what gets targetted.
I don't think your comparison is fair. This is purely cosmetic, and serves absolutely no gameplay purpose other than to rush players to 60 if you want a uniquely colored mount. If you need a unique mount to incentivize your drive for the 100% mount then I think it's absolutely perfect they removed it. Retail is full of achievement mounts and detract from the sense of the game itself, and contribute to the "look at muh badges" mentality. I thought all of the Classic crowd would agree these sort of 'rewards' is not what Classic is about. They don't remove Thunderfury after 2 months either.
Sure, they could keep them in together with the armored mounts, and just not take them out ever. That could be fine, too.