White Raven earring given out at The Rising event 2018

[Kaurhz]

So nothing should have any intrinsic value then? Nothing should have any kind of scarcity or value that creates some kind of inherent desire for people to obtain?

Imagine you just spent 3 months progging UWU for 14 hours a day for 7 days every week. You finally clear and a week later Yoshi turns around and says "actually we're giving everyone a free UWU title and every weapon." Would you be annoyed or would you just shrug and go "at least I get to tell people about how I watched the same fight over and over". You'd be annoyed, wouldn't you? And don't even try to say you wouldn't. t's human nature to want to have something rare. If they just gave out something you put effort into to other people for absolutely nothing you'd feel a little cheated and a bit silly, right?

It's not just a matter of it being a silly item in a silly game. I'm not a not a 1.0 player nor do I speak for them, but if I were to put in some effort to complete a difficult end-game fight for a rare reward which was promised to remain exclusive only for them to turn around a few years later and say "actually nah", then that'd feel like a bit of a slap in the face wouldn't it? That tells me as a customer that I shouldn't invest money in you if you're just going to devalue me if you think you can get away with it.

People need to stop comparing this to UWU or frankly any current content, given that there is no guarantee that UWU will remain rare, especially when you factor in that some level of unsync could be introduced in the following expansion, so they will then be relatively common, particularly granted that the new expansion is likely to have changes made that won't balance level 70 particularly well (Possible, not guaranteed). So in this case comparing a sidequest item in 1.x is fundamentally wrong. Not to mention it is an item worth commemorating.

[Yoruichi4478]

People need to stop comparing this to UWU or frankly any current content, given that there is no guarantee that UWU will remain rare, especially when you factor in that some level of unsync could be introduced in the following expansion, so they will then be relatively common, particularly granted that the new expansion is likely to have changes made that won't balance level 70 particularly well (Possible, not guaranteed). So in this case comparing a sidequest item in 1.x is fundamentally wrong. Not to mention it is an item worth commemorating.

People are comparing this to UWU because the 1.0 fight was 1.0's Ultimate raid. It was the hardest fight in the game that the servers at the time could handle. Not everyone could clear it. Only a fraction of us did. Just like the 2 ultimate fights in the game right now. Only a portion of the gaming community has cleared them.

[Kaurhz]

People are comparing this to UWU because the 1.0 fight was 1.0's Ultimate raid. It was the hardest fight in the game that the servers at the time could handle. Not everyone could clear it. Only a fraction of us did. Just like the 2 ultimate fights in the game right now. Only a portion of the gaming community has cleared them.

Yes 1 fight is also long gone and doesn't exist, meanwhile Ultimate everyone has the opportunity to aim for it, including players that may not clear it, so it is a fundamentally poor comparison. That is the point I was making, about the only realistic comparison you can draw with the 1.x is with PvP, rewards that are exclusive to rankings. Even then trying to make a stretchy argument that they would give those away is just absurd, particularly granted how commemorative the earrings are to both the game and the players when compared with PvP.

Not to mention that the glory and the achievement of completing that fight has long passed. Granted to some players they hold a special value. But others, just a poor excuse to make complaints over a promise not being kept that was made 6 years ago.

Again, you people should be happy they're, and we are commemorating an encounter, or quest series that you people participated in and completed.