Quote Originally Posted by Waryax View Post
Well this current change feels pretty bad for me as an earring collector.. I have all the earrings in the game up to this point but now that it's literally impossible to get them all (I won't even bother trying to get to top in feast, literally impossible) I won't be ever spending a dime on an SE product. Thanks Obama.
While I understand that this is most likely meant to be satirical, it bears mentioning that Minions, when they were first added to the game, had NO PURPOSE other than to be collectable. That's what they were for! And people DID collect them, and some were religious enough about it that they managed to collect ALL of them. And unlike mounts, if you were in ARR from the start it was possible to collect them all. By making some minions exclusive and limited Feast rewards, SE broke that. While, theoretically, SOME of the hardcore collectors could still do well enough in Feast to keep their collection complete, the majority of them could not.

Earrings were not originally intended to be collectable; they were equipment that you wore to boost your stats, and until the Glamour system was added to the game, even earrings that were clearly meant to be shown off (like the Bomb earring) had stats on them. While it's theoretically possible that a player might collect earrings, certainly the pool of individuals who have a complete collection would be MUCH smaller than those who collect minions - particularly since, as with mounts, if you weren't around in 1.0 (and collecting earrings even back then), your collection would not be complete. There's simply no room to compare them to minions.

It was a mistake, SE acknowledged that it was a mistake, and they are taking steps to correct it. That's pretty much all that needs to be said at this point.