On the whole "Retired Mounts" and entitlement, I'm in two fames of mind.
There are some things like PVP Season mounts, that have always been seasonal, and once that season is over, are no longer obtainable. One could complain about it, but few people do due to it always being that way, and it's attached to a particular time/date/year. For me, that’s fine,
The main problem with some other retired mounts is the variation and confliction in which some of them have been retired.
Some examples would be the Nax achievement mounts. When these mounts were introduced into the game there was no talk of removing the opportunity to gain them at a later date. They then decided to make them unobtainable after a certain time giving players a few months to try and finish of the metas required. They then introduced new mount achievements with the next tier of raiding content in Ulduar. This time however they chose not to remove the ability to obtain these mounts at a later date, yet the Nax mounts still kept the original unobtainability.
This was confusing and then prompted inequitably among players and raiders that got their drakes while the content was relevant and others that did not. They then did this again with Trail of the Crusader, they removed the ability to obtain the mounts from that raid, but then in ICC the Meta Mounts are still obtainable in that one.
This is not a new thing to happen wow, it started back in vanilla with the Black Qiraji Battle Tank. A mount so rare that only those whom rang the gong the for the 1st time, once per sever (or within a few hours after) were able to gain it. It should have stopped there but WOW did not know how big of an impact that would make regarding retired mounts. Then there was the 1st brewfest where you could purchase your mounts with currency, and then they changed them to a loot drop system. They removed the non-epic version of the ram in the process, essentially removing the ability to obtain this mount. The Armani Bear, etc.
After the removal of the 1st RAF mount, and everyone after it’s a safe bet that the next one could and should be removed with the introduction of the next. It’s always been that way so it’s hard to call fowl if it is removed. If they add the ability to earn these back via another means that’s great imo. If they want to add that’s ok, but it’s when they take that it becomes an issue.
Wow should never add mounts only to remove them at a later date unless stipulated upon introduction. (imo they should never remove any mount all together to save these headaches) When they create double standards for the similar achievements or situations, it’s confusing and unnecessary.
Hopefully now with the ability to scale down gear in instances, if they want to keep mounts that require a relevant skill set/item lvl to obtain, they can add an option to zone in under “Classic or Original” Mode and then problems of removal during to out gearing will be a problem of the past.
Anyways, that’s my novel done for the day
Not that i deny others special things but I think I'd be abit dissapointed if they did that.
