Actually, I just wanted to stay in bed today, sleep, and recover from this extremely annoying flu. However, since my boss is an absolute demon hater, he dragged me out of bed with the glorious sentence “No article, no cookies.” So here I am, and I could dedicate an entire complaining Wednesday to the glory of flu waves.
Oh well, Cortyn! Think of something nice. Something fun. How about balloons and great music? Like a fair…
And the Darkmoon returns monthly
Yes, yes. I know, I know. The Darkmoon Faire in World of Warcraft has already felt my wrath a few months ago. Back then it was about fiery circles, today it’s about two problems.
I secretly hoped that they had learned from the startup mess of “Firebird’s Challenge” where you could only achieve the coveted toy achievement by exploiting a bug or taking advantage of other players. Unfortunately, that is not the case. With the current patch, they introduced a new achievement for the minigame “Tonk Commander,” which is very, very hard to accomplish alone.
Instead of the usual 30 targets, you now have to hit 45 – this means you have about 1.5 seconds per target. The catch: You can hit other players’ targets. They are invisible, but your tank automatically targets them as soon as you get too close. Thanks, Blizzard! Finally back to waiting to ruin a few people’s days to get my toy!
Stretching content instead of delivering it
The new race at the fair is quite fun – the first three rounds. It feels a bit like Mario Kart. Just without opponents. And without items. After you finally secured the coveted achievement after an estimated 300 attempts (Yes, I collect these things!), you gleefully flip through the big achievement catalog and see: There are three more achievements for the race.
To achieve these, you would have to use different mounts than what is currently offered. But no worries! Blizzard has, of course, immediately clarified in a forum post: Every month there will now be a different mount for the racetrack. Slowly but surely, this is making me angry.
I can somewhat understand that quests and raid content want to be stretched out over several months – but now achievements too? Next, they probably want to introduce a single quest line over multiple patches that grants a single item as a reward – wait a minute…
And with these words, I’m back in bed. Wake me up when the fair is back. My collecting addiction will force me to accept that again.
