Bad design, but it's on something very minor. They need to learn from this mistake.
AKA - We don't plan on adding much holiday content now that we've "revamped" everything, so we need you to collect 1 disguise a year so we have something for you to do during Noblegarden for the next 6 years.This at minimum should be an account wide appearance, even if you can only collect 1 per year. It's dumb to have to remember which alt out of 60 has a toy.
Hovering over the duck appearances in the quest rewards window shows all of the appearances on all alts as 'Collected' which indicates that they are tagged as being collected account-wide and so should be useable account-wide. Bug report submitted, requested that this be fixed. If they're saying this is actually working as intended, then their intentions are broken. Fix it.
How they even thought it should be fine as it currently is is baffling. Like other comments said, have it be account-bound.
I often think devs are having more fun making the game than the players are having playing the game.
I did the quest on my Alliance druid. I only did all of the Noblegarden stuff to complete the Traveler's Log. When I got the egg and turned into a Mallard duck, I thought it was so cute and knew I would probably never do it again. Collecting the toys that won't be used is just not something I sweat over. If I have time, I might do the events, otherwise, most years Noblegarden just passes and I forget to even do it. Next year, unless it's on the Traveler's Log, I'll probably ignore it. I'm just not a collector.
This doesn't feel important enough for me to be mad about it, necessarily, but I can say confidently, objectively, and without emotion, that this was a completely idiotic decision."Holiday refresh": Same annual grind and droprate for the same or significantly lesser rewards, just in case a few duck skins is enough to keep subscriber numbers steady until The Last Titan in 2030.
It will only take 5 years to get all six colors, not 6 years. We get one of the 6 colors nowin one year we get the secondin two years we get the thirdin three years we get the forthin four years we get the fifthand in five years we get the sixth
This is good.. cheesing collections by having alts is lame.
Imagine thinking this is good games design.
Illidan had to wait 10000 years , 6 years ain't nothin
Remember when Blizz said they wanted to respect players time more? This strikes me as the opposite of that. You know, just a little bit.
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