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Breakfast Topic: The things you regret losing
Every once in a while an item will get removed from the loot tables, or an achievement will turn into a feat of strength. The most recent example would be the vanity items from the patch 5.3 event, as well as the Darkspear Revolutionary and Hordebreaker titles. Maybe you couldn't log in at the time, or maybe you didn't bother farming the 500 Kor'kron Stone for a Whole Body Shrinka and now you regret not having one (sorry to let you know, but it's awesome). Maybe you deleted another toy item long ago to make room for bag space without thinking Blizzard would ever come up with a storage solution for toys. My worst offender in this case is the hydra hunter pet, Spirit of Atha, which I did have tamed before they removed the ability to do so. In my infinite short-sightedness, I abandoned it to make room for a spirit beast (we only had 4 stable slots back then). I still hope Blizzard will make the hydra family of pets tameable again some day because every time I see one (which is exceedingly rare) I am insanely jealous. Then there was that mail gear from the pre-Wrath launch event which I probably vendored for bag space. Who could have foresaw transmogrification back then? Ever since these incidents I've become a WoW hoarder and don't want to delete anything. The Warlords inventory improvements can't come soon enough. What did you delete or procrastinate on that you can no longer get back?
Leaderboard: New hotness vs. old and trusted
There's always something awesome just over the horizon. MMOs are coming out all the time, and it seems like it's only a couple of months before one new title or another is launched. It almost seems silly to stick around in a single game when there are so many titles already out there and so many more due out soon after. Why not live a little and see everything that the online gaming space has to offer? But there's always new stuff coming out for existing games, and that might be even more satisfying. There's something comforting about having all sorts of high-level perks to fall back upon in your game of choice, things you can't accomplish unless you stick with the game for a few years and learn its nuances. Truly embedding yourself in a game is a wonderful feeling, and it means that you always have a home to come back to (unless you get stuck with a shutdown notice, but that's another topic). Absolutely none of us is immune to the siren call of a new game or the familiarity of an older one, but that's not the point. Given the option, do you generally look forward to the next title? Or do you find a game, settle in, and stick with it as long as it's operational?
