Changes Made To Realm First Achievements
Amatera
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I've never earned a server first achievement. I haven't even ever come close enough to taste it. Some would argue that trying to obtain them, for most people, is a fruitless venture; that they're the domain of a realm's absolute top guilds. And fundamentally they'd be right.
We are all careful observers of the world around us. We don't need online, 3rd party ranking sites telling us whose the best, because we interact with them all the time. Like any enclosed community, word travels quickly around a server, through tells, trade chat, and guild website, that "Group X" has done "Goal Y" before anyone else has. Was there ever a need to rub it in by giving them an achievement, too?
But there's an extra dimension to the world first, indeed, to anything in the game that's remotely challenging at all, and that's the waning underdog hope that things will be different next time. That you'll be at the top, you'll finish the latest dungeon before anyone else in the world. Even .01% means there's still a chance!
But also like any close-knit community, a server's players are that server's players. In-fighting and jealousy be damned! They don't take kindly to outsiders transferring over from another realm and taking over the scene, especially if they're intent on skirting the system to take that coveted server first title away from those who have otherwise worked so hard to earn it.
So Blizzard's changing the rules. From here on forward, a player must remain on a new server for at least 60 days before they're eligible to receive any such rewards:
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I've never earned a server first achievement. I haven't even ever come close enough to taste it. Some would argue that trying to obtain them, for most people, is a fruitless venture; that they're the domain of a realm's absolute top guilds. And fundamentally they'd be right.
We are all careful observers of the world around us. We don't need online, 3rd party ranking sites telling us whose the best, because we interact with them all the time. Like any enclosed community, word travels quickly around a server, through tells, trade chat, and guild website, that "Group X" has done "Goal Y" before anyone else has. Was there ever a need to rub it in by giving them an achievement, too?
But there's an extra dimension to the world first, indeed, to anything in the game that's remotely challenging at all, and that's the waning underdog hope that things will be different next time. That you'll be at the top, you'll finish the latest dungeon before anyone else in the world. Even .01% means there's still a chance!
But also like any close-knit community, a server's players are that server's players. In-fighting and jealousy be damned! They don't take kindly to outsiders transferring over from another realm and taking over the scene, especially if they're intent on skirting the system to take that coveted server first title away from those who have otherwise worked so hard to earn it.
So Blizzard's changing the rules. From here on forward, a player must remain on a new server for at least 60 days before they're eligible to receive any such rewards:
Any player who has been on the realm for longer than 60 days is entitled to a realm first achievement. In this particular case, the matter was investigated thoroughly for all parties involved and everyone who was entitled to the achievement should now have received it. The reason it was changed was to stop players practise on one realm then transfer over to a newer realm and get the achievement, potentially blocking the players on that realm who have been there longer earning it themselves.In the end, this won't affect me much. And it probably won't affect you, either. After all, the server first club is awfully exclusive. But if we don't take up for and cheer on our own, then what are we worth in the end?
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