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own once The Burning Crusade launched. Badges of Honor -- which have become more and more liberally dispensed as the expansion was iterated on -- made it so that we had an incentive to run even those dungeons that we liked least. They did away with the notion of the rewardless instance run; regardless of whether or not you got a bauble from a boss, the handful of badges you'd walk away with would net you something useful. Eventually.
We've gotten used to incremental rewards for time spent. There's a lot to say about this, but that's outside of the scope of this piece. Blizzard too has gotten much better at building systems into WoW that work around our willingness to be incentivized in this way.
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Introducing: Heirloom items. Following yesterday's beta update, a player found these fascinating items on a badge vendor, which prompted a response from Lead Designer Jeff "Tigole" Kaplan on the forums. People who've been playing MMOs for a while will be familiar with the concept behind them. Essentially, Heirloom items are bits of gear that are tied to your account, as opposed to "bind on pick-up" or "equip" items, which you can't transfer off your character. They're meant to be transferred between all your same-faction characters on the server you purchase them on. Remember how in older MMOs, you could get a nice piece of gear and recycle it between every other character you subsequently created? That's what's going on here -- though of course, Blizzard has put a few twists on the concept, adeptly fool-proofing, in my opinion. xll
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