Recently Blizzard opened up the floor to open letters to Greathfather Winter. Here is my letter that I am writing to him.

Dear Greatfather Winter,

Greatfather Winter in Ironforge.

The children of Azeroth may be filling your mailbox this year with calls of more purps, more dances, and more riding mounts and asking, nay begging you to ask one of the many deities to get out their smiting rods and take a few classes down a peg. I wish not to bore you with questions and beg you to follow through on these inane calls since it would create World of Mechanical Rabbits, Fireworks, and Massive Explosion Awesome Batman Warcraft. Instead, I ask a few simple things from you.

At Blizzcon this year those who craft our world heralded in a new age of Warcraft where all content is accessible by anyone who wants to view it. Difficulty is scalable, but never to reach the level of unattainably insane. The massive banners that flew, waving in the majestic and always beautiful night sky, with the picture of carrot on a stick being forever chased by a rabbit were burned to the ground. Content is now available to be done by all. Everyone can now see everything. The challenge is being toned down so that no one will ever see something as impossible if they have the time to do it.

The fans cheered, the crowds hooted, and with the casual gamer decreed victory. It was as if Bejeweled was finally added to the game. These changes, of course, were great Mr. Winter. They allow everyone to enjoy the dungeons together and get along well with one another. I on the other hand have a slight problem. Like an Ouroboros, I crave the endless cycle that is brought by the impossible content. I want it to be there because it is the fuel that drives me.

Don’t get me wrong, I do not actually want to do the content. I don’t want to spend the time doing it Mr. Winter. I just want it to be there. I want sweat dreams of making the impossible possible as I do something that 99% of the WoW population will never be able to taste. I want to sit in school or at work and daydream of Ironforge, the bells ringing, the heralds screaming, and the ever bright populace cheering at my purp given to me for slaying some dragon on the Internet. I don’t want to do it because I know that if I can do it easily then so can everyone else. If you had Christmas every day then it would lose meaning, wouldn’t it?

That impossible content is needed. It’s not to be touched or explored. It’s to be gossiped over, to be craved after, to exist as that carrot that you can never get your tiny little rabbit mouth around. There is no beating a game that has something that you can and can’t simply do. If you can do it then you know it’s a goal that you can obtain but if you can’t do it then you’ll never reach it. It’s… weird, but it’s that sort of magical love that drives up further and further.

While we’re talking on this subject I would like to bring about another thing that I want. Sure, at this point I may be greedy. I may be asking way too much, but that is not going to stop me from trying. You know how items are shown in a mystical color from grey to orange with orange being a total of three items? Remember back when each class had maybe 20-30 purple items to choose from? Remember when the color of an item said miles about your character?

Well, the beings at be have deemed it necessary to color everything purple. I could sneeze into a tissue and it could be called the [Snot of a Hero] and be colored purple. The “purps” are everything. There are a lot of colors in this world. Why can’t we use some of those? How about each tier getting its own color? Maybe multiple shades of the same color? It’s just… not the same anymore when you get yet another purple item in a heroic. There is nothing special about it. I want uniqueness. I want to see a rainbow of colors as I look and brag that I have two red items, one orange item, and 2 purples and impress someone with these colors.

Though, my rambling is probably taking up your time. So, if all of this is too much to ask, could you at least just give me a santa hat? I always get the worst luck with them.

- Xerin