Asherons Call: srand Speaks About New Trophies

srand has posted over on our AC Discussions board, speaking about this month's trophy changes - specifically, the decision whether or not to make the changes retroactive:

Firstly, recognize that anything that gains a wield req must have a new object. It would be really rude of us to let you login one day and no longer be able to wield your primary weapon. And some people would still be wielding it, so they'd then be 'exploiting'. It would be a mess all around.

Now, for items that don't gain a wield req, we have to look at the particular situation. Are we making changes to the item that would make it less useful to some people who might currently be wielding it? For instance, did we change the damage type? Did we raise the activation requirements? These things tend to make us want to use a new object, just to be polite.