representing World of Warcraft’s expansions
adds a $90 pay to win mount that gives you half the functionality of an entire major city.
Blizzard milking the whales while delivering a reskin of a mount? Very on brand and representative.
Was saying $90 USD. Did they also do individual gatcha pricing or just regonal?
thinking having access to the auction house without having to travel 2 minutes is pay to win in any way and that it constitutes half the functionality of an entire city
Doesn’t realize you don’t have to spend a cent to buy the mount
This would be a good time to remember that horse armor that caused a shit storm for fishing like 5$ or something. Good times.
AFAIK this is different from the original auction house mount. That one had a auctioneer and a vendor who could repair things. This one comes with an auctioneer and a “mailbox” NPC.
For some people whose purpose in playing WoW is to make money trading, this makes it marginally easier. Instead of having to park your mount next to a mailbox, you can both post your auctions and collect your money on one mount. But, since most people doing auction stuff also need access to a bank, it doesn’t mean they can easily just abandon the city and live out in the country.
Many of the people who might consider this mount are already playing for free because they make enough money in-game to buy a token every month.
Also, it’s $132 if you’re Canadian, otherwise it’s 90 USD.
Looks like we have upgraded to macrotransactions!
Other than being one giant wasted potential in general, this is reminiscent of ESO. That game was packed full of expensive mounts (among a million other things) that didn’t fit in with the lore of the Second Era whatsoever, though fans of the game will certainly argue that the lore has been so muddied by Zenimax at this point that maybe the Second Era really was packed full of superheroes with glowing eyes, dragon wings and mechanical unicorns.
Prices were also designed so that no matter how many crowns you purchased, you always had some bullshit amount left over that couldn’t buy anything of real value, driving you to purchase even more crowns so that your leftovers aren’t wasted. I don’t think any of them were this expensive, but definitely just as frivolous.
The ESO lore is so muddled that Beyond Skyrim is not even considering it canon in most cases anymore, there are just too many contradictions.
It irks me greatly that it takes place ~2,000 years before the main series, but architecturally and technologically they appear to be on par or perhaps even ahead of the 3rd/4th eras. The entire game just feels like a giant fan-fiction blunder. There is a near zero risk of death in the overworld due to an obnoxiously low difficulty, and the class system being bound to stupid themes like Templars and Dragonknights rather than just using the original skill/magic trees is one of the worst parts of the game to me. Base classes could have easily been signs of the Warrior, Mage and Thief, and then specialized to your hearts content from there.
I think it’s roughly 700 before Morrowind and almost 1000 before Skyrim but I agree.
Vvardenfell even has Seyda Neen, an imperial colony from an empire that hasn’t even reached that place yet, just for the fan service.
The whole game just feels like a good MMO that was forced to be part of Elder Scrolls rather than an Elder Scrolls game that happens to be an MMO if that makes any sense.
Did Chris Roberts get a job there?
If it was Chris Roberts, it’d just be a JPEG of a dinosaur and a promise that the mount is in the pipeline for early pre-production to be added to the next major quarterly alpha release once it’s ready.
Also it’d be $499.
Who’s Chris Robert?
Just buy a loot card from the TCG and get a cooler mount
Just play WoW on a private server and stop supporting Blizzard’s anti-user business model.
this is absolutely the way. the communities are usually a bit more friendly as well on private servers.
If you’re still paying to play wow you’re the sucker.
As I understand it, you can pay your subscription in in-game currency (gold) so this sounds about right to me
I probably would love this shit if I stilled played, 13 years ago I was averaging 12k gold a day and financing a ton of my guild’s raiding costs. Was lots of fun, though I’m sure it didn’t look like that if you were watching me. Having a mount with AH and mailbox built in would be so OP. But there is absolutely no way I would pay american dollars for any of this garbage
I had as much fun on the auction house as I did with the rest of the game.
You’d have to be a real tool to buy that
“Something for everyone.” = “I sure hope everyone buys this shit!”
who the fuck is still playing this microsoft/activision/blizzard game in 2024?
Not you apparently
If we allow this to continue, there will be nothing else.
Only legislation will fix this.
Rivals of Aether 2 announced there will be no paid DLC because it will be all free. Legislation is needed but there are still, few, good devs out there thankfully.
I’m just gonna copy and paste my comment from the other big thread about this but I want to ask: why are you lying with the post title? It’s $90, not $132.
TLDR: this is obtainable through in-game currency for significantly less than the price of the original brutosaur mount. Most long time players can afford it and I’d imagine most people who bought it did so this way.
Ok so I cackled when I saw the price on this thing but the more I thought about it, the less shitty it is. FWIW I am not a WoW lifer or Blizzard apologist. I got talked into Classic for a year then played a month or two of each expansion since before quitting but I know the background of the story. It looks way worse from an outsider perspective.
You could buy the original auction house mount for 5 million gold back in the day. It stopped being available regularly and now it’s available occasionally in the “black market auction house” and it always sells for the maximum bid.
To combat Chinese gold farmers, Blizzard started selling gold in a bit of a roundabout way. For $20, you can buy a WoW token to sell on the auction house. This token can be purchased by a player and traded for 1 month of game time. Some players dont pay a dime to play - gold is not hard to acquire.
When this new mount came out, WoW tokens were worth about 200k gold. You’d need to exchange them for 5 tokens to get this mount. 1/5 of the original price.
Now tokens are worth 330k. 1.65m gold. STILL significantly cheaper than it was originally.
Tokens will need to rise to triple in price to match the original cost which will still be a tiny fraction of what it cost a month ago.
By far the shittiest thing about this - and I think the only real reason to complain - is that the rising value of the token hurts players who pay for the subscription purely with gold as it adds a few hours to their “working” time in game. For context, watching TV and semi-afk farming will get you like 50k/hour. You can earn way, way more if you’ve leveled up a profession.
The other (not so bad) thing I don’t like about it is that…I hate those mounts. They’re HUGE and people just AFK on them blocking NPCs I want to talk to.
It’s $132, it’s only 90 if you pay in USD.
It’s 90, it’s only 132 if you’re Canadian… ( US company)
Yeah, but I assume the poster was Canadian, so it’s $132, not 90 USD.
