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?

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.

Did Chris Roberts get a job there?

Just buy a loot card from the TCG and get a cooler mount

If you’re still paying to play wow you’re the sucker.

"Something for everyone." = "I sure hope everyone buys this shit!"

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/blizzard-promise-something-for-everyone-in-warcrafts-30th-anniversary-direct-next-month

You’d have to be a real tool to buy that

If we allow this to continue, there will be nothing else.

Only legislation will fix this.

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.

who the fuck is still playing this microsoft/activision/blizzard game in 2024?