Another expensive mount

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Rustbolt Resistor - Exalted with the Rustbolt Resistance and costs 524,288 gold at the Rustbolt Resistance Emissary.

Seriously blizzard? Not all of us are rich with gold!
I don’t mind an expensive mount from time to another ( And i mean from expansion to another )
But in every patch? That’s way too annoying.

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Go get a free mount instead.

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It’s mostly a gold sink to deflate the economy.

One can also argue that its high price is to sell more WoW tokens.

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Nothing says you have to buy every expensive thing that comes out. Like was said, its a way to get gold out of the economy.

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dont want to be “that guy” but 500g…preaty easy to get it :slight_smile: .
Even if you are not rich or dont like to farm it you can just geting slow gold:) by selling junk and stuff.

But yes i do agree that blizz is starting to make a habbit out of this expensive mounts.
Especially when some people can get gold so easly from (bot farming) or boosting.
I also had a friend that made like 4m gold from simply selling that engineering mount. But he had to farm alot of motherlord dung for it:).

Also blizz is trying hard to make Tokens to be bought for gold because thats how they make profit and at some point they will destroy the gold economy where would be more convinient to just buy a token and sell it for gold.

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There is
3 x 333.333 frogs
2 x 500.000 lightforged and dino
1 x 2 million spider
1 x 5million AH mount
1 x 120.000 yak
1 x 100.000 alliance bike

Now this one at nearly 550.000 thats just 9.5million for 10mounts .
Not everyone horded gold from wod and legion . I understand the gold sinks are needed but why hit us mount collectors always.
Why not put up more items on BMAH like CM items (yes i own them already)

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I haven’t been able to afford many of the more expensive mounts in the game. They are gold sinks but they aren’t going anywhere so we can still make gold at a snail’s pace and buy them later.

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Is it the colored one or the rusted one? Cause I was really looking forward the rusted one but something tells me I won’t be able to get that soon…

EDIT: OF COURSE it’s the rusted one. Kill me…

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Yea they are gold sinks and really are one of the only things that decrease the massive wealth gap between the poor and the “i made sure to run my missions daily on my alts during WoD”-millionaires, so i would say they’re a good thing in general especially for poor players.

The only other alternative is that we move past gold as the primary currency even more than we have, and put just about everything behind some custom currency or another (like dubloons/servicemedals/apexis/…)

The BMAH would only hit a single individual per day, that’s not really an alternative to the goldsink mounts which sell by the hundreds in the first week at the very very least (likely many many more).

As for why it has to be mounts, i don’t really think it’s ONLY mounts, there are some obscenely overpriced pets as well, but of course pets (and really most other things in this game) don’t really have the X-factor appeal that mounts have.

I have a hard time picturing cosmetic-only rewards that sell for the same amounts of gold and have similar market penetration. Maybe exclusive druid skins like what the Legion Mage Tower challenge used to give, but that would be druids only so you’d sell less of them. I don’t even think awesome transmog would quite reach those levels for other classes.

Also, i do what i can to keep my collections as complete as i can as well (mounts, pets, toys, etc.) and there are soooo many mounts that require such a massive grind (as you well know ofcourse) that farming these quantities of gold instead, is really not that out of the ordinary for what mount collectors put up with.

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I do know about the frog mounts thats why i said they are making a habit for it.
There is
3 x 333.333 frogs
2 x 500.000 lightforged and dino
1 x 2 million spider
1 x 5million AH mount
1 x 120.000 yak
1 x 100.000 alliance bike

Now this one at nearly 550.000 thats just 9.5million for 10mounts .
Not everyone horded gold from wod and legion . I understand the gold sinks are needed but why hit us mount collectors always.
Why not put up more items on BMAH like CM items (yes i own them already)
The bike was a promotiional thing that was free when it was made back in the days by paul senior designs.

The yak was affordable since mop and easy to get.

Those 5m-2m-1m mounts used to be something exquisite for those that can afford it, like a luxury thing.

BMAH is the biggest joke since day one, because you can only own there if you have money to throw away and deep pockets.

So yeah, as i stated above things started to get out of hand at some point.

Also for someone new to the game some of these mounts are overwhelming , or for someone that just uses gold for game time.

But i am not going to go again in to it because its already mention in my first post:P

Also thats the whole point of the post, this gold sink its becoming a bad habit that for your average players is something hard to obtain.

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You have to buy the alliance version its never been free .
The BMAH needs more items in it pet day per realm . So many days all you can see is a 1000g cat that can be bought for 1g off a vendor .

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Already thought of this.
But where the problem lies? When some returning players who didn’t played for years or some new ones come out to play the game, And one of them at least became a mount collector ( Or let’s say just a collector ) then how he will get these expensive mounts?
I think blizzard should put expensive mounts but also put a way to get them ( Either farming or doing something else not very hard )
And believe me, some people will just buy it even in this state instead of going to get it from the other way.

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They seem to have gone from one extreme to the other. We had loads of income available to us in Warlords and Legion and now they’ve stopped all that.

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True, getting 500k together isn’t out of reach, even for new players who started during BfA. That said it is still a big endeavor and when you weigh it against all the other things you could accomplish with the same kind of time investment, i would recommend just about any new player not to do this.

I wouldn’t really expect botting to be a substantial contributor to this tbh. Selling boosts is one way some people make gold nowadays yes, but that too if far from the norm. Just because boosters are obnoxiously loud in trade chat and such doesn’t mean 20% of the player base is selling boosts ofcourse.

Yea, crafting the mother lode mount to sell requires a very substantial time investment so i wouldn’t really call that easy gold making. If he really sold it for 4mil, then i imagine that was quite early in the expansion. Early on in an xpac lots of exclusive things are overpriced as hell (low supply, high demand and all that) but it takes a decent amount of self sacrifice (imo) to spend those early days on farming materials that you’re going to sell, im experienced enough that i usually see a fair amount of these opportunities coming ahead of time, but i tend to choose not to pursue them because i really just wanna enjoy the new content for myself instead.

Unless there’s foul play involved that i am not aware off, blizzard doesn’t directly make that much money of the wow tokens. because for every player that buys a token to get gold, there is a player paying for a month sub without giving them real money.

So where in the pre-token world, you and me could both pay for our sub with euros. The token allows you to get say 200k extra gold by paying for a token with euros, and allows me to give up 200k gold in return for “free” game time.
If it wasn’t for the discrepancy between the price of a month of game time and the price of the token blizzard would not make anything directly.

Of course, indirectly the benefit is great because it allows those who dont have the money to spare but do have the time to sacrifice, to farm gold for their sub, where previously they might have been forced to move on to a cheaper game. Likewise it allows people with the means, to treat themselves to some fancy mount without having to spend hours farming.

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nah we cannot leave Robotos Landing without it’s master.

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I’m kind of ok with flashy mounts for gold?

We reward high tier raiders with transmogs and mounts not available to common mortals, and I think it’s probably ok to have gold hoarders have their own way to sparkle. I actually prefer that it is out of the cost range for many - including myself - because it means there won’t be so many of them. Those who buy actually get to be rare, and that’s ok.

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To me WoW is starting to smell a bit like Diablo III with its Auction House.

Initially in Diablo III the difficulty was so high that it was difficult and tedious to acquire gold by simply playing the game. So the most efficient way to get gold ended up being a matter of flipping items on the Auction House or whipping out the credit card.

And that destroyed Diablo III, and Blizzard subsequently had to remove the Auction House and re-design a bigger part of the game’s economy and reward structure.

And it feels as if WoW is moving closer and closer to being like Diablo III was.

If you want to earn gold, one of the least effective ways is to actually play the game normally. World Quests, Dungeons, Raids, Battlegrounds, Arenas, Warfronts. Etc… If you do a mix of that you’re not going to be a millionaire.
If you want to earn a lot of gold, then like it was the case in Diablo III, then you’re better off flipping items on the Auction House or whipping out the credit card.
And that feels wrong. Very wrong.

The ever-increasing gold sinks that Blizzard introduces are probably an indication that the gold-wealth among the playerbase is getting polarized. The rich Auction House flippers and dungeon boosters have more than they can spend, and the newbies and returning players struggle to afford all but a few of the gold sinks they desire.

It smells like Diablo III’s early problems. And that’s not a good smell. :nauseated_face:

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I disagree. If a new person comes into the game they have about 300 mounts they can set their sights on. “OMG theres one for 5 million” is a problem for years down the line.

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It’s a problem when the mounts are themed. If you’re playing in Mechagon, then you are naturally more keen on a Mechagon-themed mount than an old Proto-Drake from Northrend.

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I have dedicated my altoholism to make sure I will never use AH to buy staff, not ready to cover someone sub by supporting the flipping prices practice.

only rich Wod and Legion player can pay these crazy overpriced bets imho.