Can EU/US get this too in shop? Also add spectral tiger.
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Spectral Tiger owner here; don’t mind, but it’s not going to happen for a myriad of reasons that would all result in a 
I think the reason the classic mounts have found their way to the Chinese realms is because China never had access to the trading card game, so they basically haven’t existed before.
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I would prefer for them to be available through ingame means, but sure, I don’t see a problem with it on a fundamental level.
Only problem is, people who spent thousands of dollars on these mounts would be PIIIIIIIIIIIISSED.
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You know I’d buy that chicken mount boyyyyyy! 
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From that article they are only available on Wrath realms rather than everywhere. I’m not sure I’d want to spend money to buy mounts on a Classic realm.
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there is a way to please everyone by adding a recolour accessible to in-game or promotional events or even achievements (like collect all cats in wow - spectral pink tiger or something) so that way original ones still are vlauable
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here popcorn for everyone! I will take the chicken 
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Ehm… no.
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Oh lol why is only chinese at the first place
Still kinda bothers me that only 2 tcg mounts were added to bmah.
Nor do we. Those mounts have been added in Classic WOTLK, not Retail. Worldwide Classic WOTLK had no access to many old things like TGC, Starcraft Collector edition, Old Blizzcon rewards, and not even the shop mounts/pets that were in the shop during OG WOTLK.
Nah not in retail maybe WOTLK classic
If only we could get them added to shop for wotlk classic !
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There are no people who pay thousands of dollars on these mounts to Blizzard. All of them pay thousands of dollars to eBay resellers that profit from Blizzard’s properties without Blizzard directly receiving anything. So, I don’t see why Blizzard should make any consideration to protect a sale between third parties that not includes Blizzard.
From Blizzard’s perspective, those players only spend the average money to receive the mount by buying TGC packs when it was in print, the money difference is a problem with those players and their eBay sellers. These players had spent more money on eBay than on Blizzard, so they are not Blizzard’s clients, they are eBay’s clients. Why would Blizzard protect the value of things bought by players on eBay?
In fact, it is in Blizzard’s interest to sell again those mounts to fight against that secondhand market. Any company will prefer to sell its product at lower prices than someone other reselling its product at high prices without anything going to the original market because they can’t profit from the second-hand market.
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It’s not about protecting the sale in question, but rather not angering the “whales” who ALSO spend tons of money on other stuff which is sold directly by Blizzard.
Blizzard doesn’t want to lose these customers.
I don’t think so. Those players are not Blizzard’s whales, are eBay resellers’ whales. Even if Blizzard angers them they will still have people paying a bit amount of money for Blizzard’s services. That is the thing about the whales, only a few of them are needed to make it profitable and they will still have whale clients.
It is in Blizzard’s best interest to anger them because from Blizzard’s point of view they are nocive clients (on economic terms, not socially) because those whales are promoting expensing sales in which third-party resellers profit at Blizzard expenses which do not only Blizzard is not profiting but they are in fact losing the potential money they could earn for selling themselves the product, their own product.
For videogame companies, every client who participates in the second-hand market is nocive for their profit because that is money expended in their product that they won’t see a penny. They will choose to lose those clients if that destroys that market, the whales are no exception, in fact probably second-hand market whales are the most nocive clients they would love to lose.
That analogy of the second-hand video market totally doesn’t hold here, because the used game market directly competes with the new game market, selling the same product.
Most of the pets, mounts and transmogs are ONLY sold by Blizzard, not third parties, but these old TCG mounts are ONLY sold by resellers, not Blizzard. There is every reason to assume that whoever buys these mounts from eBay also spends a crapton of money on stuff sold in Blizzard’s own cash shop.
The used game market doesn’t just compete with the new game market. Video game developers see that market as one in which other companies make a profit without being able to directly earn a penny from there. They are essentially competing with their own product sold by other companies that they see as leechers profiting at their expenses with their own properties.
Yeah, but everything in origin is a Blizzard’s product. Blizzard sold some pets, mounts and transmogs on their store and the resellers resell old TGC mounts on eBay. But given those TGC mounts are a Blizzard product they can take those sold for themselves and sell everything, both TGC and current pets and munts in their store.
There is every reason to assume there still will be whales spending a crapton of money on stuff sold in Blizzard’s own cash shop no matter what, so why would want Blizzard to keep those eBay whales that stop them from profiting with their product? The problem for Blizzard with those whales is that by expending that crapton of money on eBay means Blizzard is losing the potential money they could earn by selling TGC mounts to every client, both whales, and small fishes. I don’t think those wholes are worth that money.
By the way, I don’t even say that Blizzard should add those TGC mounts cheaper in their store. It is not an excuse to ask Blizzard to give me cheaper TGC mounts. They can still make those products expensive when buying directly from Blizzard, like making it worth a few million golds which would imply that whales probably will buy it with a crapton of money in tokens.
I just don’t understand why a company like Blizzard loses the potential revenue that those whales expend on eBay for Blizzard’s products, money that could easily end in Blizzard’s pockets instead of eBay resellers. Why would Blizzard share the revenue from whales with eBay resellers when they could have it all for themselves?
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