New store mount: $90 Brutosaur

[Clergy-the-shatar (Clergy)]

@Jito-turalyon

@Clergy-the-shatar

its their money. they are free to spend it as they chose. that applies to everyone tbf

Of course. But it’s also a question of morality on the side of Blizzard.

I mean, if Blizzard sold drugs on the store, then you could say the same: “It’s their money, they’re free to spend it as they choose.”
But we’d probably all object to Blizzard selling drugs.

Likewise, selling any digital item for $90 in a video game with a $50 cost and a running subscription is downright disrespectful toward the customer.

we’d object to that as it would be illegal tbf

ridiculous analogy

[Darkryu-runetotem]

That’s one way of achieving your end of year sales expectations …

[Clergy-the-shatar (Clergy)]

@Irieaala-argent-dawn

@Clergy-the-shatar

laugh out loud.

That’s not very nice, they’ve not been nasty about having the old brutosaur mount

yeah, thats why I’d edited it a few secs later

[Maxinmus-silvermoon]

People are making a conga line with the new mounts in Dornogol.

I love and hate this community sometimes.

[Midgetman-firemaw]

Bought the mount but not sure how am supposed to feed my kids this month

[Clergy-the-shatar (Clergy)]

@Midgetman-firemaw

Bought the mount but not sure how am supposed to feed my kids this month

feed them to the mount

[Alfbernt-blackmoore]

now they need to add it to the event mount off xD

[Jito-turalyon (Jito)]

@Clergy-the-shatar

we’d object to that as it would be illegal tbf

ridiculous analogy

Fair enough.

Let’s say they sold a $10.000 dollar in-game title.

Some people would buy that just to feel special.

But that would obviously be objectionable, because it’s clear at that point that Blizzard are taking advantage of people’s attachment to the game to get their money.

A $90 mount is not as objectionable, but it still is. It’s an absurd amount of money for a digital item in a premium cost game with a running subscription. It really is just Blizzard taking advantage of people’s attachment to the game to take more money from them than what’s reasonable.

[Nancy-aggramar]

@Midgetman-firemaw

Bought the mount but not sure how am supposed to feed my kids this month

Easy. Use the new AH on it to sell your furniture

[Irieaala-argent-dawn]

I see it honestly like this, I spend the money on a game I like to play, rather than some recurring 60 euro sport package… or even god forbid 80 euro packages for streaming or TV.

[Lyghte-chamber-of-aspects]

Watch this mount outsell the expansion

[Midgetman-firemaw]

atleast u can pirate it and not that mount

[Gorrak-ragnaros]

@Juànita-tarren-mill

i payed with ingame gold never spend a dime of real money on it i farmed 7 mill gold in 4 months by controlling part of the ah.
Enjoy paying 90 eu.

Can i be your sh1t?

[Lynlia-silvermoon]

@Jito-turalyon

A $90 mount is not as objectionable, but it still is. It’s an absurd amount of money for a digital item in a premium cost game with a running subscription. It really is just Blizzard taking advantage of people’s attachment to the game to take more money from them than what’s reasonable.

Well they arent really running a charity or the UN’s Human rights and ethics commision now eh? In theory they can charge like 50 000 000 for some pixel in-game. While its doubtful if its a sound business strategy but are there any laws broken by it?

[Talanus-chamber-of-aspects]

To be sure. I’m on a quiet server, and I can see 10 on my screen right now at £60 a pop. I bet their shop sales have exploded, and it’s exceeded everything they’re selling.

[Jito-turalyon (Jito)]

@Lyghte-chamber-of-aspects

Watch this mount outsell the expansion

Yeah I mean, this will be no different than when the Celestial Steed appeared on the store many years ago.

There was outcry, but lots of people bought it anyway.

And then it became the norm that Blizzard would sell mounts for $25 every once in a while.

This will go the same way, and Blizzard will start to sell these premium mounts for $90 every once in a while.

The players are suckers at the end of the day.

[Broduin-silvermoon]

Honestly I don’t really mind, as this brutosaur is impacting me personally now in three positive ways:

1. I may buy a wow token tomorrow to get a lot of gold, so I can finally afford to craft my gear
2. More people will have Brutosaurs, so I can just use theirs
3. I also have a xbox, so that money, they make, will be reinvested in some game I play in the future, be it wow, d4, or whatever.

So in the end, the only actually evil thing about this is the FOMO psychological element, but otherwise I don’t really care

[Samashnz-draenor]

£60 in UK - this is vile. Dont want it dont buy it but the absolute cheek of it when you pay a subscription each month. This is rancid.

[Irieaala-argent-dawn]

@Midgetman-firemaw

atleast u can pirate it and not that mount

If you have a way to pirate live sport matches then I’m rather impressed.

[Midgetman-firemaw]

10 euro a month bro