Objectively, if you look at most in-game rewards, they are mostly just recolours of content with bad graphic texture. They are mostly very uninspired without particle effects and they are not unique. Think about how many recolours of the mammoth, the gekko, or the Zaralec cavern sporebat they sold as new content. Same goes for transmog. A lot of the transmog-rewards in the game are simply recolours, who are sold to us, as if they were something new.
Meanwhile, the in-game cash shop has the most unique rewards, and the visual effects look insanely good. This is even true for older models.
We are paying for a sub, we pay for the game, and still the coolest rewards are in the store?
I think the approach of giving gamerdads a cool alternative cosmetic for 20 bucks is fine in it-self, IF AND ONLY IF the actual rewards for gameplay are at LEAST as good. However, it is completely clear that the store rewards are far superior graphically and made with tremendous effort.
Look at this mount for example:
How come this is not the reward for the cobalt blue dragonflight reputation? It’s pure unsaturable greed from blizzard.
This one also looks insane compared to any reward in-game:
Or this mount they probably pulled from next expansion and just put it into the store like the greedy goblins they are:
It’s also the only mount in the game that can fly and swim fast I think.
Or look at this one:
How many other HD celestial themed transmogs or transmog with a similar effect of a similar quality are in the game? Yes you guessed correctly: Zero.
Why are we accepting this in one of the most expensive games ever?
Felbear and the Druid moth form are my favourite cosmetics and both are available in game. Sprite Darter is also excellent to me but when it came out people were hating and said it was stupid, it’s a store item.
Gloober as G’huun will always be my favourite pet and it’s also available in game.
That birb mount is just a recolour of the Ohnara birb mounts in DF though…
you tend to find that alot of the ‘unique’ shop stuff is just unused assets from future expansions.
I feel like some of them go on the store because they dont have anything else to do with them!
The problem is that the game currently has really bad value propositions. You pay money for a sub, you pay money for the game, and they still put most effort into rewards that they sell you for 25 euro.
I’d rather have the game go f2p or them upping their effort for the in-game rewards
I think you can pretty objectively say that store mounts get much much much more effort put into them though and that effort should be put into content relating to the game.
It doesn’t though? The token you’re buying was bought with IRL money, blizzard gets their cash either way even though these should be rewards for playing the game.
You also understand that all store items are slowly appearing on the TS and can be bought for tender as well right? and no matter how you put it, it is subjective not objective it is just your view not everyone’s.
If you can not wait for the mounts to be bought via tender than its a your problem. Since the trading post has been open 6 of the store mounts and some mog have been on there already IE meaning you do not need to buy them its a choice.
“You don’t need to buy them you can just wait 5 years until everything has fully rotated even though we can’t even buy everything in the trading post every month so really blizzard isn’t greedy”
How can you genuinely believe that blizzard should be making money off store mounts instead of putting them into the game to be earned?
