You can also put the sound to 1%, it works and it’s like it’s muted.
1 Like
No idea if people insisting on this are just trolling or genuinely ignorant and/or stupid.
Yikes… having to buy subscriptions (which also ends up pricier than a store pet)…
I’m too old and stingy for that crap. 
I get they want promotion… but I’d rather have these things put in-game to get.
Also my limit for these things is running a Twitch stream muted and at 360p for a few hours when I’m not by the PC. 
Waste of energy. These events encourage lots of people to just run Twitch in the background, even though they won’t actually look or listen to the streams.
1 Like
It is not like most of previous Twitch drops, but it isn’t new, is the second time they do this. I think it was one of the first drops.
There was another pet that required to buy 2 subscriptions. In that same promotion there was also another reward for watching streamers
1 Like
The TCG-card with the Ghostly Charger is currently listed on ebay at $1500. There’s no “prestige” in pressing buy it now - not any more “prestige” than watching a twitch-channel for 4 hours.
3 Likes
You sure about that?
Because that’s how I’ve been doing it since forever and it worked just fine.
1 Like
ah ok i wasn’t trying to be facetious I was genuinely curious
Tcg cards are basically loot boxes so if thats prestige to you lmao
The value is scarcity driven, not prestige driven
1 Like
That’s why 99% of rare things are valued so high - artificial scarcity. You grinded, got skilled in making gold and finally got that elusive TCG mount.
If you personally don’t see value in this, alright, you can have fun with your gladiator mount.
But still, that is its own kind of prestige.
If you mute the stream itself using twitches mute button it pauses the timer, it used to anyway.
I think TCG items have always had some air of exclusivity and hardcore fandom to them. Regular Joe who just played video games and dabbled in WoW every once in a while wasn’t going out of his way to buy WoW TCG cards - let alone buy the expensive loot cards second-hand.
It was really a subset of items that only vested WoW players would have. Because they wouldn’t come anyone’s way by accident.
There’s always been a good argument for making sure that everything in WoW is always available for everyone to obtain at any time, and that certain argument has definitely also been true for the TCG items after the WoW TCG was discontinued.
But what leaves me with a bitter taste (and I’m saying that as someone with many TCG items and who’s all about making them available to everyone) is that Blizzard don’t make the TCG items available through epic questlines, challenging encounters, or other cool gameplay-driven experiences. Instead they just use them as fuel for their marketing machine.
And to be honest, when that’s all they get to be, then I’d kind of rather Blizzard didn’t.
1 Like
K, maybe my browser or ABP interferes with that.
As I’ve always run a muted 360p stream for these things.
log onto twitch pick a random channel mute it alt tab. That marketing working out for you blizzard?
TCG was discontinued so they became rare and expensive to buy.
I think it’s lovely they are bringing these old models back and giving them to the playerbase.
4 Likes
It brings WoW high on the “currently watched” list on Twitch, which may lead to people opening those channels. They see someone playing a new expansion, which often comes with its own enthousiasm and serves as “free” marketing.
It clearly works, which is evident by how many times they’ve done it. Exposure for the content creator, marketing for Blizzard, digital goodies for the players. Win-WIn-Win.
Absolutely nope.
1 Like
Bringing them back =/= utterly destroying the value of established items and alienating a chunk of your playerbase.
I love collecting. I love the game. And I love this decision.
Just sayin’.
1 Like
That’s hoarding, not collecting. And it’s a clinical definition.
The point though is that destroying the value of such items is not healthy for the game.