I mean you could buy it with gold, plenty of sellers out there. Im just saying it dilutes your arguement if all you doing is saying your against it while simultaneously getting every single twitch drop that becomes available.
Its like screaming “meat is murder!” While eating a steak.
Where is the earning with love, consideration and effort when you’re paying ridiculous prices on a third party site, or playing IRL loot box mode with cards?
The love consideration and effort is giving old mounts back to the community via this promotions/trading post etc. I’ve seen things I’ve bought or earnt in the past come back round and personally I think it’s great to see them given back to the playerbase.
so uh, who is going to get the tarot cards when it’s out 
Carrot cards? What do they do? Are they fed to ghost horsey? 
I love the look of those.
I saw the Diablo ones when that was launched but was like would prefer wow themed cards.
These were the Diablo ones
My argument is that those items should be available via meaningful ingame efforts. Not for free which destroys their value and also not for prices that are just absurd.
Eww, books.
Would you know how to tarot without an instruction book?
I’m sure I could wing it, think most those scammers fortune tellers do.
or be a collector, which is what most people are talking about here.
You should read my comments more carefully.
That’s exactly what I am saying: Neither of those extremes are healthy, and especially not having to resort to third party sites or having to invest ridic. amounts of money (or even money at all).
And if you’re really trying to portrait a lazy twitch drop (something that is evidently used first and foremost to drive up metrics) as a caring and thoughtful way, then I can’t help you.
I have zero issues with a twitch drop. I do not find them uncaring or unloving (your words). They are a freebie to the players. They are nice. It’s a gift. I like gifts.
They are mostly old assets. Which is another kind and loving act to give us these back. They give back to the community. I like this. This is good for me and others.
You are allowed to dislike it, but others aren’t always going to agree. That is life.
I’m not sure I’ve every described any drop in game or out as loving or caring but I do not see any malice in this. It is lovely when they give back.
Eh…
I think there was a great opportunity with the TCG items to create some fantastical in-game rewards that could be attached to all kinds of interesting content.
That would have been in the interest of the gamer, I think, to use the TCG items to enrich the game experience of World of Warcraft.
Make an epic questline. Put a TCG item as a reward. Fantastic!
Make a challenging solo instance. Attach a TCG item as the reward. Amazing!
Create a clever secret hunt and have a TCG item as a reward. Cool!
That would all be lovely game development that would treat the TCG items as desirable as they are, and use them to spotlight various gameplay activities and heighten the sense of reward for doing them.
But that’s not the route Blizzard chose…
Instead they chose to use the TCG items as cogs in their marketing operations.
It has nothing to do with playing the game. You get to “pay” for the TCG items by spending time on twitch, or money on subscriptions to streamers or Prime or other advertisement-fueling schemes that Blizzard have constructed.
How is that desirable?
Yeah we get the TCG items. But is this how we wanted to get them?
It seems like we’ve traded a potential game experience for a shopping experience with the occasional freebie by acting as a puppet in a marketing push.
Awesome… That’s what really makes me enthusiastic about playing WoW. Feeling like a commodity.
I think it’s a bit shameful that so many players can so easily be bought off and completely dismiss any critical thought, because they get a freebie or two.
Mostly using their own flowery language back at them.
I can’t say a mount that came from scratching a strip off a card to reveal a code requires any great questline to get it.
We have a vast variety of mounts in game and the bulk do not involve a quest line.
So we just disagree. A twitch drop is fine for me. Others can dislike them ofc.
they could have just come up with a new mount or any recolour for that matter. but wether it is out of laziness or because they know exactly how desired tcg items are the massive potential is squandered.
I didn’t say it required that.
I said that it would be preferable.
I mean, I pay to play WoW and want WoW to be as great as it can be.
Putting cool rewards in the game, obtainable through doing activities by playing your character, is 100x preferable to being instructed to go to twitch and watch or subscribe to a streamer and then get the reward transferred automatically to your account.
Like, what kind of experience is that?!
It’s completely useless. It totally devalues the TCG items – which could otherwise be elevated as cool rewards from an engaging in-game activity – and turns it into a token freebie for complying with Blizzard’s marketing like a good little sheep.
Is that really desirable? Just to get that +1 in the collection tab?
It feels so…degenerate and corporate and pointless.
Some people just like “free” stuff and are lazy. I would never try to get this mount but I will use the Twitch to get it. Even though it’s a little too spooky for me to want to use.
I didn’t even know it existed until this post.
It just feels so self-humiliating in a way.
Blizzard can ask players to demean themselves in any way, and they’ll do it, for a mount they won’t use, don’t regard as special or otherwise care about, just for the temporary satisfaction of having it in their collection.
It’s such degenerate consumer behavior it’s getting a bit depressing to witness.
And I’ll grab it as well and be a giant hypocrite, because as everyone says: “You can just mute the sound and minimize the window!”
So why not?
What are we even doing anymore…