This might be the main venue to obtain TCG items now, but for a very long time, it hasn’t been - and that is a MAJOR aspect that you happily ignore to frame it the way you deem best to fit your narrative.
Arguing the 3rd market taken into consideration with such high value is a fallacy to begin with.
The first and foremost metric to consider should be how those mounts have established themselves in the community and then go from there to make them achievable in a reasonable way, not alienating a good amount of your playerbase.
If that takes down the 3rd market in the process, perfect.
Do you know what the best real money to gold conversion thats allowed is? Its to buy a spectral tiger and sell it ingame via the many TCG sellers for around 120+ million gold.
Yes. I would have preferred a long term solution, preferable in-game. But even making those mounts part of the store would have destroyed the second-hand economy. Even if that means I wouldn’t buy it. I don’t care owning these mounts.
I would prefer a solution against scalpers, even if I don’t benefice personally by receiving the mount.
I just believe scalpers are an immoral business activity. Not just for WOW TGC cards. I also hate them when they overprice Nintendo amiibos, or anytime scalpers overprice manga editions that I like to collect. That is why I like when companies re-release those products, taking the money from those scalpers. In my case, I also contribute by never buying overpriced scalpers. If the second hand market is expensive that a new product I don’t buy it. I wait for a rerelease or wait for someone with a decent second hand price.
Which requires you to be subscribed for that particular month. So again, be there at Blizzard’s beck and mercy, or miss out and be a loser.
I hate this predatory design so much. It’s so bad.
Or Blizzard could just choose not to rotate things? How about that?
I don’t see the need or the reason to be amendable towards Blizzard’s practices when they are ultimately only serving their own needs. Screw 'em.
But its not FOMO as it returns, hell at this point they show up more often than the holiday events do (once a year) but i imagine you’re fine with those.
Nah. The game is big enough that you can enjoy the 10% that’s good whilst enduring the 90% that isn’t, and still come out with a net-positive experience.
The data on sales (and even stock) on this site is useless for that matter.
That wasn’t even remotely my main argument, but that you cannot ignore the people who put immense amounts of time and gold into finally collecting those items.
Those items might come from the luck of draws to somebody at some point, but have evolved into something much different over the time.
The state and value of TCG items to collecting players right now trumps anything else.
Reducing them to cheap twitch drops destroys all of that. You personally might not mind that, but that is an issue that cannot be argued away.
Will there be another commotion like with Feldrake where loads of people mounted up on it and enjoyed themselves in major cities while some TCG OGs did some autistic screeching?
The value is what the third-party stores set them to.
That I agree with. Adding the mount as twitch-drops destroys the value set by greedy resellers. And is not an issue in my book.
Point is that the “effort” you’re trying to claim these mounts is gone by adding them as a twitch drop, was never really there, since you could always buy the mounts with a credit-card. Buying them with a credit-card from a reseller is just as effortless as afking with a browser-tab open.