Was sad, now mad

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Whomper is still on the store no?

It’s not a crime to want to make extra money, but when WoW literally has a chinese new year event in the game, just put it in the game.

Put stuff on the store when the game isn’t in such a state, blizz did this in WoD too and it’s infurating. The illusion of being valued as a player shatters immediately when the first thing blizz reaches for when an expansion isn’t going well is more mounts on the store to make up the difference.

Maybe for once they should try the goodwill route, listen to the community faster so you don’t lose half of a third or a quarter of your playerbase in protest because your terrible systems are driving people away and then fix it 6months down the line when the people who didn’t like it have already left, abandoned the expansion waiting for the next one.

A thanks for playing our game and not a thanks for paying business transaction #50530. We all know we’re just a business transaction at the end of the day, but it’s their job to make it not feel like it.

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Goodwill rarely translates to significant revenue.

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Well, long term vs short term. Sadly we have no numbers to show what most people think of the new “double dip” blizzard so who knows, maybe they’re thriving.

I have never seen the community this split before though and certainly not with such a big focus on how blizzard runs WoW outside of the game so I can only guess that there’s room to improve.

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Yeah, had been cool if they started adding in those “cash shop” mount as ingame rewards.

Like OP is saying, lunar event is up, collecting all coins this year have to offer on 1 toon = buy the pig mount imo, but noo, we where not that lucky.

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Easy there, small indie company, they just added in a HS toy for each event ingame, that gonna last for 1 year atleast!, after that have been there for 2-3 year, maybe then they gonna add in a new event mount.

Just look at the transmorg event, all they had to do was copy / pass some random lvl 30 gear, recoler it, but, they kinda failed with that in time, so…

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Screw this mount and screw the guy behind it.

But let be honest, this mount is aimed for chinese and girls. Last mount was solely aimed at girls. Come at me SJW.

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This is mostly a Chinese New year thing
Do you really content want story content with flying pigs?
The fox after the ship, yeah that was nasty but in this case I dont even feel like its advertised for me or that I’m the target audiance so honestly for this specific pig, meh

Not gonna come at you but how was this conclusion reached?

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Because previously it was a China only thing. Now we have the ‘option’ to get the mount via gold or IRL money.

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And it made more sense to add it to the store than to the chinese new year event in WoW that doesn’t have a mount reward?

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If you take a massive amount of greed and sprinkle it with no care in the world, you get ActivisionBlizzard. They crave money more than they crave consumers who are happy with their products.

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I agree, they may put different reward for doing so every year so you will want to do it to obtain cool things, not always the same “crap” (as it becomes crap when obtained second, third… time) Like they did with WoW Anniversary Reward, different every year.

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I would rather get the option to buy it at cost then not get it at all. Which is essentially the alternative.

Nothing in the store is needed to play the game. Wow has a huge selection of mounts available within the game that can be obtained without the use of the store. On top of that there are other mounts that go for hideous amounts of gold on the AH. This is far cheaper than one of those. But for some reason there is no outrage at those.

Only at Blizzard for giving us access to something we previously didn’t get to see at all.

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I don’t know why you’re dodging the question, would it not have been the perfect lunar event mount?

This is exactly the problem. Why are these the only alternatives? This mount in particular is especially mind boggling because WoW , in the truest form of the word, literally has a chinese new year, the sole reason this mount exists, event in-game and yet the only alternative is to not get it at all or pay 25/have someone else pay 40 euros?

To me that’s insane. I understand that people wants to buy it, it looks awesome, but I don’t understand blizzards unwillingness to show just a little bit of love for their own game and here they had a perfect opportunity to do so.

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I didn’t realise there was a question to dodge.

No I don’t think it is suitable to have an event where the Chinese exclusive New Year mount was put up as the reward.

Events that do have mount rewards tend to be static. Just like the mounts from dungeon don’t change from year to year.

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Now there’s quite a few people that want to chime without having read most of the comments, so I will probably repeat myself a bit in this post.

Right off the bat let me make it clear that none should be harassed for having an opinion regarding how to obtain mounts. Some people like a grind, some want it fast, respect that and stay civil.

@Tifa, True, there are plenty of mounts that costs more than Hogrus. Discussing price is not the point at all with this post. Rather, it’s how rewards that could incentify playing the game’s content - like - the Lunar Festival are being sold on the store instead. True enough we have achievements and toys for collecting coins, but mounts are especially lucrative to many and getting something new to chase each year would be great.

@Punyelf, No need to apologize for repeating what other’s have said already, all input is good input. Of course, if I had to choose between there being no pig and a store pig I would’ve picked the store pig. But as I’ve stated earlier, in my opinion the game needs more incentive to do content where you can bump into players, and felt like this was a good opportunity. Glad you’ve enjoyed the farm this year though!

@Canabal, I think you understood what I meant completely wrong, maybe that’s on me, maybe that’s on you. But to make it clear, I disagree with you on that a customer’s opinion shouldn’t be valued.
How much you should care about it is one thing, but value? Sure there.

@Bartak, then this mount fits you perfectly! I’m glad it’s not a negative for everyone involved.

@Tifa, on your comment regarding span between mounts; if they release one often enough to mimic a free to play game I think they should consider that instead, especially if the backlash from the community is going to be like this every time, looking at the youtube video’s dislike ratio.

@Søssky, I for one am completely okay with charity pets and mounts stay up for sale after the charity event has ended. I agree that they should focus more on pleasing the playerbase rather than fast and effecient revenue from mounts. Especially looking at it long term as you mention yourself.

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I don’t mind store mounts. If they weren’t in the store they would most likely be locked behind content that I don’t do and for a limited time only at that. At least when they’re on the store I don’t have to miss out on them like I did with the pretty bird mount in Legion.

I have almost all the store mounts and some of them are among my absolute favourites. I use them all the time when I play and I get a lot of enjoyment from using them on my characters.

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Nothing digital is exclusive for any other reason than choice.

They could do it winter veil style where you still get the rewards from like 10 years ago if you’re lucky. Slap the dog and the pig in there and call it a day.

You get a new toy each year from winter veil, why not a mount?

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Would you rather they add it as a event mount? What about the people who miss the event? They will rage. What about next year when its a different animal year? You want a different animal mount then to? What about the people who missed out on the pig? They cant get it anymore? Or will you add the pig and next years mount because there is only coins to get one mount?

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@Tifa, in all my years of playing I have never heard a complaint that you can only obtain the headless horseman mount during Hallow’s End, nor have I heard any similar complaint regarding the brewfest mounts/love rocket. So I think this argument falls a bit short, no offense.

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Absolutely, so what if they miss it? Is there any point to have everything available to everyone at all times? I don’t see any rage threads of people missing the core hound from the 10th anniversary around? I don’t have the SoO wolf or the scarab lord title and mount, I’m okay with that.

To add a couple more, Mage tower, olympics tabard, argent dawn tabard, cata voljin title thingy, onyxian whelpling, big blizzard bear, green fire title, gladiator titles+mounts. Tons of exclusive stuff, it’s part of the game and it’s a good thing.

I think that could also work, that’s how winter veil does it.