wait i guess I should’ve asked that guy^
They care about making a game that people enjoy playing. Money is needed for that.
They have money! They have players paying monthly for this game. Isn’t that clearly enough to have something in return? How is paying for something with cash and getting it, enjoying it? How is it superior than earning it in game?
More loyal as in a guaranteed customer. Someone who pays monthly, is more likely to leave than a customer who already paid for 6 months.
How is that different from what I just said about money and loyalty? We all love this game, hence we are all loyal to it. Loyalty as being a customers that pays more is the logic behind pay to win games and games where the ones who pay more get more, and that logic doesn’t belong here, not in wow. Here you work for your things. At least once you used to.
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As long as there are people paying for macrotransactions they will keep pumping these unique stuff exclusively to shop meanwhile in-game stuff will always be much lower quality and quality will get worse and worse each passing patch.
If there is a guilty it is not Blizzard, it is people who spend money on macrotransactions, it is normal for a company to abuse their customers if there are customers willing to get abused hence victims are the guilty in this case.
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I’m not telling others how to spend money.
I don’t care bout getting the mount itself.
I’m telling Blizzard to quit using this cheap selling strategy on their players. Would it be too much to ask new and fresh content for the game? Instead of periodically getting reskinned items?
Edit: The difference between having it for gold in game and buying it with gold from the Blizzard store is that at least that way we don’t have to throw out extra money to shove in their pockets. Since someone is still purchasing the tokens, and if someone buys the tokens it incentivizes them to continue this behaviour.
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They anticipate ppl will get boored of this in a couple of weeks and stop playng, so they bait them to sub for 6 months for a mount to keep the numbers up, since the expansion is prolly released in summer, make the math and check the obvious, its funny ppl fal for the same trick over and over again, i myself after the Eternal traveler tmog for the preorder deception wont be buying anything else from them, they lost me as a paying customer.
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You take this wayyy to seriously. It’s about a cosmetic item in a game. Get real.
Compare it to the pharmacy industry for example and then you will see what making profit behind a false facade of caring is all about. Look at all the people becoming addicts because of oxycontin, people dying from Vioxx and so on. Take a look at weapon industry thriving on death, misery and conflict. Oil companies denying climat change. I could make a very long list of way more profit being made without care to worry about.
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Firstly isnt this the second rat mount in game meaning its not a unique model?
Also isnt the alpaca, available in game, a unique model?? Not to mention all the cool buzzard, weird tentacley bug things and beautifully colored reskins which are all in game rewards.
Also why is everybody expecting Blizzard to be some bastion of morality when it comes to business!?
Are we living in the same world?
I go to the shops and get the BOGOF offers, I order pizza and go for the best meal deal, I shop around for the best deal on my cable, house insurance, phone, etc. Why do you expect Blizzard to be run by altruistic philanthropists who dont want your money?
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I get the problem but let’s get some facts here:
- Most shop-mounts have no significant impact on the lore and are simply cute or cool-looking. There are, like, three to five mounts overall which are really worth the reduced Christmas price near end of the year, namely the Iron Horde mount for the Mag’har Orcs, some bats for the trolls and that’s it. Even the Collector’s Edition mounts have far more value than most of the mounts there.
- What we really need are comebacks of some TCG-only mounts, like the red goblin-rocket which is based on the goblin-lore.
- The recycled mounts have been datamined years ago and I’m glad we’re getting alternative colorization for them. You can find all of them here (although some of them have already brought into the game):
https://www.warcraftmounts.com/unimplementedgallery.php
https://www.warcraftmounts.com/unusedlooksgallery.php
The most important mounts are thankfully still within the game to obtain.
It is the first flying rat, correct me if I’m wrong, which means it is unique.
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You’ll have to update me on internet slang here.
I have money too, doesn’t mean I can support my family without working. Blizzard has money, doesn’t mean they can pay their workers every day without income.
It’s a subscription service, not a reward service. You can always buy the mount in the store at some point if you really want it.
Actually, you pay less when you’re taking a 6 month sub, so that doesn’t add up.
Like getting that one epic drop on your first run and never having to do it again, while others have to run dozens, if not hundreds of runs?
Correct me if I’m wrong, doesn’t the mount reward require you to buy 6 months via the subscription model, not the “buy X game time” model? As long as people can use tokens to buy mounts, why not? Not everyone can afford to spend real money on the game, and they play it for free by making gold in-game.
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You take this wayyy to seriously. It’s about a cosmetic item in a game. Get real.
Only it’s not. These microtransaction are making the game worse and people buying them just feeds Blizzard into making more. You are already paying a monthly sub, why shouldnt we get it for free?! Am I going crazy now? are people really justifying microtransaction for a game you already pay?
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I have 0 issues with cosmetic microtransactions, don’t want to pay for it? Don’t buy it. It’s not like you get an actual benefit. If you really, really want something without paying for it, earn gold, buy tokens.
Do you play the game at all? Do you see the state it is in? They have been removing more stuff than adding it, as of lately. People buying stuff for cash just gives them more reason to produce more paid content and less in game content. Is that what you want? The whole argument "its just a mount, doesnt affect the game " is wrong. Because it does affect the game, we are getting less in the game and they are caring less and less about it.
f you really, really want something without paying for it, earn gold, buy tokens.
I suppose we could just justify anything with this answer. No more lore, no more events, just a vendor that sells stuff for gold. Or in this case, cash. That would make for a fun game wouldnt it? Have you tried farming for gold? Is that fun? Not in the slightest.
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yes
Yes, it’s not ideal. A free 6 month sub mount won’t change that, nor would extra mounts in the store.
So what content is actually paid?
I don’t agree with you here. The cosmetics are what’s funding blizzard right now, their sub income is … wait for it … sub-par. They could stop with the cosmetics, but that also means they’d probably have to stop with the game. Money has to come from somewhere.
I don’t see how that’s related to a few store mounts (which btw aren’t even that awesome).
At least you seem stuck, overly passionate about a very minor issue.
Myself I think these microtransactions is what pays for the game development these days, more money is made on that than on subs and they are purely optional for gameplay.
And as others pointed out, you can play for free these days and grind for the rat.
I always have 6 month sub recurring so for me these promotions are just free mounts dropping into my launcher once in a while. I find it very nice! It’s simple loyalty reward and i think Blizzard is being very flexible with those allowing people also buy it separately or start their 6 month sub when promotion arrives. Everyone can get the mount if they really want it but those who actually keep on subbing with long sub get rewarded automatically once in a while, nice system.
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Myself I think these microtransactions is what pays for the game development these days, more money is made on that than on subs and they are purely optional for gameplay.
Only they don’t. Because if they did, more stuff would be added to the game than removed. Again, how are you justifiying a 25 euro microtransaction on a game that has a monthly sub and an expansion price? That is what funds the game. Not crap like this.
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As far as I know, they do. I don’t remember where this was told, but it was told.
It seems to be very hard for some to grasp that we know our own minds, know what game we are playing, understand that we are going to be paying for at least six months.
I have not even taken a break from the World of Warcraft at all throughout Legion or Battle for Azeroth. The last time I took a break for a number of months was during Warlords of Draenor. For me the six months deal is saving me money and I get a free mount.
So people make up your own minds, stop telling others what they should be doing or presume to know their gaming habits.
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