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Originally Posted by Chickat

I agree. MoP had a ton of fantastic mounts. WoD mounts are good, but there could be a few more of them. WoD was just rushed out the door. I wont argue that. Still claiming that there have been no good in game mounts since store mounts became a thing is a fallacy.

The people crying that the store mounts are all better than the in-game mounts are usually also the first ones to say how lame the mounts are. Following their "logic" ain't easy since it stems from emotional outbursts.

I have the store mounts tied to certain characters/classes/races, and still PLENTY of mounts that I love more thanks to how I obtained them or when or what they represent. But then again, these people don't think a mount is cool unless no one else has it so I think they're just in that mindset non stop be it store mounts or previously rare ones becoming more common.

No wings, it just might not be a store mount after all.

Originally Posted by Pacster

The thing is you are spending money on stuff that could be free if you would not spend money on it. In case you didn't notice, Blizz is ever increasing the stuff they sell on ingame shop. Pets, mounts, hats...cosmetics will be next for sure. You fuel that.

And if I read that people want to support Blizz with that then I cringe. I mean what exactly did you support there during the last couple of years? New game developments like...uhm...Titan? Or do you think Hearthstone or the other copycats needed massive amounts of money? Addon releases in balancing beta stage like WoD or Diablo? Let's not forget that the next WoW addon will surely come sooner than the last one and not leave people without content for a year...which is a promise we heard for the 4th time? 5th time? Oh yeah...and they dealt with dead servers 3 years later than smaller companies did....smaller companies didn't earn money with paid server transfers tho.
Your money is not making them do a better job. It just made them get fat and lazy.

I'd love to see the money Blizz made just by screwing up the release of WoD. All those people from german servers like blackrock and aegwynn that had 10h connection queues and took a free transfers to some rather empty server(just to have connection queues there too then) and later pay for a transfer back to their old realm. That's likely millions just by FAILING....

Your post is absolute nonsense and demonstrates a complete failure to understand how business works.

NOTHING is done for free in business and thus NOTHING is given to us for free. They put just as much resources into developing features and content as revenue justifies. If revenue declines then resources for the continued production of aspects of the game will soon decline along with the declining revenue.

That is how products die.

These store mounts bring in a significant amount of revenue for Blizzard for relatively little production costs. That is HUGE for the future of the game. This revenue justifies continued resources and commitment to producing content for the game overall and maintaining consumer interest in WoW.

Not having these elements would not result in more "FREE" stuff. It would simply result in less resources committed to producing "stuff" in the game in the long term. So without these mounts subscribers would get LESS for their $15 a month not more.

And if you are not buying these mounts then you have absolutely no reason to complain. Because much or the profit from these mounts are used to produce additional content for the game overall. Content you are getting for your $15 per month. They spend thousands producing these store items and millions from selling them. So that massive revenue is used to increase the content you still get for $15.

We are adding value to your game by buying these mounts not preventing you from getting "free stuff". Stop whining.

Originally Posted by roahn the warlock

Spending money on a store mount, for one's own sake, is almost as pathetic as buying one because you think it makes you look cool.

I leave for work at 6:30am and don't get home till after 6pm, have 1.5 and 3.5 year old kids that I enjoy spending time with when I do get home. After the kids are in bed (~8:30pm), I usually do another hour or two of work or spend some time with my wife before going to bed at about ~11 (I'm up at 5:30). On the weekends, my wife works, and I do stuff with my kids. We have a social life, friends come over, we eat together. We do fun stuff outside and, you know, live life.

I also enjoy Warcraft. I play 2-3 times a week for a couple hours after all is said and done. I enjoy running dungeons, leveling alts, hitting the odd raid. I'm a solid healer and have played since Vanilla.

Farming, camping, working the AH to make gold to buy the expensive, nicer, mounts - simply no time for such things.

All that to say - I will spend my money however I please. If Blizzard wants to make something shiny so "casual" people like me can actually have a cool looking mount and still play the game how we want to, then fantastic. You don't have to buy it. No one has said you must. It does not wreck the economy of the game. It does nothing to improve anything for anyone. It does not make it worse either. Blizzard still makes billions per year and if they can't release content the way you like it, it's certainly not the fault of one little mount in a store. Grow up, use your brain, and quit whining.

All flamers know how to do is flame...

Originally Posted by Vained

No wings, it just might not be a store mount after all.

I was thinking the same thing but it is possible that those disks on the shoulders are to allow it to cast arcane wings.

Soon ... bleh

Prob a store mount but I would like it to be a reward from completing part of the Legendary quest

It's definitely going to be a HoS related mount.

Originally Posted by popecardinal

I leave for work at 6:30am and don't get home till after 6pm, have 1.5 and 3.5 year old kids that I enjoy spending time with when I do get home. After the kids are in bed (~8:30pm), I usually do another hour or two of work or spend some time with my wife before going to bed at about ~11 (I'm up at 5:30). On the weekends, my wife works, and I do stuff with my kids. We have a social life, friends come over, we eat together. We do fun stuff outside and, you know, live life.

I also enjoy Warcraft. I play 2-3 times a week for a couple hours after all is said and done. I enjoy running dungeons, leveling alts, hitting the odd raid. I'm a solid healer and have played since Vanilla.

Farming, camping, working the AH to make gold to buy the expensive, nicer, mounts - simply no time for such things.

All that to say - I will spend my money however I please. If Blizzard wants to make something shiny so "casual" people like me can actually have a cool looking mount and still play the game how we want to, then fantastic. You don't have to buy it. No one has said you must. It does not wreck the economy of the game. It does nothing to improve anything for anyone. It does not make it worse either. Blizzard still makes billions per year and if they can't release content the way you like it, it's certainly not the fault of one little mount in a store. Grow up, use your brain, and quit whining.

All flamers know how to do is flame...

Lol, then why the fuck are you paying, if you want to pay the game, to get things in the game for you?

Let's not forget that the rest of the WOD mounts are ugly brown blobs, and recolors. It's the worst xpack for mounts, we got, 5?

It has nothing to do with being "Casual" It's that you feel the need to buy mounts, to have blizzard.. play the game for you. Which is pointless.

The mount could easily of been something like an inscription mount.

and no, don't kid yourself, if you buy it... it isn't cool, no one thinks it's cool. It loses any and all "Coolness" because you didn't do anything for it. I can afford the mounts too, I am out at work from 6am till 6pm, but I have, ready? Integrity. I don't need a shiny mount to help me feel good about the fact that I can't raid. And that is why it is pathetic. Don't think just "Hardcores" don't like the store.

In fact, instantly assuming I'm some shut in that spends hours a day on the game, makes you not only pathetic, but rude. I am... 2/7 Highmaul, and haven't been a hardcore raider since Wotlk, I just recognize that the heroic achievement mounts should look better than the shit you can buy in the store.

Originally Posted by ImpalerEU

It's definitely going to be a HoS related mount.

That would be the Stormcrow

Unless wings stick out of those round armor things and they put freaking FLIGHT back in the game IDFC.

Originally Posted by Chickat

Because I can, and I don't need a reason why. I fundamentally don't have a problem with it at all. Sure new in game mounts would be nice, but for every store mount we get, we have 10 in game mounts. Whether they are up to the same quality is subjective. If you have a problem with it, either ignore it or quit. If you arent playing at all, I have no idea why you are even in this thread.

Actually, you do need a reason, or you have no argument. Otherwise, you're just admitting that you're a mindless drone driven by consumerism that has more money than sense. Basically, you're part of the problem.

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Originally Posted by popecardinal

I leave for work at 6:30am and don't get home till after 6pm, have 1.5 and 3.5 year old kids that I enjoy spending time with when I do get home. After the kids are in bed (~8:30pm), I usually do another hour or two of work or spend some time with my wife before going to bed at about ~11 (I'm up at 5:30). On the weekends, my wife works, and I do stuff with my kids. We have a social life, friends come over, we eat together. We do fun stuff outside and, you know, live life.

I also enjoy Warcraft. I play 2-3 times a week for a couple hours after all is said and done. I enjoy running dungeons, leveling alts, hitting the odd raid. I'm a solid healer and have played since Vanilla.

Farming, camping, working the AH to make gold to buy the expensive, nicer, mounts - simply no time for such things.

All that to say - I will spend my money however I please. If Blizzard wants to make something shiny so "casual" people like me can actually have a cool looking mount and still play the game how we want to, then fantastic. You don't have to buy it. No one has said you must. It does not wreck the economy of the game. It does nothing to improve anything for anyone. It does not make it worse either. Blizzard still makes billions per year and if they can't release content the way you like it, it's certainly not the fault of one little mount in a store. Grow up, use your brain, and quit whining.

All flamers know how to do is flame...

You wouldn't skip work and expect to be paid for it. And you wouldn't expect your kids to raise themselves if you didn't want to put in the effort. So, you shouldn't expect to get a mount just because you didn't want to make time to farm for it.

just a bunch of people with more money than sense, I wouldn't have a problem with it, if the in game mounts didn't look like shit

What you people don't seem to understand. These mounts aren't special. Especially the recent ones.


Fey dragon, and Skyscreamer, ravager? they weren't made special, they were made for WoD, then picked out of the list of mounts for in game, and put into the store.

Say they make 8 mounts, they pick three pull them from the game, then sell them.

That's why, unlike MoP, we have 5 unique mounts. only. 5.

Originally Posted by roahn the warlock

It loses any and all "Coolness" because you didn't do anything for it. I can afford the mounts too, I am out at work from 6am till 6pm, but I have, ready? Integrity.

I'm sure you also tailor your own cloth right? Because that's integrity, not buying clothes. You didn't do anything for it therefore it's not cool? Same could be said to the food you eat, the computer you play on... so on, so on.


We don't even know yet for sure what will this mount will be for and you're already rambling about it and at random people because of their personal opinions.

I haven't bought any store mount, because I don't feel it's worth the price to me.
It's not replacing mounts earnable in-game that require harder achievements, most would probably not exist if they were not store mounts.
And that's my opinion, I follow it myself but respect those who doesn't. It's their money, their choice.
Why can't you do the same?

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Originally Posted by saltywaterbaby

You wouldn't skip work and expect to be paid for it. And you wouldn't expect your kids to raise themselves if you didn't want to put in the effort. So, you shouldn't expect to get a mount just because you didn't want to make time to farm for it.

Do you expect to have food in your table if you don't grow/hunt it yourself? Or clothes in your closet if you don't tailor them yourself? Or games in your computer if you don't code them yourself?

This is a ploy by Blizzard to get ppl to cancel their subscriptions to Rift and SWtOR and if you do cancel and sub to WoW they will give you this mount for $49.99, this is confirmed and on the WoW website.

Originally Posted by Kolvarg

Do you expect to have food in your table if you don't grow/hunt it yourself? Or clothes in your closet if you don't tailor them yourself? Or games in your computer if you don't code them yourself?

Absolutely. I grow my own food and code my own games. Your move, trollbait.

Originally Posted by Kolvarg

I'm sure you also tailor your own cloth right? Because that's integrity, not buying clothes. You didn't do anything for it therefore it's not cool? Same could be said to the food you eat, the computer you play on... so on, so on.


We don't even know yet for sure what will this mount will be for and you're already rambling about it and at random people because of their personal opinions.

I haven't bought any store mount, because I don't feel it's worth the price to me.
It's not replacing mounts earnable in-game that require harder achievements, most would probably not exist if they were not store mounts.
And that's my opinion, I follow it myself but respect those who doesn't. It's their money, their choice.
Why can't you do the same?

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Do you expect to have food in your table if you don't grow/hunt it yourself? Or clothes in your closet if you don't tailor them yourself? Or games in your computer if you don't code them yourself?

that is entirely different, and you know it. Lol. If I belonged to a payed service that allowed me to make my own clothes, and then payed them extra money for them to then make the clothes for me? Yeah, then your analogy would make sense.

Or if I payed dues to a hunter's guild, then instead went out and bought professionally taxadermed trophy kills. then your analogy would make sense

You see, your analogy already exists in the game. I could grind out Invincible, or I could buy it on the BMAH. But both options happen entirely in the game. The issue is when you break the game by using real world money.

That's why paying gold for the challenge mode sets are okay, but paying money for the sets, isn't okay.

Well this has taken a turn for the worst.

Originally Posted by jsz

Although I'm sure it's a store mount, can't rule out the possibility of a tie-in to Khadgar, with the purpleness and the book hanging off it.

IT would be a ride-able cucumber if it was a Khadgar mount.

Originally Posted by Friendlyimmolation

IT would be a ride-able cucumber if it was a Khadgar mount.

It's very likely it started as a khadgar mount, but someone at blizzard decided they could sell it instead.