Cash Shop Mounts

[Splatter]

I have all of them but I think I only paid full price for one. My favourite is probably the reaver.

[Xheoul]

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Of course everything has to be coded in. Mounts, even if they share the same skeleton/template, they have individual IDs tied to collections, achievements, vendors (in this case cash shop). There is also the fact that they have to work on several assets at the same time. Creating every single mount from scratch would be terrible practice and we would not have the insane amount of mounts to choose from that are already in game, outside of the cash shop. It's clear you have an understanding of the process, but that makes it all the more puzzling as to why you would say it takes less than a week.

I still have to disagree with you in thinking this is a minute task for a team of artists, considering the polish a lot of these creations have. So... Agree to disagree.

[Mask]

I won't buy a cash shop mount (or pet) because I refuse to support microtransactions in this type of game. I guess I am too oldschool and don't like the way game companies are monetizing their products these days.

However, I can't deny that many of those cash shop mounts are amazing, which no doubt is why they ended up on the cash shop rather than being put in game somewhere. Were I to win a contest or something where I could pick a free cash shop mount as prize I would go with the Runesabre, or maybe the Fey Dragon.

[Thage]

I don't buy cash shop mounts out of protest for the utter joke that mounts were in WoD compared to previous expansions. Unique models and faction-relevant mounts went up for sale, and we got the same shitty boar mounts that used a badly-fitted triceratops skeleton thrown every which-way in seven shades of shit-brown. Rinse and repeat for every other mount in WoD, with the only standouts being the garish fel-green ones from Tanaan and the raid mounts. Even the best-at-PvP-in-the-world Gladiator mounts all looked like generic half-digested orc shit.

You can't eyeball a mount other than the ones from Tanaan and the ones from the cash shop in WoD and tell where it came from unless you've got Rain Man levels of memorization based on which mildly-differentiated shade of brown they are, whereas nobody's going to confuse a Shado-Pan tiger with a Tillers goat or a Golden Lotus crane or a Nat Pagle water strider.

So, yeah. It isn't that money's a problem, because I buy Overwatch loot crates in ten-packs like a porn addict buys lube, it's that I'm waiting for Blizz to start putting mounts worth chasing after that don't require being bribed into raiding back into the game.

[Heladys]

Money isn't an issue.

[Jaylock]

After WoD, stick that argument where the sun doesn't shine. It fell apart around that time, when every single last faction got the same mount in a different recolor, every single last rare dropped the same mount as a recolor and the unique mounts, mounts the factions are using ALL ended up on the store. Even the Moose was planned as a store mount and only made it into the game after massive backlash over the Panther during the content drought aswell as it's own announcement.

They are cutting corners left and right and this includes mounts, selling additional stuff on the store at the same time that is taken right out of the game is a disgusting practice that should neither be endorsed nor defended.

I defend the practice 100% because guess what?, its not cutting corners.

It is 100% optional. No one is forcing you to buy anything out of the cash shop. They create those mounts for people who don't mind spending a few bucks to have a highly unique cool mount. I can't tell you how many times people have asked me where i got my grinning reaver mount and asked how to get one.

They are head turning mounts that are optional.

[Banquetto]

Money isn't a issue for me but I would never pay for a mount.

Same. I'm only interested in mounts as signifiers of things I have done in-game (completed achievements, got reps to exalted, killed bosses, etc.)

No interest whatsoever in a mount that you just get by pulling out your wallet. Even if I was 1000x richer than I am and the price was impossible to even notice, rather than just "not an issue".

[Cæli]

None. During a big christmas sale I went crazy and bought like 115€ worth of that. It's nothing when you have a solid job, but still I regret it. Never again. At least my collection is more complete I'm telling to myself, which is someting ok to monetize when you have a game like wow. Which is why I'm not against cash shops but I don't want to pay for optional content. Spending ridiculous amounts of gold on the other hand, is not a problem.

I'd prefer if cash shops were shortcuts instead of exclusive things. Boost is a shortcut, the wow token also if you don't want to grind gold, it should be expanded to other services.

[Kryn]

Money's not in issue. Animation is.

[Ryzek]

Money is not an issue, bought them all, looking forward to more.

[Lochton]

OT: Probably all of them. I bought the first 3 but I just never use them now. If they go on sale, I might.

Off-topic:


RAF are the cheapest of them all!

1. Buy a WoW key when they're on sale for $5 (or get a really nice family member's/friend's WarCraft movie ticket if they went to a specific theater that gave out accounts)

2. Make a new email (or don't) and send a RAF recruitment email to that new email (or your current BNet account's email)

3. Make a trial account using the RAF link

4. Add the trial account to your BTag/RealID friends

5. Trade enough gold for 2 WoW tokens. You're technically only losing 1 (since the first reward is a free month on the recruiter account)

6. Use the 2 WoW tokens on the recruitee account. Now you have 2 months on the recruitee account, 1 free month on the recruiter account, and a RAF reward of your choice!

Oh, I know.. Just can't really be bothered, haha.

[IntellectuallyChallenged]

For each one of you saying you would never drop cash for a mount in the shop, I'll bet there are plenty more people standing in line in your place to throw their money at Blizzard. Buy them or not, Blizzard is getting their money. I get it though, at least your conscience is clear.

OT: I bought the Warforged Nightmare. It's one of my favorites.

[Banquetto]

All I see in this thread is "Money isn't an issue" .... Damn, must be nice... .____.

To be fair, they've added, what, ten mounts in six years? If you bought them all, it would still be a small fraction of what you spend on subscriptions in that time period.

[Deleted]

Got all of them already with the 50% discount they had over the years.

[Hurwyn]

Which cash shop mounts WOULD you buy if money wasn't an issue for you?

Here are the list of mounts available for sale:

• Armored Bloodwing (Only bat mount in game)
• Celestial Steed (Alagon inspired horse mount, one of a kind)
• Enchanted Fey Dragon (Only "chameleon" mount in game)
• Grinning Reaver (Only reaver class mount in game)
• Heart of the Aspects (Golden dragon, MoP inspired)
• Iron Skyreaver (Iron Horde two headed mount)
• Mystic Runesaber (Unique deep purple saber mount)
• Swift Windsteed (Completely unique mount, no real inspiration for it)
• Warforged Nightmare (Fun horse type mount that allows you to let friends copy the look and ride with you)
• Winged Guardian (Glowing Flying Lion type mount)

Personally I already own them all, but which would you buy if money wasn't an issue? What other types of mounts would you like to see added to the cash shop in the future? I would really like to see a completely unique demon type mount, maybe a tamed dreadlord!?

Lol are you trying to brag about owning 250 dollars worth of baddie store mounts? Do you realize I own vinyl figures worth more than 250 dollars? Lol...

I take it you're trolling plus I already know you're not all there, or anywhere close to even halfway there, but see my signature if you need further explanation.

[Gorgodeus]

This. I refuse to give them even one more euro than I have to. I'm not going to support the store and propagate micro transactions and cutting of content.

The store has nothing to do with content being cut. Try harder.

[OnlineSamantha]

How does it act as a deterrent to future mounts exactly? There are literally hundreds of mounts in game that cannot be purchased in the store. WoW is a business and businesses make money.

But they are not the same mounts. In the OP it even says "only bat mount" for example. The don't want to make more, because the people that REALLY want a bat as a amount will have other options than buying it from their store. By not making any more bat mounts, they essentially ensure that people have to pay real money to get one.

[Deleted]

Have bought several of them all. For myself and presents to friends and guildies. Same with all pets.

[Felfaadaern Darkterror]

My Troll rides the bat since it's the only bat mount available.

My Draenei pally rides the Celestial Steed (space pally!) and occasionally the fae dragon (since it seems to be a Draenei mount in WoD).

No particular use for any of the others atm. I choose mounts that match my character concepts, regardless of whether they're store mounts or raid drops or whatever hoops I need to jump through to get them.

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The store has nothing to do with content being cut. Try harder.

I don't mind buying from the store - out of boredom sometimes when I'm at work - but I agree they probably shift some stuff there as a monetary move. The Celestial Steed is the most obvious example. Surely that was inspired by Algalon, and was probably supposed to be a reward for killing one of the most challenging bosses ever (when he was current). I imagine we were supposed to get him when Algalon succumbed and sent us racing to transmit the message that would prevent the planet being reset. Then someone on the business end of Blizz saw the art and said "No - this is a money maker." Was that unfair to anyone? Idk. The mount would be much more exclusive if we'd had to kill Algalon for it. Even at the end of WoLK, Algalon was a tougher kill than Arthas imho. You'd have players farming the mount now, perhaps as a 1% drop the way they do Invincible.




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I kind of lol at all the talk about money and whether we should pay for store stuff, etc. Seriously? Does the average WoW player not have money to go to the movies? Because hour-for-hour, playing WoW is 100x cheaper than going out to the movies. Pretty darn cheap entertainment, even if you do splurge on something from the store occasionally.

[Deleted]

Bet blizz loves suckers like you.