Originally Posted by
Lancun
People all the time use the Ironbound Drake because of the coloration of it/they like Ulduar. Blizzard had a model in mind set up where every meta achievement would lose its mount reward after the next tier, but the idea was so unpopular that it got scrapped after one tier of it. You get your special snowflake moment for a tier when you're the only folks on the server with the mounts, then slowly as the content becomes more accessible, more folks have access to it. Midwinter's got some publicity for being World First Glory of the Pandaria raider with that awesome Heavenly Ruby Cloud Serpent, and that's going to mean nothing once the next tier comes out. It has nothing to do with the effort you put in for the mount because everything gets easier with time/more gear/levels. You get the satisfaction for weeks/months of turning the heads of everyone on your server, that's what it's about.
Blizzard made the decision to go back on the meta mounts being temporary rewards almost immediately after it was implemented because of all the backlash. The point of the BMAH is that it provides an alternative option if raiding or farming isn't your thing, even for something as easy to get as the Ulduar drakes, and if they reimplement the achievement reward, the Naxx Drakes. Pay for something now instead of getting it later, that's the mindset. People pay mountains of money for the Ashes of A'lar mount on the BMAH still, despite the fact that Tempest Keep is just a mindless faceroll that takes about ten minutes to get through now and you're going to get the mount eventually, same thing for Raven Lord.
Hell, with the advent of account-wide mounts, it makes even less sense when you could just make 10 level 90s and just blitz through every instance every day/week and you're almost guaranteed to get everything eventually. Invincible will one day be the same way, probably by the next expansion when LK25H's numbers are so laughable and you're character's putting out 500k DPS.
The point that I'm trying to make is this. Nothing in this game has timeless rarity (aside from a few token things like Corrupted Ashbringer, Atiesh, legacy titles, or Black Qiraji Battle tank, the truly old-school aspects of an era long gone. If you're going to go back on your word of turning mount rewards off of meta achievements months after you make said announcement, then there's no point in keeping the restriction in place, especially when ANYONE, one person or millions, can get it just by buying something that was meant to stay in the past. If you make an exception for one, you should just make it for all of them. "Screwing" someone over who paid a lot by making the meta achievements reward the mounts again at a later time is stupid logic. I could buy A'lar for 250k on the BMAH and get it the day after while running Tempest Keep for transmog. Blizzard didn't screw me, I screwed me by not waiting until I stopped running it.