Duncan Jones Interviews, Legion Jewelcrafting Neck Items, Tweets, DLC #539

[thilicen]

I'm a hardcore collector of anything... mounts/pets/toys with several millions banked across many accounts.

And I'd rather sell these millions of gold for real life money and pay for a vacation trip + flight + hotel + good time, rather than giving it to this stupid trader.

Unless you are sitting on a good 300 billion gold I'd start saving up a buffer to pay for that vacation. :<

They aren't really -that- exciting items anyway (well, dat rainbow doe), mostly just a sink for people to throw gold at since there are a lot of people who simply don't have anything to spend it on.

[Chickat]

Eh, id say the mount could be 200k. Toy 40k, Pet 20k, Bag 30k

[Deleted]

Unless you are sitting on a good 300 billion gold I'd start saving up a buffer to pay for that vacation. :<

They aren't really -that- exciting items anyway (well, dat rainbow doe), mostly just a sink for people to throw gold at since there are a lot of people who simply don't have anything to spend it on.

Dont confuse current gold prices with the Legion gold price.

[Enter Name Here]

I think it's cheaper for ActiBlizz to create 1 item @ 2,000,000G than 20 items @ 100,000G

[Explicit Teemo Nudes]

ahahaha, all you poor people in the comments thinking these prices are high! Too many players are currently sitting on too much gold. 10k, 100k, and 500k price tags that you are suggesting is nothing these days. I'm sorry, but you're stupid if you still don't know how to make gold in WoW these days(no, it doesn't take a lot of time). If you can't afford these things they are not meant for you. There will be other gold sinks for you... like repair fees, haha.

[Assumi]

ahahaha, all you poor people in the comments thinking these prices are high! Too many players are currently sitting on too much gold. 10k, 100k, and 500k price tags that you are suggesting is nothing these days. I'm sorry, but you're stupid if you still don't know how to make gold in WoW these days(no, it doesn't take a lot of time). If you can't afford these things they are not meant for you. There will be other gold sinks for you... like repair fees, haha.

Thanks for displaying your inability to actually read the comments and instead act like a petulant child who thinks he's cooling for having gold in a video game.

This sink will remove fuck all from the economy. No one is going to buy a 1,000,000g pet. No one is going to spend 500,000g on a bag that has 4 more slots than a 500g bag. Blizzard has already tried this asinine overpriced vanity item gold sink strategy before and it failed for a reason. Economy 101, what do you think pulls more money from the general market, $1,300,000 Bugattis or $35,000 Hondas?

[mekatron]

You don't drain money from people by adding massive price tags, that gives people sticker shock. You do it like every casino and theme park does it. You offer up many attractive things with decent prices. 20k here, 40k here, 34k. The average people won't really notice themselves spending this gold on each item, but before they know it they've bought 40 items and blown 850,000g total. That's how you drain gold, it's a tried and true method used in the real world for centuries.

Exactly.

They don't intend this to be a gold sink. 1) for the reason above and
2) this vendor will be a rare spawn, very much like Voidtalon, with several different spawn locations and no fixed spawn timer, so even if u were lucky enough to find him, u maybe won't have the gold to spend. So it's a collector thing, not meant to drive ppl insane in the beginning of the game for something they can't afford. If u wanna show off, u'll have to have the gold and then hunt him down. So it's very very very unique.

[Explicit Teemo Nudes]

Thanks for displaying your inability to actually read the comments and instead act like a petulant child who thinks he's cooling for having gold in a video game.

This sink will remove fuck all from the economy. No one is going to buy a 1,000,000g pet. No one is going to spend 500,000g on a bag that has 4 more slots than a 500g bag. Blizzard has already tried this asinine overpriced vanity item gold sink strategy before and it failed for a reason.

Taking 200k for the mount and 40k for the pet won't remove "fuck" either, Mr Adult.
The only poorly designed gold sink is the bag, the rest are fine.

[Nevcairiel]

The Mad Merchant is not supposed to be a gold sink, read here:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/to...5664?page=3#54

I don't get why everyone gets so rilled up about the merchant. If you don't like his gold costs, just ignore him and move on with your life, its not like its mandatory for you to buy something from him. Some crazy people will buy the mount and they'll have a very rare mount to call their own, I don't see how thats so bad.

Back in BC we had this super expensive bag from Haris Pilton, which everyone said was way too expensive to buy for a mere few slots extra. It cost 1200g (and later on got a new one with 2 more slots for 3000g!). Think about that.

[Rafoel]

Thrall would be an interesting character to focus on in one of the next two movies.

Please no. Not again.

[Dan Delion]

2) this vendor will be a rare spawn, very much like Voidtalon, with several different spawn locations and no fixed spawn timer,

Source? I haven't seen anything stating that.

[Deleted]

Look at the bright side: Item prices like these are the perfect antidote against excessive WoW item hoarding. If any of you are still bothered by excessive collecting of toys, pets or mounts, then Legion will emphasize just how futile it is. You will likely never be 'done', nor will your collection ever be anywhere near complete. So just let it go.

Pick your companion pet to match your 'mog or RP style, grab your favorite mount and be done with it.

[Fragarach]

Personally don't see why everyone's crying about expensive items when people who are good at the other sides of the game (Glad mounts, mythic raid mounts) get prestige rewards for being good?

Anyway onto those necks, they seem slightly all over the place, Druid for example gives 1000 versa, tripled whilst outdoors, whereas Shaman gets health regen only while swimming or standing in water? Granted it's early beta but they seem very lacklustre for a lot of classes haha.

Nice Diablo 3 necks

This is World of Diablocraft now haven't you noticed? Bounties, GRifts, Treasure Demons and so on?

[Arvandor]

i would NOT pay for two other orc movies!

wow had so much more interesting lore..

please no more orcs!

[Deleted]

i would NOT pay for two other orc movies!

wow had so much more interesting lore..

please no more orcs!

Totally agree! It feels like orcs are Blizzards most favorite in World of Warcraft with Thrall being forever good character. Blizz didnt mind destroying some good characters (even Jaina had to go crazy though one would think she would be last to do it), making them often enemy bosses but somehow Thrall is this one good forever character. Even if I like Thrall character there is too much of him everywhere...

I would prefer to see movie with Night Elf focus as they got very long and complicated story. Then we got interesting Dreanei, human with Arthas and Jaina to make some heroic movie, even worgen and trolls are less exploited than orcs. Orcs are just boring and besides their demonic corruption there is no special background to them, just barbarians.

[Deleted]

WTF are those prices ???

are you freaking kidding me ?

That delayed outrage, lol. We've known these new prices for over a month now.

[Tomana]

Accurate comic is accurate.

Yep it shows clearly why MMOs are dying slowly and painfully.

[Acidz]

Hahaha that comic.

[snackfeat]

Because the market of people willing to spend 2,000,000 gold on a single item is so incredibly small that these sinks will not remove any notable amount from the general economy.

Many items priced 20k-100k would be more attractive to a wider amount of players and would be far more effective at draining gold from the economy.

The amount of players with 2,000,000g to even spend is still tiny, even with WoDs free gold fountain. You're going to be better off getting 10,000 people to spend 100k on an item than to try and get 2,000,000g out of the very tiny fraction of people who have it, especially considering the people with that level of gold tend to hoard it, they aren't the type to spend lots of money, or else they'd never have saved up that much to begin with.

You don't drain money from people by adding massive price tags, that gives people sticker shock. You do it like every casino and theme park does it. You offer up many attractive things with decent prices.

20k here, 40k here, 34k. The average people won't really notice themselves spending this gold on each item, but before they know it they've bought 40 items and blown 850,000g total. That's how you drain gold, it's a tried and true method used in the real world for centuries.

You are missing the entire point of this vendor. It's not meant to be a gold sink, when the blue poster talked about this and said that the price is not going to change, he said their goal with this was not to make it a gold sink but rather a vanity reward aimed at people with millions of gold if they want to buy it.

[Zequill]

"Jones want/wanted this, Jones want/wanted that" And this is the real issue with all kind of adaption. How big of a ego do you need to have to take an already wrote story and start changing right and left to make it "better". I understand when you need to cut stuff that coundn't fit into the new format, but not when you change the story.