Blizzard is actually being pretty stupid here. They could have slapped those mounts up in the shop for 30 bucks a piece and people would have bought them. Just put some other junk as the prize for virtual ticket and you probably make more money.
Lets be realistic here; they needed to add something like the mount after the number of subscribers they drove away from the game in the RNG grindfest known as Legion. It is a good move by Blizzard but they better have a pretty impressive Blizzcon in order to bring 5-10 million back again to buy another exp pack.
And I would just like to point out here that much of the major announcements will be at the Opening ceremony.
Which is , has been and probably always will be a FREE stream.
40 bucks to watch their adds, sounds resonable!
If you are going to pay 40$ for a mount you'll use 2 days and then realize you're just proving to people you have done a dumb purchase when you use it and see so many people have it... you're as dumb as I was when I bought the Celestial Steed.
Never again.
Aside from stream lag and quality the panels being covered was fairly good in the early years with many just being available later. Last few years it seems far more panels are just out right not being recorded. I would understand if Blizzard was trying to get people to go to the convention as an exclusivity perk but this is not the case as many people who can and would go cant get tickets due to how popular it is. I am no longer so interested in the main events as they are highly publicized. I want to see the stuff that rarely gets covered or some journalist covers a week later.
At this point the stream does not have much value to me. The cosmetics feel like the main selling point and I do not care to drop money on cosmetics.
lol I haven't seen the mount yet, but can pretty much guarantee I'll feel no need to buy it. If they did make it special, good on them; they should make stuff special if they want their event to be special. As for the price of such things, I am amazed at the price of so many things, I am beyond being shocked. Have you seen the price of concert tickets lately? Movie tickets?
Has it even been a month since the last store mount? Nice to see that my $15 plus expansion payments makes not one, but three high quality mounts this month, unavailable in-game.
Limited time "store mount" smh. Worst of both worlds.
But as greedy as Blizzard has always been, I can't blame them too much. Why settle for $65 for all the content when you can make them pay so much more? If it works, it works.
But it's the game we play, so I can't be too salty about it.
Ok, I just looked, and I'm pretty confident I can get by without them.
It's all just entertainment, pixels on a screen. Make your choices like you do for any other pixels, whether it's pay-per-view or game subscriptions: If you can afford it and feel you'd enjoy it, treat yourself! If you can't afford it or don't think it would add much to your day, let it go. If this is your biggest dilemma in life, kudos. Things must be going well for you.
I think you mean ~400k gold.$40!!!
Last store mount was nearly 3 months ago and is the only one added in Legion.
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Luminous_Starseeker
And who is making anyone pay anything? Blizzard don't have a gun to your head here.
Last edited by Eleccybubb; 2017-09-14 at 05:36 AM.