Enchanted Sweeper Bundle: 2 Skyriding Broom Mounts and 600 Trader's Tender

Blizzard's greed knows no bounds...

Here just to read the comments. I got my popcorn ready. LETS GO!

such a roundabout way to sell tenders try no 2

i bet that this time everyone will praise blizzard unlike with try 1

::heavy sigh::

And here I thought Blizzard had learned to stop selling Tendies with shop bundles. Guess it was only a matter of time.

My live reaction.

Now, it makes sense why there is a low drop rate for this re-skinned mount in the game...

Shame on you devs!

Originally Posted by kamuimac

such a roundabout way to sell tenders try no 2

i bet that this time everyone will praise blizzard unlike with try 1

I get a lot of flak for being heavily in favor of most of Blizzard's offerings but I think putting Tendies on the store is both predatory and runs counter to the intended purpose of the TP. This is a bad look.

as long as its cosmetic i cant find the will to give a shit about stuff like this

Backdoor tender-selling, round 2.

they rly need to add tenders to the shop permanently

Originally Posted by Yrelen

Now, it makes sense why there is a low drop rate for this re-skinned mount in the game...

Shame on you devs!

I must be crazily lucky then, as it dropped on my first Apothecary kill today.

But yeah...guess the ppl were right who said that eventually tender would be sold on the shop.... /sigh

so now that's FOUR mounts that use that model that are just a little different.

1) Love is in the Air box mount, Purple on White
2) Silvermoon Sweeper currently on the Trading Post for 600 Tenders, Red on White
3 and 4 are these with Blue and darker Purple color schemes.

Ehhh... I'll pass.

I guess this is what you get after so many people bought the $90 brontosaurus.

Microsoft turned this game into a cashcow

Originally Posted by Yrelen

Now, it makes sense why there is a low drop rate for this re-skinned mount in the game...

Shame on you devs!

Brother you can buy the same skin of mount on the damn trading post vendor, and it's an extra tender month so not like it's hard to come up with the tender either.

I really question who in the hell is paying $30 for this lmao.

If these had unique models I could understand why someone would buy them, but just recolors is surprising that it's this much. For $20 I would have been tempted, but still said no to it, but $30? Hahah.....No.

Whales and collectors getting farmed lol, if blizz keeps this up then by the end of this saga players will have moved on to better more affordable games.

Originally Posted by thenazgul

Microsoft turned this game into a cashcow

WoW has ALWAYS been a cash cow. At its height of something like 12 million active subscriptions, Blizz was making at least $150mil a month off the game. That doesn't include original game purchase revenue and the store purchase revenue.

$30 for total mount # to increase by 2. I will probably never ride them.

Originally Posted by Dontrike

If these had unique models I could understand why someone would buy them, but just recolors is surprising that it's this much. For $20 I would have been tempted, but still said no to it, but $30? Hahah.....No.

That's what the Tender currency is for, to off-set what the mounts probably should cost! Or least instill a 'value' with the package to make it more enticing. Pick your poison, both options are spin.

No one should be surprised at this point, bunch of people were even calling it out the first time it happened, saying to expect more of the same. If one doesn't want to be surprised, pretend every official blue post and announcement is "lawer-speak", i.e. never take them at face value by default. I think when the Tender currency first got bundled into something, I said something along the lines of that Blizz teeeechnically isn't lying about selling Tender currency if you spin it as being 'free' in the name of value-added bonuses. For this specific sale, Blizz could technically keep their original statement as true by saying "The two mounts cost $30, but we're giving away 600 free Tender currency because we're nice guys and like giving you away free stuff." Reality is more like this being a calculated decision to leverage people into buying this product because the 600 Tender currency is there.

Originally Posted by deenman

they rly need to add tenders to the shop permanently

No. They need to allow players to permanently earn more tenders every month by optionally completing more of the monthly tasks. Not just buy tenders, which runs contrary to the stated reason for them implementing the trading post in the first place.