New Stuff Coming to the Pet Store!
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
We’ve got some new stuff coming to the Pet Store, and we wanted to give everyone a quick sneak peek. Obviously, the Pet Store has been the place where we sell pets and mounts, but we’ve come up with some new types of cosmetic goodies, including some fun new little toys and Transmogrifiables.

First up: a trio of cosmetic helms for Transmogrification. ( Jewel of the Firelord, Hood of Hungering Darkness, and Crown of Eternal Winter) When Transmog went into the game, people immediately started talking about the possibility of just buying armor looks. So we’re going ahead and forging a few helms and seeing how they fit. They don’t have any stats, they’re just for looks, and you can use them to change the appearance of the helms for any characters of any class or race (they work with all armor types). They’re great for spicing up a Transmog set—or replacing a tier head piece you hate the looks of. No need to check that ‘Hide Helm’ box any longer!




Here are a few images, but keep in mind that these are all special-effecty and animated in a really cool way. You may have even seen these models pop up on Wowhead or MMO-Champion earlier this year.

We’re also trying out something else new. A lot of people have liked the kinds of fun, limited-use items you can get from the WoW TCG—so we’re taking that idea to the Pet Store. Soon you’ll be able to snag two fun new little toys: the Seesaw and Iron Hitching Post!

You can jump on the Seesaw with a party member and relive the childhood glee of trying to slam your friend into the ground . . . or you can have a big ogre named Lunk launch them into the air. Really, though, you’ll probably just look super cute gazing lovingly into each other’s eyes. D’awwwww.


True story: Worgen are exactly the same weight as Ogres.

The Iron Hitching Post is a little different: It’s an item you set down that allows you and up to 24 of your closest raiding cohorts to each jump on your own new unearthly Iron Warhorse mount. You can use it for smaller parties too, and it’s also great for Battlegrounds. Imagine the look on your opponents’ faces when they see a unified front of ghost horses galloping toward them . . . just to ruin everything and capture Snowfall Graveyard. (STOP IT!)




Hyah ghost-steed! Later I’ll feed you some ghost-oats in the ghost-barn.

We don’t have specific release dates for any of these items yet, but you can expect to see them show up in the Pet Store in the near future.

Let us know what you think, and what other kinds of fun and cosmetic items you might like to see in the Pet Store in the comments below!
This article was originally published in forum thread: New Stuff Coming to the Pet Store! started by chaud View original post
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  1. Orly's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Woakerio View Post
    In WoW stats are the most important thing, not looks. Just because a game doesn't charge a sub fee, doesn't make P2W cash shops ok. Cosmetic crap in a shop doesn't matter as long as the game stays good quality...
    Yes it does. Because it's free. If you don't care about competing with others then you don't pay a dime and play at your own leisure. If you want to be on par with absolutely ANYONE in what is essentially a F2P game, then you pay what is akin to a subscription fee to be on par with anyone else. And mind you, bottom line, buying stuff from shops is way cheaper than having a subscription. Because it's not recurring.

    But having BOTH subscription and having to buy cosmetics, which I argued it's an important part of the game? Now THAT is bullshit.
  1. Immitis's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by annoyingmoose View Post
    Wow so many doomsayers
    I think it's better method then adding these kind of things as TCG items.
    Do you guys know wow tcg didn't even launched in some countries(i mean...outside of america) and
    these region's players never had fun with tcg item like US ones?
    Also those loot card sellers..
    exactly. id rather just outright pay blizzard 5 bucks then spend hundreds of dollars combing through cards i dont give a shit about
  1. Netherspark's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Immitis View Post
    if you say so. i play this game for the lore. and the lore has been top knotch throughout the majority of this expansion. i could give a shit if they add a couple nice looking helmets for moniez.
    Lore is no different than cosmetics - It's intangible content that doesn't affect how you play the game. While you may play for lore, other people may play for cool looks and cosmetic things.

    So how would you feel if they started charging you extra to access lore-centric content?
  1. shanthi's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Netherspark View Post
    Is that a joke?

    Compare store mounts to ones recently added to the game.
    I think the Elegon mount and the challenge mode phoenixes are much better than any of the store mounts.

    - - - Updated - - -

    Quote Originally Posted by Netherspark View Post
    So how would you feel if they started charging you extra to access lore-centric content?
    They already do--the WoW novels and comics.
  1. ReleaseDay's Avatar
    Me and ppl from my old crew where hyped as fuck about 5.4 coming since that will (hopefully) solve the dead realm problems, but seing as this game is now going even more disgustingly P2W, most of us wont probably return to wow. This is a disgusting method of exploitative behaviour that takes activisions/blizzards greedyness to a whole new level. These absurd practices needs to end immediately.
  1. Spectre72's Avatar
    How's everyone doing tonight?
  1. Kuthe's Avatar
    GG.
    I'm so close to quitting.

    I can't believe they are doing this.
    Sub plus cosmetics + mounts.
    Insanely stupid.
  1. Azgraal's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ravyn727 View Post
    How's everyone doing tonight?
    With their panties in a bunch over nothing, it seems...
  1. Mouri Kogorou's Avatar
    the issue here is that tier design quality might go down the toilet.

    i mean non of the t16 helmets is better looking than any of these three helms.
  1. artem123's Avatar
    pretty smart move by them tbh
    People want to be special snowflakes.
    How do you let people be special snowflakes? Offer gear barely anyone else has
    Does it effect anyone? Nope. Does it hurt anyone? Nope. It actually helps people that care so much and cry about wanting to be a special snowflake

    anyway, its the same except some meh helms. Instead of a mount / pet its a helm. doesnt matter, yada yada. complain when they make you pay to unlock content and still have a sub payment
    also, priceless comments

    Also, dear people that say they will quit. stop, just stop. a majority of you wont quit, and they'd make more off the cosmetics and etc then over a handful of people
  1. McNeil's Avatar
    Predicted this for so long, and now it actually happens. More and more stuff for real money being added in the store, just because the subs are rapidly declining.

    And people being actually okay with it.... WHERE WERE YOU WHEN DEAD SPACE ANNOUNCED MICROTRANSACTIONS??? WHERE WERE YOU ?
  1. Azgraal's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kuthe View Post
    GG.
    I'm so close to quitting.

    I can't believe they are doing this.
    Sub plus cosmetics + mounts.
    Insanely stupid.
    Do you NEED any of those things to fully enjoy the game?

    If only i have had that celestial mount back on that AB match... that undead wouldn't have capped Stables like he did...

    /sarcasm
  1. Noctifer616's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by mandus View Post
    i mean non of the t16 helmets is better looking than any of these three helms.
    And non of the three shop helmets look better than the T16 ones. They all look like shit.
  1. Immitis's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Netherspark View Post
    Lore is no different than cosmetics - It's intangible content that doesn't affect how you play the game. While you may play for lore, other people may play for cool looks and cosmetic things.

    So how would you feel if they started charging you extra to access lore-centric content?
    they do. expansions, books, comics, ebooks.
  1. Kuthe's Avatar
    Also.
    The main problem I have this with is this;
    Who designs this stuff, they complain they didn't have enough people with resources to make good stuff in Cata, now look at them, wasting people making new shinies that can only be obtained with money.
    Awesome time expenditure.
  1. Immitis's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by mandus View Post
    the issue here is that tier design quality might go down the toilet.

    i mean non of the t16 helmets is better looking than any of these three helms.
    says you. im having a very hard time deciding whether i wanna be an ice king, a hoodie trickster, or a robit
  1. mmoc4359933d3d's Avatar
    New! On the Blizzard Store:

    5 player dungeon pack
    contains:
    Stockades Heroic Key
    Karazhan Tower Heroic Key
    Gomeregan Heroic Key

    Hey, nobody does 5mans anyway *right*? I mean, you can get the same gear and points from scenarios anyway so dungeons are like, tooooootally cosmetic.

    No game charging a sub fee should be using a cash shop to sell digital goods. They are essentially taking your money, then creating content from it to sell back to you for more money. It's a cheap practice. The very least they could do is allow you some way to earn these items in the game.
  1. PenguinChan's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kuthe View Post
    Also.
    The main problem I have this with is this;
    Who designs this stuff, they complain they didn't have enough people with resources to make good stuff in Cata, now look at them, wasting people making new shinies that can only be obtained with money.
    Awesome time expenditure.
    Weren't most of these created in the past, backlogged and just piling up for announcement? Hardly seems like they are expending anyone but a person to compile all these screenshots and text together.
  1. Netherspark's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Migas11 View Post
    Do you NEED any of those things to fully enjoy the game?

    If only i have had that celestial mount back on that AB match... that undead wouldn't have capped Stables like he did...

    /sarcasm
    YES. Some people DO need cool-looking items to enjoy the game. Who are you to say otherwise??

    Quote Originally Posted by Immitis View Post
    they do. expansions, books, comics, ebooks.
    Those are not in-game items............................... are they.

    Imagine if the 4.2 Thrall questline was only playable by paying extra. If the Shaohao quests were only for paying extra?
  1. McNeil's Avatar
    I wouldn't be suprised if the new character models are gonna cost real money aswell, simply because they're cosmetic...

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