Update: Added a post with additional details.

Introducing Azeroth Choppers


Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Earlier today, we announced the Azeroth Choppers head-to-head match-up between the Horde and Alliance, and we’re very excited to share the upcoming episodes and final bike creations with you. We saw a few questions following the announcement and wanted to take a moment to clarify things.

First, we want to make it clear that players globally will be able to vote for their favorite faction bike—either Alliance or Horde. Second, the bike that receives the most votes will then be made into a faction-specific-only mount and be available FREE to all players (usable when playing characters of the winning faction, of course). Your vote will be very important and could just be the one that lands your favorite faction a shiny new mount. If you haven’t watched the trailer yet, check it out here and stay tuned to Azerothchoppers.com for more details!

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Led by legendary chopper builder Paul Jr., Team Horde will face off against Team Alliance to determine which epic custom-built bike will come out on top in the ultimate showdown. When the dust settles and the final designs are revealed it will be YOUR vote that decides which of these mechanical marvels will be recreated as an in-game mount.

Meet the Blizzard Teams

Horde
  • Sam Didier
  • Jason Hutchins
  • Gary Platner

Alliance
  • Chris Metzen
  • Terran Gregory
  • Monte Krol

Don’t miss out on all of the action! Azeroth Choppers premieres 4.17.14 on http://www.AzerothChoppers.com
This article was originally published in forum thread: Introducing Azeroth Choppers started by chaud View original post
Comments 443 Comments
  1. Triggered Fridgekin's Avatar
    Buckle up and prepare for the losing faction's endless QQ threads, especially if the Horde wins.
  1. Belenus's Avatar
    FINISH WoD ALREADY!
    Dafuq is wrong with these people?!
  1. Maleagant's Avatar
    Horde or Alliance who cares it is a free bike mount and when Blizzard gives me something for free I see no reason to complain.Lots of companies use the bikes for promotional purposes at trade shows or auction them off as a charity fundraiser.

    Would not surprise me if Blizzard released the losing bike one week later.
  1. Vasaru's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by lohengren View Post
    So Horde gets a free mount? Just for being Horde?

    That's bullshit
    I'm just pessimistic because I think the horde will win.
  1. IKT's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Tyr216 View Post
    Sam Didier's hair is still epic.
    Main thing I noticed, the guy just screams EPIC
  1. Demoncrash's Avatar
    The guys at OC Choppers do make some pretty sick bikes, so i'am looking forward to see what they some with.
  1. Vasaru's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Jaylock View Post
    Dumb.

    I could care less about this.
    So you do actually care a little bit then?
  1. Fleshrender's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Jevlin View Post
    Why would we be happy with Blizzard spending company money on something that we never gonna get any joy from? Would you be happy if I told you I bought myself a Porsche for taxpayer money? Would that give YOU any satisfaction knowing that I bought myself a nice car for your money?
    Bro, just because you pay a sub to play the game doesn't mean you can dictate what Blizzard should spend their money on.

    You pay to play the game, and you got what you paid for, you don't have a say in anything else.

    Also your analogy is fail because they aren't even the same thing.
  1. powerstuck's Avatar
    Like there was not enough faction imbalance, making the winning chopper usable by all, but only while playing a winning faction character is definitely not going to help.
  1. mmoc5e3a361b6a's Avatar
    Oh look, some crappy series to try and fill the lull between expansions.
  1. -aiko-'s Avatar
    I wonder what they gave Metzen to convince him to be Alliance...
  1. Rocketsauce's Avatar
    This is the dumbest thing I have ever seen related to wow.
  1. Lumineus's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by aikoyamamato View Post
    I wonder what they gave Metzen to convince him to be Alliance...
    Maybe they finally let him make his Emerald Dream expansion, where it's all-Malfurion, all-the-time.
  1. Solidusbr's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Hotfingers View Post
    FOR THE HORDE rubrubrurbrubrurbr RURBRBRBURBRURB rubrrubrubrurbrubrrubrurbr
  1. mmoca79f018270's Avatar
    Hehe, all the rage against this...

    Pretty funny idea, and won't it please the anti-polarization people? =D
  1. yetgdhfgh's Avatar
    Well at least the mount wont be Blizzstore which makes a nice change

    I have both horde and Alliance toons so i wont be too devastated if my chosen faction doesnt win
  1. Druidjezus's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Fleshrender View Post
    Bro, just because you pay a sub to play the game doesn't mean you can dictate what Blizzard should spend their money on.

    You pay to play the game, and you got what you paid for, you don't have a say in anything else.

    Also your analogy is fail because they aren't even the same thing.
    It's amazing how few people on these boards understand this even in the slightest.

    I really wish people would understand the following:

    You pay Blizzard to play WoW
    You get to play WoW
    YOU DO NOT HAVE A SAY IN ANYTHING ELSE THEY DO NOR SHOULD THEY CARE HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT EVERY LITTLE THING THEY CHOOSE TO DO!!!!!!

    Yes, you are, either by constitutional right or because it's the interwebs, permitted to say just about whatever the fuck you want, but all I am saying is that those people saying 'I don't give them my money for this' are complete fucking retards, no contest, not opinion, outright fact. They're retarded.

    I work for a company (not Blizzard). And we have customers, millions of em. And we take money from those customers. Guess what we spend it on? Whatever the hell we think is best for ourselves and the company! We spend customers money on BBQs sometimes. Sometimes we spend it to buy pizza. Every now and then we'll spend it for people to travel so they can spend a few paid workdays (also paid for by customers) just to mingle and unwind. Do you think we CARE that our customers would say 'that's not developing the product that I pay you for!"?

    Absolutely not, because only an idiot thinks that every penny they spend on something is reinvested into making the product better for them.

    If anyone here can honestly say that they work for a company where every cent of revenue they earn is directly put back towards improving the product the revenue came from, please feel free to fork over some balance sheets and expense reports and I will diligently go over them until you're proven wrong because the fact of the matter is, THAT A COMPANY LIKE THAT DOES NOT EXIST ANYWHERE EVER!! Yet some people on here seem to think that it's not even an ideal to shoot for, but is to be expected? Pull the fucking stupid out of your ears and please never interact with other sane human beings again!!!
  1. Rabian's Avatar
    Awhile ago they said they had an idea to fix faction imbalance and long bg que times for horde. Solution? Create a faction contest for a badass mount, rig it, alliance gets new chopper, more people PvP on alliance side, bg que times fixed! Ta Dah!
  1. mmoc7fc23bbf2a's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Druidjezus View Post
    It's amazing how few people on these boards understand this even in the slightest.

    I really wish people would understand the following:

    You pay Blizzard to play WoW
    You get to play WoW
    YOU DO NOT HAVE A SAY IN ANYTHING ELSE THEY DO NOR SHOULD THEY CARE HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT EVERY LITTLE THING THEY CHOOSE TO DO!!!!!!

    Yes, you are, either by constitutional right or because it's the interwebs, permitted to say just about whatever the fuck you want, but all I am saying is that those people saying 'I don't give them my money for this' are complete fucking retards, no contest, not opinion, outright fact. They're retarded.

    I work for a company (not Blizzard). And we have customers, millions of em. And we take money from those customers. Guess what we spend it on? Whatever the hell we think is best for ourselves and the company! We spend customers money on BBQs sometimes. Sometimes we spend it to buy pizza. Every now and then we'll spend it for people to travel so they can spend a few paid workdays (also paid for by customers) just to mingle and unwind. Do you think we CARE that our customers would say 'that's not developing the product that I pay you for!"?

    Absolutely not, because only an idiot thinks that every penny they spend on something is reinvested into making the product better for them.

    If anyone here can honestly say that they work for a company where every cent of revenue they earn is directly put back towards improving the product the revenue came from, please feel free to fork over some balance sheets and expense reports and I will diligently go over them until you're proven wrong because the fact of the matter is, THAT A COMPANY LIKE THAT DOES NOT EXIST ANYWHERE EVER!! Yet some people on here seem to think that it's not even an ideal to shoot for, but is to be expected? Pull the fucking stupid out of your ears and please never interact with other sane human beings again!!!
    Whatever God paid you for that God's work.. that is fact and 100% true ... - (no sarcasm) - ... you need a raise.
  1. Aetal's Avatar
    Oddly looking forward to this. Seems like it could be fun to watch, plus who doesn't want another mount

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