Warforged Nightmare - Available Now In-Game Through the Shop

When everyone has a sparkle pony, no one has a sparkle pony.

Originally Posted by RoKPaNda

That's the glass half empty way of looking at it. You're assuming that if this mount wasn't in the store there would be more content, or that this mount would be available by other means. It's equally, if not more likely, that if store mounts didn't sell this mount just wouldn't exist. If you don't like it, don't buy it. I don't like it, so I'm not buying it, but I won't begrudge someone else for buying it.

Why would they create content for free if they can make money by selling these items? Same for rehashing content. Why create new dungeons when you can just use an old one and update it a little.

Keep fooling yourself that it doesn't have any impact...

Originally Posted by Sastank

Bought it immediately. Started spreading the joy and popped down the hitching post in Shrine and invited anyone who wanted to ride one

Same, must have shared it with over 100 people by now ^^.

Originally Posted by SourceOfInfection

When everyone has a sparkle pony, no one has a sparkle pony.

No everyone still does.

Originally Posted by Deviant

So people have money to blow. Why do you care that other people are riding it... Why can't you just use the mount because I don't know it's kewl.

Hipster e-peening mentality I'd bet.

I'm not going to say that it cost us a tier of content even though they have made 4-5 store mounts since SoO was implemented. What I will say is that the team that works on those models could work on updated Moonkin form models for WoD. And I am willing to bet that we won't see those.

Originally Posted by Rorcanna

I get the point, it's not a very intelligent one though thus I say it's silly since no amount of store mounts would make them postpone the EXPANSION, which will bring in the big dough. You go argue with the dog, maybe it will just agree with you blindly. Fact: With or without store mounts, the expansion would take as long as it will to come out.

Also, this discussion with pissy people throwing insults at others for buying stuff for their hobby takes place with every new store item.

Obviously you are not getting the point.

Originally Posted by Tommo

Look, WoW's models are cartoony and basic, which is fine, I love the style, but I have serious problems believing they have to abandon projects as simple and basic as a mount, because they cant fund it. They own WoW / SC / Diablo / HS some of, if not the biggest games on the market right now, as well as the bustling eSports scene that surrounds these games.

Its almost unthinkable for me to assume they cannot release these mounts without the (most likely) hundreds of thousands of dollars they make from just 1.

I wont go out of my way to ostracise these players, but I will voice my opinion on how I see the curve going (which is up, up and away).

If all of the mounts that came with Soo were enough to keep the player base happy. Why would they make more? How do you know the 25$ per mount doesn't incentive them to make more? Rather then they would just add more cause....

Classy blizzard... Classy.

Originally Posted by Rorcanna

I get the point, it's not a very intelligent one though thus I say it's silly since no amount of store mounts would make them postpone the EXPANSION, which will bring in the big dough. You go argue with the dog, maybe it will just agree with you blindly. Fact: With or without store mounts, the expansion would take as long as it will to come out.

Also, this discussion with pissy people throwing insults at others for buying stuff for their hobby takes place with every new store item.

Ah, so Blizzard say they are too busy to make pretty much anything that players request (moonkin form etc) and give us content and are working on WoD, anything that the players request will apparently come at the expense of something else (raid tier was the words they used), yet WoD alpha is only just out, beta announcement is nowhere to be seen, and they still find time to make all of these store mounts and crap (yet no content for us) which takes time so by Blizzard logic is actually delaying the expansion.

This clearly isn't an intelligent point though because Blizzard clearly don't want your money and aren't milking you, they just want to help you to get to 250 mounts

Lol and QQers are shouting Wildstar being P2W because of the CREED.......

I can't believe people actually put that kind of money on a mount in WoW. It doesn't matter if you can afford it or not, it's still way over-priced and the buyers are basically ruining the game by saying it's okay to have a subscription based game where you still have to shell out an insane amount of money if you want all the mounts.

Same skeleton as the Windsteed. Even has the same running/flying sounds. (The snorts REALLY throw the sound off). 4/10, another number for my mount collection, will only be used when my random macro pulls it out.

Originally Posted by TJ

Ah, so Blizzard say they are too busy to make pretty much anything that players request (moonkin form etc) and give us content and are working on WoD, anything that the players request will apparently come at the expense of something else (raid tier was the words they used), yet WoD alpha is only just out, beta announcement is nowhere to be seen, and they still find time to make all of these store mounts and crap (yet no content for us) which takes time so by Blizzard logic is actually delaying the expansion.

This clearly isn't an intelligent point though because Blizzard clearly don't want your money and aren't milking you, they just want to help you to get to 250 mounts

A mount with like seven animations take a lot less time to make then a tier of content or even a dungeon. Was it a scumbag move for them to put it in the store yeah but they have every right. Content takes a lot longer then making one mount bro they aren't equivalent but I do agree its a d bag move.

Originally Posted by Sastank

Bought it immediately. Started spreading the joy and popped down the hitching post in Shrine and invited anyone who wanted to ride one

Same.

every time Blizzard pulls a new mount out its pretty much a license to print money.

30$ ? Stay classy blizz, you never fail to deliver.

$30? Nope.

Originally Posted by Deviant

A mount with like seven animations take a lot less time to make then a tier of content or even a dungeon. Was it a scumbag move for them to put it in the store yeah but they have every right. Content takes a lot longer then making one mount bro they aren't equivalent but I do agree its a d bag move.

Point is they say they don't have time to do anything outside of WoD development, yet clearly they do have time to add this stuff to the shop, they are always contradicting themselves. No, making mounts and such doesn't take as much as a whole raid, but the time probably could've been used to develop a filler raid for MoP. Raids like RS wouldn't have taken long to implement/design at all compared to ICC etc.

Originally Posted by Arrashi

30$ ? Stay classy blizz, you never fail to deliver.

Indeed.


/eweqwe

Originally Posted by Tommo

Lets not pretend the store mounts are a labour of love, they are marketed to be highly appealing (ie more unique than another 50 reskinned cloud serpents). First bat mount is in store / first colour changing mount also in store. Both arent technological feats they are just good marketing.

I dont doubt they are incentivised to make more mounts because of the cash, but thats a terrible thing to be racing after, in a game where you already pay monthly and initially.

Its not to them because they're laughing all the way to the bank broseph.