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New In-Game Shop Mount - Hogrus, Swine of Good Fortune!
A new flying pig mount has been added to the in-game shop for $25 / 25 Euro. In case you missed it, the Vulpine Familiar shop mount was released last month.




Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
A Sign of Good Fortune Ahead
Legends say that in his hour of deepest doubt, Emperor Shaohao, last ruler of the Pandaren Empire, was visited by Hogrus, Swine of Good Fortune, as he meditated upon his people’s future. Today, pandaren across Azeroth consider Hogrus to be a sign of prosperity and great things to come. You would be wise to seek his blessing as you pursue your own fortune, wherever the four winds may take you.

This lucky new mount is bound to propel you into a prosperous year ahead—and it’s now available in the Blizzard Shop and World of Warcraft in-game shop.

Purchase Now!
This article was originally published in forum thread: New In-Game Shop Mount - Hogrus, Swine of Good Fortune! started by chaud View original post
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  1. kulviks's Avatar
    lol at all the kids going, "LOL the greed" they only fucking make them, because poeple keep buying them. Its like complaining about the way shitty mobile games are made, where they are made up from, you giving them loads and loads of money, to progress faster in the game, but they only keep making them that way, because people keep throwing LOADS AND LOADS of money at them, dont fucking blame blizzard from wanting to earn more money, when people happely throw it at them, if YOU dont like it, just dont fucking buy it jessus christ kids.

    ps. prolly gonna buy this mount my self, because i like how it looks, and dont really care about the 25€, in the end we all spend money on stupid shit just enjoy it and move along.
  1. Guinness's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by kulviks View Post
    lol at all the kids going, "LOL the greed" they only fucking make them, because poeple keep buying them. Its like complaining about the way shitty mobile games are made, where they are made up from, you giving them loads and loads of money, to progress faster in the game, but they only keep making them that way, because people keep throwing LOADS AND LOADS of money at them, dont fucking blame blizzard from wanting to earn more money, when people happely throw it at them, if YOU dont like it, just dont fucking buy it jessus christ kids.

    ps. prolly gonna buy this mount my self, because i like how it looks, and dont really care about the 25€, in the end we all spend money on stupid shit just enjoy it and move along.
    Well have fun with that db. You are part of the problem.
  1. Bane-Thunder-God's Avatar
    Well atleast the store mounts are still the ugliest in the game.

    I continue to farm for Midnight in kara... :P
  1. Devilyaki's Avatar
    I got mine! Anyone else?
  1. reauxmont's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Cavox View Post
    You mean when paying for a video game and then paying a sub meant I could work for items in-game? When I could escape into a more fair world where it doesn't matter how wealthy I am in real life and be put on equal footing with other players?
    MADNESS
    Are you implying that cosmetics are giving other players unfair advantages?
  1. Guldraenor's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by kulviks View Post
    lol at all the kids going, "LOL the greed" they only fucking make them, because poeple keep buying them. Its like complaining about the way shitty mobile games are made, where they are made up from, you giving them loads and loads of money, to progress faster in the game, but they only keep making them that way, because people keep throwing LOADS AND LOADS of money at them, dont fucking blame blizzard from wanting to earn more money, when people happely throw it at them, if YOU dont like it, just dont fucking buy it jessus christ kids.

    ps. prolly gonna buy this mount my self, because i like how it looks, and dont really care about the 25€, in the end we all spend money on stupid shit just enjoy it and move along.
    As a man with university degree, I find it rather interesting that childish people are the ones who call other people "children", "immature" and things like that.

    There is a reason why I myself don't like microtransactions and things like this.

    Team Fortress 2 is totally fine, it is FREE and most of the shop items doesn't give advantages.

    But when it comes to full-priced games, cosmetic crap just makes me scratch my head. The biggest problem is not Blizzard themselves, but I see a trend spread among the gaming companies. They are selling a game for a full-price with no microtransactions, just to lower the price after a few weeks and put micro-transactions on it.

    I had a game where I actually paid full-price for, just to know that it would go free with micro-transactions. It frustrated me so much, that I sold my gaming computer just to buy Switch.

    I personally don't care about WoW, i've already quit the game but like Bethesda, EA and so on, I just love watching the trainwreck. They think that these players who are spending tons of money on in-game shop items is going to save the game. Until every person with "toxic masculinity" abandon the ship and the game just dies off after trying to squeeze every single penny out of these people.

    I hope Nintendo doesn't go the same way.
  1. Razorice's Avatar
    Man, that is one UGLY mount.
  1. Sigxy's Avatar
    Again, something much different from what we can get in-game which you have to pay for. And it wasn't even that long ago since we had another cash shop mount.

    Why are we paying monthly subs for this game again when they keep releasing these things...?
  1. Elba's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by snackfeat View Post
    You're an idiot, it does have an in-game impact. While we get nothing but recolors from in game rewards, the unique models go into the cash shop.
    No it doesn't have impact. Your griffon or wyvern has the exact same properties. Hell, the Sky Golem you can buy on the AH is even superior as it allows you to gather herbs.

    Quote Originally Posted by korijenkins View Post
    The item took time and resources to make that could've been spent elsewhere. Also...

    They could've just put it in-game for free. No real reason for a game with a box price and a mandatory subscription to have a shop full of ugly mounts.
    Quote Originally Posted by Exkrementor View Post
    It does impact the game when all the resources are put into making new shop content instead of making new ingame content. Espacially when the game is totaly broken and unfinished like it is in BFA. Also this is the second shop mount in a few weeks.

    That said: people would be super mad if china got a cool mount that american or european couldnt get. So it is kinda a lose/lose situation for Blizzard here.

    I just bought it for 350k gold because its an awesome flying piggy. No regrets.
    Quote Originally Posted by ChieftainGabe View Post
    The idea is that I pay 15 dollars to play the game per month, I pay 60 dollars to buy an expansion, the 15 dollars part is a promise to keep the game running and to have new content flowing, the 60 is to have a huge payload of content up front and other additional things added to the purchase. so part of my 15/60 depending on how you view it. got put into peoples pay check to make a really well made mount (doesn't matter what mount) and I don't have any possible way of getting it without giving them more money. I don't care personally about this if the game is in a good state bug wise / gameplay wise / and content wise. but one to two of those aren't up to par at all. (my class was but then they decided to take another shit on enhancement shaman.) so I care that time and money got put into making this when it could be made into fixing bugs / actually looking into problems with gameplay on classes that are having them. (enhancement didn't have any cause the game magically aligned itself and azerite/talents fixed gameplay but then they didn't look into anything saw a couple traits were "overperforming" compared to other traits so they nerfed them into oblivion. and now they are worse then all the traits and are compareable if you switch talents and still underperform to other talents/azerite compared to a different talent and azerite trait combination. it's actually fucking retarded they would sit there and nerf a class that is underperforming without any compensation.)
    But store mounts generate resources. When people buy them that means more money for the game.
  1. ImpalerEU's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Mendzia View Post
    "Do not like it - do not buy it"
    "It has no in game inpact"
    "I am resubbing coz this mount"

    Current WoW community makes me really sad.
    The same exact losers virtually exist right outside the Apple store. "OMGGG YOU ARE BUYING A PHONE AND IPAD THIS PRICE?!?!?!, WOOOAH!!!". Just buy what you want and walk right off these losers like they don't exist. Every community has parasites.
  1. Exkrementor's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Elba View Post


    But store mounts generate resources. When people buy them that means more money for the game.
    All evidence points to the contrary. WoW is making more money per person than ever with new mounts, WoW tokens and higher prices for server transfers and stuff but the WoW team is getting reduced because of mobile games and shit. More money just means more money for blizzard.
  1. snackfeat's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Elba View Post
    No it doesn't have impact. Your griffon or wyvern has the exact same properties. Hell, the Sky Golem you can buy on the AH is even superior as it allows you to gather herbs.







    But store mounts generate resources. When people buy them that means more money for the game.
    You are delusional if you think the resources generated by the store mount actually goes into developing the game. Blizzard is cutting costs. This is all for their bottom line, and gullible people like you are the reason why the gaming industry have turned into this greedy pile of garbage where companies sees people as payers rather than players.
  1. Eleccybubb's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Exkrementor View Post
    All evidence points to the contrary. WoW is making more money per person than ever with new mounts, WoW tokens and higher prices for server transfers and stuff but the WoW team is getting reduced because of mobile games and shit. More money just means more money for blizzard.
    Where is the WoW team getting reduced? Do you have a source for this claim?

    All I remember in the past was that the support staff in Europe had a huge reduction. Support staff does not only handle WoW nor do they have any say in game design.
  1. dranlord's Avatar
    lol why ppl get mad about reskins mounts sell on store.

    No a single mount on the store is unique. They all reused alredy ingame skeletos and animations
  1. Elba's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Exkrementor View Post
    All evidence points to the contrary. WoW is making more money per person than ever with new mounts, WoW tokens and higher prices for server transfers and stuff but the WoW team is getting reduced because of mobile games and shit. More money just means more money for blizzard.
    Quote Originally Posted by snackfeat View Post
    You are delusional if you think the resources generated by the store mount actually goes into developing the game. Blizzard is cutting costs. This is all for their bottom line, and gullible people like you are the reason why the gaming industry have turned into this greedy pile of garbage where companies sees people as payers rather than players.

    Okay, so, just don't buy the mount.
  1. s0ul's Avatar
    A Sign of Good Fortune Ahead
    Sign of more microtransactions ahead. With so many idiots purchasing stuff like this from the store, why spend time on the game itself when you can make almost two months of subscription from a single microtransaction in a matter of minutes?
  1. barackohmama's Avatar
    What a freakin clownfest this game has become. Its laughable event for a collector as me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kulviks View Post
    lol at all the kids going, "LOL the greed" they only fucking make them, because poeple keep buying them. Its like complaining about the way shitty mobile games are made, where they are made up from, you giving them loads and loads of money, to progress faster in the game, but they only keep making them that way, because people keep throwing LOADS AND LOADS of money at them, dont fucking blame blizzard from wanting to earn more money, when people happely throw it at them, if YOU dont like it, just dont fucking buy it jessus christ kids.

    ps. prolly gonna buy this mount my self, because i like how it looks, and dont really care about the 25€, in the end we all spend money on stupid shit just enjoy it and move along.
    They only make them because people are not buying the subscription anymore. It's getting more and more evident that wow is turning into a pay to play game. It probably sells, but not as good as a subscription game does.
  1. Rotted's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by barackohmama View Post
    What a freakin clownfest this game has become. Its laughable event for a collector as me.

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    They only make them because people are not buying the subscription anymore. It's getting more and more evident that wow is turning into a pay to play game. It probably sells, but not as good as a subscription game does.
    I'm sorry, but which part of the store screams pay to win?

    Everyone on this dammed site keeps throwing that term around and I literally think you all have 0 fucking idea what it actually means. There isn't one single item or service on that store that counts as a pay to win feature. Pay to skip content, pay to sit on a pretty (Or in this case on ugly arse) mount, pay for convenience but not a pay to win
  1. Twdft's Avatar
    If I were Blizzard I'd put up a post how due to too much negative feedback there will be no new mounts ever again. No pleasing some people.
  1. Appelgren's Avatar
    Holy shiet this forum has alot of crying kids.
    Really leaves a bad taste in your mouth reading all this toxic shit by people who seem to hate hate hate everything.

    Tragic people:/

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