Datamined Alliance chopper will cost 100k gold.

[fumper]

What? I did vote for the Alliance bike, and so did others.
That logic is horribly flawed that those who did vote should have to pay 100k as a "lesson"

I completely agree with this, people are flinging around the word "lesson" like the alliance needs to be punished since they didnt win. I understand that the horde won fair and square and sure there were people who voted for the opposing factions mount but its a bit extreme to go to the lengths of treating this as a punishment. and on a side note i voted for the alliance bike, was sad it lost, not to thrilled to pay a 100k but money isnt hard to make in WoW.

[MatadorMedia]

100k gold? That motorcycle better reach out the computer & give me a handjob at that price.

[schwarzkopf]

WoW gold has value for you? Interesting.

WoW gold has value to everyone..... just different value to different people.

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Jeebus... The Alliance lost a contest which stated Only the Winning Bike goes in.

Correction - the Alliance BIKE lost the competition, if we want to look at which SIDE won - then it was alliance. But that is beside the point.

[Frankminimia]

I genuinely don't even want the chopper but if they do that, I will simply uninstall WoW and cancel. :/ That's just wrong.

are you fucking kidding me?

[ablib]

nope, that price is pretty close to spot on in my opinion. its a price tag on losing. alliance lost, pay for it out of your pocket, and let it be a lesson to rally together next time and win a contest.

the price isnt reflective of the amount of amenities, but directly reflective of and reinforcing the alliance lost. dont want this to happen in the future? try harder to not let the other team win.

a 10~20k price would completely undermine the lesson to learn with this as its too easy to gather 20k quickly.

I don't think there is a lesson to be had for the losers. And I'm not sure you understood what I said. Every expansion we see massive inflation. 100k in MoP will be equal to 20k today (or whatever the exchange rate is from expansion to expansion, I don't feel like doing the math).

People are crying about it now, but come WoD, people will realize 100k is nothing.

I think it should have been more expensive to factor in inflation.

[Sinndra]

I don't think there is a lesson to be had for the losers. And I'm not sure you understood what I said. Every expansion we see massive inflation. 100k in MoP will be equal to 20k today (or whatever the exchange rate is from expansion to expansion, I don't feel like doing the math).

People are crying about it now, but come WoD, people will realize 100k is nothing.

I think it should have been more expensive to factor in inflation.

ahh yah, i new what you were trying to say in terms of inflation. just for context, during the MoP beta that traveler's yak mount? it was first added to the beta for only 18k. a few builds later that price jumped to the 120k final price. so yes the 100k could be a temp price if inflation is factored in and could be more expensive when WoD goes live.

most of my previous post was in response to your "blizzard could lower the price". i feel like Blizzard has already given enough to the complainers by putting the Ally bike in at all, they shouldnt get the price lowered too. doing so would totally undermine the contest as i stated earlier.

[Nyteyes]

100k for the Alliance mount while Horde gets theirs free? Yeah Blizz can go !@#$ themselves imo. yeah yeah yeah don't give me that "well Horde won the poll" line. Good for them. But 100k for a single person mount? Yeah I wouldn't even buy it for 50k.

[Deviant]

ahh yah, i new what you were trying to say in terms of inflation. just for context, during the MoP beta that traveler's yak mount? it was first added to the beta for only 18k. a few builds later that price jumped to the 120k final price. so yes the 100k could be a temp price if inflation is factored in and could be more expensive when WoD goes live.

most of my previous post was in response to your "blizzard could lower the price". i feel like Blizzard has already given enough to the complainers by putting the Ally bike in at all, they shouldnt get the price lowered too. doing so would totally undermine the contest as i stated earlier.

Adding the bike to the game already undermined the contest.

[Sinndra]

Adding the bike to the game already undermined the contest.

yah i agree, but realistically, a lot of money and work was put into those bikes so i kinda knew from the start that both would become part of the game. it was just a question of how and when.

im ok with the Alliance getting their bike too, as long as they have to think about it each time one of them goes to purchase it.. there should be a "yeowww, 100k? dang i hate that, but we had a chance for it to be free and we blew it" moment.

[Deviant]

yah i agree, but realistically, a lot of money and work was put into those bikes so i kinda knew from the start that both would become part of the game. it was just a question of how and when.

im ok with the Alliance getting their bike too, as long as they have to think about it each time one of them goes to purchase it.. there should be a "yeowww, 100k? dang i hate that, but we had a chance for it to be free and we blew it" moment.

I guess... I still think 100k is to much for that bike when you can get a yak instead.

[Jester Joe]

yah i agree, but realistically, a lot of money and work was put into those bikes so i kinda knew from the start that both would become part of the game. it was just a question of how and when.

im ok with the Alliance getting their bike too, as long as they have to think about it each time one of them goes to purchase it.. there should be a "yeowww, 100k? dang i hate that, but we had a chance for it to be free and we blew it" moment.

I could buy a full gold CM carry and get an awesome armor set and have 4 Phoenixes when WoD comes out for around 100k. It's not even close to being a reasonable amount, just compare it to other things that cost the same amount.
The Onyx Panther (Costs all the other panther mounts to make, so it's 18k per one already)
The Yak mount (Actually has usages to it)
The Engineering rockets (I think these cost a couple of Orbs of Mystery, which like said are 18k per one)

It just doesn't make sense, two of those are meant to be for selling for profit since they're profession things, and the other has actual usage. The closest this can be compared to is the Yak mount, which is more worthy of 100k+ than this chopper is.

[Sinndra]

I could buy a full gold CM carry and get an awesome armor set and have 4 Phoenixes when WoD comes out for around 100k. It's not even close to being a reasonable amount, just compare it to other things that cost the same amount.
The Onyx Panther (Costs all the other panther mounts to make, so it's 18k per one already)
The Yak mount (Actually has usages to it)
The Engineering rockets (I think these cost a couple of Orbs of Mystery, which like said are 18k per one)

It just doesn't make sense, two of those are meant to be for selling for profit since they're profession things, and the other has actual usage. The closest this can be compared to is the Yak mount, which is more worthy of 100k+ than this chopper is.

yet NONE of those mounts were tied to a real life contest with matching counter parts. again, its not the amenities that other mounts have, its the fact that this was a contest. you lost. the collective whole of the alliance should reflect on this price and either not give a shit, or be so disappointed that they vow to never let the horde win again.

you are not paying for extra amenities like you are for those other mounts, you are paying for the fact that the collective whole of the alliance failed.

[Jester Joe]

yet NONE of those mounts were tied to a real life contest with matching counter parts. again, its not the amenities that other mounts have, its the fact that this was a contest. you lost. the collective whole of the alliance should reflect on this price and either not give a shit, or be so disappointed that they vow to never let the horde win again.

you are not paying for extra amenities like you are for those other mounts, you are paying for the fact that the collective whole of the alliance failed.

And why? What logic is there behind going "well, we are gonna add the mount, but we're punishing your faction for losing a vote"? It's a ridiculous idea, if the whole idea of the competition was just to have people vote for their faction, then why did they even bother? They should of just added the Alliance mount, since there's more Alliance players. The point is there are people who play BOTH factions, and they actually decided which one they like more, yet others are to be punished because why? There's literally no reason.

And before someone says "lol you're just mad because Alliance lost", no, if this was the Horde getting the same thing you can bet I'd be there saying it's equally ridiculous. There's no reason players should be "punished", the punishment is already knowing you lost and that you have to pay for the mount, not that you have to cough up your life savings and hope you can make enough to actually get the mount.

[dekudude]

Alliance may have a larger player base, but "FOAR DA HORDE" is what people go frothingly mad over. If you've ever been to a Blizzcon, it's extremely obvious that they would always win any popularity contest. You could blame it on the fact that the Alliance don't have a catchy battle cry (pop quiz, do you even know what it is?), but even with the crappy battle cry, horde is just more popular. Again, regardless of population numbers.

It's a product of Blizzard over-agitating an already overgrown problem... In any public event for WoW or the Warcraft series in general, the horde is always overplayed and given the most attention. The devs and team members themselves hold and create more hype for horde. Now, before you call me out on horde v. alliance favoritism, I'm speaking purely about public/online events and their effect on the in-game community.

Gameplay-wise... 100k is excessive. Highly excessive. A mount like this should cost 10k MAX. It offers no utility and doesn't fly. To all those saying that this is a punishment to the losers of the contest.. Keep in mind that if 100k is the final price for a mount like this, it will comfortably pave their way to add grossly excessive gold sinks in other areas of their game. And it'll be BOTH factions problem then. Oh and I realize the yak is an excess as well, but it offers utility in the way of 2 passenger seats and 2 NPCs.

[Zoaric]

Gameplay-wise... 100k is excessive. Highly excessive. A mount like this should cost 10k MAX. It offers no utility and doesn't fly. To all those saying that this is a punishment to the losers of the contest.. Keep in mind that if 100k is the final price for a mount like this, it will comfortably pave their way to add grossly excessive gold sinks in other areas of their game. And it'll be BOTH factions problem then.

I would assume that after the free period, the Horde bike will be for sale as well. Possibly
for the same amount; so these mounts may be both sides' 'problem' soon.

[Jester Joe]

I would assume that after the free period, the Horde bike will be for sale as well. Possibly
for the same amount; so these mounts may be both sides' 'problem' soon.

And that's ridiculous too. It's silly to expect someone to cough up that much gold when the rest of the Horde is probably laughing at it like it's a welfare mount.

[terminaltrip421]

I would like the mount but I think the most I'd pay for it is 10k and even that feels like a lot.

[Jester Joe]

100k settlement isn't bad. The losing vote shouldn't expect anything at all tbh.

They're being generous if you ask me for even adding it in the game.

Although I thought I'd be 15-20k, but now I hope it stays at 100k so I can read all the crying about a cosmetic item.

/evillaugh

I find it really odd that people on these forums will call Blizzard generous for this, yet pick apart everything else they do as having an ulterior motive. Obviously they're just using this as a "Look Alliance we really do like you! And we listened to your requests!!" when they've had it planned from the start most likely.

[Jester Joe]

Well according to their initial blue post. They state something along the lines of, "Due to the huge outcry for the alliance bike, x will happen, but will cost a heafty some of gold."

They might not have had it planned at all. You know, it IS blizzard.

Extra points if you saw what I did there

You changed demand to outcry? *shrug*
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/3...-into-azeroth/

[Itisamuh]

I think putting it in the game for such an absurd price is a lot more insulting than simply not having it at all. They should have just made the bike that won available to both factions and been done with it. But it makes no difference to me really. I had no intentions of ever using either.