Oh, I've got my Bloodfanged Widow, but that more because I've always wanted a Spider mount since I rode a Battle tank while clearing trash to the Spark of Imagination, back when Ulduar was current. The moment they announced a Spider mount, and finalized the Price for it, is the day I started "farming gold" and stopped once I had the mount needed.
Wait for them to release a new AH mount for 5.1m gold in the future.
Gold sinks exist to remove gold from the economy. Yes that can be done by shifting gold to a person that will use it with Tokens. But the mount was not primarily added to the game to force people to buy tokens. Legion and Warlords was easy money for anyone who put in the little effort. Those that put in work, along with the almost passive gains, earned a ton.
That is not at odds with a company existing to make money. Nor did I ever make an argument that gold sink mounts is an exception to that rule. Why invent an argument just to insult? Instead of you know just objectively looking at things.
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"Man is his own star. His acts are his angels, good or ill, While his fatal shadows walk silently beside him."-Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine AFC 54
You know a community is bad when moderators lock a thread because "...this isnt the place to talk about it either seeing as it will get trolled..."
Lol at people trying to buy this mount with tokens.
Oh look. Another reason Shadowlands is going to be absolute garbage.
THIS JUST IN: A for-profit company in a capitalistic environment is attempting to make more money.
More at 11.
Fear of missing out. That could be a motivator for some. But there has yet to be a large rush for tokens. Blizzard has removed mounts in the past with expansions before. It may be a dumb thing but there is no marketing going on here. They gave 9-12 months notice that it is going to go away. That may be what is driving the critics but there it is certainly not what is driving Blizzard.
If a person is willing to drop $20-$500 just because they are afraid they are missing out then that isn't exactly an issue that Blizzard should be responsible for. At some point gamers must accept their own actions.
"Man is his own star. His acts are his angels, good or ill, While his fatal shadows walk silently beside him."-Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine AFC 54
You know a community is bad when moderators lock a thread because "...this isnt the place to talk about it either seeing as it will get trolled..."
Announcement says the mount is in the game for at least another 11-12 months. That's some bad example of FOMO. Granted, if the announcement had said that everyone had 30 days left to purchase it then you might have a point. But t it doesn't so I don't think your point really stands.
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"...money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."
I know a bunch of people who have bought the mount and people who buy tokens to get gold... and those groups of people don't overlap. With how easy it is to get 5mil gold in-game without buying tokens, the mount is likely to be bought by players who play the AH or just accumulate gold over time. People who buy tokens for gold? Honestly, they're usually gold-poor people who don't want to play the game, like the person who complains they don't have enough money for repairs in BfA even though a couple WQs would generate more than enough gold for repairs. The amount of cash you'd have to drop to get the gold for the mount via tokens would even make most lavish spender think twice... which is why it's a helluva lot more likely that people will buy gold from not-so-reputable sources instead of WoW tokens if they're going to buy a mount.
Will there be people who drop cash for tokens to get this mount? I imagine there's a market for that, but people here are overestimating how large that market really is (there's only one person I know who dropped cash for tokens for the mount, and he did it extremely early in the xpac). However, the reality is that the people who would fall into this market would've already bought the mount this way, as the mount was already a prestige item. Announcing the discontinuation of the mount wouldn't affect this market at all, and is more of a head's up for those going the slow and steady route to buying the mount.
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