I do wish however that the system was more streamlined. As it is, we have things like Lighforged or HM that are considered Allied Races and things like Wildhammer/High Elves that are more customization options. When in truth, there's not really a lot of difference between HM and Wildhammer compared to their main races. I'm all for more customization options, but as it stands, the system feels a bit sloppy.
I don't have any issue with microtransactions, I actually like them. That said, I would prefer something like the upcoming Diablo Immortal system - base game free to play with a cool seasonal battlepass that you pay for. The only people that hate on the store are the ones that want to brag with their "rewards".
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Well it's a valid position for you to have.
Many in the community feel differently. I certainly, very strongly feel differently myself.
Don't really accept the negative connotation that it's about "bragging". I don't even have anything to brag about in the game, I don't really do hard content. But for a lot of people, undermining the games rewards with ways for you to pay for them, or other similarly good/cool rewards, removes an incentive from engaging with the content at all. If you learn to play well and invest in your character, getting a reward for it feels gratifying. It's effort and payoff.
Especially in a game that's already incredibly expensive, taking into account years of subscriptions and box costs, it's plain corporate greed. Even if you just want to get these mounts with no effort, they should be available inside the established monetization of the game, instead of asking for additional revenue. Available to all with a paying subscription, instead of luxury items for those who can pay for them with real money.
I'd prefer for them to be rewards for content, but just handing them out to players is still better than further exploiting a heavily monetized game. To me.
Blizzard makes billions of dollars. Have been caught paying no taxes. Pay huge bonus packages to CEOs and shareholders. Predatory, increasing monetization of the game is just a cog in the machine of corporate greed. *Personaly* I could never defend it nor will I ever support it.
Has nothing to do with some toxic strawman show off. At least to me.
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Hum I'm not sure. It's possible! I don't see it being a huge priority for either of them. Maybe I could see MrGM asking that. Asmongold does transmog competitions on his stream so maybe he'd ask that. But I'm really not sure.
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I personally find the store fine if its not something that clearly fits in with the expansion else where. Warlords was exceptionally bad about this.
Then they got wise and started adding what should be expansion mounts *prior* to the expansion, so that it wasn't as obvious.
I also don't think store items should be better than in-game items. The new transmog and mount animations, for example.
Not a fan of the store but I have been given a decent argument that gives me pause and no it wasn't a player
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While bragging doesn't really have anything to do with it I will agree that there are no valid reasons to hate on the store. It hasn't shown a drop in quality offered in game. It hasn't been overly used. It is just an occasional mount or pet. With rarely a toy or transmog. They even give some away as a "loyalty bonus" for staying subscribed to the game.
It is entirely optional.
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Wonder if we DF will have anywhere close to the number of mounts usable by every faction/class/race that SL had. I'm guessing no since Dragonriding is playing a big part in the expac, but they said regular mounts will still be in as DragonRiding is a limited system to Dragon Isles and regular mount flight will be available later.
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God forbid other races joined that, they are barely illiterate, poor things, no books in their capitals
I would assume an exploration organization, or, an organization know to deal with deadly beasts, would be more suitable to run the initial "exploring" of the dragon isles, at first, and not an archeological organization, but hey, its just me, maybe my priorities would be different.
Which is pretty funny since archeology will be a profession that they will not address in the expansion.
Right, and yet, people want different flavours of elves as new races, instead of customization like others.My point exactly. Wildhammer dwarves are included in the dwarf customization.
I'd argue its partially in the amount of time it takes to create them. Ingame you need more quantity, be it one per class or per armor spec. Also you need it to match the theme at least. But I do agree completely that it shouldn't be exclusive to the cash shop. IMO they could've done much better for example the covenant transmogs from 9.1 which were only theme limited than what we got.
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Yeah, IMO it'll probably have a similar amount to regular expansions.
SL was a bit of an anomaly since it also had a bunch of mounts tied to covenants, and all the recolors of them from different sources, bunch of rare mounts and such, and all are now available to everyone no restrictions.
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Agreed. Ion's Tuskarr answer didn't strike me as the "hard no" that a lot of others are hearing. It also didn't necessarily feel like he's dancing around the issue in the same way Danuser did with the Tirisfal/Dark Ranger question, so I don't feel like Tuskarr are borderline-confirmed in the same way Darkfallen are. Ion just seemed to be giving a humorous answer to a lighthearted question from Tali, whose pro-Tuskarr views are well known.
I could easily see them adding Darkfallen in 9.2.5, Dracthyr in prepatch (that one's confirmed, I guess), and Tuskarr in 10.1 after we do some quests for them in the Azure Span. That'd actually be a nice array of races; between the three, there are options for people who want something darker, something more colorful and "fantasy", something with a warmer personality and a tribal vibe. Also, it's a long shot, but if they ever gave us those those new Gnoll models to play as, I'd unironically main one instantly.
See, those things pass way beyond blizzard head, which amazes me how much potential they lost.
Back in MOP there was one amazing short story about a dragonmaw orc, named Koak, who fall from those airhips in one of the faction battles in pandaren, and by luck he saved one egg of Crimson cloud serpent, and end up being helped by the pandarens who train then.
He have all his backstory about hearing stories about his clan riding mighty dragons and spreading havoc, but he only heard then, he was one of the children who born in the enslavement camps, and had to grow to overcome that.
There is this beautiful story about him growing from the old ways of the dragonmaw, treating the drakes as beats and objects, and taming with fear, to look at then as partners, friends and even love, taming his own cloud serpent, and saying he would stand against Garrosh and maybe show a different way to the dragonmaw.
And its entirely ignored since then, i would give my right arm to see Koak leading the dragonmaw into the dragon isles and making peace with Alextrasza, to help dragons, isntead of hunting and kiling then.
But hey, selfish of me, pretty sure Danuser have some rly cool whacky story like shadownlands backing already.
Gotta have the Ion clip ready then for those who want that haha. But yeah, he said something to that effect. Though he may have worded it like "if it has 4 legs it's probably going to be a mount", with the word probably doing some heavy lifting ^^'' I'm not sure, I don't quite remember it! It was in one of his interviews he's been doing.