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World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store (lemmy.world)

submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) by Buttflapper@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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I thought this was a joke but it seems like it's actually legit. WoW, which has a subscription and paid expansions, just added a $90 item to their store. This is Korean MMO levels of absurdity. What do you think of this?

Seems like hundreds of people bought it immediately

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[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago

The other (not so bad) thing I don't like about it is that....I hate those mounts. They're HUGE and people just AFK on them blocking NPCs I want to talk to.

TFW the year is 2024 AD and blizzard still has not properly addressed this

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Important NPCs have a dismount aura but if they have that to any NPC with dialogue, you'd get dismounted a hundred times a day

[-] Backlog3231@reddthat.com 2 points 7 hours ago

Make a no fly zone above cities and towns. Have a landing area. Worked fine for Dalaran back in the day.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Even if that didn't come with a bunch of annoying downsides, how would that solve the problem better than dismount auras?

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Oh yeah, I actually remember that from the last time I relapsed (Legion). I was wondering if I hallucinated that workaround... But it's still just that : a stupid workaround. It baffles me that it is seemingly impossible for them to implement a keybind that targets the nearest "interactive" npc in range