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?
I'm more surprised that this game is still running. I haven't heard of anyone playing it in years.
I quit after they fraudulently charged me a 6 month subscription renewal and then refused to refund it for months because no customer service reps anymore, and then the next expansion had paid early access for a huge paywall. It's a total scam now
I had jumped back in when tbc classic was released. I wound up on a dead server. It made end game content essentially impossible. I was hoping to move right into wotlk classic at release as that was my jam back in the day. Except they weren't going to include the dungeon finder or cross realm groups meaning it would still be a dead server with no chance at end game content. I was done with pointlessly dumb leadership. Unsubbed and found a private server that hits all the right buttons.
It's one of those games I've always been interested in trying, but the idea of paying a subscription for a videogame makes me uncomfortable for some reason.
There's a few at work who have admitted to still playing. Blizzard owes a lot to the very concrete social structures built around the game.
It's going to sell like crazy. It's not just that it's a Mount, but it also has an auction house and mailbox that you can use anywhere at any time. The only other mount that has the AH is no longer attainable regularly, only on rare occasions for gold cap.
I am going to get it, but I'm going to use my gold in game to convert to bnet balance.
I was going to say who cares if they're selling a mount skin, but if on-the-go access to the auction house and mailbox isn't normally accessible, this seems shitty.
The thing is, they won't be able to sell a Mount like this again in the future. This is kind of a "break glass" type of situation.
It's one of the most overhyped things in the game. I can more than afford it (both through $$ and in-game currency) but I just do not care. There's easy to get mailboxes and the auction house is in every main city now.
Not to mention the amount of people who have the original auction house mount and the influx of people with this one - it is barely a convenience.
I think it’s a terrible decision because of this. The whole point of hubs is to get players together and interacting. Putting AH and mail around hubs requires many players together. Giving folks a mount means the hubs stop being hubs and contributes to the continued decay of the multiplayer aspect.
Take this with a grain of salt. When I last played hubs still mattered. If that isn’t currently the case this is just old fart complaints.
What did you expect to happen after Diablo 4? lol
What did you expect to happen after Diablo ~~4~~ immortal?
After Diablo Immortal I knew not to purchase Diablo 4 in the first month. After how profitable Diablo Immortal was of course this was going to be the way Blizzard continued to go.
This is why I'm more and more playing Indie games. The game has to be made by someone who wanted to make a fun game, as anyone with a profit incentive is just going to make Candy Crush and for some reason people will pay for it.
0 chance this revenue gets reinvested back into the game lmao
it's selling well too though it's actually 78$. They put Mailbox and Auction House on it which AFAIK the only mount that has both which is incredibly valuable.
If not the fuction I wouldn't mind but because the function is so valuable it's really poor form by Blizzard. I even love the mount and buy it as cosmetic but I'm not supporting this at the state it is currently.
They put Mailbox and Auction House on it which AFAIK the only mount that has both which is incredibly valuable.
Create the problem, sell the solution.
There was a green mount similar to this one they added in BFA for a large sum of gold. But they claimed to dislike how it encouraged so many people to play the market and removed it.
They did not remove it, people still use them all the time and it's available on the "black market" (an NPC that sells normally unavailable things) every so often. The mount was just an enormous gold sink for people with a ton of money.
Unfortunately this seems to be a rising trend for AAA studios/games: Riot Said The Quiet Part Out Loud.
I remember when this privilege was reserved for free games since it was how they made their money, but like Sterling says: they can't just make money, they can't make enough money, they gotta make all of the money.
There's also the fact that people will pay for it. Would you take a million dollars to let your favorite game put a skin of you in it holding a sign saying "I care more about the money I made from this skin than the quality of this game"?
I hate the practice, but I despise the fact that it always turns out to be so damn profitable.
Yes, we get it, your dad has a good job.
Not even a new trend in WoW either.
Can't even blame Blizzard, it's the people who keep buying this shit that are actually the problem.
If these wouldn't sell in the store they could've been items to obtain through in-game activities (which don't require eternal grind).
Can’t even blame Blizzard, it’s the people who keep buying this shit that are actually the problem.
Blizzard is the problem because they are implementing the macrotransaction. The people who buy it are enablers but not the real problem.
Transactions are from two parties, if the product didn't sell they wouldn't keep doing it. The product wouldn't exist if it failed to sell in the first place.
Plenty of shitty products in the world that never get sold, and then stop being produced.
"People who keep buying from McDonald's despite an e coli outbreak are the real problem!"
Gee, for the same money... a digital brontosaurus for Orc Game that you need to pay a recurring subscription to actually use, can be taken away from you at any time, or one day the servers may simply be turned off erasing not only your "investments" but also your years of "work." Or, I don't know, a CIVIVI Hyperpulse with a groovy pattern welded blade that also happens to be a physical object you can actually hold in your hands and keep forever. Just to pick something out of a hat.
What a tough choice!
Sorry but that knife screams “mall ninja.”
CIVIVI knives are generally pretty legit. Trust me, I can go much more mall ninja if you like.
This leaps to mind.
It wouldn't bother me if you were still able to earn the mount in-game.
WHALE HO!
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