It's the new Gearscore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCjuFpQ3EeA
Although I think it's an awesome mount
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCjuFpQ3EeA
Although I think it's an awesome mount
$25 World of Warcraft Mount Launches on Blizzard Store
- Thread starter Tom Goldman
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Great idea, doesn't affect gameplay, makes more money for the company. Every game company should do this for every online game.
I admit I didn't read every previous page, but just a note that riding training costs are :
4+50+250+5000+1000g = 6304 gold for one character.
If you're an alt crazy fool like me, multiply that by 10 for having a character of each class.
Add a bit more if you've dabbled in the other faction or on other servers.
Even without all that, it's saving me 63,000 gold. (If I hadn't already bought loads of training).
For me, its tempting, however.
EDIT: unless I bothered to read, and realised it's only going to save me mount costs, not training costs. Seems it'll only save me 1+10+50+100 = 161g per alt, and is suddenly not so attractive, especially when there'll be thousands of them. I sense I'll end up being the unique one , riding on my regular grey kodo.
I get the feeling that if they'd allowed you to buy the mount and be trained to max level riding with it, they would have killed a LOT of the gold farming business in one hit. I'm off the belief that a lot of the gold sales are people just not wanting to farm 5000g per character for faster flying.
EXTRA EDIT: also, all the 'lol you spent money on something that doesn't exist!' stuff, have you never bought any mp3s, or online content, or a game on GOG or Steam? Existence doesn't have to be part of enjoyment.
My main grumble at this is damn, they could have done another '50% goes to a charity' thing like they did with one of the pets, and made themselves look good while still drawing in a sackload of cash. There again, they just called a bunch of greedy bastards when they did the charity pet, because the other one wasn't, so I don't blame them for not trying too hard now.
4+50+250+5000+1000g = 6304 gold for one character.
If you're an alt crazy fool like me, multiply that by 10 for having a character of each class.
Add a bit more if you've dabbled in the other faction or on other servers.
Even without all that, it's saving me 63,000 gold. (If I hadn't already bought loads of training).
For me, its tempting, however.
EDIT: unless I bothered to read, and realised it's only going to save me mount costs, not training costs. Seems it'll only save me 1+10+50+100 = 161g per alt, and is suddenly not so attractive, especially when there'll be thousands of them. I sense I'll end up being the unique one , riding on my regular grey kodo.
I get the feeling that if they'd allowed you to buy the mount and be trained to max level riding with it, they would have killed a LOT of the gold farming business in one hit. I'm off the belief that a lot of the gold sales are people just not wanting to farm 5000g per character for faster flying.
EXTRA EDIT: also, all the 'lol you spent money on something that doesn't exist!' stuff, have you never bought any mp3s, or online content, or a game on GOG or Steam? Existence doesn't have to be part of enjoyment.
My main grumble at this is damn, they could have done another '50% goes to a charity' thing like they did with one of the pets, and made themselves look good while still drawing in a sackload of cash. There again, they just called a bunch of greedy bastards when they did the charity pet, because the other one wasn't, so I don't blame them for not trying too hard now.
I, for one, don't understand the people who claim that one's enjoyment of a product is in any way diminished because someone else has it.
I didn't buy the mount because I thought I could be a special and unique snowflake, I bought it because I liked it. Seeing other people liking it isn't going to switch my Revulsion trigger.
I didn't buy the mount because I thought I could be a special and unique snowflake, I bought it because I liked it. Seeing other people liking it isn't going to switch my Revulsion trigger.
Wow, I would never buy this but can just about understand why people would.
You could spend your money on better things though,
For $25 or around £17 you could take you and a friend to the cinema.
You could buy yourself a nice T-shirt.
You could buy a couple of Dvd's or music etc
Couple of books and a magazine.
4-5 games of laser quest for a couple of friends or go bowling.
You could buy 5 pizza's for you and your friends.
I bet is it very easy for some people to purchase virtual things because they don't really consider the real life purchases that they could purchase instead for the same amount of money.
To me its just some virtual object that you will only use when playing games, all it does is let you move about a bit quicker but the real reason to buy it is to be different or look good, the fact is that because it is so popular, soon alot of people will have it so you wont look different at all but the same, secondly why care what other people think at all? specially on an online game where you will probably never meet any of them ever in real life.
To me it just smells of "lets get as much money out of WoW untill our next big game or WoW 2" lets hope they let you transfer your items over, thats if they even do WoW 2. Which brings me to my last point, all your items will be worthless when they kill the WoW servers.
You could spend your money on better things though,
For $25 or around £17 you could take you and a friend to the cinema.
You could buy yourself a nice T-shirt.
You could buy a couple of Dvd's or music etc
Couple of books and a magazine.
4-5 games of laser quest for a couple of friends or go bowling.
You could buy 5 pizza's for you and your friends.
I bet is it very easy for some people to purchase virtual things because they don't really consider the real life purchases that they could purchase instead for the same amount of money.
To me its just some virtual object that you will only use when playing games, all it does is let you move about a bit quicker but the real reason to buy it is to be different or look good, the fact is that because it is so popular, soon alot of people will have it so you wont look different at all but the same, secondly why care what other people think at all? specially on an online game where you will probably never meet any of them ever in real life.
To me it just smells of "lets get as much money out of WoW untill our next big game or WoW 2" lets hope they let you transfer your items over, thats if they even do WoW 2. Which brings me to my last point, all your items will be worthless when they kill the WoW servers.
I don't blame Blizzard for anything, I wasn't being sarcastic when I said AMAZING it's amazing how they can do a half assed job and make trillions on 1 bit of DLC it's brilliant in fact, just at the fact they've got an army of zombies ready to buy anything on the store so they don't feel left out and didn't really do anything to get a further profit boost. (PS: You'd love to be the designer of that and ask for even a 1% royalty $.$) The difference is this ISN'T Modern Warfare 2 that's why it deserves praise it's not a bunch of uneducated people on council estates buying this. And in comparison to the stimulus package this makes sense (as much sense as it means to have an alternate skin to something you probably already have), you effectively NEED the stimulus package to play online in MW2 if you don't feel like being booted out of the lobby every other map change.Galad said:Don't blame them, blame the people that buy this superfluous stuff.Phenakist said:
edit:So Blizzard brainwashes people better than IW or Bethesda?Eremiel said:
In fairness Bethesda doesn't brainwash people... They make good games and their games make excellent platforms for the modding community. The horse armor dlc was like... £2 and next to nobody bought it.
And Infinity Ward are effectively the "console" Blizzard due to the strong links with Activision, it's not a particularly good comparison, they are both equally brainwashing at least Blizzard brainwash people with good games, except for the fact you need to dedicate your immortal soul to get anything on them...
I played WoW for about 4, almost 5 years, and I think the digital content is fine. Other games do DLC content. Some have in-game stores to spend real currency. Blizzard just offers some bonus stuff to it's players for a price. If other people can do it, why not Blizzard? $15/month and some extra cash for bonus items isn't that bad. Other hobbies take a lot more money....
It's a brilliant idea on their part. What a way to make money!
Do I think it's vastly over priced? Yes.
Am I going to buy it? God no.
Will it lose them players? Not likely unless people are that fickle.
Do I think it's vastly over priced? Yes.
Am I going to buy it? God no.
Will it lose them players? Not likely unless people are that fickle.
A friend of mine said that the queue for getting one of these on the WoW website was over 6000 people long at the point he tried to get it-- just think of that. Blizzard is getting $25 for each of those, and all they're selling is a tiny lump of digital information that they can replicate as many times as they want.
God, I'm so pissed at Blizzard for being so good at selling nothing.
God, I'm so pissed at Blizzard for being so good at selling nothing.
I quit Wow & it makes me want to renew, buy the mount, ride it around the noob towns laughing at the noobies & then get bored again & quit for the 5th time.
This, pretty much.Loop Stricken said:
Since I work nights, I almost never raid, so I collect pets. This time, instead of buying 2 pets, it was a mount and a pet. I fail to see why "everyone" having them is supposed to diminish my enjoyment of the mount at all.
Folks here who think it's stupid to buy such things clearly have never had a hobby that they were required to invest money in[footnote]that's a little [sarcasm] there for all of you Rhodes Scholars[/footnote]. It's a game. Get over it.
