Nazulu said:
elvor0 said:
It hasn't been a big deal to get a mount in over half a decade. There's no point, especially as needing a mount is almost necessary to traverse the terrain later on. It would just be hugely aggravating for newer players. The experience hasn't been "shit on". The experience no longer needed to exist. Your argument would hold water if it was still just as difficult to get a mount as it was back in Vanilla, but it hasn't for a very long time. They're not bleeding anyone, because anyone can afford a mount just by leveling now. You cut zero corners by buying the mount.
The addition of mounts to the shop isn't hurting /anyone/, the most prestigious mounts are still only found in game, and are still difficult to acquire.
Moaning that other games let you have more than one class on a character is moot. When WoW launched it didn't, they're not going to change that now. Nor do I think should they. Everyone got a free level boost for buying/owning the game, and will get another for Legion.
The WoW store is /nowhere/ near P2W territory. Not even close.
Nah, that's still rubbish. The mount experience was a great a one, so the fact that they changed that has shit on the experience even more, and putting some in the shop is icing on the cake. Cosmetics in a more than full priced game is utter bullshit and I am talking about when they first introduced real money mounts too (since it was still a challenge then). Also saying it didn't hurt anyone is a complete lie since the reasons my friends and I, and many other people who complained (and left) is because of these changes to the game and additions to the shop.
For someone that doesn't care, you sure are getting invested in this. Like quite passionately so.
The old mounting experience no longer serves purpose. The game has a 100 levels now, having the same grind for the mount would be unfeasible for a player getting into the game now. The landscape of the game has changed, and within that landscape the old mounting experience is obsolete. Even if the cash shop wasn't there, the old mounting experience would still be an obsolete relic.
I'm saying it doesn't hurt anyone in terms of causing damage to the makeup of the game. You are quite free to vote with your wallet and more power to you for doing so, many people don't stick to their guns when they say that. But in practice, being able to buy mounts on the store doesn't actually effect anything in the game. You don't /gain/ anything substantial, gain power or gain game changing attributes from buying the mount from the store. If the store mounts were faster or gave you special abilities you couldn't get elsewhere, that would hurt the game. Microtransactions for cosmetic mounts /don't/ actually effect the gameplay itself in any way.
Nazulu said:
Moaning hey? Well, that makes me want to respect your opinion. And again, your defense for this shitty, greedy, scummy as fuck move is amazing. THEY SHOULD'VE THOUGHT OF IT BEFORE!!! It's not hard to think what may happen when many players reach the end of the game, like the makers on Lineage 2 did, and they were never the kings of MMO's either. Hell! L2 didn't have it at launch either, they brought in the option 3 years later. It's never too late to do something good. It's just annoying to see that Blizzard South's and Activisions first plan was to take advantage of people first instead of providing those interesting options.
Or maybe, they didn't want all classes on a single character to be something that was part of the game. Not every MMO needs to share the same mechanics. Seriously dude, there are scummy moves out there. This is not one of them. Konami patching the game to take away your resources on MGS5 and locking them behind online only bases in an attempt to sell you base insurance is a shitty, greedy, scummy as fuck. Lets get some perspective here.
Nazulu said:
And the level boost thing, it sounds stupid to me. I wouldn't want a level boost if I'm enjoying going through the game. Including the option of adding more than one class to your already high level toons still sounds a fuck ton better to have.
I've been through the game many, many, many, many times. I do enjoy it, but you can only do the levelling experience so many times before it becomes tedious and repetitive. Plus you know, if you don't want to buy the boost, you can still level to max level in a very short space of time with heirlooms.
Selling cosmetic junk is really very harmless in terms of business practices. It's hardly the greedy scummy practice you make it out to be. Perspective. They're not selling an infinity +1 sword here, they're selling a cosmetic horse.
