Damn tooting tons of players did this now …I did it…even though I have the first one I brought the second one with gold 1.7 Million is drop in the bucket for me…I put out 5 Million gold on the first one on the day one BfA went live…made that 5 Million gold back in less then 4 months selling Battle pets and herbs and ores.
Many of us older players used our Mission boards tables for two expansions and became high end Millionaires with rolling tons of alts though those gold mission boards …
And most of the older players in game quite long now don’t need that addon cause they know the location of almost every Elder to find add in Wowhead has maps listed that you can use to find them easily too…I didn’t use the addon I knew most of the locations by heart…17 yrs in game …
I bought it. I didn’t play BFA (basically quit retail and went to classic) but I regretted not getting the AH mount. I subsequently got like 9.99 million (which works out to 1k USD) and got up at 2:30 AM every morning in hopes that it would show up on the AH.
So ya $90 USD is nothing.
I didn’t buy it, but this seems like good news to me. The game got financial support. Good?
Which puts more money in Blizzard’s pocket than buying it the normal way.
Wait, what? Who suggested that? Because it certainly wasn’t me.
People who bought the mount with gold didn’t buy it with gold directly. They used the WoW token system to add a balance to their Battle.net account, which they then used to buy the mount.
In what world did you think this was a comparable example to make lol
So, it’s pay $90 USD with tax extra or $120-$140 USD with other people’s money since a $20 dollar token only translates into $15 shop bucks. So, if 166,667 is the amount of people that could potentially of boughten the mount then it should be lower if they used tokens, and we know tokens sold out at one point and have never really come down from nearly 300k gold for last month or two.
Still 1.2-1.5 million in game gold for the mount is cheap compared to the black market or when the mount was officially sold in game. But to spend $90-$140 so you can access auction house and mail instead of walking 20’ is ridiculous.
I don’t care - I never spent the money.
That’s not why people bought it.
They bought it so they can access a mailbox and AH in areas that don’t have either.
I was just adding on to what you were saying. Wasn’t arguing.
15 million dollars minus tax…assuming the corporations even pays tax…wouldnt that be something like 12.7 million. not bad but not a huge amount. thats before any expenses.
Which I can understand if it’s right outside a dungeon or out in the wild, but we have people using it right next to a auction house or mailbox. At what point is connivence an inconvenience because you’re not patient enough to use that money for something that is more important in real life and not just a game.
I personally didn’t buy the mount but had more than enough gold to purchase tokens to buy it. I just don’t have a need for it if all I have to do is wait to get back to the city. Nothing I need or find is that important in the game that I need to buy or sell that fast. I rather use a repair mount / vendor mount because most everything I find is raw gold.
Careful with this… items at the Goodwill are often priced the same or more than you can buy them new. You have to know what you’re looking for and it’s retail prices.
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To the topic, not the person I am quoting:
As for the mount, I thought about buying it. Would have cashed in my gold so it would be with someone else’s dollars. But ultimately, I just feel I needed it. I did buy the pack of Anniversary mounts and the charity pet though. In the end, each person needs to decide what their personal priority is.
So? Just because someone mounts up on a brutosaur in a city doesn’t mean they didn’t buy it for the exact reason I stated. Some people just like looking at the mount.
Not sure what point you’re trying to make here.
Pass. I don’t buy clothes that have touched someone else’s body for an extended period of time.
I brought the first Long Boi not for the AH but for its looks…I then brought the 2nd Long Boi to add to my Mount Collection …don’t assume all players brought these mounts just for what you state now …many of us didn’t…767 mounts later…
Me either…that is ikkky to me…
Right?
I don’t need clothes from the Gap or anything but I would buy a $5 brand new shirt from Dollar General before I bought something from second hand shops.
Only things I brought from good will or second hand shops is furniture …
Expense? It probably took 1 artist and 1 programmer 2 weeks to create the $90 Dino.
It reuses an existing models. Our artist just has to put it together.
No real new functionality that has to be programmed - mailboxes and auctions are already in the game. Our programmer just has to wire things up.
Assuming our artist and programmer earn $100K a year, it would cost the company $7692 but let’s round it to $10K.
$10K investment yielding $12.7 million is a darn good ROI.
Is 15 milly a lot for something like this? I feel like that memed skin from Marvel Rivals probably made 15 septillion or something.