This post is obviously about the new gold and black brutosaur mount they released for $90 in the shop, and let me stress if people were able to ourchase this mount then good for you, im happy for you. But this thing is one heck of a money sink.
The breakdown works like this, its $90 outright, plus tax it pushes likely $93-$95, BUT there is an alternate route you can go which is to purchase tokens through gold in the game. Now, I believe that a token is valued at $15 for store credit, might be $20 but im gonna use the $15 here. So! Last night I saw the price of the token for gold at 250k and might have gone upwards since then but ill stick with this number for now, to get to $90 you would have to purchase 6 wow tokens or dump 1.5 MILLION gold into it.
This mount honestly ahould be lowered to $45 cause $90 for ONE item in an economy where $90 is food for half the week or a mount…the option is simple.
And as a side note I know some people might try the “No OnE iS fOrCiNg YoU tO bUy It!” Approach, and true they arent but that isnt the point, the point is the price tage doesnt make a ton of sense given the state of things currently.
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Im sure they didnt, but this one isnt as “oh my god i quit the game this mount is blah blah blah” id say its more just highlighting that the marketing team dropped the ball on it a bit
You don’t need the mount nor is it required to play the game.
I am not buying one and if you don’t want one or can’t afford one, then don’t get one.
The point of the item is to generate cash. That cash is define as “price x number of purchases” .
To maximize this you can look at lowering the price which will increase purchased volume or you can increase price and lower volume.
One of these two paths will generate maximum sales. Blizzard is purposefully choosing the later. Fomo will likely increase volume even at the higher price.
This is simply a sales strategy. Fairness has nothing to do with this. Just like not everyone can afford a BMW, not everyone can afford this mount. It’s just life.
I get that but while you may not need a BMW you still need a car to get around in life. Making this mount as exorbinent as it is to generate cash flow from people who will juatify getting it over things like, food, medicine, drinks, etc is a bit silly but hey! Thats blizzard for you
The state of things currently is the same as the state of things has always been. Some people have more disposable income and can afford more things. Others do not and have to be more careful about what they buy.
there’s no such thing as a “money sink” in the context of this game. the people offering the product have no knowledge of or interest in the money supply.
This isnt about income Tiffany, despite you making it seem so, which is super weird, this is about a game we have been playing for a while, you might not understand what that means since you think having disposable income has anything to do with not wanting a paid for mmo to be monetized this way, perhaps you have never raided, nor collected mounts, this convo isnt for you, yes, you are very smart for throwing money at blizzard, now go away.
2016 when the price of food was down, housing was down, gas was $1.84, the average median household income was $4,200 higher than usual and a 12 carton of eggs wasnt $12
I’m not even in the bruto frenzy but still thinking about that you can eject the vendors from those multiseated mounts and was always curious why the heck can’t we get the vendors? For example, building reputation with the different kinds of utility vendors and at max rep let them travel with you. What will break if all players have access to the auction house at any moment?
