You say that as if there are only a handful of artists and/or artists actually write/develop/code content for the game. Obviously you are 100% clueless on how game development actually works.
And by “wrong” you mean “They don’t agree with me! I’m the only one who is right!”
And thanks to you and your hissy fit, I’ll be buying the mount :D.
Sure, if you like 15 recolors of the same horse. If you want the sparkly, pretty or unique mounts, those are on the store.
Activision has started adopting this model with the “See You Later” bundle they had just this last month. Digital goods are not scarce, and do not expire. It’s to create a false sense of urgency.
Also, ESO’s model is you buy the base game, and have the option to pay for a monthly “ESO Plus” that is like a WoW sub. They give you crowns to use on the store every month (which has mounts), and you can buy additional mounts. Blizzard’s model is you buy the base game, and must subscribe every month.
Over time, you spend way more on WoW, which to me, makes the cash shop more egregious. You spend $50 on the base game, buy an expansion every 2 years at the same price, and pay $15 a month (over 2 years, that’s $360). The fact that they have a cash shop at all is just greedy at that point, and people are starting to wake up to that.
Gamers are sick of being nickel and dime’d to death, being treated like cash cows (or whales, as the industry refers to us), and we’re finally seeing some consumer push-back against loot boxes and cash shops in premium games. And, I say good.
Keep in mind, I say this as someone that bought every store mount up until the Vulpera, because I loved this game and wanted to support Blizzard. Not anymore. Not after BfA. The enchantment is gone from this game, and it’s not the creation I fell in love with since vanilla. It’s an online shopping simulator now that measures your engagement and time played metrics. The fun left long ago, and now I have too.
Thats a slight exaggeration. Yes, there are horses in the game, but the BfA horses look quite different to most of the earlier horses. Also you have mounts like the big parrots, the krolusks, the dune scavengers and bloodswarmers, that are quite unique.
But all that aside, I agree that I’m not happy at the increase in shop items given that Wow is still a full subscription game. I used to buy shop mounts as well but lately, if I can’t buy them with gold, I won’t buy them at all. It does feel a bit off given how much we pay to play the game.
Yeah, bought it.
(for gold)
And yeah, that pig IS cute.
I buy store mounts if I like them and they represent a part of the WoW game I am playing, but this PIG mount really threw me a curve, Where the hell did this come from? It has no relatability to BfA and I feel its a slap in our gaming faces. “If PIGS could fly” you fools would buy it right?! Sadly…no Blizz.
… Chinese New Year - year of the pig. Look it up.
The issue is the subbed content you get or should be getting suffers.
Prime examples are how all armour classes share the same artwork this expansion. A lot less work I’m sure. Also only the pve ones look any good (god I almost want to raid for the mail/plate set) so that’s even less work 
A more direct and also recent comparison would be the most recent PvP mounts. The hippo and kodo look pretty freaking boring with no specials. How about this season? We have a recolor that is baaaarely a recolor… Now contrast these to the recent in store mounts (vulpera/pig)… Slight difference in quality.
We really shouldn’t be okay with this crap… buuuttt so many people are, so why wouldn’t blizzard continue to shift their focus on quality content from in game towards in store?
Bought the mount as soon as I saw it. I love it!
So nice to not have to grind 59 years for it!
+10 Blizz
I want them to suck up any money for easy stuff like this and spend it on development time for improving the game.
So this is a good thing.
Productive way of looking at it ![:wink:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/wink.png?v=6" ":wink:")
But they’ve shown they aren’t improving the game? They’re putting less money into in game mounts and armour sets… Warfronts and ies are kinda average…
Also that’s what a sub is for, to pay for continual content? Also funny how they used to be able to provide this content on sub alone…
Bleh this attitude is the reason EA does things like battlefront embarrassments
New raid doesn’t qualify?
M+ I’d argue they opened too big with 10 new dungeons. Woulda been better with 6 and add a couple every patch. imo.
We got new raids and dungeons all the time? Wotlk, cata, mop all had amazing releases… All via subs?
They unfortunately got marred by end of expansion droughts… But that was more a design flaw of releasing content way too fast (looking at you mop)… Warfronts/ies will not save the endgame bfa drought that I am sure is to come.
Looking at the other mounts that have been on the store, it seems they have always had really nice store mounts. I mean, if I’m going to pay extra for a mount, they better make it amazing and better than what I can get in game. Doesn’t seem like anything new, other than maybe putting them out faster?
Exactly. It’s a bridge too far.
But they won’t. It’ll go to things like the $15 million CFO hiring bonus, and other pet mobile projects no one wants or needs. WoW is a beached whale, and Activision-Blizzard keeps kicking that whale for cash.
Well that is sadly true of every business. But in the end, they still have to make WoW attractive enough to soak that cash they want to waste on a few people. Eventually all business fail because they take greed but lose track of how to support that greed.
Fixation on next-quarter profits and not 10-year profits are absolutely the single worst thing killing businesses.
Given the state of the game, and those who defend it, I don’t think Activision-Blizzard has to try too hard. A lot of players here are suffering from “sunk cost fallacy”, and can’t admit to themselves that this game has gone downhill fast. I was one of them, until I snapped out of it. Bear Druid suffered greatly after the Legion pruning and GCD changes, and it felt like a hot mess ever since.
I bought a PS4 and play a few other PC games (like Monster Hunter), so I’ve moved on. Just sad to see a game I’ve played since 2004 go to crap so quickly.
I’m not particularly fond of that mount. That does not mean I begrudge anyone who buys that mount. Like the market decide, I say. No one is forcing any player to buy things.
For the record, I pre-ordered WCIII Reforged because I wanted to know the story before WoW and one of my alts would look cool riding the meatwagon. ![:slight_smile:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")
I’ll buy it when pigs fly-…
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