If you can explain how a 20-30 minute quest line, a 40 minute scavenger hunt that people google on the internet or a 1% mount that almost no one will bother getting (or enjoy getting… or isn’t blatantly preying on very thin reinforcement schedules to promote longer sub times) is more beneficial than a $25 mount that usually nets Blizz $3+ million I’d like to hear it.
I’d also like to hear how NOT having 1 extra 20-30 minute quest line, a 40 minute scavenger hunt that people google on the internet or a 1% mount that almost no one will bother getting (or enjoy getting… or isn’t blatantly preying on very thin reinforcement schedules to promote longer sub times) when they’ve already included 80+ of those is somehow ruining the game.
Store mounts are win/win and Blizz is still providing a plethora of in game mounts.
As an avid pet collector (1177 unique), I am not, BABY PANDA SO MUCH CUTER!
I blame my now X husband for being such a cheap butt for my lack of cute panda
but yea, I am jelly. Hard to find people who even recognize rare items in this game to be honest. I have the Murkimus the Gladiator pet, one of the rarest in the game. No one ever pays it any attention.
Fluff items are fluff to everyone else minus those are enjoy that side of the game. I think that is what makes most mad about the store. Fluff you can buy and show off, they think it is being thrown down their throats or something.
You don’t like something, don’t buy it. Other people like something, don’t give them guff for enjoying it.
My bad I was reading my whole post when looking at the reply. Let’s look at the history of some store mounts for this. The first one being the Celestial Steed, now when it was added, it was the ONLY mount in the game that was 310% speed regardless of flight training, so you could either save up your gold to get that training to use a 310% speed mount, or just drop $20 and get that mount.
There’s also the Heart of Aspects, which was added during the final raid tier of Cata iirc. Now I’m almost certain this mount was supposed to be the mount from the meta achievement from the tier, considering one of the achievements use the icon for that mount as its own just seems kind of bad.
Same thing with the Fae Dragon, which was a very prominent mob in WoD as far as I remember, with the ONLY way of obtaining one being the store. There’s also a few of the mounts in the store with entirely new rigging and models unable to be found elsewhere in the game, such as Hogrus. I’ve yet to see a pig mount similar to it (or at all really).
All and all every time they introduce a cool mount (such as the boat one), they seem to never use those models or rigging anywhere else, so as someone who wants to earn things rather than just buy them, it feels terrible seeing some things that are absolutely unable to be earned without paying up.
Those saying “don’t like it, don’t buy it”, I don’t but I have every right to complain about it.
Don’t feel like continuing on with this as this is not gonna go anywhere either.
What content? We’re talking about cosmetics. Not gameplay. You’re not making any sense.
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To be fair, the store existed long ago before Overwatch. And they keep it small on purpose, so as to not turn it into some F2P type store. It’s there for marketing at certain points in the lulls between gameplay content where people tend to let their sub lapse.
I respect your opinion that it would’ve sucked during that time to want a mount from the store but be unable to afford it.
That said, I would still argue that the store is a good addition to the game, even back then, before the WoW token. The reasoning behind this is that the store helps support the game and benefits those who don’t use it by keeping expansion costs and subscription fees down and the quality and quantity of content increasing. I haven’t purchased anything from the in-game store other than the Celestial Steed and Lil’ K.T. when they were first released, but I still support the store being in the game for these reasons.
I hope they base the horns off those of a water buffalo, which look like a crescent, and exaggerate them a bit, them pretty them up with some color and bling, to enhance the crescent shape looking like a crescent moon. I think it’d look cool.
Removing the store mount and putting it behind the quests, secrets, or RNG drops to work towards (regardless how loose you want to be with that phrase) will make a better experience for the gamer because it will make the mount all the more rewarding and satisfying to get then just it while still playing the game. Plus, they don’t have to pay any money and can be still immersed in the game without immersion breaking stuff like the shop menu getting in the way, and they don’t have to deal with the ever changing token value. And in turn, this creates positive PR for other people to get more people playing the game. I say this is great in terms of benefits.
If your complaint is Blizzard is making money off of making you wait for long periods of time or grind so much, why the heck are you okay with the idea of paying upfront then? It makes no sense to be against to say or imply or use that “Blizzard is increasing it’s play metrics so it has to make the activities longer to do” thing, but at the same time, say that store mounts are completely fine.
What’s the actual reason that is wrong with putting the store mounts behind things becides what you have subjectively said here? What is actually bad about putting it behind a (in your words) 20-30 minute quest line, 40 minute scavenger hunt that people use google for or a raid drop that has a very low drop rate?
And before you say “it’s just cosmetic and optional”, this applies here too. It’s just cosmetic, so what’s your issue with putting it behind those things since your implying it doesn’t matter because it’s cosmetic and it’s optional?
You’re using “it’s less numbers” to justify the microtransactions staying. If anything, you justifying that might also give Blizzard a reason to keep on pushing with the microtransactions. We both know their gonna always test the waters, always want to keep on moving forward, because if we don’t call them out on these microtransactions, push them back, it’s gonna be more then cosmetics. And it’s already more then cosmetics because of the WoW Token.
