Blizzard,
With the recent datamining of the warp stalker mount:
It being a low poly/res model and thus not a retail mount.
Please do not add a mount to an in-game store. Or an in-game store at all. This is the open can of worms myself, fellow forum posters, and most famously Madseason have talked about. I care about this game, and I think pro/anti boosters alike would agree that a store mount does not accurately capture the spirit of Classic TBC.
I can promise you Blizzard that doing these things will make you money in the short term, but will cost you in the end. Either reputation or losing a large chunk of the player base that specifically plays Classic for itsâŠwellâŠClassic feeling.
Think of the cheers at BlizzCon when Vanilla Classic wow was announced. There is a reason that we wanted Classic and store mounts were not ever one.
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You think its a store mount, but given that it is low poly, its not likely to actually be a store mount because it wouldnât sell at that visual fedility⊠its more than likely going to be a raid or boss drop to add an easter egg in for us to find for something else to chase.
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but thatâs not âclassicâ i mean balance changes are one thing, but adding a completely new mount is another.
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iâll use my stimulus money to pay for 039475934875 accounts to buy this and the boosts assuming itâll drive off all the blizzard/wow hating private server trolls. G O B A C K T O N O S T.
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There is a lot of possibilities. My theory is that this is the mount people will get with the level 58 boost. Also possibly a TBC promotional bundle item. Maybe a promotional bundle that includes the boost.
Uh, arenât balance changes far far more important than a cosmetic mount? Or is the concern the potential to use $$ instead of gold to get it?
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That sounds extremely unlikely. Mounts arenât account-wide so if people want to ride it they need to ditch their main and reroll to a boosted character.
Iâd say itâs more likely to be a reward unlocked in Retail for something done in TBC.
My stance on store mounts has always been a hard pass, and I honestly donât think Blizzard would add it to BC just because profit; but I wouldnât be surprised if they did. Remember how many people bought the first store mount? The sparkle pony?
Also just watched the full video, it has a swimming animation. Mounts still couldnât swim until Wrath of the Lich King (first aquatic mount was the turtle from fishing), I donât think they even had animations for them back then so itâs pointless to add them for a mount intended for Burning Crusade.
The celestial steed or whatever it is called? Iâve probably seen dozens of people with it but that is dozens out of thousands.
Personally, have never and will never spend $$ on a mount. Cosmetics arenât important to me. I have spent $$ for tokens because Iâd rather do that than grind gold or sell stuff like M+ carries. It is a much better return on investment when I can make that 20$ token in less than 2 hours of work. I was never great at making gold though. It bores me.
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my wife bought the sparkle pony for me when she decided to buy 398475934875345 store mounts for me, one day. lol
Yes, back when it first launched it felt like 60%+ of the population bought it. They were everywhere.
Iâve never bought a store mount either.
Theyâll probably do some promotion where if you buys 6 months of game time you get the mount.
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The mount was in the TBC files, not Shadowland. It will exist in TBC, not Retail.
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Agreed earning money to buy your mount is a major stepping stone in Classic being awarded a unique mount is essentially giving 1000g to players . why i would be ok with mounts as a ingame gold sink or a new hidden drop it must be something attained within game. Put it on a vendor for 20k gold
Maybe because it was a new feature and looked cool. A lot of people really do not mind paying to support the game as long as they get something in exchange that will be useful for them. Whether that be a mount, a boost, or a token. I donât understand the demonization of Blizzard as greedy for profiting off of providing things people want. Donât @ me with the âpeople donât know what they wantâ or âthat leads to disasterâ.
if you can find a way to USE A MOUNT IN WATER pre wrath, youâre either hacking or on a private server.
if you have a monk switch to it. itâll increase their anger a thousand fold and youâll be even MORE right about them irrationally hating anything retail related. 
I donât know what youâre saying. Itâs in the TBC client, not the Shadowlands client.
it has a swimming animation. itâs not a 200iq jump to assume since it has retail functionality, itâll be a retail mount. lots of things exist in the classic stuff that have never been a part of classic at all, because itâs part of the legion client which is used for the classic client.
if you think theyâre letting mounts swim thatâs something more important to be enraged about vs being upset a new mount exists at all. itâs a much bigger #somechanges than a single mount in an expansion that introduces 230489023849234 new ones. it changes the function of mounts entirely an entire expansion too soon.
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Iâm sure they used the lower res graphics to match the TBC graphics for no reason?
This is a TBC mount. Would it surprise you theyâre letting mounts swim in TBC Classic? Theyâve already thrown authenticity out the window.
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What if they implemented the achievement system in TBC classic and this mount is a reward for clearing content? That would be pretty awesome.
then make a thread about that and whine about that. thatâs a much bigger change than a single new mount being introduced, regardless of where said mount comes from.
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