Expressing dismay while paying for the new pet pretty much means your opinion is worthless.
Blizz is going to do what makes money.
I have to imagine a lot of people upset about yet another store mount, pet, whatever aren’t buying them. Not all mind you, but plenty. I probably won’t as I’ve skipped the last couple of store mounts as well. And no one’s opinion is “worthless.” It’s called empathy man, just because you don’t share an opinion taking the time to understand why someone might have an opinion that is different than yours helps you understand the over all issue and hopefully address it. I get it, you’re tired of people whining on the forums, I know a lot of people are. But as long as people are whining it shows that they at least still care about the game. The minute they stop, sure you get some peace on a forum where you could already just ignore the whining, but once they do stop caring Blizz loses that player. When a player is angry they still care, when a player is apathetic you’ve lost them.
If your “opinion” is contradictory to your actions then it is worthless.
A for profit business cares more about the money that you spend than the words that you say…So as long as players keep propping up the profit margin with service/store purchases the number of complaints won’t matter.
And by most measures, that is the case now.
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Change title to:
“Blizzard doesn’t read the room and sticks to the current business model.”
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Or just maybe there’s this thing called a schedule that they use to release certain things onto the shop. Hmmm nah to reasonable must be to placate anger people have against mage tower!!
That doesn’t matter.
A mechanic and a secretary working in the same shop both get paid by the same boss, but expecting the secretary to fix your car is stupid.
A cleaner and a surgeon may work at the same hospital and get paid by the same administration team/accountant, but you wouldn’t ask the cleaner to perform an appendectomy.
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These guys have a few people here and there, some sound people and they get mounts, pets, done in advance, months in advance. They probably get the finance department to draw up pricing and together with marketing, get to sort that out.
Business as usual. Welcome to corporate.
Your analogies are so beyond stupidity that you really should stop posting, like, ever. 
Good choice.
Not really.
Asking an artist to fix bugs in the code is like asking a secretary at a garage to fix an engine.
It’s not their job.
They don’t have the skills to do that job.
They’d just mess it up and make the job even harder for the person who is actually qualified.
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they need income after lost subs. that’s how companies stay in business.
i dunno if you noticed but subs are down.
Debatable. According to the last quarterly reports, MAUs are stable at 26 million.
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per these forums, even the NPCs are quitting and moving over to FFXIV.
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Yeah but these forums have been dooming and glooming since 2004.
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No, really. Bobby lays people off to increase his yearly bonuses and if these are his priorities then this game stands no chance. Your analogies are beyond ridiculous.
They have nerfed the mage tower though. Several times, they might not have nerfed it as much as you would like it to be nerfed. But that’s not the same thing.
Companies often restructure their business, when doing so they find positions and departments that are either no longer needed/redundant/too expensive for them to upkeep. When this occurs unfortunately those working in those positions are let go if they don’t have the skills/aptitude to work else where in the company. This has little to do with any bonus that a ceo might be promised by their contract. *Not giving someone something promised on a contract when said thing is suppose to be given is a serious no no.
A significant amount of their staff wasn’t looking to unionize in 2004.
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Blizzard previously decided their QA department did not need to be retained.
After that, Shadowlands came out. Still in beta test variant.
It’s like the people working at Blizzard right now are still riding the coattails of the developers that created a world worth going to, while the current Dev’s have all but gutted said prior version for the new time played mechanics they want to shove in game.
The single largest issue is that the current dev team has let themselves consider time played to be a safe metric in place of subscriptions.
One measures people happily experiencing Azeroth and beyond.
The other is about RL measurement of how long someone experiences Azeroth and beyond.
I think the first is the better. Sadly, Blizzard does not.
My friends list in game the last time I logged in was at zero.
My guild list last time I logged in was also at zero.
While people have left, only Blizzard knows exactly how many.
The issue being that anyone has left, is up to Blizzard to try and figure out how to fix.
The problem with said issue is that the current Developer team and leadership consider said time played, above, to be a worthy replacement for subscriptions.
Blizzard DOES NOT consider its customers to be worth listening to in game. Just look at the, “We hear you and listen.” and then Blizzard up and does their own thing anyway.
WoD. Alpha and Beta.
BFA. Alpha and Beta.
Both expansions went live with bugs and bad design choices that were pointed out in BOTH of their expansions’ Alpha and Beta. That’s hubris. That is the current Blizzard.
The Blizzard of old that would at least partially listen to the players and yet still attach strings is gone. This Blizzard, our current one, has NO LOVE for those paying its bills.
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LOL did you just log into an alt to agree with yourself with that nonsense?
Nope, would you like to try again or are you just here to troll?