For sure and you know I’m a big supporter of that but I think a few things don’t make sense.
So, previous gold sink mounts stay but for some reason they pick the Brutosaur to remove? If they were worried about the AH being too accessible then they could have replaced it with like a mailbox or bank.
Every achievement mount has stayed but they took the plagued and black proto-drake out for reasons? You can’t tell me that these two were more difficult to get than any other. Wrath’s version of Naxx was cleared the first week it was out. They just couldn’t decide how they were going to handle those achievement mounts at the time but once they did decide, they should have put them back.
And the anniversary mounts. The gray dragonhawk can be bought on the vendor but why not the others? What makes that one less special? Makes no sense. They should just put them all on the anniversary vendor for like, 5 or 10 thousand Timewalking badges. I’m sure most people have nothing to spend their badges on anyways.
Then there’s the Naxx sets. Just let LW, Tailors and BS craft them for the 2.8m gold whether they own the set or not. Now that there’s two sources for these sets are they really that special anymore?
(I’m only addressing the items on the BMAH that you can’t get from their original source.)
Back in WoD, Blizzard added the world shrinker and promptly had to invent entirely new systems to combat it once it became apparent how easily this particular toy would proliferate and the net effect it would have on mounts and the player experience.
I’m sure they thought about it while designing the thing(and it was shrunk once already), but they probably didn’t know the thing could be made 100 feet tall with little effort.
Heard and clearly my frustrations made my original post unnecessarily dramatic. But the point that many others have said very well is just make it possible again.
Having some items just randomly unavailable compared to others feels off
Hasn’t it shown up once on one server? You seem to be making it appear that when it’s on the BMAH, everyone who wants it can get it.
But I think they should rework the BMAH so it works more like a vendor, possibly the item appearing on all servers, not just one. When an item appears, it has a set price. People would have a day to buy it at that price, then it’s gone until sometime in the indefinite future.
That would be not only a better gold sink, but it would eliminate a lot of degenerate stuff people do to get around how it works.
I’m not opposed to it being available mind you, but, it can’t be super easy either or most people will be using it all the time. And some of us did go all out to get the thing BECAUSE it was being removed. To the tune of 24 tokens in my case.
Nope. It was bugged and not appearing but they fixed that.
Yeah, that’d be reasonable. The current model of camping dead realms with gold cap at 2:30 am est is kind of…not ideal. Alternatively they could bump the gold cap to 99.9m to avoid people freely snagging big items like bruto or tiger for only 9.9m
Yeah, I did this for all of mop-wod with gold cap copied so I could paste for tiger. Missed tiger by a few seconds when it was listed but got the raptor. Just having it on a daily or weekly rotation would be more fun, I think, sort of like the trading post.