I mean they legitimately charge more money for cosmetic micro-content than EA does. 35 AUD for one mount vs 16 AUD for 15 pairs of clothing and a gameplay item. Both are vastly over inflated given what they are offering but you can see what I’m trying to say right? When Electronic Arts looks generous by comparison we’ve hit some kind of ungodly low.
Then there’s the fact they aren’t going to fix the AR races alongside the core ones when Shadowlands comes out despite them having more than paid for themselves with their repgrinding requirements by this point. When people have invested that much time and effort into your game over something…maybe giving that something alittle love is warranted?
Also fix the same face issue with the Goblins and give them back their eyebrows while you’re at it.
I’m on the fence until I hear about the rep grind. Specifically if we’re meant to grind world quest / dailies all over again. That’s when I just do something else for 2020-2022 and it’s getting a lot easier to find other games.
Basically this, it’s not like WoW is the worst game ever (it’s still pretty good), but it doesn’t exist in a vacuum anymore, and all the chores it seems like you have to perform to keep yourself up-to-date for the good stuff, now, are getting a little tiresome.
I hope if they keep the ‘seasonal’ structure for Shadowlands, that they at least include a few new dungeons, or some alternate routes/bosses per season to keep things fresh. BFA’s insistence that I (at least in M+) reaccquire the same piece of gear over and over has been a very sour point for me.
Unfortunately the more ‘maintenance’ style content they add to the game, the more I feel inclined to check out some of the myriad of games I’ve acquired through Humble. Singleplayer games are much more respectful of your time, these days.
Yeah the crazy thing is most of us don’t even care if something is a grind. The problem is choice in that grind just doesn’t exist and it gets old real fast.
Nightborne are a joke of a race and they said that we will not receive customizations. Is sad that allied races already have less customizations and we will have to wait years to have more than three skin color options.
I feel like this is off big time. I don’t even run old content for mounts, I just run it when I’m bored for gold. Real game play comes in chasing time sensitive goodies for me, like achievements (AOTC and such) and PvP trophies (such as elite mogs and the like). BFA is a bust in these departments too though.
You should talk about real money, instead of whatever an “AUD” is
Actually, I’m surprised this game doesn’t have more micro-content. FFXIV has quite a lot, for example. If anything, Blizzard seems pretty conservative about the mounts/pets/mogs you can buy.
You are proving their point. Invincible might be new to you, but it’s not a new mount, so you’re actually choosing to use a 10 year old mount over the new offerings.
Thus why I feel the person I responded toward is incorrect. Anything anyone attains which they didn’t have before fits the criteria of being “new.” Regardless of the timeframe it’s been out.
The point is I use it - a lot - and (as I said above) it’s new to me. The individual I quoted said people are doing anything to get “new” mounts, there was no specification in implying “new” as in just being released.
I went through hell to attain it, as are many others, which does fit the criteria to what was referenced.
GGG Has good MTX, its entirely optional, though bank spaces and tabs help
Riot games RP is pretty good value per dollar too, I hate loot boxes in the industry but I think Riot at least gives you decent value with theirs, I’ve bought 10 chests every now and then, and rarely have I felt i didnt get rewarded, maybe once or twice out of 15 plus times. even then, I got gold dust I could use to turn into champion skins when i got one i wanted. or just reroll. its not all bad.
I used to buy overwatch crates every time a seasonal event came out, the rates are terrible and you just get disappointed. Blizzard is definitely not all there with the MTX. $95 to buy a wow level boost…
The costs of the character services are what is egregious to me. Race changes for $25 is absurd, and I’m a hypocrite because I’ve paid for a few over the years. They all need to be half of what they are now but we all know that will never happen because people (like myself) buy them now just fine with the way they are.
I’ve been told many times, whether by other players or Blizzard PR managers, that they’re priced so highly to discourage their use.
Now obviously that should be taken with a grain of salt, but that’s apparently their reasoning, and they seem to be sticking to their guns on this one.
… It does however, at least in my opinion, fall apart at even the slightest scrutiny. If the price were doing its job to keep people from overusing it, I wouldn’t see swathes of people leaving their realms in the dust for greener pastures, race-changing every other month when something takes their fancy, or just plain hopping over to what they percieve as the ‘better’ faction.
Further, it’s not quite expensive enough to say it’s completely unreasonable - but it is on the very high end of what I’d consider a microtransaction, and when you compare the prices of MTX and convenience features in WoW to other games, the only others with prices that match it are F2Ps with a heavy focus on microtransactions. Of course, they’re selling actual power for those absurd prices, whereas Blizzard has stuck to merely providing convenience.
I’ll admit I’ve bought a few in my time with this game, too. … But I never felt good doing it.
