No potatoes left all were made into fries!
Actually as you get older and you stop giving a crap about your age, you really just go ahead and call yourself your age that year before your birthday just so you can get used to it.
When I turned twenty eight I gave up and started thinking of myself as thirty just to get it over with. Iâll probably do the same thing for forty.
The only time it matters anymore is just for legal purposes.
Pass.
We can buy things from the store any day.
How is this special?
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Same model, same animation, bleached white,
Same same, what are you on about?
NoâŚwho took the jam out of your donut?
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Good lord, all of this hate and vitriol over absolutely nothing.
This is a disgusting overreaction. People mourn for the days of old Blizzard, I mourn for the day people werenât unnecessarily rude and obnoxious because something was added to the game that doesnât affect them. I mourn for the loss of common decency, or just manners.
Is Blizzard money grabbing now? I suppose you could argue it. But itâs no different than when they were making money off of people buying TCG card packs in the hope of getting those sweet rare mount drops. Which have been around since Classic, night I remind you. External mounts have been in the game since the beginning, so this is nothing new.
And you know what? These mounts are literally no different than the CE mounts weâve been getting for the last however many expansions. If they were made exclusive to the CEs, you people would be cursing Blizzard out just as much as you are now, or worse because of âexclusivity.â
The actual anniversary celebration is adding three new mounts to the game, all of which look incredible (updates ram mount, hell yes??) and they come 100% free; you just have to play the game.
The alabaster mounts are for the Collectorâs Edition that is being released in celebration of Classic servers going live, and theyâre letting you get them rather than spend $100 on an item thatâs difficult to get because it keeps getting sold out in mere seconds of being offered. Honestly, Iâm glad theyâre on the store so people who donât want or canât get the CE still have the option to have these neat mounts. And if you hate how they look, thatâs fine! Donât buy them!
Honestly, itâs no wonder no one from Blizzard communicates anymore. With people like the person I quoted, this community is as horrible as their perceived insult that Blizzard has directed at them. So much hate for absolutely no reason, it sickens me.
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Celebrate wowâs 15th anniversary by BUFFING ENH SHAMAN SURVIVABILITY AND BALANCING CLASSES IN PVP⌠I melt when I play enh shaman in arena ⌠stop being so god dam incompetent⌠you have all the money in the world⌠hire ppl that play this game and for the love of god stop neglecting enh shamansâŚ
The mounts are hideous and have no color⌠yukâŚ
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Id rather celebrate with some Warmode shard balancing.
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I may have been tempted to buy one but then, you posted this.
Good point.
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You argue that getting cards is close to buying shop mounts? Theyâre litteraly printing money with shop mounts. They didnât make much money out of the card game I can assure you that, else they would be still making those.
Not relevant anymore*edited out
And comparing shop mounts to CE is just disgusting, you want this game to turn into pay2win? Thatâs what you want?
Also the reason they donât communicate anymore is they fired the guys that did. Because obviously that was their answer to poor communication.
I can accept shop mounts existence and I understand Blizzard can put them out as they want. But donât try talking about them like itâs a good thing.
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It is. I spent over $100 trying to get the spectral tiger. I remember 13 year old me taking my allowance and going to the store to buy card packs that always ended up in the garbage because they werenât the spectral tiger. Now, if I want the blue fox, I drop $15 on it and bam, itâs mine. Iâll take that over the TCG any day.
But Iâm not comparing them. The two mounts added are LITERALLY the CE mounts. I agree with arguments regarding the mounts that are just placed in the shop, I would prefer them be obtainable in game. But the alabaster mounts are literally the CE mounts and being offered in the store for people who canât or donât want to drop $100 all at once for a bunch of physical items, too. This game isnât in any danger to becoming pay to win, the shop has been in the game for nearly as long as itâs existed now since sparkle pony came in Wrath. Thereâs nothing to pay to win.
The mass layoffs were pretty dirty, but they still have CMs. But the disgusting way the community treats them explains why theyâre absent. Itâs like how folks will berate and abuse retail workers. Iâve worked retail, Iâve worked for a small while as a forum manager, being treated like the way this community treats Blizzard employees takes a heavy psychological toll when youâre literally just a messenger.
Itâs either these two mounts are put on the shop or are locked behind a $100, exclusive edition paywall. Itâs a good thing theyâre in the shop.
Iâm speaking strictly these two shops. The rest of the mounts, though I do think should be obtainable in the game, I donât have strong feelings for one way or the other. Iâm only talking about the alabaster mounts, and why itâs good that they specifically are on the shop.
I thought that was cutting edge sorry about that. My confusion.
As for cards, getting physical products to get a mount is way less âgreedyâ. You get something physical. Yes they cost at the end more, but those cards still have value today, while you canât re-sell the shop mount.
All good! No worries there.
I can concede your point about cards still being physical objects that you receive, but thereâs still the point of external mounts have always existed. And Iâm far more partial to being able to spend a flat amount for them rather than spending money on a poorly thought out card game (pre-Hearthstone) for a tiny chance at it.
Honestly itâs just less RNG, which considering WoWâs current state, I need less RNG in my life.
lol They did not have a store. The TCG was a card game and not sold on a blizzard store. They were bought off the TCG website or from card stores. The mounts were super rare to get as well as many other things. The cards were generally cheap. That is not how wow survived. Wow survived because of the 10 Million plus subscribers back then. The card games were chump change.
You say you do not not have to pay for every wow expansion. Since when? Every single expansion you paid for if you started from scratch or wanted to play when it was released. Yes you get the other expansions included NOW when buying but the point is that unless you are a relative new person, you paid for each one and still will for years to come. I wish it was the case that i got every expansion since buying the base game for free.
its not the same model. it is the same animation though, cause it uses the same skeleton. and no its not bleached white, they have all sorts of differences.
and where do you think that money went from the card sales? blizzard.
also the card games were chump change? no wonder the mounts cost upwards of a hundred bucks or soâŚ
the cards phsyically were bassicly worth nothing, as the cards that dont have mounts/pets/etc set to them cost little to nothing, as you could get versions of the card without a scratch part on it.
Ok thatâs not funnyâŚ
It is the same model, point me out if I am wronged guys,
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i have just the mount for you
its called hogrus
litterally a flying baked potato
Alright so you are saying this is the same model as the current- updated gryphon model right? well lets compare the two, sadly i cant link them so i will have to describe.
The alabaster gryhon beak is smooth, look at the new updated gryphon model and notice its peak has a spike ontop. Also the current gryphons have no chestplate like the alabaster, wings are different, tail is different, legs are different, the feathers around the head are entirely different, the texture is different. the only thing the same is that its a grpyhon.
warcraftmounts .com/images/skins/elitegryphon.jpg
i.imgur .com/VU0DTN1.png
Compare the two yourself
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Wheres the Downvote button when you need it?
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