Right here you already admit no matter what they would be upset.
No they didn’t and it is on them already.
Subjective at best. This is a promotion, and promotions are supposed to be easy and rewarding . This is both of those.
Nope but people who own TCG mounts have more skin in the game than others, and as one with MANY, its entirely fine with me and affects me 0
I have many TCG items and I’m glad they’re coming back to the game, in the previous years they’ve hardly been traded and their USD values exceed the in game gold cap due to their scarcity. I hope they eventually bring back all of the TCG items at least once in promotions like this, also let’s be real, 99% of people with TCG items bought them off dupers in MOP\WOD for miniscule amounts of gold anyways, I bought my feldrake for 20k in WOD, only a few days worth of gold from doing garrison dailies.
Yeah, pretty sure most did. All of mine I got from cards, and I still don’t care they are coming back. Bring them all back and give them out like this, not impacted at all by it.
Those are just a special minority out of everyone who voiced their discontent.
That’s okay, but that’s obviously different for a lot of other players (which does not diminish their opinion when compared to that in any way ofc.)
Promotions are, by nature, mostly free and easy to acquire.
The question regarding what the goods are can be asked separately - and to answer that with rare TCG items isn’t objectively wrong, but it objectively is disproportionate, unprecedented and not necessary; any other somewhat desirable (or even a new) mount would have been just as good.
Hmm spend art team time making a new mount for 0 monetary gain, or using a existing asset that you get 0 revenue from anymore in a promotion where you lose nothing but can gain more players from it? win/win for everyone but the cry babies. This is even the best TCG mount for this. It is a DRAGON expansion and it is a DRAGON mount.
I have a few from cards as well, nether rocket, and all of the tabards, but those were re-introduced to the game years ago anyways, feldrake etc being re-added is just a continuation of what they’ve already done in the past. Sure they cost gold off the black market auction house, but you can buy wow tokens with USD anyways. There isn’t any “prestige” in anything you can buy with gold, even if you wasted your own time farming in an extremely inefficient way to buy it off the AH. Also rip the rarity of T3 that had to be earned in game, few players had it and is now the BMAH swiper tier :(. Ironic to see some of the people complaining about TCG mounts coming back with their 1 piece of T3 mogs 
Only 0.56% of players own the Fel Drake, From those players there’s some owners that agree this should comeback 
It’ll be great if Blizzard keep doing the same for the removed content, specially this one that was disbalance by a player market
As an owner of the Spectral Tiger and Swift Spectral Tiger, I’d probably be annoyed for all of 5 minutes if they made both of those easily obtainable, but I’d get over it. The whole FOMO thing needs to die. Besides, I have the card I got those from displayed on a shelf. I got mine the hard way (through sheer luck by buying a few packs of cards), and I have proof of it. That’s good enough.
I suppose that’s true from a cost efficieny point of view.
That’s not the only thing to consider though. But I guess they did evaluate every aspect of it and then decided that any possible dismay from players would be outweight by the gains.
I just hope that, from a more healthy perspective, those “crybabies” are more differentiated than just black and white as you asserted, and that Blizzard does not share that same bleakish view.
I think Blizz will be fine if this figure is even REMOTELY correct. Heck I will be generous. if 2% of players have this mount before this, Blizz can lose every single one of them and only be better off because they would have a toxic mindset that the game doesn’t need.
It’s likely a little higher than that %, assuming that number came from dataforazeroth then it is based off of people who have characters that appear on the armory, since feldrakes have basically been out of circulation for like 6-7 years now there’s definitely players with them that have quit the game and won’t show in that number.
Well, I would also very much hope that Blizzard wouldn’t just over-generalize and disregard that amount of players.
But that might be just wishful thinking.
They aren’t, giving something out to players that was never earned in the game in the first place doesn’t hurt anyone that previously had it, if you want something rare that blizzard won’t add back go get a gladiator mount.
It’s from dataforazeroth.
It objectively diminishes the mount’s value. Every item that’s being returned is subject to that.
The question is just to what degree are you making something available again? A bit; just enough to achieve a certain goal; or so much that it actually “hurts”?
It isn’t disregarding, it is choosing to give others a chance at a great thing. That doesn’t devalue from anyone, and doesn’t hurt anyone but those that choose to be childish. That is it dude.
He is right and you are not.
Blizzard owns the accounts. You only own the numeric stuff but the overall items, designs and so on not.
How does this N’Zoth quote goes? Sitting on a vacant throne and so.
I never understood how someone can like the old model style, while we already approaching the second revision (!) of the artstyle. I would understand it if they actually update the old mounts as well… but not like this.
The mount doesn’t have any value, all you had to do was swipe your credit card and you received the mount, just because the TCG is no longer printed and the mount couldn’t be obtained otherwise doesn’t make it any more special than a mount off the Blizzard store.
You’re having a over-simplified view on that.
But if you’re ok with that, I don’t judge.
Of course you can give somebody or anybody else a chance at something good. You can make it with that item, or with many others just the same. You could also give people a shot at such rare items without utterly negating parts of their value.
But that’s what Blizzard settled with.
You don’t want to engage in that completely unrealistic debate.
Whether you see the value of rarity or not, however intangible it might be, it is real nonetheless.