Please present them. As I’ve said, almost everyone I’ve encountered who has been in up in arms over this, have been so over not being able to lord the Feldrake over people anymore.
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I strongly disagree. We have enough issues in the actual real world already. COVID-19, which will likely never go away, ever again. A possible atomic war with nuclear consequences for the European landscapes and neighbor countries, with the US trying to stir the pot by helping the Ukraine by supporting and profiting of them in the long run. And then the on-going after effects of the war everywhere visible.
Given that some people rant about their lost $3k for a stupid game mount, we really could care less about these people and how they are represented.
Ok, Blast.
i’m getting the notion youre confusing or inflating “people want to lord over other with mounts” with “people want to show off their rare and desirable achievements, mounts etc.”. the latter is an absolut reasonable thing, it’s just natural to strive for rare and valuable things and to flex with them. it’s perfectly fine tho. only a minority so small i wouldn’t even bring them up actually want to lord over or put themselves above others with those things
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Or people try to act like the latter is a minuscule minority because they don’t want to admit they’re actually part of it.
What is the other reason besides it not being rare anymore?
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okay. that’s getting a bit too speculative for my liking 
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The feldrake should have been for the Support a Streamer so that people had to work a little for it. I say this not was some selfish person that would rather get that cute little pet for free but as someone who feels the pain of people who have the feldrake.
Wouldn’t they still be foaming at the mouth that people were “just” paying $10 for it? These people are impossible to make happy.
Yeah, but I would get the pet for free and that is all that matters >.>
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It is a shame…wait, with the account linking thing, can you use Bnet balance to gift subs? 
So I can just turn on Twitch. Mute the streamer, minimize the window, and let it stream for 4 hours?.. and I get a free “exclusive” mount that people paid $3,000 for in the past?
Correct-o-mundo.
Well yes but the Dragon Kite is first one we will get not the mount.
Well, yeah, but this is a bit of a distortion.
Blizzard never said the mount was exclusive nor did they set the $3000 price tag. That was all done via third parties over which Blizzard has no control.
Blizzard has no responsibility for that nor do they have any obligation toward those who obtained the mount in a manner which they didn’t sanction.
I totally get why someone who paid $3K for it would now be frustrated. But they assumed that risk of their own volition. As I said, Blizzard owes them nothing. Harsh truth, I know. But still truth.
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I am suspicious of the name
They did not say also it wasn t and when you license something the license creates the exclusivity. This is an extremely dangerous precedent for Blizzard to do for apparently no good reason when they could have done a simple recolor in 5 minutes.
Ask yourself why they are purposefully doing this
It sets the precedent that any exclusivity from Blizzard or licensed merchandise does not mean anything and the murloc mount people will get by paying for 12 months could be given for free later by afking on a second monitor for four hours.
That the card of the mount has value is not the issue, the issue is Blizzard purposefully destroying the rarity of a mount they themselves make rare in the past after selling it on a license then breaking that trust by not respecting the exclusivity that the license gave. Remember Blizzard set the number of Feldrakes for the cards as limited so that people would buy more cards.
That is why it is a bad precedent because it puts Blizzard’s trust into question. I for one do not have the drake but I am less incline to buy ANY promotions anymore because I can not trust Blizzard to respect the exclusivities they are throwing at us.
And remember that they are doing this on purpose when they could have done a 5 minute recolor.
So basically you are telling me you don t understand the collector market outside of the game…right? Do you think that people who buy an unopened pokemon gameboy original box is to open it and play it? Are you so unaware of the trading cards, comics, stamps, coins, bills that are sold everyday on auction houses? Are you not aware of the massive rise in retro video games collecting in the last 3 years? Do you think people buy those to play them or because of ‘collecting something rare’?
It seems to me that the large majority of people here are completely clueless about collecting. I have a pretty large collection of the wow cards…not complete but pretty close to it. Months later when the Feldrake had been given for free I will still try to collect the loot card for it not because I want to scratch it but because I want to complete my collection of cards.
How hard is it to understand? have you never collected anything?
Because there would be no need to declare a negative. Absent any official word, if you thought the mount would be exclusive to the TCG that was an assumption. Perhaps a safe one when the TCG was relevant, but it hasn’t been for years. And in any case, it’s still an assumption.
That’s flimsy. TCG loot cards were created to cross promote the TCG and WoW. One of those is still relevant, the other is not. Repurposing an old asset to promote the game people are still playing seems perfectly reasonable.
As a reminder, the $3K street value of the TCG card is ultimately a moot point for this discussion. Sure, it would suck to have paid such an exorbitant cost now but that was a personal choice and a personal risk. Blizzard neither set nor sanctioned that price and are under no obligation to consider it now.
Well, the simplest explanation is they brought back a cool looking dragon mount to promote a dragon centric expansion.
Perhaps they did want to destroy the 3rd party RMT value of the thing. We don’t know for sure. Maybe that was a consideration, maybe it wasn’t. Either way I doubt they mourn crashing that market, nor should they.
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