Sounds kind of like you care (otherwise you’d not be here complaining about it) and it sounds as if you are jealous that those folks can buy it.
Based and pixelbrained.
I don’t see the mount as pay to win at all. Getting a mount (via gold, tokens, store, soda, twitch, etc) is not a win. Paying for someone to carry you, paying for gear that you didn’t earn so you can do content you are not good at – those are examples of paying to win – imo, I think tokens are much closer than the mount.
Yessir. The people that bought the ocean-front property I sold them in Arizona say the same.
Do people actually operate on the idea that if a purchase was made then value was had?
See that’s backwards. Can you really say you won by being last at what you’re doing? You literally need someone else to have done the content before you in order to be carried. Meaning you absolutely can’t get an advantage that’s unsurmountable without paying.
If your win condition is “Achieve KSH” then, yes, you successfully purchased your win condition.
This mount (none of them) give you any advantage in the game - NONE
Yea tokens are pay to win. Pay to win is paying to carry you in a raid (just one example) so you can get AOTC or to get complete Mythic Raiding content and down all the bosses.
Who said pay to win has anything about if you did something first or last. Technically, yhou could pay a top tier raiding guild to drag you along in a raid and be world first if you paid them enough.
At least this time Blizzard put in sale ad of this …its for a limited time…unlike the did when BfA went live and we had the 5 million gold Long boi back then…out of the blue they come out with that silly excuse and removed it from the Vendor at the end of BfA…and throw it too the BMAH which it went for maxed out gold amount of 10 Million …just that it never showed up in the BMAH for over 2 yrs too…till finally they admit there was an issue with it showing on the BMAH.
Not telling us at the beginning of BfA that the Long Boi was going to be removed is what really pissed off the player base back then.
I suspect that this is a method of them to Raise the price of the WoW tokens in game so that less people can afford to buy them to pay for their Monthly subs with just in game gold.
This is complete speculation and I have no actual evidence to base this off of, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
the price is a lot to me but i don’t mind that others can get it, i hope they enjojy their cool new mount 
i like the green one best bc green<3 c:
so maybe one day ill find it on the bmah if not no biggie
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$90 for a single store mount is excessive, but that misses the point. The removal of the original Brutosaur from the in game vendor is still a sore point for many - they waited until deep into BFA to announce that it would be removed. Originally, while it would have taken a long time/a lot of effort, the mount could be acquired simply by playing the game and not investing additional real world money. Many people didn’t worry about farming the gold up until that point because there was every reason to believe you could take your time to acquire the mount, and likely would have handled their in game finances differently from the start if it had been known earlier that the Brutosaur would be getting removed - after all, ALL of the other other gold sink mounts are still available. Then when Blizzard does announce the removal, their official statement cites how disruptive they feel the presence of the mount is… but now that disruptive effect is set aside. Either the reason for removal of the original Brutosaur is no longer valid, and it should be returned to the in game vendor, or this one shouldn’t be available.
The best customer oriented response to this would be to return the original Brutosaur to the in game vendor. There are still people who would rather pay the $90 for quicker access, but for others, there would still be an avenue to gradually work up the in game currency if the mount was a goal for them. That $90 price tag being the only option really does give the lie to everything Blizzard has said on the topic before, and yes, consumers SHOULD be upset when a vendor is dishonest, and it is in our best interest to be vocal and NOT support such decisions.
Without that sort of feedback, we wouldn’t have dynamic flight (or flying at all) - or have we all forgotten back in Warlords when Blizzard said we wouldn’t have flying and how quickly they publicly back tracked on that statement?
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Not a fan of the cost or microtransactions. But I will ignore that. The only real issue I have with this is the fact that they had removed the original Brutosaur mount from the world. Then they launch this promotion - providing the same niche services (also for a limited time).
Both mounts have capitalized on FOMO and I’m a firm believed of adding things to the game and keeping them there. If anything they should reimplement the original mount permanently. (I do not necessarily believe adding it to the Black Market Auction House as being ‘readded’; though I respect if people disagree with me on that)
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And I didn’t say it was pay to win. I said it’s closer to my definition of pay to win than carry.
Ironically, the existence of the token is probably the main reason this mount isn’t pay to win, cause you can technically get it from playing the game.
I think it’s more of a survival situation. They’re trying to keep the game going so they made a different bruto and put it in the shop.
Same thing with early access.
The “hate” is annoying because it’s not legit. People are just not thinking any of this through, imo.
Instead they get overly dramatic and their self image takes a hit because here, online, they can be what they’ve always wanted to be and when something shows up they can’t afford or shouldn’t pay for, they get upset when others do because they feel slighted, left out, left behind.
It’s all very dumb when you think about it.
The only time anyone should complain is when it’s a legit issue.
Now if Blizzard had put BiS highest gear for sale in the shop and attached a high price tag, THAT would be a valid reason to get all riled up but no, they got riled way too soon.
So now, IF that time comes when high end gear shows up in the shop, no one is going to listen to them because they’ve been barking about stuff all along.
Since there isn’t any high end gear for sale, hasn’t been for as long as I’ve been playing then to my mind there isn’t a reason to complain as to what they want to sell.
Long-winded post to simply say these are 1st world problems and please stop complaining about dumb stuff that doesn’t matter.
We could tell jokes instead. Or funny stories. Something.
Anything else.
Or…
- People who don’t like more stuff being added to the in-game shop instead into the actual game itself we pay a monthly sub for
I personally don’t like WoW being treated as a F2P game while still having a sub personally.
It’s really not about feeling special or not being able to afford it, I just think it’s scummy to nickle and dime the player base.
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The Long Boi of BfA was never listed as a limited time mount now…that is a lie if you’ve seen that posted now…it was found out by a gamer looking at files of next patch that found the file about the Achievement change for the Long Boi now…at least this time they listed this new Long Boi is for a limited time now…
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I could see that. Adjusted for inflation, the original WoW subscription cost about $24/month. I would prefer them sell overpriced cosmetics in the shop to raising the sub price.
Essentially the people willing to buy cosmetics/mounts/toys/etc subsidize the lower cost. And if the game isn’t good, these people will not care about the cosmetics
I can easily blow $90 on something with much less value. I could walk into a bar and order a nice bottle of wine for $500. I could then drink the whole thing, go home, wake up with a hangover.
This morning I woke up with a mount instead! for a 5th of the price!
I even quoted you where you said that so ummm…yea don’t connnect dots that are not there.
You have the option of paying for your sub with ingame gold.
That’s a pretty damn good option if you ask me.
It’s not scummy what they’re doing. They’re trying to survive.
How many times have they been sold to a bigger company? How many times have they had layoffs?
And never once has the sub price increased.
Yet everyone freaks out because a different looking bruto gets added to the shop.
They freaked out about early access, too.
This isn’t about Blizzard being “scummy”, this isn’t about corporate “greed”.
It’s about hurt feelings.
There’s an aluminum bronze fiberglass shovel for $400 on radwell dot com
Maybe we should throw a hissy fit about that too?