Gonna need a source to back this one up. I am exposed to a wide variety of people and have never witnessed this behavior except among people into salvage or classic vehicles. Everyone else just likes what they like, and don’t care if 1000 other people have/drive/wear/eat the same thing they do or not.
I accept that a portion of the populate corelates rarity with prestigious value, but I think saying it’s a majority is stretching. Maybe we just move in different circles.
I’d have a sense of selling it. I’d be happy to have extra money. That’s it.
I think Blizzard does two things wrong. First, they set the drop rate at a stupidly rare level and it angers everyone and then they swing the pendulum in the opposite direction and give it to everyone.
Had they just put the drop rate at a reasonable level, people would have been happy. Or they could have created a currency that people get once a week when they complete the quest so they can purchase the mount during the last week of the event. Doing this, players would have to log in at least weekly during the event.
Not sure why the developers do not learn from their past mistakes. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that the masses were going to complain at the super low drop rate they had set. 
Mhmm, and what makes you think selling it would be a good idea?
What’s funny is I got the mount and toy mere hours before they implemented the change to make it 100%. Toy was on day 1. Mount was on day 2.
Because you said it was probably worth a fortune.
But you wouldn’t know that. At that moment let’s just say.
Just google Marketing Placebo Effect and click on any of the billion links that pop up
I would have given it to a friend as a birthday gift. I know someone who likes swords.
Why, though. Just because it’s a sword? Or because it’s a super rare ancient sword. Cuz if the former, when don’t you get a random sword from Amazon. That way it’s new.
Yeah, I like swords but I don’t have any room to collect them, and I don’t go to the pawn shop. So I’d say, “What should I do with this cool sword?” and I’d just give it to my friend, not knowing if it’s super rare or not - and not caring. Maybe he would care enough to check, but I doubt it. He’d probably destroy its value by using it to cut wood and stuff. lol
Things are transient and the only worth I see in them is related to the extent to which I can utilize the object. If I don’t want to use it is of no value to me. If I find out it’s worth money to someone else, I will gladly sell it without hesitation. If I’m not aware of its value, but cannot use it, I will give it away or discard it.
Alright so then it’s just a you thing. Which is very humble. But most people like to own rare things. Like someone else said, it’s human nature.
It’s like Syndrome from the Incredibles, “when everyone’s super, no one is”.
Yeah, I didn’t agree with that sentiment when I saw the movie either.
It’s partly a me thing, but I am surrounded by people who reason the same way I do.
I think it would be ideal for everyone to be super, to have unlimited access to money, to have equal access to all goods and services, and to have all the same opportunities.
But that’s all related to the fact that I’m an Anarcho-Syndicalist. My friends and I are all communists and socialists, so it’s not surprising our outlook would diverge from people who have more of an “Ayn Rand-aligned” mindset.
I was literally gonna ask you if you were a communist, beat me to it.
Yeah I completely agree with this sentiment and tend to live my life under these same principles, but come on you can’t be oblivious enough to think that normal human beings operate this way. Source: reality.
Not always, if everything was 100% then you would understand the title of this whole thread. Why do people buy scratcher lottery tickets? Imagine if you paid $5 and every ticket was a $5 winner. That would suck. I once lived out of my car years ago and had $3 to my name, I walked into AM/PM and bought a beer and a $1 scratch ticket and it was a $10 winner, I bought 2 more $1 tickets and pocketed the $8 (i would need future beer) one of those 1$ tickets was a $5 winner and I quit while I was ahead. (I have other sadder stories where I didn’t do that and lost it all)
Think of the great vault and other rng stuff as a scatch off ticket… might win… might not
i understand the sentiment, but really, does it matter?
for one, this is an anniversary event, not just some achievement thing. If it was, I could understand the rarity thing, I mean there’s still millions of us who haven’t gotten Invincible.
also, who cares if everyone has it? Personally, I love seeing the long conga lines of same mounts… it’s fun, and it shows community togetherness.
I mean, I feel like those who complain about this stuff are always the “mine mine mine” meme people.
Anniversary pets and mounts used to be auto just for logging on as a thank you for playing. It should have been in the mailbox, but 100% off an easy world boss fight works.
It really depend on the person, as uniqueness does add alot to the value of a mount but, some mounts should just be available to everyone.
Look if the Magical Rooster mount became available to everyone even though it’s a TCG mount, even though I spent what was gold cap at the time to buy it on the AH, I’d actually be super happy.
Mostly because every time I see that mount I laugh and I laugh every time I mount up. It is the few things in the game to always put a smile on my face every single time and I regret not a single gold I spent or grinded for the thing and I wish I could see more people riding giant chickens with a pouch on it.
I want it, and I want every single other WoW player still playing this game to also have it so we can all celebrate 17 years of WoW together.