Sure. I don’t think gladiator, AOTC, CM, keymaster, mythic+, etc. stuff should be sold on the TP or given away as a Twitch reward.
But I also think comparing a mount that comes from a code and a mount you get from hitting gladiator is stupid. Plus, Blizzard never said that TCG stuff would be exclusive.
Blizzard didn’t make the Spectral Tiger cost a few gold caps, the players did. Blizzard also didn’t make that mount cost $3000 on eBay, scalpers did. So why should Blizzard keep it rare?
Why does it matter if it’s a pet or a mount? If people have the choice to buy something on the AH or with Tender, there are people who are going to save their Tender and buy it on the AH. Pet, mount, live baby squirrel… doesn’t matter what it is.
Keep in mind, Blizzard didn’t sell anything when it comes to the TCG. They had rights to it, but they didn’t sell code, etc.
Yep! And that’s how I’ll feel when they release other TCG stuff I have. I had my time with it, I got my money’s worth, now many others get the chance and get to have fun with them, too!
Not to mention, what’s the point? I bought so much stuff in Rift and that game is dead now. Wildstar is shut down, none of what I had matters at all. When Old Republic eventually dies, all of the money I spent on it is useless and gone. Same will be with WoW, too.
Yep, as you and Nobully pointed out, they want to sell them for outrageous amounts of gold. They’re an AH baron, not a collector.
Bingo. That’s how I live my life in this game. Value is irrelevant. Fun is. 
I don’t believe you
… Yes please!
Dude, get over it. I have rare items and I wouldn’t give a damn if they became available on the Trading Post. FOMO is terrible. EVERY item should remain available – the exclusivity stuff belong to achievements (Ahead of The Curve, Gladiator titles, etc.)
It’s not me paying that, but people are, rarely obviously.
https://undermine.exchange/#eu-nazjatar/49282 see for yourself, you can see it for a few more days, big battle bear sold for 2,5 mil, was only in 5 hours. Got more feldrake examples in the us, got personal examples of dozens of dragon kites sold post twitch drop.
It’s not rarer, check dataforazeroth: 15% have it, 2% have the cub, for a few days, then it will jump up ofc.
But blizzard made a decision that made them rare, didn’t they? They discontinued the cards in 2013, so by laws of supply and demand, they were bound to become rarer, and did, until 2022.
In all the time inbetween I and others asked blizzard if they would ever bring them back, but no info was given.
So basically the prices, both IRL and in game, increased because there was this feeling (by majority, otherwise it wouldn’t have happened) that tcg stuff would become harder and harder, more and more scarce, this is on blizzard too for discontinuing the source and not giving info about future plans.
Blizzard does not like it when players make gold. Then there is no need for tokens.
Ahah, I stopped having fun in wow when I became more serious a collector in 2013\2014, with some exceptions ofc, I remember having fun in 2011-2012, when I got the hang of the game in cata.
I’m pretty sure what the other poster means with being nice, that I also haven’t seen, is that you seem have no empathy for people who spent a certain amount of gold before the thing was given away, that is why I asked: if a friend of yours got a feldrake a month before the giveaway for 20 mil (and ofc back then people didn’t know they would’ve been given away), would you feel sorry for them?
No, I wouldn’t, why would anyone feel sorry for anyone that does that by choice.
I mean honestly, how does me not caring what someone else spends their money or gold on make me not nice just because they happen to make the mistake of spending it on say the feldrake and then it comes to the trading post.
Hello, that’s not my fault or anyone else’s outside of the person that made said decision.
If someone spent 20 million dollars on a yacht that promptly sank, I would not feel bad for them. It was a wildly frivolous purchase of a luxury item that some would say was unethical in and of itself.
Someone spending 20 million in fake money on a fake digital item that they won’t actually own for themselves that then becomes almost free to everyone else? You expect me to empathize with that?
Get over it
Yes, see you totally get it, I don’t get why some people in this thread act like others are bad because we wouldn’t feel sorry for them.
First of all refunds wouldn’t do a lot with me because of the relatively minor amounts of gold I spent, it wouldn’t change the big picture, but take the OP for exmple: you don’t seem to get that if you buy something that has a certain value, then said thing is given away, then you’d obviously like to get back the amount you paid, this has nothing to do with gatekeeping.
You pay a certain amount for a certain item, said item is made “worthless”, you get the amount back you paid, this doesn’t prevent anyone from getting the pet from trading post.
It’s deception: you buy something in AH because it’s the only reasonable way (in this case), but if you had known it would’ve been free in a few years, people might’ve made a different decision, and that would’ve meant less sales, so they couldn’t warn about that ofc.
Ah, right, so you don’t mind if something rare you have loses its rarity artificially, and you don’t mind if someone close to you does either, even if that took a lot of effort.
It’s an unusual stance from what I saw, having something and not having a problem with it being given away, that’s why I looked more into it.
Good example with the yak, a luxury item, just like the tcgs were and I agree I wouldn’t be sorry for them, if I didn’t know them ofc.
Lets be real here because how I see it is that I was one of the people that got lucky way back with with the TCG to get my Amani Dragonhawk and a couple other TCG items but I’d just hand them out like candy to anyone and everyone that wanted them if I could because they are legit just a mount, a couple pets and a toy which is just pixels and if someone else could enjoy them just as much as me I honestly see no issue with it.
Your point. The OP was the one who purchased the pets off the AH, he still loses nothing.
Let me repeat
HE LOSES NOTHING!
Good grief.