And here’s the extreme example that people pay and will continue to pay millions for given away stuff, why? Simply because they weren’t around for the giveaway perhaps, they probably weren’t watching the news back then, I saw several feldrakes sell for 5 mil + in the us realms after they had already been given away, but never in eu, and I’ve also seen blazing hippos in eu for up to 9 mil (given away recently), so I was sure a feldrake could work too and here it is.
https://imgur.com/Rjpr4NZ
After all, at this point getting a feldrake is only marginally easier than it was before giveaway, whether you spend 3.000 or 700 euro, or 40 mil or 10 mil or similar, it’s still a big amount of money\gold.
And as you can see, people don’t care about the fact 30% of people have feldrake now, they see a mount they want, and if they can afford it, they buy it.