Okay. Look. I rarely complain about changes made in game. But this is one that I absolutely hate, and I hope this decision gets reversed. This makes no sense. It’s hard enough to save up gold as is, getting to 5 million with normal gameplay (aside from constantly flipping things on the auction house) is a tall order. As it stands, I’ve only got about 600k, and I’ve been saving as much as I can all expansion for the brutosaur. I did spend the 333k for a frog, but if I knew then what I know now, I wouldn’t have. Because it hurt my shot at getting a brutosaur. And for what? Why is this even being removed? Forced scarcity? WHY? This is a big, long term goal to work toward, being able to afford it should make it scarce enough. But to remove it before someone earns enough to buy it? That’s just low, and unnecessary. You never removed the mammoth or the yak, and I was not able to buy those in their hay day either; I had to scrounge and save and it typically took me until the next expansion to buy them. At the rate I’m going now, I don’t see how I can ever get the brutosaur, and that’s been my only goal this whole expansion. So why even bother? I play every day, I save what I can, I send my followers on every gold mission. And yet, it won’t be enough. And you’re choosing to remove my long term goal from being obtainable. Well, not entirely; by moving it to the black market auction house, it becomes a rare, high risk gamble that will ultimately go for way more than 5 million. So what’s the point? You’re taking away my end goal. Gone. Why bother?
This is beyond aggravating to me. And sure, plenty of people won’t care or will be dismissive of this, but it matters to me. There is no sensible reason for this change. This is not something anyone asked for. I can’t imagine this is a change anyone wants. It seems to me like a change made to get people to scramble buying gold tokens with real world cash, which is going to cost a hell of a lot more than even a store mount. If that is the case, this is just a scummy move, and I’m not okay with it.
I strongly urge you to rethink this decision. Don’t take away my goals. There are already plenty of rare, unique, limited time only mounts in the game for prestige, like gladiator mounts, ahead of the curve mounts, Brawler’s guild mounts, anniversary mounts, trading card game mounts, and others. But the brutosaur was never billed as a limited time mount, so there was never a rush to try and get it. So taking it away all of a sudden is pretty scummy. It feels bad. And there is no good reason for doing so. Zandalar isn’t going to run out of dinosaurs any time soon.
And it’s especially scummy considering it is the only brutosaur mount available. Even the yak and mammoth mounts had alternatives from different sources. There is only one brutosaur.
Don’t take away my dream mount, Blizz. It’s just rude.