That’s pretty lame of ya’ll, but okay. shrug
I wanted to get one for a friend. Now, I don’t know that it will be possible. 
Thank you for rooting for me. Encouragement helps stay the course! 
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People still show off.
Elite sets, gladiator mounts, mythic transmogs. I get whispers about some of my stuff from time to time. I used to be extremely hardcore, then I sort of got sick and decided to relax.
Brutosaur? People’ll probably care in a few expansions when people come back, and frankly, I don’t think people are going to be “impressed” by a vendor mount as well. Just annoyed it was removed.
People get annoyed when I say elite sets were removed, but they’re literal trophies and we all knew they were being removed when we started going after them.
I really don’t know why people think a ladder based PvP reward that you get fighting actual players compares to a vendor mount. It’s a literal trophy you get from competition compared to… vendormount.
I can also say as somebody who has both bought and sold carries; nobody is impressed by your thing when you bought the carry. So again, not comparable.
Not inspiring.
Just flat out annoying.
Is it impressive to farm 5 million gold? In a sense, but not comparable. They’re comparing apples to oranges.
Anyways,
About to hit 3 million myself. Finally got a weekend to myself, lost a couple due to Valentines and needing to go out.
I’m burnt out already though myself since our markets are tanked because of how many people are trying to farm this.
And nobody’s going to be impressed by the effort unlike other crap I did/do.
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Hello. This is another post mentioning how stupid and shortsighted development decisions like these are, and how detrimental they are to the community over time as we begin to expect that our long-term goals will repeatedly be stripped away from us at a moment’s notice.
Thanks for your time. Good day.
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I have, but that is generally something that happens in games like Design Home and Farmville. It also only makes up a tiny percentage of gamers, it is not by any means the norm.
I also dislike removal of items and content, like most gamers.
I just don’t agree with the “token sales” as a reason behind the decision (as bad of a decision as it may be). The fact that I disagree with the guy I originally responded to’s thoughts on the reason behind the decision doesn’t actually mean that I don’t also dislike the decision nor does it mean that I don’t understand why gamers don’t like similar decisions or that I haven’t heard of some “mean word” used to describe a small percentage of gamers.
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Glad I got my Brutosaur today!
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Grats! 
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This is entirely false
3% of profiles REGISTERED IN WOWHEAD
Not in WoW as a totallity…
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Oh, okay. What do you think a more realistic percentage might be? Just your opinion. Because I’m going to say 3-5% is probably spot on.
Does it matter? The point is that Blizzard did this in suck a way that can be considered a predatory practice in order to get money out of “Fear of Missing Out”
Is not a conspiracy, just look at Warcraft 3… this company can play dirty just for 3 extra cents (well, thanks to the Warcraft 3 fiasco they lost millions in the stock market)
Furthermore, we have a recent example of Blizzard doing this in WoW with mounts… Artificial Scarcity laddies and gentlemen:
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So you believe Blizzard is removing the mount from a vendor and placing it on the BMAH so players will buy tokens in order to obtain the gold to purchase the mount?
No
Is a fact that every player that wanted that mount and stills want a realistic chance of having it will feel forced to get tokens or learn how to play the AH like an experienced goblin to get it by the end of this expansion, afterwards it could reach a cost exceeding 1000$ with tokens or much more gold than you will be able to produce (if the market changes drastically next expansion).
We are facing the fact that we will be not able to get it next expansion due to the nature of the black market and WoW economy…
At least they should announce more mounts with that model and still a very dirty move by Blizzard’s side for not giving a word about the removal.
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I see.
So you don’t think it’s fair that there are prestigious items in this game directed at a small population of players? You think everyone deserves everything equally? Playing the AH, selling runs, and farming take a form of skill or time investment. Players who earn gold shouldn’t have something that everyone else doesn’t have?
This mount was never meant to be for everyone, it’s a top tier prestigious item. It’s kind of like how a Ferrari isn’t meant for the general populace, it’s a prestigious item. If one of the first things that you think of when talking about large sums of gold is buying said gold then this mount was never meant for you in the first place, it’s a gold sink directed at the wealthy players.
Imagine being so delusional that you think Blizzard is doing this to create a sense of prestige, and not because of their massive screw up with WoD gold farming.
You really break records in the amount of delusions you feed yourself.
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If a person can make $500+ in the stock / option market in a day and buy this mount with tokens, is that better / worse than the AH folks who are wealthy by in-game means?
There should be prestigious items.
There also should be consistency with your rules and transparency.
This mount could have stayed like all other gold sinks that came before, is a prestige to have earned 5 million gold anyways.
It is dirty and dishonest to not give a word about the retirement of this mount from the beginning so people had time to work and earn it at their own pace
Where is the prestige in using real life money to earn ingame objects? There was 0 ingame skills there so your point in this case do not apply
Before you answer:
What about the 3 million gold spider? The transmog yak? There is no consistency with “what is prestigious”
There have been mounts from archivements being removed because “Ulduar was hard” but then they still gave 2 new mounts from the same archivements and every mount from raid archivements still obtainable today so… is just Blizzard’s inconsistency, there is no way to rationalize or justify those decisions. (plagued protodrake and black protodrake)
[quote=“Yesuna-wyrmrest-accord, post:5048, topic:370236, full:true”]
It’s kind of like how a Ferrari isn’t meant for the general populace, it’s a prestigious item. If one of the first things that you think of when talking about large sums of gold is buying said gold then this mount was never meant for you in the first place, it’s a gold sink directed at the wealthy players. [/quote]
But anyone with enough money and preparation can plan to get or already get a Ferrari.
I could have get this mount if Blizzard said from day 1 that I would be gone by next expansion.
But no, is just a “you were lucky of already having gold or having enough time to dedicate it in the AH in the right moment”<
People who will finish to earn/accumulate/make 5M gold 1 day after its removal will not be able to get it if it do not appear in their server on the black market on the first place, on second place you have the chance that it will reach the gold cap.
What it is so prestigious of getting it earlier at half the gold cap while it was on a static vendor?
[/quote]Playing the AH, selling runs, and farming take a form of skill or time investment. Players who earn gold shouldn’t have something that everyone else doesn’t have?[/quote]
Yes
But that has nothing to do with “buy it now or it will be gone forever so it do not matter if you will be able to make 10 times the gold required because yeah :D”
That is being lucky, not a hardworker…
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If the Brutosaur were meant to be a prestigious mount, then they would have said so from the very beginning of the expansion. The prestige of the mount itself was also not given as a reason for it being moved to the BMAH.
Nope. Especially not when they had the gold faucets turned on for WoD and Legion before turning them off with BfA. There’s nothing “prestigious” about sitting in front of a table and earning gold.
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It is the same for a gold mount.
But when we talk about “being prestigious ingame”, in gamer culture, we value more what you earned by ingame means, no one likes or approves pay to win… (still, I do not doubt in showing off all my blizzcon murlocs that I bought from ebay xD)
The thing is that it will be removed and most that care about it and have not much time for the game will be forced to pay with real money (killing the “cuz is prestigious”) and you still got people backing up Blizzard’s dirty move.
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Because the 5 million gold price tag wasn’t enough to tell you, do we really need Blizzard to tell us that certain items are specially prestigious items?
Since it’s no big deal and so so easily obtainable then why get upset about it? You know as well as I do that this game hasn’t attracted millions upon millions of brand new players since the end of WoD, so this mount shouldn’t be as rare as it is since that gold was just handed out.
You ignored the fact that other gold sinks will not be removed.
You ignored the fact that normally Blizzard announce what they will remove (when they don’t they end up contradicting themselves a patch or expansion later like they did with plagued protodrake achievement) so is not a valid reason.
You ignored the fact that you can earn this gold at any given time so there is no need to remove this mount if only people willing to earn this much gold for a mount will get it.
You still ignore that fact that thousands exploited broken systems in WoD and Legion that allowed them to make millions of gold with ease < which creates a problem with what you claim, those people put little effort because they were lucky to exploit those systems at the right time, they put not 1/1000 of the effort that goblins use playing the AH or doing daily farms. There is no suck thing as “prestigious” for a lot of people who got it, unlike people who do pvp for pvp mounts.
It is prestigious to login and earn a pet or mount for free that other people in 4 years in the future will not be able to earn?
Most people was not present by WoD expansion or even Legion. So why introduce a new unique model just for those and give little to no chance to newcomers? Newcomers in Shadowlands will be able to EARN the 3M gold spider, why not the 5M gold dino? It is not prestigiousness, is just artificial scarcity.
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