Since when did they start doing this for all changes to the game? They’ve never made your kind of “official announcement” for all changes to the game.
I’m not asking them to do this for every change to the game. That’s just some strawman argument you made up to marginalize my complaint.
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I just looked up % of the other Big Mounts with repairs and that…the Mammoth it says 61% profiles have it and the Yak is at 52%…I am betting those numbers are low esp the Mammoth one…they get their info on who has mounts by stats of how many folks log into Wowhead…the % as of today for the Long Boy is only 4%.
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What hot garbage.
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That there is complete lie …sure we don’t have real dinosaurs now but we also don’t have Mammoths alive right now but sure do in Game…if that is how they spin it then they better remove the Mammoth mounts then…
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The best part is that they say that all dinosaur days are numbered, but also the direhorn mount will remain for sale apparently. But at the end of the day it’s just a fun way to market the ending of it.
It’s just hot garbage because every gold sink mount in the game still exists to this day. I’m not someone will will likely ever own any of them (I just don’t care to get them), but there’s something funky about Blizzard deciding that they need to start removing gold sink mounts like this. That’s all my beef is.
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It’s causing more players to purchase tokens with gold and Blizzard relies on making more money from token sales than from subs these days.
If the dearth of players on the 2 dozen realms I play on is reflecting a general huge loss in subs, it could be Blizzard is desperately doing everything they can to squeeze a few extra bucks out of players - including leaving some BoEs ridiculously overpowered and leaving the factions in such a state that there’s a constant stream of Alliance paying for transfers.
I’m betting next expansion Blizzard will do something to make a bunch of Horde want to switch back to Alliance and pretend they are doing it because they want to make players happy.
My theory is that they’re removing easy access to the Mighty caravan Brutosaur in order to prevent the mount from supplanting the need to port to Orgrimmar/Stormwind to access the Auction House, since the AH is one of the number one reasons people visit faction capitals.
If few people are ever allowed easy access to acquiring the mount, then more people will be forced to port to Orgrimmar/Stormwind to access the AH.
They apparently have forgotten that the Garrison can have an AH too. And it’s way more convenient to hearth there 
I personally am sick of Org and SW.
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Shhh! 
We don’t want Blizzard to burn the garrisons.
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haha at the end of WoD I actually wanted an option to blow it up 
Distance from it has helped curb that desire.
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We did, actually, RP our “Guild” Garrison being overrun, set on fire, and shelled. It’s a ruin currently. Occasionally members who were there pick through it, or stay overnight, and we use it as high-emergency lodging. If only they hadn’t stuck the thing in a different timeline, it would make sense to use it on the regular. >.<
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If that was an issue, it would make sense that it would be better to replace the AH vendor on that mount with something else like maybe a personal bank. 
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$500 for every completionist isn’t too shabby. Lol all you can do is shake your head. Who here would be ok if they offered the mount on the store only, never obtainable in game, for $500? My guess is the forums would have melted down.
Well guess what, that’s essentially what they did. Besides a few that still had gold from wod’s casino. The token is a Trojan horse!
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This has reminded me that some TCG mounts sell for much more. There will always be folks who will pay a lot of cash for virtual goods.
The real complaint here is that there are far more players who would rather earn the gold for this mount. We want the chance to save up for it like any other gold sink mount. But Blizzard has decided that gradually working toward a goal isn’t how they want us to play this game.
I honestly can’t understand that sort of logic. How is it bad to keep players actively playing for several years as they save up for a mount? In what way would this be fundamentally game breaking?
Several commenters have expressed the opinion that being upset about this change is dumb because there are far more game-breaking things one could be upset about. They’re not entirely wrong. But they don’t see that the real problem isn’t the action Blizz has taken, but the attitude such action displays.
It’s true there are far more things wrong with WoW right now than the removal of a vendor mount. But instead of addressing any of those things, Blizz decides removing a mount from the vendors (so that it won’t become too common years from now) is an action worth their attention.
Honestly, I think everyone ought to be a little ticked off by that.
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I hear what you are saying, I do, but TCG mounts are player driven. Not a huge problem for me, because if I can’t earn the gold in game I just won’t get the mount.
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I’m kinda curious what authority the blue has to make an official statement on its removal besides being a forum employee for blizzard?
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I mean, it’s their job to make the announcements they are instructed to make. A “blue post” is an “official” Blizzard communication. What more authority do they need?
I guess you expect J Allen Brack himself to come in through intercoms in game to announce things like this? Or a Dev Watercooler for every “oh, we’re taking this out”? Good luck with that. We’re lucky to have gotten the CM post.
I get it though. We really haven’t gotten anything truly “official” on this (since it wasn’t an actual post from a Blue but a response, which could be seen as less than “official”). We got a “oh hey, look what was datamined” and a “oh yeah about that” from Blizz. Still, they don’t make clarifications like that unless they’re told they can (or at least I’d expect they wouldn’t).
It’s that great communication working for sure!
Umm because something like this should be addressed on a more official person than some random yahoo that just works for blizz. It would be like taking corporate advice from the bag boy at your grocery store just because he heard his company was doing something that might affect the consumer. Like it might be true but that kid bagging your groceries really doesn’t have the right to make a statement on the company behalf. To me blues are no more than gm’s in the game. Just random employers working for the company. Hell it might be one of us. I’m not even sure they make more than minimum wage lol
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Math. It’s that thing you use for numbers, and stuff. This is the way it goes in my head:
130k gold = $20, so
1.3m gold = $200, and quadrupling that:
5.2m gold = $800
Pesky zeroes.
Anyway, when I first posted in here a while back, I was at 2.5m. I am just shy of 4m now, bringing in about 100k per week.
Brutosaur is mine soon 
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