Ironically enough, they both agreed that Blizzard bowing to China in the Hearthstone case was un-American.
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They do it pretty regularly. You must be new 'round these here parts. 
Ah yes, you’re right. Good point there. I’m multitasking. Just finished dinner. Doing my mission boards. While following this messy situation. Which they’ll try and shove under the rug. Like almost all of their poor decisions.
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Even scarier is this nasty question. If Wowhead hadn’t datamined it, how much longer do you think it would have been before they announced it? My bets on that matter?
They would have announced it with their usual “hey, expansion is ending, here’s a checklist of things to do before they’re gone!”
Imagine how much Worse the outrage would have been if you were given 3-4 month warning?
I mean, not everyone is made of gold after all. And my CC is only good for paying two bills a month. One of those bills is to my ISP. The other is to Blizzard, and they’re trying to convince me more and more to change that to letting Square be the one charging me every month for their game instead.
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This should have a gigantic asterisk next to it considering the BMAH is hardly a reliable way to get something you want. The odds of even seeing the Brutosaur mount on the BMAH will be astronomically low, which further increases the odds that it will be sold for more than it goes for now.
So they should screw over the ones who could eventually do it?
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This is a terrible decision and I am ashamed Blizzard. There is no reason for this. The mount isn’t a drop from a raid or a time sensitive event. Just expressing my displeasure towards the topic, I couldn’t believe the news when I saw it today.
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It varies a bunch based off your server, what you like to do, what you’re willing to do, etc. A good place to start (but please just take it as a start, because most of what gets talked about there is really small potatoes) is the WoW Economy subreddit. There are tons of ways to make gold brought up there. There’s even been a guy in recent months who’s been timing farming runs of dungeons and raids and such and seeing how much you can make just from farming trash until hitting the instance limits.
Personally, my main source of income these days is crafted transmog gear, but that’s not an easy market to just jump into. Most of the valuable recipes are rare in some way and I built them up over years simply from being an obsessive completionist long before the wardrobe got added (though hey, if you’re an altoholic that was a recipe completionist too, that might work for you!).
Some people focus on current expansion stuff, such as alchemy, farming mats, or the crafted gear. Now is a good time to explore the PTR and see what changes might be coming and figure out where you might jump into a market on patch day. This is actually a great time to be figuring out where to make gold because patch day is so often a killer. Glyphmas, the prepatch the Cata systems changes went into the game, and changed how glyphs functioned (and consequently their profitability) was so exciting it’s what got me into the gold making business permanently.
You’re going to have to explore various avenues based on where you are and what you have available. And if you are truly on a dead server, if the brutosaur matters to you that much, I’d say be willing to start an alt on one of the populated servers for the purpose of gold making. The mount is account wide, after all.
Obvious greed is obvious. The only thing that changes this is through consumer actions. Blizzard has no disincentive from doing these business practices because people buy anyway and it works.
Where was everybody at when they refused to put their own money towards any of the WoW e-sports at Blizzcon and literally funded them through the community purchases. This is here to stay.
And they should know by now that anything that will have a limited window should be announced as such from the very beginning. Yet here we are over halfway through the expansion, and it’s only being confirmed after it was datamined.
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Get it now before is to late, this mount only gets better, since to be part of the long boi club you have limited time.
The only money (outside of subs) Blizzard gets from me is that I’ll buy the odd pet and of course their yearly charity pet. Those I’ll try and buy every year. You know, good cause and all that.
I’ll admit I have bought (long long ago when I trusted Blizzard more) several mounts off the cash shop. One of which has a cute and amusing story, which is a topic for another day.
When I saw them trying to “farm” the playerbase to support their e-sports, I just rolled my eyes at how desperate they’ve become for Moar Money!
It’s sickening really. But, its the way the industry works, and its also the reasons why I’m expecting in the next 5-8 years we’ll see another video game industry crash. This one will be caused by excessive greed from AAA companies.
Holy cashgrab batman. What a hilariously obvious attempt to sell more tokens by creating artificial scarcity.
Oh sorry I mean…very clever business move Blizzard. Genius in fact.
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dont know anything about a cash grab, i only know that my long boi is so cool!.
For all the people saying that guys wont spend money to try and get this mount, imma leave this here so we can all watch it:
LINK:wowtokenprices.com/US
We will see how well it tracks. I for one didnt really play WoD and returned late Legion so I didnt have the 20 alt garrison/order hall farm that others did. This mount was a long term goal of mine but not anymore. There is no way ill end up getting 5mil by next year the way I play - others may be able to. Im not paying $700AUD for this (probably more as people buy tokens and the gold price drops… (thats a price of a new Ryzen 3900X to put things in perspective, or about 4.5 years of maintaining a WoW sub).
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Don’t do that.
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From a financial standpoint, yes, it Is a brillaint business move. Until you consider the cost.
They’re making money at the cost of their reputation. That’s a losing game. Because even if it takes time, companies can only thrive if they have a good reputation. Companies that have bad reputations eventually piss off enough customers, which reduces their profits, which reduces investors, which … you get the picture.
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I mean we are all duped though right? Paying for BFA and all…
Consistently worse content and here we all are with just a hope and promise that it gets better.
You know after 15 years how many times I’ve seen the lead dev say “we’ll learn from our mistakes!” ? So many times that theyre making the same mistakes they said they’d learn from 10 years ago. Except now the designs teams are garbage and influenced by Activision greed. How many more insider articles need to be published by credible news agencies about whats going on in Blizzards hallowed halls.
There’s a LOT you can do with that kind of scratch. A LOT.
And there’s a lot of actual VALUE you can do with that. I mean, I’m saving up some scratch to get a new camera. And good cameras aren’t cheap. But a good camera can let me take good pictures. And that is something of value. The memories of the photos will endure. Long after any overpriced item in a game is gone.
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What are you talking about???
They already took $500k from their own esports teams. If they were at all worried about reputation - they wouldn’t have done that.
And this bronto thing pales in comparison to being shady with it’s e-athletes imo.
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This saddens me. I would have liked the brutosaur mount to stick around and remain buyable after BFA ends, without the difficulty of the black market involved.
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