Collecting mounts (or toy) IS content. You might not consider it that way but it most certainly is for a lot of other players.
For example, some people are still saving up for the yak and mammoth, and those are just for repairs / xmog on the go. Mammoth is 20k. Some people simply haven’t bought it yet but they will in the future.
The 2m spider mount doesn’t have any vendors, was meant as a gold sink and is still in the game to this day, the brutosaur is the same deal except it has an AH on it.
Why is keeping it in the game such a bad idea?
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Are you paying for Brahmina’s account? No? Then you don’t get to dictate what they should or should not be concerned about.
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I might as well throw my opinion out there. I really dislike the change. I recently started trying to make a ton of gold to pass the time, and was really enjoying it. The goal was to pay for any Blizz game I wanted (Like WC3:R, and shadowlands), and then eventually get the Brutosaur. To see it disappear would be really disappointing.
The way I see it is that there are many gold sinks in the game. You’ve got 10k mounts, 100k mounts, the 2m mount and then the 5m mount. I think these are really good goals for any fresh goblin looking to try and make gold as their daily past time in-game. They also feel properly spaced out, as in the next goal should always feel reachable.
I think removing the Brutosaur removes a goal post for people who are trying to make money as their past time. And moving it to the BMAH doesn’t help it either, as it’ll instantly be gold capped once it pops.
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Which could be once a week, once a month, or even once a year. The BMAH is nowhere near as accessible as having it on a vendor to be purchased whenever you feel like it.
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I already said I don’t. And I do tend to collect mounts and pets - not as seriously as some - and I still don’t consider that “content”.
No, I pay for my account. And I can certainly have an opinion with what people should or should not be upset at. If you don’t like that, I invite you to not read my posts. Because I’m not going to stop having opinions, especially ones like, “WoW is a video game for entertainment, if it’s not entertaining you, find something that does.”
3,571 people is less than one half of one percent of a million-player playerbase, and I think even the most dire predictions about WoW’s player base allow around a million remaining players.
I don’t think one half of one percent of the player base consisting of ‘whales’ is so inconceivable.
You didn’t have to pry out of them. People made one post asking about something datamined that same day and they responded. It’s not poor excuse because they didn’t stealth it into Live patches.
I didn’t say it was easy for everyone to earn gold because some people don’t want to make the effort. But hey, continue to not make gold and blame Blizzard that you can’t buy the mount.
Please post when you’ve earned 5m gold in patch 9.whatever+ and then say how upset you are because you can’t get the mount.
So how are we supposed to trust Blizzard to not just remove anything now? The Shadowlands is going to be another one expansion mcguffin one of which is just a peace of untrashabe trash sitting in our banks or bags which is probably where the heart will end up as well. The last time I had this little faith in a game cumpany was when NCSoft shut down city of heroes and I just don’t play that companies games anymore. So keep it up Blizzard give me more reasons to ditch another unscrupulous game company.
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Just like MoP cloak, WoD ring, vanilla wow Atiesh staff, tower challenge in Legion.
You had since launch to get said gold for about year and a half and you still have till 6-8 months till pre Shadowlands patch.
I suggest get started on learning how AH works with raw materials or battle pets
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There’s no logical reason to have it removed other than Blizzard likes to remove items, quests and things in the game for some strange reason.
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I agree You, i don’t know what this mount is or what new ways Blizzard has found to nickel and dime their subscription based user base; but i agree it needs to be removed.
Oh You… at it again.
I don’t care about the mount–it’s kind of ugly–I just love how you always show up when there’s some little controversy going on to be a contrarian and spark discussion.
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No one cared at launch for the gold sink mount
Now all the sudden it matters because a unique mount is going away? Because majority of said dislike people didn’t attempt to get it at first?
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It makes no sense to remove the mount and place it in the Black Market Auction House.
A 5 million gold mount should be left with the current vendors and let people save gold at their own pace if and when they choose to buy it.
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Stop feeding the troll, it pops up when ever there is a hot topic to try and seem relevant. Just mute and move on.
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God forbid he voice a cocern over the game he pays a subscription for. Isn’t that what the forums are for? Maybe it’s meant to be an echo chamber instead.
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The only reason this mount is ending is Daddy Kotick needs more people to be buying WoW Tokens for cash. Time to create artificial scarcity for a 5 million gold mount so in-game gold is worth something again.
More like I’m saying there’s actually no reason to complain? It’s unique and should be rewarded to those who got it
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They already enticed wow moguls to buy it and wealthy players that can buy $700 worth if tokens for it. The remaining players without it, likely won’t get it at this point anyway. They already made their profit from it. I would rather have it at auction and hopefully it will be going for 2M G instead of 5M G.
I would buy it for 2M, but not 5M.
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