Stop bumping the thread?
No, it’s not meaningless. It’s far from meaningless. 97% of the population still cannot afford tier 1 mounts, they never have been able to, and they never will. we need more prestigious items in the game. Blizzard is doing the right thing, just because you’re outraged over it doesn’t make it not right.
it would have never affected 97% of the population.
Why is Sunday starting on Friday lately?
I love working towards long term goals. I was really looking forward to this. Ive already saved 75k specifically for this mount. Im glad to see you are like minded. <3
Taking things out of game ie: achievements, mounts, transmogs etc. only hurts the playerbase and decreases morale. How does that help the game prosper?
<3
I don’t want it, as I have said numerous times. It’s still shady whether it impacts me or not.
Would it not be more prestigious if it was available for everyone but only the people with that amount of gold would be able to buy it? Or do you correlate rarity with prestige, because quite honestly rarity does not equal to prestige.
A Corvette C7 is more prestigious than a reliant robin, you can still buy a buy a C7 and you can’t buy a reliant robin but the C7 is still more prestigious.
Why bring this up? Why is this relevant?
Basically, who knows the reasoning. But there may be a good reason… wait and ask the developers at the next Q&A.
WRONG.
Post the numbers for the yak and mammoth.
You have no argument.
It’s a freaking vendor mount no different than the last ones. Use some logic.
YES. IT. DOES.
Post the numbers for the yak and mammoth.
Good lord, it’s like talking to a wall. 
You know you’re wrong and won’t even go past your obsessive 3%, because you’ve been called out.
Once more since you won’t address it: This is a long term goal for players, just like the yak and mammoth.
Now either post the numbers of how many have gotten the other gold sink vendor mounts or just stop, because you’re wrong.
The yak and mammoth were never top tier expensive mounts. They were never even close.
Yes they most certainly were.
I’m fairly sure if we go back when those were live they were considered ludicrously expensive.
It’s closer to 6% that own the mount. In fact, more people own it than the spider mount that costs less lol.
http://wowrarity.com/Mounts
Dino: https://imgur.com/1FEJFJE
Spider: https://imgur.com/CdNeHBJ
What was the reason they gave? I didn’t see anything.
Another thing retail is lacking are new players. I have a friend who doesn’t want to try WoW simply because he feels he’s too far behind, the game is too old, he’ll never catch up. I try to tell him that it isn’t like that and you can basically jump to the end, but he wants to get things.
Now if a new player starts they’ll see the Brutosaur mount and wonder how to get it, only to be discouraged that they can’t anymore. It’s a terrible feeling. I think negating that feeling as much as possible is better than giving a few people pride, especially since a new player who sees something they want will set a goal and work towards it. Now there’s less goals to be set, which means less reason to play, which means less subscription revenue.
That’s the arbitrary part: we have no idea. lol
3 years is alot more realistic than 1 years notice. Actually.
That’d be like… you know. previewing a mount in the next expansion, 1 year before the expansion, and giving people a heads up that mount will only be for that expansion.
So yes, that would be significantly better than halfway through an expansion.
3 years of a notice to remove something out of a game?? lol I don’t know what games you’re playing when dev’s give a 3 year notice to remove something as trivial as a mount out of a game.
People would stlil be upset about it being removed.
But it wouldn’t invoke this sort of backlash it’s getting.
So yeah, a 3 years heads up is better than 9-12 months.
Especially since it’d be previewed before the expansion and made clear before the expansion (Because our expansion cycles are about 2 years long) not halfway through an expansion.
Wtf they are removing the mount? That is outrageous they never stated this to be time exclusive.
In MOP, I didn’t have enough money for the Yak mount. A couple expansions later, I bought it.
Was hoping to do the same with the Brutosaur, but with business practices like this, I don’t think I’ll be playing WoW in a couple expansions, or even next expansion.