If there weren’t any positives in the game, I wouldn’t still be subscribed. Meanwhile, I’m not afraid to take off the rose-colored glasses now and then and offer suggestions for improvement.
I keep posting here to remind Blizzard that this decision about the Brutosaur doesn’t have to be all-or-nothing. They can move the MCB to the BMAH, thus keeping it “exclusive” for those who actually care about that stuff, while putting a different non-AH version on the vendors, thus allowing me (and others) to continue working toward a sauropod mount. Since the mobile AH is their purported reason for removing the MCB (not exclusivity), this seems like an excellent compromise to me.
Considering the rarity of the Feldrake and the almost mythical status of the Swift Spectral Tiger mount at this point, I doubt 50% of the player base has either.
And they have four non-MCB Brutosaur models available, so they could put them in with different ways to get them all. First one would be on the vendor, second one could be the 450 or 500 mount reward, third could be a rare spawn, then they could save the fourth for whenever they add BfA to timewalking.
Everything adds up. Do you think they don’t want to sell tokens? Why sell mounts in the shop? By that logic, do you think $25 means something to a company as large as acti/blizz?
Post some of those screen shots when you see the masses riding around on them. I doubt there were more than a handful who bought that many tokens. If the first thing you think of when the subject of a lot of gold pops up is buying gold then you were not the intended audience in the first place. lol
In addition to that we have Blizzard constantly turning things into gold sinks when they weren’t previously, in the past we’d hit exalted with someone and buy the top reward for a pittance because the rep grind was the cost of entry, now we hit exalted and get to hand over 100k here, 300k there, another 500k over there.
If anyone think that these types of behaviors aren’t happening in order to stimulate token sales and/or prolonged subs from people that would typically take breaks between tiers i think that they’re just being deliberately obtuse.
Well, let’s see. A mount that had no indication of going away, is suddenly going away. It cost a lot of gold, and one of the fastest, easiest ways to get that much gold in a limited time frame is tokens. It isn’t rocket science here.
Facts are u see more people on this mount last couple months then ever before. Fact is token prices plummeted because people were buying them to get the mount. It sucks they went this route for the mount. I know a couple people personally that it turned them off from wanting to play because they thought they had time to save. But hey if people want to spend money on it that’s fine. If they don’t that’s fine. But to take it away like they did just for token sales is shady.
I looked up some wow token history here and got this graph:
A year ago the token was roughly 10k more than it is now. But I would argue that the biggest reason for that bubble in the middle was due to Classic going live at the end of August and Blizzcon at the start of November, since then it’s been a fairly steady decrease until things started picking back up again.
I’m sure the Brutosaur has had some impact, but not enough to say the price “plummeted” because of it.
