no from what i read they abused the broken garrasion tables to get the gold some people was gold caped 3 times over from it
Just saying, never had an interest in the mount anyways. But I agree with op in that they should have left the mount on the vendor like they did with the mammoth vendor mount, and the grand expedition yak.
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Blizzard stated that it was to be offered for a limited time when it was first released.
No, they did not.
They mentioned nothing of its removal until wowhead called them out on it during an 8.3 PTR datamine and someone rightfully complained on the forums about it.
Oh goody, people received a whopping one-patch notice about a 5-million gold mount being removed.
The removal of the Bruto from the vendor was a bad decision made in bad faith with bad reasoning.
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Simply not true
You are lying.
âI may not be able to get a date, but at least I have digital stuff that YOU CANâT HAVE.â
-every dork that thinks bringing back retired things would have some negative impact on the game
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Disregard who posted it-- everything in that post is 100% accurate.
Like⌠you can look it up online and verify it. Not sure why youâre even trying to act outraged about something so easy to verify.
They just need to add a new AH mount.
Brutosaur should stay the way Blizzard announced it. They canât screw all the players who did the work (or bought the tokens) during the window they announced its availability because you got FOMO.
To the OP. No
Have a nice day.
Rides off into the sunset with the AH mount
After it was datamined, and a Blizz rep posted in the thread and confirmed it, you had 9 months to build up the gold.
I was lucky, and had a work schedule that allowed me to work the heck out of my profession and go from 2k gold to the cost of owning it in 3.5 months.
I can only imagine that the majority did not have the gift of abundant time, let alone the skill set to take advantage of it.
Itâs their game, I donât have a beef with them removing it, even if I wouldnât. I do, however, have a huge problem with them not announcing it. Would they have waited until 2 months to go? One? Weâll never know, but 9 months was short and a shock. They should have just artificially extended its availability to equal an announcement at the beginning of the expac.
Edited to add: Since there seems to be some disbelief - the original breaking thread:
Donât remember seeing, or hearing that. Anyhow still believe they should have left the mount on the vendor for the folks who might want it. I mean it was a friggin mount that you could buy off a vendor, not a dungeon, or raid reward mount lol. Just my opinion, but itâs never good when they remove stuff from the game whether it be vanity mounts, or content like quests. Can still remember the outrage when the Battle for Undercity was removed from wolk, and how the stupid cata revamp removed, or changed some iconic quests. Sure folks can revisit the undercity quest in wolk classic when it comes out, but should of never been removed from retail in the first place.
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Depends on the source. For example, if itâs from a questline that no longer exists, then putting it in BMAH makes sense. But this was just a vendor item. How many vendor items have they removed in 15 years?
It was a bad 9 months for me. Plus Iâm not very good at making gold, I mostly craft and crafting was not good at that time. Crafting is better now and I made enough crafting in SL to get the mount. So, just hoping they bring it back.
The post made no sense. It basically said that the transmog mount made the game worse and so would this. I didnât get that at all. The transmog mount made the transmog game.
âAllegedlyâ No one has seen it for almost a year.
5mill is also way too much for a mount. Even the yak was too much. Had to pull all my toons resources for it and left my entire horde side broke.
Youâd be surprised how much you save when you stop impulse buying at the AH.
I halted all my expenses and immediately saw an increase in my savings⌠this was after i had bought the 2M spider and was starting to save up for the 5M brutosaur. It IS doable, you just have to set your priorities on just whatâs important to you.
Do i buy flasks for my raid this Saturday or spend the hour farming the herbs and craft the flasks on my alchemist and thus save the gold towards the mount? It adds up.
Bonus, extra flasks i can then post up on auction on Tuesday! more gold! Rinse/repeat!
I dont buy anything off ah except base legendary items. I have every profession covered. I still donât make enough to ever break a mill or even 40k. Im starting to think the only way to get some gold is to sell wow tokens.
I donât even get these with scaling. You donât want everything to become a bronze drake, but scaling has long fixed that issue. AotC and KSM/CM mounts could make a come back during their respective Timewalking weeks as scaled dungeons/raids. Even gladiator mounts could have a vendor where you get a token for an extra one for being an even higher rating that current season that you can trade in.
With longboi, they couldâve given it a weekly pricing off vendor based on the WoW token each reset. Inflation accounted for with that. Even wouldâve made it a bit of a game for financial minded AH goblins of when they wanted to buy, or if they wanted to bet on it getting cheaper.
I disagree with this on a fundamental level though, all FOMO items are a net negative.
Youâll never stop old players from leaving. burnout exacerbates even the smallest discrepancies in game design, and even if somehow game is perfect; life happens. A game lives and dies on new players coming in (and players returning after leaving).
FOMO items are completely counterintuitive to growing and maintaining a game based on that. Where they come in fighting the notion âIs it to late to play World of Warcraft.â the exclusive mounts confirm that feeling. When they need to be looking around at other players and setting goals, places to go, and reasons to invest themselves after level cap. When they see something like the Violet Spellwing or mounts like it, Theyâre looking at a dead end.
Then there is just the fact removed rewards are given 5 months to work their positives as a motivator, and an indefinite amount of time to work as a demotivator.
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