You don’t know what a ‘sale’ is then, comrade.
The mount leaves in three months, so yes, that is FOMO lol
Thank you. I have never bought a mount so fast in my life. While you can’t make everyone happy those that missed out the first time which also took advantage of this offer appreciate it. 
No, it isn’t, but keep thinking it does. It’s very entertaining.
Just don’t buy it if you don’t like the price.
There is no crusade to take up here unless y’all are gonna start picketing McDonalds for the FOMO of the McRib.
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A sale is when something is up for purchase…
In physical retail locations they have an end date because of limited space.
With digital items there is no such limit, so any time they remove something from sale, it’s for no reason other than they know people will jump to get it for fear of missing out.
It’s not a hard concept to understand, not sure why you’re pretending it’s something else.
I can’t believe I’m defending ol’ box-o-rox over there, but yeh…it goes off market as of Jan 5th, 2025. He means the ability to purchase it, not that the mount itself is poofing into thin air.
At least I HOPE that’s what he means. Otherwise…as you were. He’s still just a dumb old box.
Feel free to explain how it isn’t. I’d love to witness the mental gymnastics you’d have to pull off to justify it lmao
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Mommy and Daddy are America? That doesn’t sound right I mean they weren’t good Parents by any means but they didn’t collude with British to remove Australias best Prime Minister Gough Whitlam…
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That’s STILL not FOMO. FOMO is purely consumer-driven. Not a single company causes it.
Oh god, you’re really denying that FOMO tactics are even real?
Wild stuff.
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They don’t need to be the progenitor of it to wield it to their own ends.
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You people have no ability to reason.
FOMO is a consumer-side experience that companies take advantage of to sell merch, usually by artificially limiting the time window.
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FOMO is a mindset that some people do or do not possess, but companies do indeed prey on it. They might not be the cause, but they will happily trigger it in peoples’ brains if it makes them a quick buck.
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Fear of missing out is a common and historically well used sales tactic.
The McRib is FOMO
Door prizes are FOMO
Limited time offers/sales are FOMO
It is a sales tactic that drives consumers to buy things they normally wouldn’t. It is not inherent bad or good.
we went from having FOMO mounts as things you earn in the game to only being obtainable via in-game shop! 
also, it’s kind of funny that people are celebrating store mounts as a flex…same group that got bullied so much, they got /spit banned! 
And it’s called a sale.
Except that’s not how FOMO works. FOMO is spread by word-of-mouth by other people, who impress the urge to buy whatever is on sale.
Dumb people being dumb.
The Tick Me Elmo doll was the case study for Fear of Missing Out.
the Mcrib is not FOMO, McRIb is LIFE
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Not that I am defending Blizzard or anything, but they’ve been doing this for years with the yearly sub promotions. It’s not a new thing.
Gonna have to agree to disagree. Primerate explained it very well.
YOU may not suffer from it. I don’t either (contrary to what ‘box’ thinks), but it does exist, mainly for people with no self control. You and I DO agree that it’s a mental thing though. A perceived deficit to ones self worth if they don’t purchase it immediately, before they “can’t”.
BINGO!