Yup, and just saw a video where Bellular agrees with me, among others. You guys… really, really aren’t the consensus voice on this stuff, are you?
VERY valid statement.
But you have to bear in mind WE all kept screaming for a new, cheaper AH mount.
Blizzard seems to have figured out there was a lot of profits potential here and did what any business would do…aggressively slap the faces of previous customers to satisfy new ones lol.
and personally, myself and TONS of new Bruto buyers are very happy about it.
…so you got YOUR mount and NOW you think this mount is a ‘problem’…got it 
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Blizz Profits > Your time
If you place value on pixels, thats on you.
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You’re correct on the objective information.
The subjective information is just that, subjective. Blizzard didn’t make any specific guarantees on longevity or uniqueness (beyond a statement about limiting the number of AH mounts), but they are also not held to that as if it were a contract.
Now, I don’t think you’re necessarily arguing that they should. It is just another example of how Blizzard (and corporations in general) are going to work. Making assumptions about anything is a setup for disappointment. The only thing we can really take from this is that things like that aren’t sacred to Blizzard. So, caveat emptor and all that.
If anything, your post is a cautionary one about putting too much expectation into any experience in WoW beyond the experience itself.
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Since when are we humans only alive for two years? He may have spend a lot of time on this mount, but for sure not his life.
History has also shown that people who are willing to invest heavily on something, will have more success in life later on, than those who refuse to invest time into stuff out of fear.
Who knows, you may just be talking to a future congress member, or leader of a global bank. While I would never grind the gold myself, I believe that the OP has shown that he is capable of working towards his goals and that is never a “wasted life”, but a benefit for his future.
I don´t even want to know what Einstein did as a child, maybe he did look into the sky for months. What some may feel was a wasted time back then, did in the end make him a scientist, that people will still speak about just like with Napoleon, Columbus or Hannibal.
@ topic
I do believe that the days are over, when ingame achievements meant something or were a “status” symbol. At one point, things will come back, the anniversary event is the best example for that. Do I like that? No, I don´t, but I doubt we can change the path WOW has taken.
I would not be suprised if at one point, a mobil AH toy is introduced to the game and when mage tower & Co. come back as well.
And if we look even further into the future, who knows if WOW is still online in 10 years. Try to enjoy the moment, enjoy what´s there now and don´t worry about others having that tomorrow.
A ‘consensus’ is basically just a head count, isn’t it? If we were being ‘fair’, your head and Bellular count for one each, just as any of ours would. But that’s a pretty flimsy metric anyway since we aren’t going to be able to poll any reasonable number of people to come to any real conclusions.
Anyway, my bruto still gave me an achievement when I got it. Idk why, but this new one doesn’t give me that so I have that going for me, I guess. Green’s also a better color. 
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To me, the problem is your outlook. You and your GF experienced farming that gold and acquiring the OG Brutosaur. Nothing can change or “invalidate” that fact. You still have that OG Brutosaur, which will never be mistaken for the current shop one. There is no “slap in the face” here. You earned that first mount.
Now, if you think having that mount made you special or somehow better than other players, and now you’re not as special because others can get a similar mount more easily, that’s a “you” problem.
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It is about the effort required to get those mounts. Yes effort was made to get say the hand mounts but it is not the same effort that it takes to get Gladiator mounts (which tend to be recolors of other mounts with some doodads). It really is about being special, because the prestige of having those mounts have been diminished for you.
I guess it comes down to why you get a mount in the first place. Is it for another number for the old mount collection? Is it because you like the look of the mount and want it? Is it because you like the rarity of the mount? If you did it for the last reason then yeah I can understand your disappointment.
I spent a lot of time working toward the Nazjatar meta achievement to get the crab mount during BFA, then saw a blue one was added to trading post, I thought that was really cool.
I see no reason players can’t have recolours, make them available and just let people have some fun.
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The original Auction mount was probably also something that was mostly bought with WoW tokens and effectively real money…so…I think this seems more like a case where people feel cheated since they have the inferior mount now.
They should’ve just left it in the game - Limiting things to people who played at the time is cringe when it obviously still exists in the game.
For real, if anything I have the mount that took dedication to get, similar to the red plunderstorm outfit. If my friends take out the blue crab I pull my red one out so they know what’s up.
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With the store bruto, why not bring back the green ingame bruto NPC for as long as the store bruto is around?
Just saying, for those who are willing to fork out even more money.
just the thought of that is nauseating…how a video game has anything about it that players place their own self worth into something in a game.
Games are for fun…entertainment…they shouldnt be about faux pride.
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Ok zoomer!
Man, there’s a lot of projection going on in this thread with people saying I just want to be special—is that really how all of you think? If so, I can understand the vitriol you’re bringing, but that wasn’t the point of the original post. Just to clarify; the original point was that it’s fun to have rare things to work towards, and that the game isn’t being served very well by making stuff easier to obtain to the point that working towards in-game goals no longer matters as much.
How is it invalidated? You have the original one. Others have the anniversary one.
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A utility mount that was available for a limited time presents the exact same scenario as this one that’s being offered in the store now. It was available for gold which is just a proxy for real money now. Why are the other high gold value mounts still in the game but not the one that people have asked to make a return? Paying gold for a mount is not an achievement, it’s being in the right place at the right time - plenty of people may not have played during the time it was available.
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What they do and don’t decide to bring back feels wildly subjective, one thing I will say is that the new brutosaur will probably be the last time it’s in the shop ever, or at least til 25-30 year anniversary events. It just happens to be the 20 year anniversary so it’s on sale for a couple of months. People who don’t get it who want a brutosaur will be back to gold capping bmah in January. I don’t really see the fuss when it’s no different than what they’ve been doing in the store for years now. It’s more expensive than a normal store mount but magnitudes less than the original brutosaur. (I do think mailbox should be added to original brutosaur, it sucks it’s just flat out worse than the new one)
As for what they make available at a later date, I actually don’t get it either. The historical behavior is that anyone can basically solo for mythic sets 2 expansions after, as well as a 1% farm chance for mount drops. Bringing back anything pvp-elite is a no-no forever, for some reason…why? Fomo only? Why not let a paladin today that hits 2k, buy season 19 paladin elite armor appearances? They still won’t have the title but it would be more earned than me rolling my head on the keyboard to solo mythic jailer right? Same thing with pvp mounts, and mop/wod/legion CM gear. Why not be consistent?
Yes, it’s being in “the right place at the right time” to some extent, but the announcement that the brut was being removed was sprung on us by surprise towards the end. We didn’t just get it handed to us by being there; we had to work a lot of angles to get in before the deadline. Just playing the game semi-consistently over the years and striving for a goal when it’s available isn’t the same as a golden meteor falling out of the sky into your backyard.
When my main account got banned I came to the realization that literally nobody in the world cares that I’m a “Cataclysmic Gladiator” other than a handful of neck beards in a singular video game.
My life has been substantially better by not worrying or really caring about things that have no importance on the real world or the people I care about.
Instead of treating WoW PvP like a job, I use that energy to focus on my own career goals and my family has reaped many benefits from it.
The game is 20 years old. I fully expect many more things once unavailable to become available again simply because much of the current playerbase wasn’t even able to play the game when it launched due to being a young child or not even born at all.
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