Well my take is if someone paid 3 grand for a TCG card ….
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For their sake are probably well to do and therefore that amount is pocket change to them so they are actually just like “bummer oh well”
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If the above isn’t the case yeah they probably should feel sick and if they aren’t well to do financially it’s a hard lesson they need to learn for their own future financial well being. So in a way it might be a good thing in the end. Some people only learn if the consequence really bites them.
Myself I don’t know what mindset beyond an addiction would possess one to drop thousands on a TCG card for WoW.
But hey if you are wealthy and “just want the mount” I guess at least you are not buying $3k in drugs or the like.
I agree with everything you said.
But with that being said and in all respect, I think you need to think about what will happen further down the road. What is concerning is not regarding the gold these ultra wealthy individuals will lose in the short term (like you said, they most definitely can afford it and I’m not going to shed a tear about it).
The concerning issue is what will happen later, when they start to look for other less risky assets to store their gold in.
Let’s say a certain mount is then selected as the new “safe heaven” to store their gold in. Collectively, they’ll buy everything listed on the AH, on every servers as this specific mount becomes their new “currency”.
This specific mount (or a few, or every single mount listed on AH (only time will tell)) will now become unnaccessible for the average player as the price will be maintained at an unreasonable level and will get pricier and pricier over time, creating the same scenario that happened with TCG mounts.
This probably will happen with multiple items and further down the road, the average player ends up footing the bill and paying way too much for certain items.
In conclusion, I think that it’s going to be interesting to see how the whole ordeal turns out in the end.
I don’t imagine wasting $3000 just to get a mount.
Alot of bills and what not could be paid for something more tangible than overrated pixels.
They choose to spend that,so thats in them and in no way the company.
I honestly have zero pitty for people who are able to constantly hit gold cap and then “invest” your gold in mounts.
Boo hoo. More people can get the mount now. Clearly you are capable of making currency to buy the mounts in the first place, so you don’t need to sell these mounts to keep earning currency. You will be fine.
This feels so much like a billionaire complaining they only have 3 ways to make billions of dollars instead of 5 ways. You are still a billionaire, shush.
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Like an idiot. Just as the should feel when buying said code in the first place.
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Sounds like a problem for people who paid $3000 for a card. Good. They should feel stupid. Consider this a life lesson
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The decision has been made, clearly they won’t be changing it, and soon Feldrakes will be about as common as Albino Drakes. This could have been done differently. I would have sprinkled a few of the tcg mounts not already in the BMA rotation into the rotation. The more desirable ones I would have reintroduced into the classic servers as rare drops. Feldrake could have been a classic Black Temple drop for instance, for use both in classic and retail.
What is with people’s obsession with pinning their self worth on having a mount in WoW?
This is old, boring news bro. We’ve passed the Tears of Mounts now.
just wait until they start giving out unobtainable mounts…
How does spending money on eBay fight gold inflation?
I agree, im glad we can get these mounts,
I hope they do more
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How sobering. I didn’t realize the entire wow economy hinged on the sale of gel drakes.
Thanks for the lesson in economics!!
Is your retirement account based on a collection of Beanie Babies?
That’s… pretty much what you just advocated.
Anyone who spent more than ten dollars on TCG pixels can consider any money spent over ten dollars as a course in learning about VERY VERY bad investments. Oh-- and how to learn to SAY NO.
You just described how pissed off I get about the fiat currency system and why the federal reserve reserve and other central bankers around the world piss me off for creating “money” out of thin air every single minute of every single day by just printing more of it when they want …. Which devalues all you had worked to save and robs from you by diluting your savings every single moment of every single day
That’s why currency ( not money ) should be backed by something safe and secure that cannot be counterfeited … like gold and silver as it always was until the 1970’s
So welcome the woke world of why our own governments steal from us and how they do it by debasing our currency every single day then just calling it inflation as if it’s mysteriously happening and we don’t know why inflation is stealing our savings
Inflation is only y and always theft my a government from its own people through unlimited printing of currency and pawning it off as “money”. There is a huge difference in currency and money though
