Removal of Brutosaur mount

[Kaurmine-area-52]

I’ve come to the conclusion that the decision to remove this mount panders to a “select group”: large Guild owners, who get a high steady income, and multiboxers.

Don’t forget the people that buy+sell wow tokens for gold

[Anying-velen (Anying)]

They shouldn’t care who auctions where. We have a large world and people don’t want to be funneled into one city.

I find it interesting that so many people accept the “we don’t want AH everywhere” reason, without really questioning why easy AH access is a “bad” thing, or why Blizzard needs leverage to get us into the “right” cities.

[Brahmina-khadgar (Brahmina)]

We shouldn’t have to guess which features are limited edition and which aren’t.

^THIS!!!

If I’d known from the start this mount would be removed, I would have simply put it in the slot of “Things in WoW I’ll never get.” Instead I made a plan and geared my game play toward achieving that plan.

As I’ve said before, I don’t care about the mobile AH (Blizzard’s stated reason for removing the mount from the vendors). I just wanted a sauropod mount, and this was the only version they gave us. I would be perfectly happy if they replaced the AH version with a plain version that I could continue to save up for.

[Kaurmine-area-52]

Forgive me for assuming that because every other gold-sink moun t can be saved up for over multiple expansions, I could save up for this one, too.

I think you are missing the point of what they are saying. Correct me if I’m mistaken but it sounds to me like you think they are just saying “we don’t want to see brutosaurs around”? When what I believe they are trying to say is that they don’t want “anywhere” access of the AH to become as common as repairing.

[Astronomer-muradin]

The brutosaur was really aimed at that crowd to begin with. The group of people who actively farm millions of gold. Kind of like the spider, it’s a prestige award. It was never meant to be something everyone is going to have with a 5 million price tag.

But its removal is because they don’t want portable auction houses being commonplace everywhere. As time goes on gold will inflate and the mount will become easier for all to get, like the Pandaria yak. That’s why Blizz is cutting it off here.

How dare you bring logic to this place!

[Brahmina-khadgar (Brahmina)]

Yes, Blizzard said they don’t want to see the AH mount everywhere.

My statement that you quoted was directed at a poster who claimed this mount was never intended to be saved for over multiple expansions. I had issue with that statement because every other gold sink mount can be saved for, and there was no indication from Blizzard that this one would be any different.

I would be super happy if Blizzard just put another non-AH Brutosaur mount on the vendors that I could save up for and buy.

[Kaurmine-area-52]

Ah I gotcha

[Faultytaint-bonechewer]

I would to. That is the main difference between the brutosaurs and the tundra mammoths. Theres only one brutosaur, and a few tundra mammoths, others of which have no vendors. So why not just make a reskin, same model, with no vendors on it. I think this would be a great idea. I never use the ah anyways.

[Brahmina-khadgar (Brahmina)]

@Faultytaint-bonechewer

So why not just make a reskin, same model, with no vendors on it.

They don’t even have to make a reskin, there are already a bunch of brutosaur mounts in the data base.

[Vertigineux-thrall (Vertigineux)]

WoD - (I don’t remember if WoD had a big ticket item… Hrm. Getting the Garrison maxed out and all the blueprints researched was pretty expensive, though)

There was a 50k hippo mount that not many people seem to know about, but 50k wasn’t very expensive considering we’d just had the 120k mount and garrison income. So while it’s not really in line, it was the best they had, I think.

[Johncee-moon-guard]

Thanks! I do enjoy mine! I love my longboi!

[Evë-illidan]

I’ll probably never own an Aston Martin Vanquish. Is that elitism? Not really. Probably has more to do with my life choices, priorities, and an acceptance that life doesn’t give me everything I want.

Well said.

[Nìkto-zuljin (Nìkto)]

If they toss one of those versions up as a 6 month sub mount they’d have my money instantly.

[Kypookins-baelgun (Kypookins)]

I think a main reason they don’t also do it as a reskinned, no vendor, mount is due to the size.

Yes, they did say they don’t want it to eventually be as common as the transmog/repair Yak (which seems ridiculous to me, since I’ve never even had one million gold all at once) but it is also irritatingly HUGE.

[Brahmina-khadgar (Brahmina)]

They don’t have to make it as big as the Mighty Caravan Brutosaur. The other yaks available in Pandaria aren’t as large as the transmog one.

[Deathmaiden-icecrown]

I think putting a 5 million gold price tag on a single mount is pretty over the top. The fact that you have a limited amount of time to get it done and having to farm gold every day makes the game seem like work and not a game to have fun with. I am never going to get this mount because I don’t want to use my valuable time farming 24/7 for gold. I am certainly not going to spend money on wow tokens either. I have never understood why blizzard has to remove the best things in every expansion. This mount is going to the black market boxes which are probably going to end up being more than 5 million gold and if that’s the case I am not even going to bother with it so no point in even trying. If you ask me the brutosaur ah mount is going to be wasted content because if they really wanted less ah in the world they could just change the vendor so i don’t buy the whole “we don’t want a lot of auctions houses around the world” saying. I have also heard people saying that they will not change the ah vendor on this mount because people have spent so much time and gold and effort, well guess what I don’t trust that either. They could add a whole variety of this mount and just remove the other one with the ah vendor later.