It wasn’t Blizzard that made the cards so darned expensive. It was the greedy, enterprising people who got them. None of that money went to Blizzard. Not that it should have. But, had something like that happen to something I made, I’d have made the decision to give it away for free, too. Just to make a point about how stupid spending that much money on something as trivial as that is. I think they made the right call.
“But what about those who worked hard for it?”
I just sold a van for spare parts, for a total of 200 bucks because that’s all it was worth, after working my butt off to pay for it. Stuff loses value, even digital stuff. I don’t think I’ve even seen anyone use that darned mount in game in years.
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I can understand some salt but at the same time its like any other investment. It runs the risk of being rendered worthless overnight and there’s really nothing anyone can do to stop it.
Also at least you got 200 for the van. When i rekt my yukon i got the pleasure of PAYING the towing company $410 for the trouble of keeping my car for spare parts.
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The whole “things shouldn’t be easier because of how much work people had to do in the past” thing never sits well with me.
If anything the clowns are the ones that spent butt loads of money for the mount. A price Blizz did not give the card. That was all on them.
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sips 
Can’t wait for my Fel Drake
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I find it a really bad idea whenever any company makes a decision that chooses a side (by its action) while dividing their fan base down the middle. Some paid idea man knew it would upset 50% of the loyal paying customers and suggested it anyway. Red flag in my eyes
But since Twitch loot is happening, make it rain with Blizzcon virtual goods, collectors edition pets, gladiator mounts, removed cosmetic content, MoP challenge sets. Go the full way into making all player accounts equal, accelerate
People being bad with money is always funny to me. The babies can keep crying.
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Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don’t
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Most of them bought a dupe anyway
They got nothing to be proud over
I get that, I love seeing people complain about landlords and rent all day on my Facebook while I own my house 
It’s like, should have been smarter with your money instead of buying Starbucks ya know
Hot take: All TCG items should just be obtainable through gameplay first of course or at the minimum, just on the store. Especially the Spectral Tiger. Exclusivity and rarity have no place in games.
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Wasn’t really thinking of it that way but yeah, I agree. My property tax is less than most people spend on rent in a couple months, but don’t want to hear all the ways they’re keeping themselves poor on things they don’t need.
But people are mad cause they spend thousands on a playing card that gave them a mount nobody can get anymore, why? To feel good at other’s expense, or so they think.
Meanwhile I’ll sit back and laugh, just like I do whenever people eff around and find out with crypto.
Couldn’t even get cards when they came out in the area I lived, they were instantly sold to employees, scalpers made it nigh impossible.
Yep. There was a store I used to play the TCG at that actually got their contracts pulled from Cryptozoic (And other companies) over selling prize cards, so of course it also happened with the WoW TCG too.
They’ve been on Ebay since day one.
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Ok cool you pass. I was baiting to see if you were of the large group of people (mostly in the 20-30 year old range) who don’t deserve to take joy in other people being bad with money because all they do is post about being entitled to handouts
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One Christmas, I got two boxes of the TCG. In one box I pulled the Feldrake. The other box, the “Betrayal of the Guardian” set, I was shocked to pull a card for the Ghastly Charger.
I redeemed both. Even now, they are both extremely rare (though as we know, Feldrake is about to change status). Not once did I ever sit in a capital city on these mounts, praying for people to “Ooooo” and “ahhhhh” over me.
As an owner of these, and a few other TCG mounts, I genuinely could care less if they are given out. People scream at Blizz for not making mounts like these obtainable in-game. Now they do, and the uproar is fantastic.
It’s a freaking digital item for a video game. I am stoked for my son that is he now able to get this mount.
Some of you really need to put things into perspective and chill out.
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Well you nailed the age range, I just grew up poor so I know the value of securing your future before you spend money on dumb stuff. Which is why I’ll spend hundreds on retro games I grew up not having, cause I have a home to keep them in. 
But yeah, all my friends and past coworkers still rent and can’t understand why they live paycheck to paycheck. 
Maybe stop going to starbucks and buying the newest iphone?
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It sounds like this deal with Blizzard boosting steamer’s views is important to at least one of the parties. You would think it might be worth enough to come up with something original. Maybe they will hand out Spectral Tigers next, then I might actually get a Twitch account lol.
I’d forgotten all about that mount, I didn’t get too many cards from that set cause they actually told people ahead of time that it was going to be ending after that.
I’d say that was a much more awesome card to get.
Happy to see you shared more backstory, I too collect older games. Bought most USA released PS2, Gamecube and Wii U games, the ones that aren’t filler 
wanted to collect 3DS and Vita games but I stopped CIB “retro” game collecting once the pandemic hit and prices of everything over inflated.
Seems like everyone on my personal Facebook friends list is a home Renter who complains about billionaires all day. But they believe owning a 2022 iPhone is a basic Human right and no one should have to work a job and instead be given SSDI if they’re feeling sad.