Store transmog and why It's a problem

Kaeleesi-moon-guard · October 23, 2020, 11:04pm

Haha, beautifully captured. I wonder what kind of silly retort he’ll say in the face of being proven to contradict himself…

Good job on counting that high!

Imagine pretending that derailing a thread isn’t harassing the creator of said thread…YIIIIIIKES

And trolling is…say it with me… harassment

In your opinion it didn’t ruin the thread. Also, it was flagged? How many people have to report it for it be flagged? I thought nobody was on my side, interesting.

yes, just like none of the things I posted in my own thread got deleted despite being reported either…yet you insist I was harassing people…huh, I guess you were wrong?

Telling someone they’re crying when in fact they are stating their opinion is definitely harassment…but okay.

Why are you going into threads and talking about stuff that’s completely irrelevant to the thread…? Oh, right…you like to derail threads like this

Well, I’m sorry to inform you…but if you’re going to try and derail my thread and be a jerk, don’t be surprised when I’m not kind to you.

You literally just admitted you were talking about something that the OP nor was I EVER talking about…LOOK you yourself said it!!!

YOU were talking about the entire time…NOT ME…NOT THE OP…YOU…

Which this thread was NEVER about…so you’re here now admitting you’re talking about something that wasn’t relevant…congratulations, you’re finally admitting you’re wrong.

The thread literally states transmog should not be in the cash shop. That means ALL transmog now and future…I didn’t say “This one super special fairy set shouldn’t be in the cash shop” so take your own advice. If you need clarification on what you’re arguing with me about, feel free to just ask…I would have been fine saying “Oh yeah, I’m not talking about JUST this set…I’m talking about EVERYthing. ANYthing in-game content related should be obtainable in-game” really simple as that.

I don’t need clarification on my own post. I know what my own post says and what I’m trying to discuss.

You literally already admitted you were trying to derail the thread, that’s trolling. Trolling is harassment. You’ve literally been following me around every thread I make and spamming it with irrelevant content, lies, or pure negative harassment…

I have, in fact the only person in this thread who’s came in with a civil demeanor at all is this guy

Vindeigo:

The widely believed theory from fans and critics is that when Blizzard launches an expansion box, much money is to be made. Release expansions faster and that much more money is to be made.

I don’t believe in this theory at all. I also don’t know what Blizzard’s actual, point-a-gun-to-their-head reasoning is but I feel strongly that the goal is not necessarily to generate more money. There’re much more lucrative opportunities to generate revenue than the old adage of “doing more with less.” It’s a big and risky investment to bank on expansion sales every year or two when there are more predictable and less risky approaches to growth.

In the case of WoW, premium content has been shown to be extremely lucrative. Its first big dive into it was the Celestial Steed, this goofy looking flying sparkle horse. Again trash in my own personal opinion. But news folk in the gaming world noticed how hot sales were looking during the first few hours of its availability and projected that, Blizzard made millions off this mount. Considering the development that goes into a mount and its return, you’d think that Blizzard would pull this sort of stunt all the time. It’s speculative, but it’s likely that even now, Blizzard has resisted the temptation to overdevelop premium content for the sake of revenue. After all, going too far in that direction makes a pretty bad impression on gamers who vilify the notion of premium content, and these gamers are really really loud. Yes I’m talking about you.

To help, I’m going to rely on this website, This is a pretty neat site that can pull up all sorts of useful data. last time was updated was 2019 but check this out. Celestial Steed 19.7%
Armored Bloodwing 13.8%
Enchanted Fey Dragon 16.3%
Grinning Reaver 10.8%
Heart of the Aspects 18.5%
Iron Skyreaver 11.2%
Mystic Runesaber 9.1%
Swift Windsteed 8.4%
Warforged Nightmare 10.5%
Winged Guardian 19.2%

Average ownership 13.75%

So let’s make some broad assumptions instead. We’ll use American dollars for our values. Let’s lowball it and say that only 10% of the active player base is ever willing to buy these mounts, down from the 13-14% average from the earlier table. Let’s low ball even more and say we have 3 million active players to work with. Let’s low ball even further and say every mount was purchased on sale, for $15 instead of the $25 or $30.

Based on that scale, we’re going to project that for every mount released, it will be purchased by 300,000 players and generate a maximum of 4.5M dollars in its total lifetime, so I low balled yet again. Considering all of that, that’s not bad at all. The biggest benefit of this is the expansion on what they can produce in game by having more money to hire more people to make things for in-game. And also you are complaining about literary 13% of WoW population. I mean more level 120’s have the mount Invincible than the celestial mount. Your complaint is unfounded

THAT is how you have a discussion. Notice, he never said “You’re crying” he never had a negative demeanor. He came in very civil and very maturely. Read what he said over and take some lessons.

Sorry you’re so warped by forum trolling, derailing, lying, and harassing that you can’t comprehend how to appropriately initiate a discussion without blatantly trying to provoke someone.