That’s absolutely fine. I know the majority of these threads are nonsense but I do get the impression there are serious people who are upset about this for entirely all the wrong reasons.
These items offered as part of a tiered sub model are actually a loyalty reward program.
If you’re loyal and have an active sub during the times most people usually cancel theirs you have free access to this.
If you’re not loyal, but expect the loyalty rewards what’s that say about you?
Why would Blizzard do anything like another company? If that’s your only basis for your claim, then you are indeed talking out your butt.
Let me guess, anytime someone disagrees with how the country is ran you tell them to go become the next US president, too?
Your comment is literally un-necessary noise.
I’m free to state my disdain for terrible business practices, people like you trying to silence me from doing so are ridiculous. It’d be like me going into someone’s thread making a suggestion and saying “THIS IS TERRIBLE, STOP EVEN TRYING TO SUGGEST THIS!”
You can disagree, that’s 100% fine, but you can’t silence me and tell me my opinion is just noise.
The fact that they’re going to start adding transmog into the cash shop at all is the issue, not the fact that they gave one away. Pretend that they didn’t give it away for free for a moment, okay? They charged $20. People would be WAY more angry about it and they know this. They literally tried doing it in the past and faced backlash to the point of not doing it again for over 7 years.
I don’t want to pay for in-game content that should be provided with the subscription fee and yearly expansion fee that I’m already spending.
They’ve slowly pushed more and more in-game content into the cash shop and are still charging us for everything else as well. It’s greedy and I don’t like it, simple as that.
Literally can’t provide a source on that, It’s literally not true. She claimed that ONLY the money they make is spent on themselves. People worked for free apparently when the cash shop first started.
Through fun and enjoyable methods like questing, having a story reovolving around the item. Not grinding gold. A large portion of the community doesn’t find grinding gold enjoyable, there’s no story behind it, there’s no lore, It’s not engaging.
But thanks for the suggestion. It’s just already been explained that’s not what I want to do when I look to have fun in a game.
Of course and there will be people defending it “Well I think It’s cool and I’m more than glad to give Blizzard $50 for it!”
Imagine thinking spending money is more fun than earning it through in-game means like quests, or progression. These same people say things like “I’d pay $100 to be able to fly at the beginning of every expansion”
You know what would REALLY make more money for the game and make better content? If they actually made good fun content people wanted to play and pay to play in the first place…instead of half baked things, then try and gouge the remaining fanbase for more money due to their failures of an expansion.
Nowhere in the near future are they ever going to do that. The game would first have to be f2p and even then it’d have to be failing in f2p mode for them to attempt that kind of stint.
A 6 month sub is not loyality and calling it such is kind of insulting to people who have played since the beginning. If it was a loyality reward it would be given to for free to people who have over X amount of sub times on their account.
AKA “We need more money, please give us $70. If you do you can have this item”
Exactly. It’s pure nonsense.
The coomsoomers are so triggered that the majority hate the cash shop lmao.
That money doesn’t come for free, you are imagining that money falls from the sky . All you are doing is replacing time with money .
I tend to agree with your points. That being said, i actually don’t have issues with Transmogs being in the store if the game itself was free to play. I don’t like the idea of transmogs being sold as well as sub fees. AND THAT being said, if this is a rare thing, then I don’t really have a strong opinion either way. Blizzard has a history of giving a nice promotional item for their six month sub timers, and it happens every year or two. If this is all that it is, then I don’t really mind at all.
You don’t know that.
Nothing happens; I will never buy a cash shop item because I have self control. I don’t have the desire to obsessively obtain everything in a video game.
Why should I imagine such a hypothetical situation? The transmog items they’ve included in the store have been limited. They’ve put in a tremendous amount of effort into the graphical aspects of the game, including armor sets over the last few years. You’re complaining about one transmog and not giving any credit to the fact that Legion and now Shadowlands have the best looking armor sets ever created for WoW, period.
Uh, yeah? That’s literally the whole point of this thread. I prefer to enjoy my time in-game doing fun things and earning everything I can in-game…not throwing MORE money at a company we already all pay more than almost any other gaming company in the industry.
I 100% agree with this. The issue I have is that it’s not. We get nickle and dimed for literally everything and It’s getting to the point I don’t even want to support the company anymore.
Which I don’t mind, either but this was a clear way to try and push adding more transmogs to the store without facing a backlash like they initially did in 2013 when they first tried causing them to not add more for over 7 years.
Based off basic observation I can 100% safely assume that. Ears clip through helmets, guess what? On the new set It’s the only one in the game that they don’t, a feature players have begged for, for ages now…
There’s literally 3D effects everywhere on the gear.
There’s wings, something that almost NO armor sets have because It takes too much time to make. Not only wings, but wings that have their own physics for them…
Now tell me the terrible tier sets we got in BFA are remotely the same quality with a straight face.
But you’re 100% okay with them taking stuff that should belong in the game, charging us extra for it and stripping it of any kind of story, quest, or progression? Big weird.
Because It’s literally what they’re doing now? They literally haven’t released another heritage armor set for almost half a year…yet they release this AND charge us $20 for it? It’s a slap in the face, wake up.
I’m not complaining about one transmog, I’m complaining about the fact that they’re taking in-game stuff and charging us more for it. Learn to read.
the cash shop needs to go bro same with microtransactions as a whole it’s all anti-consumer and should be made illegal
So whose put a gun on your head to throw money at Blizzard ? you can still earn the gold and buy it of the store. This is exactly what I mean "Angry nerds who would still play regardless and pose no consequence to Blizzard or anyone else " other than their own health I guess 
You want to really make an impact ? Take your self and like minded ppl like you and quit .
Better a slap in the face than a kick in the teeth.
Yeah, that’s a fair comparison. Though, if this only happens every year or so, I won’t mind. I’ll probably even buy them, because they’re interesting and I love transmogs.
What I don’t want to happen, is a substantial amount of dev time going towards micro-transactions that could have gone to other development avenues.
So… Do that?
It’s one mog. In 6 months maybe it’ll be 2, then by the end of SL it might be 6. That’s 2 raid tiers worth of mogs, not including greens, blues and dungeon drops. Unless they suddenly lock a majority of cosmetics and mount behind a paywall instead of making some cool, unique, special themed items every so often like literally every other MMO out there; I personally am not going to worry too hard
So who put a gun to your head and told you to have fun in your life ever?
Already went over this. Grinding gold is not fun, there’s n o story around it, it’s not a quest, it’s not engaging. Please stop repeating the same thing everyone’s already said…
You must not remember what happened in 2013 with transmogs… 
You must not remember what happened in 2013 with transmogs…
But for real, stop telling people what to do, please. You’re not my boss.
It was me, I am the Blizzard Mafia.
If they added one every time they released an expansion, I wouldn’t mind. But they’re not going to do that based on examples that are already in the cash shop…
I mean, we haven’t had a new heritage armor for almost half a year…yet we get this? AND we have to pay $20 for it?
I do.
Which stands for many future mogs being added as well, there’s literally a transmog tab…let’s not play dumb.
Yeah, all of which should be in-game with fun ways to attain them, not forcing us to pay $20 for them. It’s a double disservice. We’re losing out on content and fun story AND being charged for it.
That’s my opinion, disagree all you want. You’re not changing my mind at all so there’s n o point in continuing to try and change it and arguing.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/store-transmog-and-why-its-a-problem/690976/848
But I just did what are you going to do about it?
“Just spend a few hours farming gold”.
This game already drains the fun out of me with the amount of daily chores are needed to do. On top of all the systems that they had implemented.
I can’t afford time to play WoW where I can play f2p like you. There’s more interesting things in life than farming virtual gold.
Ah ok, lol you got me. I think it might have been the Moon-guard tag that threw me off.
Oh wait unless you just don’t actually know what loyalty means…or think that it only applies when it’s convenient for you, or maybe you think they owe you something because you were so gracious to have been a paying customer at some point in the distant past, or maybe you think loyalty should be applied differently in your case because you’re special, or maybe you’re just smarter than the rest of us idiots who actually continue their subscriptions and so you should be the one to get these items, not us.
Is this sounding right to you?