I didn’t get what all the fuss was about, and what the fuss has been about EVERY TIME, a mount gets released in the store. Cool, there’s a mount you can choose to buy that gives you no advantage compared to any flying mount in the game.
If anything, I thought people would have been outraged over the transmog helmets that are exclusive to being bought with real money that have been there for years.
“Bleh, bleh, Papi Blizzard is trying to milk us for money by selling mounts”. Good. Don’t buy them then. It’s really easy, there’s enough people who buy the mounts despite that they have incentive to make some through the store. Go “Speak with your wallet” and not buy it then.
I don’t buy these mounts and I haven’t noticed any change in the game because of it, nor have I see any distinct advantage from people flying around on a blue fox. Now, if people could buy the hive mind mount from the store, that’d be game advantage that circumvents the work other people have done, that wouldn’t be cool.
This isn’t even a buy 6 months get a mount thing, or buy a year subscription get this mount you can only get through this method type of thing. And I know, there’s always a timing conspiracy every time these mounts come out. THEIR STOCKS ARE DOWN SO THEY’RE SELLING MOUNTS THE END IS NEAR! THEY SOLD THIS MOUNT TO TRY AND GET MONEY BACK FROM PEOPLE QUITTING WHEN THEY NERFED ARCANE MAGES. etc. etc.
No, no. They know there are people who will pay money because they like shiny mounts and don’t mind paying extra real money to get these exclusive mounts. Which, now, with battle net balance you can earn through playing the game, means you can essentially get them without real money too. So yeah.