This is why

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actually you are the reason :stuck_out_tongue:

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I don’t disagree but bugs and glitches have always been a constant in this game. Blaming it on the mount is a ridiculous hypothesis. Now, if you want to blame the mount on a new pay to win kind of approach to the game - that I would agree with. If we keep getting cushy things in the store that allow us to farm gold and gear up faster THAT’s a reasonable change caused potentially by this. But bugs? No. They’ve always been around.

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I personally find WoW very enjoyable so I bought the mount to share them my acceptance and support for such a great expansion

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One doesn’t have anything to do with the other.

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More of a “starve them for convenience and then offer it at ridiculous cost” kind of model would be how I would describe it.

I’m not the guy that is going to argue that the bugs are caused or being somehow covered up by this mount though.

Confession time guys.

I’m the reason. It me.

I asked a mall santa for a buggy .5 patch and Christmas came early!

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I actually like this expansion quite well, best one in a long while. Also thanks, I’ll remember how I’ve contributed to wows destruction sleeping soundly on hard work and my bruto mount.

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Well yeah that’s exactly it. You can grind or you can pay and have instant gratification. Same goes for those who buy carries in mythics and end game content. People will shell out cash or gold for the convenience of acquiring IO scores, achievements and titles, etc.

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It’s easy to call it a predatory approach from this perspective in my opinion.

To each their own on it. My wife got it with gold. I won’t be.

But she already knows I’m never going to stop calling her a whale now.

“Yes baby your brutosaur does make your Blood Elf look fat. I’m sorry.”

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Pfffffftttt… Don’t you have some bulk disenchanting to do, minion husband?

:wink:

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Probably do!

lowers head and gets to clicking

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You’re thinking too small a scale. I’m talking about the company doing things like reducing QA, removing customer service representatives and GMs, business quality stuff. They’ve done this before.

The company will only invest as little as they have to in us, and this is showing them that they have a much better avenue to generate revenue than investing in the quality of the gaming experience for the individual player.

Nothing new, but I feel that this is a pivotal moment, and we’ll see how it pays off in the next few years.

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They have indeed, but when it happened before it was not provoked, caused or upheld by players investing in a new $90 mount. Therefore, the hypothesis that mount = downsizing of personnel and faltering game quality is null.

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I unsubbed once. But only because my body told my I had to. We haven’t always got along.

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Blame me toooodayyy,

Blame me toomarrow

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I think it’s more of a downsizing of personnel and faltering game = mount will be as profitable as it could be.

They know who they need to keep locked in by this point and, yes, that is the people that see this as a “steal.”

Those that see a $90 store pixel as a deal are exactly who they need from this point on. They need nothing else to call themselves a success.

If your goal is a good game then you’ve unfortunately undermined that goal. If it is for Blizzard to tell Microsoft they posted profits then you succeeded.

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The mount was put up to distract from the patch. Everyone’s on about the store bruto and not so much about buggy hero talents.

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I’m not sure they care, or have any shame at this point. If they’re banking on the whales to keep them afloat. I think that will backfire. People who actually like this game will leave, and eventually the whales will leave too.

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Nah. They won’t. You have to consider that these are people who actually believe they are taking their mogs to their grave. WoW has become the only thing they can possibly hand down to their legacy in the rare cases that they actually have one.

They are in this for the long haul. There are people that will keep this game floating no matter how many of us leave. :stuck_out_tongue:

Often just to spite the people that left.

“Don’t judge me for how I spend my money!” they say

Then follow it up with “If I didn’t judge you I wouldn’t be spending my money!”

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Downsizing of employees and cutting the QA testing of their content has nothing to do with the mount though. If they’d kept their employees and the QA and the game was perfect ---- they’d still rake in profits by selling this mount. There would still be people complaining about said mount, and very likely the quality of the game ; except it would be balancing or affixes rather than bugs or whatever the flavor of discontent of the time is.

Yes. In shop purchases are a profit builder that’s a fact. They don’t create bugs or quality issues in the game. They don’t lead to downsizing or layoffs, pre or post sale. Trying to link these things is silly.

Unless the bruto specifically causes the game to crash every single time it’s summoned, and consequently a dev gets fired every single crash - they’re just not related.

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The game has never been perfect so that isn’t my ask.

Yes, they would, unfortunately the reality is that we have an incredibly buggy game and they are raking in profits on this mount. :stuck_out_tongue:

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