…Seriously? I play exclusively World of Warcraft only.
I would actually consider buying that bear mount alone, rather than paying enormous amount for useless items that i never going to use?
If i were Blizzard and i cared i would actually GIFT that mount for being together as celebration reward, or at least make subscribe 1 month receive shiny mount reward?
DISGUSTING. Are you that GREEDY? 
We will get rewards ingame for key milestones of WoW like the 15th anniversary.
I don’t think them doing this is greedy and I’m sure there will be plenty this year for us to enjoy for free too! Like that jelly cat or tree I forgot which won.
They should give the bear mount to everyone that purchased Shadowland’s.
Op: “I want this for free and Blizzard is greedy for not giving it to me!”.
This is obviously taking the place of the virtual ticket/Blizzcon goodies since they are giving away the virtual Blizzcon for free.
Umh, ?
That could work too…since i play only wow, why i should care about stuff for other their games?
They usually charge for Blizzcon. If the Blizzcon-Online content required a payment to view specific channels, as they have in the past, would this be an issue?
They are giving a free Blizzon virtual ticket to everyone. Those interested in the normal rewards, typical with purchasing a virtual ticket, or blizzcon event ticket, go through the pay-vault.
They are 100% going to let you buy it individually after a while. They always do.
I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
Welcome to the world of business.
You are not entitled to free stuff. This stuff cost the Blizzard teams money to make, and understandably, they want to make back some of the development costs.
Most of this stuff would have been included, for free, if you bought the virtual ticket or attended Blizzcon in person. But since Blizzcon is free this year (there’s your ‘free stuff’) they want you to pay a small amount (unless you want the higher tier stuff) to help cover the development costs of those items.
It’s not the end of the world.
Weeell, that’s not exactly true. I pay a subscription (which many games don’t have) along with paying for the game as well as for new expansions. So over time I’ve paid them probably thousands of dollars. And as for it costing them money to make - if you mean the mounts and other items - if they didn’t make them, it wouldn’t cost them anything, would it?
And since the Blizzconline is supposed to be free, charging for that would make it not free; so they help pay for something ‘free’ by offering mounts and toys and such that people will buy to cover their costs for a ‘free’ event.
It wouldn’t be included ‘for free’. They know very well that many people love getting unique mounts, so it is a way of them earning extra income from people who are unable to attend in person. So people pay to get in live and also pay to attend virtually. It’s a very clever bit of business.
$60 Australian isn’t a small amount to me. Might be to some of the wealthy among us, but I’m not one of those. And that’s how much I’d have to pay for the packet that contains the mount, about the only thing worth buying.
No it is 100% true. You are not entitled to free stuff. Your sub gives you access to the service. That’s it. That’s all it gives you. If tomorrow Blizzard said that they’re doing a new approach with patch content and requiring a small payment? They could do it and you wouldn’t have a leg to stand on. Granted they won’t do that because it would be insanely unpopular and would cause people to quit in droves, but they could easily do that if they wanted to.
The fact that you’ve paid them thousands of dollars is 100% irrelevant as well.
That’s literally what has happened in every past Blizzcon with the virtual ticket.
You pay for access to the show. That’s what you’re paying for. The loot that you get? That’s free. The only way it’s not ‘free’ is if you’re only buying the virtual ticket for those items and you’re not interested at all in the show. In which case, okay, you win, but that’s like buying a car for the extras, not for the fact that it allows you to drive around from place to place.
If you bothered to read my post in full, I said it’s a small amount unless you want to buy one of the higher tiers. Maybe don’t buy the $60 tier if you can’t afford it. No one is forcing you to.
OR PAY 40 MILLION FOR ONE THAT DO NOTHING AT ALL?
Activision-Blizzard is not Blizzard Entertainment.
Nice try.
No, I’m not ‘forced’ to buy it (whatever that means). In fact, I don’t care all that much either way, as I won’t buy any of them, purely on a financial basis. I just think it would be nice if they supported their players in a year of both financial and emotional stress, by offering their virutal con along with a couple of nice little freebie items as a way of thanks. I don’t think that’s such a terrible thing to suggest and would have been seen as a decent act. But they know many people can’t resist the bling, so they offer a ‘free’ virtual event with one hand, and dangle the bright goodies for money with the other.
Shrug I shouldn’t be surprised, I guess.
They got you fam. This year only, they are going to let you watch it live…FOR FREE!
And you’ll probably get a free tree mount around the same time.
Yes, you are not the target costumer… This is something for players that play all blizz games.
So because they sell something that is not for you, they are disgusting and greedy… Just don’t buy it dude…
It’s just another nice little “buy this and look neat!” thing - aside from the HS cards. If you want it, buy it. If not, don’t.
Why should they only make a bundle that caters to only WoW players , it’s called Blizzcon not WoWcon.
This is not about celebrating World of Warcraft and updating people just on what is going on in Azeroth . This is about all things Blizzard and it is a celebration of it’s 30 years as a gaming company going back to its days as Silicone & Synapse
Alliance? check. Night elf? double check. Feeling entitled to get free stuff and not understand how a business works? Priceless.
The mount looks like pg garbage and i dont play the other stuff but you don’t see me complaining.
Do you go around giving everyone free stuff on YOUR birthday? Or do you expect people to give you presents? Y u so GREEDY, Nelfas?!