I was considering buying it. But, I don’t think I play enough to justify it. And the game is now all about flying mounts so… when am I going to need this? It’s essentially spending 90 USD so that I don’t hearth and go to the AH or mailbox. It’s a nice collectors item, but everyone has one now so you’re not really special for owning it. It’s just a flex mount. “Look at me, I spent a lot of money on this” I don’t really care what people do with their money at the end of the day. I guess I’m just thinking out loud here.
Good for you.
Explain to me how it’s hypocritical to play a game and be critical of how a company monetizes said game.
I’ll wait.
As I said elsewhere…
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very EASY son…youre not critiqueing the product…you are calling the company scummy.
wanting product to be better doesnt mean youre dealing with scum companies…you calling them scummy does.
clearly you are ok with giving scummy companies your $$$
Try harder next time?
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Let me break down just how things work in the world of supply and demand in a capitalistic market place. Okay here we go, 1st people want something that you can supply or make, you then provide said product. you choose a price for said product based at a level that the majority of those demanding it will pay for it. Those who want it, pay that price not matter if a minority feels its is too high or even too low. The price is set by the marketability of the fact of those who are demanding it is willing to pay. Thus the whole capitalistic ability of supply and demand. Here Blizzard is the only place in this game that can supply this mount and set how long they will do just that. Limited time mount for XYZ amount of money or value. Player whom want it pay that amount and walk away feeling they have something they wanted and was worth what they spent.
The player feels they got what they valued worth it and the company that supplied it gets their profit from supplying it. Thus keeping the subject game still worth keeping going for how ever long the game continues to be worth going to the head company IE Microsoft in this case.
They personally do not care that there is a minority that do not like the price, nor wont pay for it. Because simply just looking around the majority has invested in getting it at its current price. Which means that their prediction that the current price works for the supply and demand ratio and for basic capitalism of the game of world of warcraft. The majority of players are willing to pay that amount for a mount they want.
Simply said and done and they are happy about it.
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I’m not sure what your point is, nor do I care to parse it.
If you truly believe that I’m in the minority and the majority are perfectly content with paying $90 for a mount, then you shouldn’t feel inclined to give a haphazard crash course on what you think supply and demand is just so you can justify why the $90 price tag is okay. Be on your merry way and enjoy the mount.
There are tons of people who would probably pay $200 for a mount. There are several who would probably pay $500. To think that because this demand exists, therefore Blizzard should debase themselves to appeal to that demand, is exactly how you burn a playerbase and erode any sort of long-term growth the game may have. You continue to extend your hand out for more money while putting the bare minimum into maintaining the game, people will eventually grow tired of it. There are several variables to consider when pricing something. It’s not just “will people buy at this price?” That is an elementary school read on market pricing and its relationship to supply and demand.
But hey, maybe this game doesn’t have any long-term growth anymore, and Blizzard realizes that which is why they’re milking it for every dollar they can before the playerbase realizes they’re being milked. It is an exceptionally old game, so it wouldn’t surprise me.
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WOW…that explains a lot lmao.
the post was pretty easily understood, lol
“what the market will bear”
go figure that one out 
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So you feel that even as popular as the game still is, that just because the game core release was 20 years ago that the company doesn’t deserve to make any more money off it? Even though they have 1000’s of people working on the game they have to keep paying each and every hour they work on it, plus all the cost of equipment upkeep. As well as in general like every breathing person in the world the desire to become better off than what they currently are finically. Which means the people who own the company want to see a return on their money they invest into the company.
But hey, you just want stuff for free I guess or for $15 per month sub, just because to you, its an old game. LOL, good luck with that.
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Not once did I state or even suggest that Blizzard doesn’t deserve to make any more money off of WoW. I have no idea where you pulled that from.
WoW is already a profitable game as it is with the subscription model and the expansions. It’s probably even more profitable with the shop and WoW token, and while I have my issues about the WoW token and the shop itself, I am okay with their existence on average. Through these means, Blizzard has made plenty of money and they continue to make plenty of money.
But to think that they absolutely needed to charge $90 for a mount to pay their employees and/or for this game to be profitable in any capacity, is actually one of the most dishonest reads you could make about the mount, especially when you and I both know none of that money is going anywhere near employee pockets, let alone the game itself.
We’re all appalled with the price BUT it is much more reasonable even at 300k per token than the previous Dino mount
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You have made it clear you feel that Blizzard is scummy or underhanded by in your opinion by monetizing game items or the game in general. Which the game has always been monetized in one form or another. Store mounts have been around for ages now as well as other things in the store. How ever you feel its scummy though its clear part of the reason a lot of probably why the sub cost have never gone up, is in part of the money that goes into the store sales.
Again a company making money on a product is not scummy it is just general business sense.
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I don’t have a problem with monetization. I have a problem with excessive monetization.
Several people posit this, but there’s no conclusive way to determine that. Until Blizzard comes out and says “Yeah, we had to put in the cash shop to circumvent raising the prices,” it’s literally just baseless rumors. I would actually bet big money that Blizzard probably wanted to raise subscription prices at one point, but they understood that it would be suicide to do so, resulting in them finding other means of monetizing the game instead. It’s not “We didn’t want to raise subscription prices so we put in the cash shop,” but rather “We couldn’t raise subscription prices so we had to put in the cash shop if we wanted to make more money off of this game.”
If they could get away with it, they’d have likely done both. A more cynical read of the matter, but one not unfounded given the psyche of C-suite executives.
There’s a much larger chance Activision saw an opportunity to make more money and jumped at it, considering that’s how 99% of these live-service games work nowadays. It’s never about “making more money to support the game” or “making more money to offset development costs,” but rather “making as much money while putting as little back into the game as possible.”
Because if any of this were about supporting the game or offsetting development costs, we’d see it in the end product, but year after year, it’s the same, buggy releases that haven’t been playtested properly.
These people that are defending it soo hard are likely filled with regret for paying the 90 USD and are doubling down because it’s harder to admit to yourself that you got conned.
They got fed a pile of poop and instead of admitting it they sit there eating it trying to convince themselves it’s good.
The short-sightedness and egotism is on display for all to see. Today it’s a 90 USD mount, tomorrow it’s catalysts, crests and crafting mats.
Maybe the next big cash grab will be Frostmourne mog for 250 USD.
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“No, you don’t get it! We do this because it supports the game and keeps sub prices low!!!”
Oh, you naive little thing.
Maybe if Blizzard focused on quality and compelling content they would increase subs and not have to dump 90 USD mounts on the cash shop to make up for falling subs and revenue?
You think Blizzard needs your support?!!? It’s a company that doesn’t give 2 poops about you or me. They are only interested in showing increased shareholder value and they do that by getting people like you to fall for a 90 USD mount.
I consider my Bruto quality and compelling. The new zone won’t have flying so I’ll really get to use it a lot
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I have my Magic Rooster Egg for times like this were we can’t fly…Love my Roster 
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I actually have no regrets when I spend gold or cash in WoW for something I want. I have money so I can spend it how I want to spend it. I don’t sit there and do the all whooos me and worries about once I have done it. Life is too short to always look back and regret every choice you make when you enjoyed something short or long term at the time you did it. You do it, you enjoy it, and life goes on. Just like getting a tattoo, if you have too keep look back at it and re-asking yourself if it was worth it, then you should have asked yourself in the 1st place if it was worth it, looking back does nothing.
So you make sure of your choices in the 1st place, then you don’t deal with the so called regret later on.
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Never really understood what a ‘whale’ was until nowadays. I don’t think I like them much.
You are all questionable people but I don’t blame anyone of you, because the American education and health system is really bad. This “shoot first, ask questions later”-mentality detracts from interesting conversations because through passive indoctrination, from the mass media and the US internet, people are put into an extreme view ankle with left-right wing ideologies dropping literally left and right. And if this wouldn’t be enough, the mass media is financed through privately funded, capitalistic enterprises with their own agendas instead public funded state-administered media. The behavior shown here is a result of all of this.
Everyone who disagrees with anyone is either a shill, a sockpuppet, a blizzard developer in disguise, a degenerate and so on. Nothing of this helps this discussion.
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