The abundance of horse mounts in BfA couldn’t have had anything to do with ALL of the KT factions being humans and ALL of the previous human and near-human faction mounts being horses.
No, Blizzard must have used up all its mount money making the blue fox.
/s
Any of the store items is available through the game.
Even with today’s token prices the store mounts are still cheaper then many vendor mounts. 
Negative, you can buy store mounts with gold if you do the token bit. So they aren’t separate. Your ability to get cashshop mounts for gold is entirely dependent on people like me really.
But that is basic supply and demand economics. But I digress because there are times when I think the blizzard store is the only thing keeping Warcraft alive in the first place. And because of the bad decisions of development had less and less people logging in which in tern has less people purchasing mounts. resulting in more mounts poping up. Store mounts cant survive if no one is playing their game and thus I hope Blizzard is being smart enough to shuffle Store money to creating better content for people to even want to log in and use those mounts in the first place.
we didnt care before BFA it seemed
but BFA increased the frequency of them
coupled with blizz letting their activison show in like 20 ways that basically said “screw everyone get $$$”
so i think hating on store mounts was just a way to vent on our GENERAL unhappyness with actiblizz lately
People buy WoW tokens with gold and get other stuff too. I have bought 20ish WoW tokens with gold in BFA and used the balance to transfer characters and buy other games like WC3 and CoD. My buying of those 20 tokens in no way contributed to store mount sales.
Raid mounts being generic recolors and the unique high-polygon mounts going to the cash shop in increasing frequencies.
I can’t be mad at Blizzard for exploiting whales though, I just don’t like that we the players aren’t seeing any real return on it. Content is still taking forever in a day to come out, blue communication is non-existant unless you make a thread about pizza or something, etc.
There is a simple business pratice that isn’t evil, it’s selling a full product for the appropriate price.
There is also a big difference between microtransactions and the way you want to represent them.
First your coffee is gone as soon as you drink it, so it’s not a “permanent” advantage (or really gives anything meaningful) so you can’t really compare coffee in the longterm.
So let’s say the company sell bowls subscriptions for 20$ a month, but if you pay them 25$ you can get a specific bowl that is better than other bowls from the subscription. Why is there a subscription then? Should people even subscribe if all they get is mostly worse?
last 2 expansions and WC3 and Starcraft have been pruchased with ingame tokens
Yes it is. And it’s directly relevant to the topic of the thread. If store mounts get a massively negative stigma attached to them, less people will buy them, which means less store mount development. Then hopefully (going out on a limb here) that development and time goes towards art and assets that can be obtained in game, without a store.
Help me understand this point and compare it with the conversation of store mounts. How is purchasing something extra from the store a “permanent” advantage to in game content. Is that mount faster than my bronze drake I got back in wrath? Whats would be different when I have a product and said I am willing to pay extra for a little something on the side with said product? assist me in understanding what the difference between the two that you are tryng to make. I do not see it.
Cosmetics are a big part of the end game. Since gear isn’t that much relevant anymore.
is it? That is kind of news to me. seems superficial but to each their own I suppose.
Maybe I just don’t understand that kind of culture where having a gucci wallet is any better than my 10 dollar wallet I got from target.
so the whole cosmetics is end game really does not register with me when I thought clearing mythic content or getting 2200 rating in PVP was.
What you get when you complete a mythic raid that last forever? A title and sometime a mount. What you get when you get gladiator in arena? A special mount.
What you get when you spend 25$ in the shop a mount of better quality xd
And I bought my only cash-shop mount not because I was intent on “supporting” Blizzard, but because it was the 15th anniversary mount, and since I originally had started playing WoW during Vanilla, it felt like a nice little show of support for a game I’ve played for a long time. It was the idea behind it that made me want to make that one-time purchase.
So the Druid who spit on me in Thunder Bluff basically spit on someone who started this game 15-14 years ago and wanted to celebrate that…
Oh so that actually happen ingame, some people said to me that it never happened.
The bulk of cosmetics are still found in the game itself.
So far, BfA has added over 80 mounts to the game.
Fewer than 10% of those mounts are from the store.
Over half of the new non-store mounts are based on models new to BfA.
Perhaps that is just the difference between you and I
I do not hold much value in what I get, but I hold value in what it took to get there.
I value experiences over material things. Probably just a side effect of getting older.
You can have a hundred rocks. Or a gold ingot. Quantity doesn’t mean much vs the quality of shop mount.
I also value experience, but that experience would be better without shop mounts, or actually having mounts of comparable value/quality obtainable ingame. I’m not saying this is the worse, just that it could be better.
I think you and I agree that yes it could be better. There are a lot of things that could be better. I want better raids and system mechanics with better classes. But People seem to care more about what happens in the st ore rather than whats happening in game.
At least perception wise when it comes to this echo champer.