Its a transmog though - you can use legion artifacts on other specializations outside of the ones dedicated to that specialization
A feral druid can use the Claws of Ursoc, or a Balance, or Restoration, in addition to Guardian Druids
The Claws of Ursoc is the Legion Artifact, a moggable item
Any Druid transformation is a Druid transformation as in, this sets the precedence for more alternative druid appearances similar to the same way Warlocks now have more options for demons
They aren’t the same thing
You certainly implied that
Which you now admitted to implying these two are mutually exclusive because, to paraphrase you; its a choice between money or trust
It’s a balance between extracting as much money as possible without violating the trust enough that you lose the customers money/business. It’s not a black and white choice of one or the other. This is simple business
Its not a Legion Artifact appearance - that’s why it doesn’t count
You are correct in that very few people would’ve done it if it hadn’t been for the bear, but at no point did they say “No alternative druid form ever again”
Its not a technicality, this is the honest truth
Druids still has the same rewards as every other modern MT rewards in addition to the bear form
This here is called a “conspiracy theory”, or alternatively how it usually gets framed if you talk with a gaming conspiracy theorist for long enough a “slippery slope fallacy”
Correct, but the problem at hands is that folks like yourself keep making up intrepretations of things that Blizzard never said just to try to feed into your conspiracy theories
At the very least you haven’t uploaded hundreds of videos about a flat earth yet, and please don’t do that - the worl need fewer nutters, not more of 'em
Sittin’ here sippin’ my cuppa tea with nearly 2500 tenders on my main. None of which I had to buy with bundles, because I don’t need every single useless sparkle-glitter thing from the trading post every single month.
It really is that simple.
I also confess I used to tell myself I didn’t come here for the forum drama, but I do find myself practically salivating at the first of every month. I eagerly wait now for the trading post drama threads to open as soon as a bundle of tenders is released in shop. This might be a new favorite soap opera series.
Blizzard’s cash shop is way too expensive. This bundle should be no higher than $10.
Blizz need to follow FFXIV’s model. Have good transmogs for cheap. Sell holiday seasonal rewards on the shop a few months after the event. And then make new transmogs each year.
I’m ok with spending $5 here and there. Maybe 10. Maybe 15 for a mount. But I’m not spending $25 on a leveling set and a few tenders.
3775 here, and I haven’t completed my bar for the month yet. I’m also very choosy about what I spend them on. But as tender becomes more and more available on the shop they’ll have to increase tender prices on the Trading Post (and/or increase the amount of things in the Trading Post each month, but I mean, X to doubt on that). So even penny-pinchers like us will get hosed by cash shop tender bloat eventually.
Neither of those things prove anything. Companies go back on their word all the time. Including Blizzard. They can also lie about anything so long as it doesn’t break any laws (ie, lying about earnings and profits) or counts as false advertising. I mean heck, you literally just quoted one such example, with how Blizzard once said there’d never be faction changes, and then there were faction changes. How about the time Blizz said they wouldn’t put the token in classic, and then the token was put in classic (heck, Classic itself is proof that Blizz says one thing then does another later, even if it was a good thing this time). Or the time Ion said there were contingency plans, a ripcord they could pull if covenants didn’t work out - and then later when everyone demanded he ‘pull the ripcord’ he said there wasn’t one. Hah, or the little one where Activision Blizzard investigated Activision Blizzard and concluded that there was no misconduct in Activision Blizzard…
And as for the assets, it’s extremely cheap to make a bunch of store assets, and pretty common practice to create enough to cover all the possible uses of them, rather than having to go back and make more assets as needed. The fact that there are so many assets means nothing. The fact that there’s no massive whale pack and the assets only go to 1000 means nothing. Assets in general means nothing. Yes, that includes not being a direct indication of plans to sell tender directly. But it’s also not proof that they won’t sell tender directly
That literally already happens at the current price points. They’ll sell them at what most players will purchase without leaving too much money on the table. Plus all of these outfits will come to the trader’s tender eventually, which means you can just wait to buy it by just playing the game normally.
FFXIV’s average outfit price is around $18 - $25 now.
Their mounts cost around $28-$32+
What do you mean lol - the only thing going for FFXIV’s shop are the sales making things cheaper to buy. Which Blizzard did once already, too.
Maybe. Essentially when the prices of things gets too ridiculous and you have to buy tenders to get the useless sparkle things, that’s the moment I stop participating. I don’t buy stuff from the game shop to start with. Masking these useless bits behind tenders isn’t going to change my habits. All this stuff we’re getting right now is just bonus fluff for essentially nothing, so feast away while the getting is good.
I gotta be honest, a very twisted part of me wants to see the brontosaur auction house mount go up in the trading post for tenders just to revel in the meltdowns. I feel like the forums have awakened an old inner troll I’d forgotten dwells inside me.
Which while cheaper than Blizzard, it ain’t that much cheaper. Sure, they also have $12 transmogs, and one or two transmogs that are even cheaper, but lets not kid ourselves, the bulk of their transmogs are almost as expensive as the ones WoW offers.
There’s also a LOT more of them compared to WoW. So if you’re a transmog collector, better get that wallet primed to be spending a LOT more than what Blizzard is asking currently.
I feel like people just completely space out and don’t realize that the games they’re pointing to, in order to claim that they’re ‘better’ than Blizzard’s offerings are just as bad, and sometimes worse.
A great example is Path of Exile by Grinding Gear Games. Diablo forums posters won’t shut up about it, saying that their monetization is so much better. Except that they sell certain transmog sets for $80 USD, they sell convenience to you, and their battle pass is double the price that Blizzard asks for, for theirs.
And this is all relative depending on the game / community as well. The main reason people excuse or forgive GGG is because they enjoy their game a lot. Or they just don’t want to point out the fact there are $64 wings in their store.
I say that, but PoE also has really trash base game armor. WoW at least has a plethora of it in-game. Same for FFXIV. Diablo 4 even has pretty nice base game gear - but obviously not as flashy.
The bundles are… I think they’re fine. They let you upgrade from the cheaper ones over time and your commitment can stop at anytime for those. Is it overpriced? Potentially, especially the base game bundles. But at some point you’re going from getting cosmetics to supporting the company and getting some stuff in return.
The convenience stuff is kinda lame but if we’re being real here - that’s essentially the ‘cost’ of what a F2P player probably should buy over time. $20-$40 worth depending on sales. Not bad IMO for something you’ll never have to pay for again.
And in contrast, where in ESO you have to pay monthly to keep the convenience stuff.
I’m not talking about bundles. I’m talking about straight up transmog sets that they charge 800 coins for, which if you want 800 coins, you need to buy 4 of the 200 coin packs for $20 a pop.
As the Tenders Turn 
