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Originally Posted by Fat Tire
I lol'd hard irl
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Originally Posted by Fat Tire
I lol'd hard irl
"Having a core hound pup pet proves you have an authenticator...Having a Celestial Steed proves you have a job"[/QUOTE]
This made me LOL Had to Quote it!
Im part of the "no real benefit" crowd. If it was auto 310 speed, id be on it. Otherwise, you have to run all the way to the trainer to get your riding skills anyhow. The mount merchant is right next to them. Its the training that costs money, not the mount.
Dunno though, I still ride the epic windriders because their graphic is small. I hate drakes wings filling so much of my screen.
If they could sell a filter for all the spam this created in the trade chat, id pay them $25.
Here is my final thought on these mounts and pet.
The Mounts look awesome IMHO. They dont put you in a OOOO Im special club look what kinda of money I can spend on a game. They dont Grant you faster flying. They do provide a cool graphic and if you want to pay for that then by all means its your money. I think its a bit rediculious that they generate the hate they do. But thats just people. People will hate on you for things they dont have thats part of life get over it. We all spend quite a bit of money on our "Hobby" but some of the posts I see here really mimic trade chat and tells that Ive been getting even since I got my star horsies. If you like the graphic get it if you dont then dont its that simple.
Lil Xt is Fing hilarious! because he screams talks REALLY loud in raid and in dalaran and he griefs best 10 dollars Ive ever spent.
Thats just my 2 cents
One finds the mount cool, someone else (like me) finds it rather girly/gay. One cares for looking cool, another one doesn't care (like me). One is willing to spend money / gold on looking cool, another one isn't (like me). By all means don't get influenced by contradictory opinions like mine, do what you want and what you find fun. Your definition of fun is not inferior to mine, nor the other way around. And we are both entitled to give our opinion.Quote:
Originally Posted by blbjtb
But the point you miss imo is the precedent blizzard created, and where you contributed: i.e. selling ingame stuff for real life currency. Remember the companions they sold under the name of charity? That was a pretty neat test case. I'm not going so far by saying that it was not a genuine action and that is was just for marketing purposes. But it was definitely a first step. And now they sell an ingame mount, marketed as being exclusive. Judgingby the queues you can forget about the exclusive part, but that is not my problem/business.
And there is what bothers/worries many people.
Bothers: it has often been stated that no ingame 'stuff' would be sold for rl currency. While it's not directly something you gonna kill the lick king with, it is an account advantage. Not to mention that parents who's kid is playing wow are now confronted with the pressure of the 'my friend has this cool mount, i want it too'. While they signed up for wow since it's a fixed price per month and they wouldn't have to deal with that stuff. Raf and all the name/real/server changes are something totally different: they are a service, not an ingame thing. So the principle gone is what bothers many players i talked with. While not entirely true, it smells like bait and switch to me.
And on a second note: having a 'cool mount' was a result of achieving something. This is no longer true and makes the achievement worth less (not that i care too much about that, but still).
Worries.
After the charity-companion-test-case, this turns out to be a big hit. While they will use the argument: 'this is what our player base wants', they of course created this demand themselves marketing wise. The shareholders and anyone who holds a financial position will be too happy to not repeat / extend this action. And that is what worries several players: where will this end. Regardless how good the game is, the day they shift towards the micro payment model (where you just pay for what you want/need ingame) instead of the current flat fee way, the game will lose me. I've seen it happen previously and how it kills a game. Only those who wish/were able to spend $ were are able to compete on an end game level.
"Fancy Horse Makes Blizzard $2 Million in Four Hours" - hahaha
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3178849
Not going to touch your other points, but regarding the quote. You really shouldn't enforce your value system on people. For some people, having a "cool mount" is a result of having a mount who looks cool to them. Theyre not looking for a badge of honor for completing some in game task, they want something aesthetically pleasing. Good for them.Quote:
Originally Posted by zenga
I am one who's on the live-and-let-live side. I purchased it for my team not because I'm tired of grinding mounts and frankly the amount of time (for me) to earn $125 is significantly less than the amount required to farm any mount in the game. Whether I'm a contributor to a bad precedence... Well, I play the game to enjoy my time not to make sure everybody else enjoy theirs. (of course within the bounds of ToS). It's really simple... If you like it and have money, buy it. If not, don't.
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Originally Posted by Redbeard
http://www.weirdthings.org.uk/wp-con...d-but-cool.jpg
This guy bought the mount too. ITS A HORSE WITH WINGS DUDE! Sure its his right to spend the money on how he sees fit but that doesnt mean other people are not going to call him a fuckin idiot.
No excuses or rationalizations are going to get most people to understand your stupid decision. Unless of course they do the same thing themselves. Like I said above there are more pragmatic things you could do with money, but dont expect people not to call you an idiot for spending it like one.
One has to ponder if no one purchased the mount/pets and everyone said "No way will I pay for that!".
So you go from I don't want to buy it myself, to you shouldn't buy it, to you are an idiot if you buy it. Wow. How do you get so hot and bothered by what other people do? You don't seem like you are trying to reinforce them being happy (make sure you dismount and remount when changing between flying and non-flying zones) (make sure you take a look at a large char on it, since it doesn't scale) (you might blend in being a 20 on a mount with wings and a 85 on a mount with wings in Cata). I don't think I see one positive/helpful thing that was posted by haters. You really can't either "say something nice or don't say anything at all"?