Celestial Steed and Lil'XT

[Diwa]

Felt like epic mounts are not epic anymore after this. I have no problems with people collecting mounts and buying this Celestial Steeds. I think people here who are against it is just trying to educate the community the negative side of supporting RMT's. As a boxer we are already helping the company by having multiple accounts as we enjoy the challenge from it. They are also milking us from character/server change services and soon the expansion. I think supporting RMT's such as this is too much for us boxers. It's true that this are only aesthetics but for some people it matters. People worked hard to have epic mounts like from rare boss drops and reputations only to find out that you can just buy a better looking one. I will not be surprise if Blizzard starts on selling stat boost potions since RMT through aesthetics works. Once you fall for RMT addiction it will be hard to get out.

Lil'XT is also annoying and it forces you to push the mute button.

[MiRai]

I don't ever see Blizzard selling items which will provide an unfair advantage in the game. Why would they go that route after over 5 years of having a solid game without it? They would lose so much of their player base it wouldn't even be funny. They haven't had the top MMORPG for the past 5 years because they've been "doing it wrong". So what they sell stupid little pets and now a mount, both which don't affect actual gameplay what-so-ever. Does everyone here honestly believe that Blizzard could keep their player base by selling in game epics and tier armor to the person willing to pay the highest? You're all insane.

The Celestial Steed was released to pay for Cataclysm server upgrades.

Lil'XT is also annoying and it forces you to push the mute button.

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/t/13200...lil-xt-sounds/

[kadaan]

I don't ever see Blizzard selling items which will provide an unfair advantage in the game. Why would they go that route after over 5 years of having a solid game without it? They would lose so much of their player base it wouldn't even be funny. They haven't had the top MMORPG for the past 5 years because they've been "doing it wrong". So what they sell stupid little pets and now a mount, both which don't affect actual gameplay what-so-ever. Does everyone here honestly believe that Blizzard could keep their player base by selling in game epics and tier armor to the person willing to pay the highest? You're all insane.

The Celestial Steed was released to pay for Cataclysm server upgrades.

Agreed. The day they sell gold, items, levels, exp, etc... I will stop playing. Until then, kudos for Blizzard for finding ways to supplement their income without affecting the game in any tangible way for the standard subscription players. Anyone who thinks this is the beginning of the end and all but solidifies official gold selling needs to take their tinfoil hats off and put their guns back in the closet :P.

[Tonuss]

Felt like epic mounts are not epic anymore after this.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. My epic mounts do not move any slower as a result of someone else buying a crystal horse for $25 cash. Blizzard did not refund the thousands of gold I paid for my riding skills on any of my characters when they lowered the costs for them. That didn't make my mounts any slower either. And my raptors and dragons are still as cool as they were the day I got them.

I have no problems with people collecting mounts and buying this Celestial Steeds. I think people here who are against it is just trying to educate the community the negative side of supporting RMT's.

The only understandable concern I have seen is that some are afraid that it will lead to the selling of progression gear at some point. I think that would be a bad idea, but I don't see Blizzard doing that any time soon, if at all.

The rest of the complaints I've seen about it amount to opinionated doomsaying ("this is the downfall of WOW") and jealousy-fueled rants ("If u bought it u are stupid and pathetic"). This isn't really a big deal. Then again, on the Blizzard forums this sort of thing is good for literally tens of thousands of posts over the next week or two. I think the next big money-maker for Blizzard will be charging a fee of 5 cents to post on the forum, chargeable to your account. They'll make millions just off of the posts from people complaining about it.