Celestial Steed and Lil'XT

[Seraphaw]

So you'll be cancelling all your extra accounts and diverting the money to needy causes in the 3rd world?

With all due respect to someone else using this site, your argument is completely facile.

I think this was fairly obvious but I guess I should point out that I was joking. I like to call it cynical sarcasm.

Anyway carry on sir.

[Khatovar]

TL;DR stuff words flames

Really, 11 pages on this? It's eclipsed the class changes at this point. I fear the day they decide to let you pay for vanity armor like EQ2 does.

[Drommon]

Really, 11 pages on this? It's eclipsed the class changes at this point. I fear the day they decide to let you pay for vanity armor like EQ2 does.

Vanity armor? you mean like chainmail bikini's for all my pally chicks? COOL!

[Oswyn]

Please buy more mounts. I have a boatload of ATVI to sell.

[thefunk]

I've changed my mind and don't actually mind them selling mounts too much. I lol when I see a lvl 80 running with the horsey in vanilla, and then I overtake them with crusader aura.

[Knytestorme]

25$ can feed a person for weeks in lesser developed countries, so if your own life is full of lush and luxury then why not help someone else out? I'm sure it will help them in a meaningful way. Or you know, you can have a sparkly digital horse.

Because if I were going to help someone out it would be someone in my own country first, and I pay taxes so I don't do charity.

That's by-the-by though, as giving $25 to charity still isn't a pragmatic use of the money since it isn't a more practical use of $25 than buying the steed in the case a person has $25 to spend on any extraneous consumption and I would argue that, when taking into account utility of enjoyment and the properties of transativity, the $25 being spent on the steed is a much more practical use of it to me than giving it to some charity to be wasted on "administrative fees"

[heyaz]

So.. it does the exact same thing as the mounts I already have, and it's not even cool or original since half the server has one now.

And Lil'XT - the most irritating thing since the train set. I see people dismissing their own pets because it's annoying them (and everyone else). Of course, I did get the Lil'KT pets when they came out though, for one reason: the original kel'thuzad death laugh every time I kill someone in PVP... that's actually fun.

[Diwa]

Because if I were going to help someone out it would be someone in my own country first, and I pay taxes so I don't do charity.

That's by-the-by though, as giving $25 to charity still isn't a pragmatic use of the money since it isn't a more practical use of $25 than buying the steed in the case a person has $25 to spend on any extraneous consumption and I would argue that, when taking into account utility of enjoyment and the properties of transativity, the $25 being spent on the steed is a much more practical use of it to me than giving it to some charity to be wasted on "administrative fees"

i lol'd about the charity. Since we talked about third world countries here and I came from one of them. $25 in our country is equivalent to one 18 year old prostitute who needs that additional $25 for her college tuition fee. So if you bought 5 Steeds for $125 then you exchange it for 5 days of pleasure. That is if you're in to that.

[suprafro]

Odd that people complain about vanity mounts, but not RAF.

[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.