World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Buttflapper@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

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I thought this was a joke but it seems like it’s actually legit. WoW, which has a subscription and paid expansions, just added a $90 item to their store. This is Korean MMO levels of absurdity. What do you think of this?

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sirico@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Imagine a parallel world where no one brought the horse armour

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- roon@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I think it’s an eventuality. If not the horse armor it would have been something else. Humans are easily exploitable
  
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- Buttflapper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Imagine a parallel world where no one brought the horse armour
  
  Redditors said the same thing
  
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  - sirico@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I still haven’t escaped the hive mind it seems
    
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- itsJoelle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  God dammit Todd…
  
  The Wizard Tower was so cool too…
  
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Voytrekk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s going to sell like crazy. It’s not just that it’s a Mount, but it also has an auction house and mailbox that you can use anywhere at any time. The only other mount that has the AH is no longer attainable regularly, only on rare occasions for gold cap.

I am going to get it, but I’m going to use my gold in game to convert to bnet balance.

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- thesmokingman@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I think it’s a terrible decision because of this. The whole point of hubs is to get players together and interacting. Putting AH and mail around hubs requires many players together. Giving folks a mount means the hubs stop being hubs and contributes to the continued decay of the multiplayer aspect.
  
  Take this with a grain of salt. When I last played hubs still mattered. If that isn’t currently the case this is just old fart complaints.
  
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- MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I was going to say who cares if they’re selling a mount skin, but if on-the-go access to the auction house and mailbox isn’t normally accessible, this seems shitty.
  
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  - glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It’s one of the most overhyped things in the game. I can more than afford it (both through $$ and in-game currency) but I just do not care. There’s easy to get mailboxes and the auction house is in every main city now.
    
    Not to mention the amount of people who have the original auction house mount and the influx of people with this one - it is barely a convenience.
    
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  - Voytrekk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The thing is, they won’t be able to sell a Mount like this again in the future. This is kind of a “break glass” type of situation.
    
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recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Unfortunately this seems to be a rising trend for AAA studios/games: Riot Said The Quiet Part Out Loud.

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- yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I remember when this privilege was reserved for free games since it was how they made their money, but like Sterling says: they can’t just make money, they can’t make enough money, they gotta make all of the money.
  
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  - CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    There’s also the fact that people will pay for it. Would you take a million dollars to let your favorite game put a skin of you in it holding a sign saying “I care more about the money I made from this skin than the quality of this game”?
    
    I hate the practice, but I despise the fact that it always turns out to be so damn profitable.
    
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- Buttflapper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s totally wild
  
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