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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?

Seems like hundreds of people bought it immediately

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

they are starting to employ the star citizen model it seems with how cultlike wow sometimes felt im surprised it took that long

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

I'm a former player, but played continuously from release for 11 years. This is undoubtedly ridiculously expensive, but the convenience of having your mail and auction house anywhere in the world - the value to certain players is immense. I think if I played still today, it would probably be a struggle deciding whether this limited time offering was worth jumping on - I certainly don't need it even a little bit, but when I want it, this thing would be incredibly convenient to have. Maybe that would just be the addiction talking. But when you spend all your free time with one game, you do feel a sense of good value relative to things like drinks at the bar or a movie or buying 1 or 2 full priced games a month.

But truly, the utility this provides for you and your guild is immense and impossible to replicate. They definitely shouldn't be selling mounts on the shop for $90. That's fucked. But compared to some of the video game devs selling weapon or character skins for as much or more, there IS at least a unique value proposition to the player. I guarantee there will be people with it the second it releases, for better or worse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I'm thinking I made the right choice to quit a few years ago.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

People will buy it. And then they will wonder why content quality declines and more and more micro transactions appear in a game they bought and pay subscription for.

The capitalism will always look for the easy route to even more money, and monkey brains with need for status symbols will follow.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

In line with the recent 60$ Ragnaros skin for Hearthstone. The Faker Ahri skin set a precedent and now every company wants a slice of the cake

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a cool as fuck mount...

And it's not worth what I could spend to get one AAA game and two decent quality Indie Games

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Costs 3 factorio dlc

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

the cybertruck of mounts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

People that buy it deserved to get scam

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

This is equally as infuriating to me as the rising cost of stamps. 😐

If you are going to pretend to have scruples then at least pretend to have standards, or dignity for that matter. 😂 If you are so involved (even in the most modest terms) in the ecosystem of predatory games like World of Warcraft, to the point that you are even tenuously aware of news relating to them then you deserve all of it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It should have been a flying whale.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Like the lunar whale from FFXIV? What a waste of 40.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Blizzard is scum

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

I think I don't have battle.net installed so they can't hurt me anymore.

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