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World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 44 points 1 month ago (7 children)

At least it's not Star Citizen prices:

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Ok so I cackled when I saw the price on this thing but the more I thought about it, the less shitty it is. FWIW I am not a WoW lifer or Blizzard apologist. I got talked into Classic for a year then played a month or two of each expansion since before quitting but I know the background of the story. It looks way worse from an outsider perspective.

You could buy the original auction house mount for 5 million gold back in the day. It stopped being available regularly and now it's available occasionally in the "black market auction house" and it always sells for the maximum bid.

To combat Chinese gold farmers, Blizzard started selling gold in a bit of a roundabout way. For $20, you can buy a WoW token to sell on the auction house. This token can be purchased by a player and traded for 1 month of game time. Some players dont pay a dime to play - gold is not hard to acquire.

When this new mount came out, WoW tokens were worth about 200k gold. You'd need to exchange them for 5 tokens to get this mount. 1/5 of the original price.

Now tokens are worth 330k. 1.65m golf. STILL significantly cheaper than it was originally.

Tokens will need to rise to triple in price to match the original cost which will still be a tiny fraction of what it cost a month ago.

By far the shittiest thing about this - and I think the only real reason to complain - is that the rising value of the token hurts players who pay for the subscription purely with gold as it adds a few hours to their "working" time in game. For context, watching TV and semi-afk farming will get you like 50k/hour. You can earn way, way more if you've leveled up a profession.

The other (not so bad) thing I don't like about it is that....I hate those mounts. They're HUGE and people just AFK on them blocking NPCs I want to talk to.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Crazy how I just detailed this exact thing in a different comment and got downvoted for it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

People are just looking for a reason to be mad

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

The first $15 Sparkle Pony made more than Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

TIL world of Warcraft still exists

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

0 chance this revenue gets reinvested back into the game lmao

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

On the up side, it's now very, VERY easy to tell who is an idiot in the main hub cities within 10 seconds of the auction house.

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

A lot of people have been playing this game for over a decade and have hundreds of millions of gold. This thing is currently 2 million gold

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

Be careful judging because there will be plenty of people here who will think "anyone still playing the game is an idiot."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Everyone is an idiot except me"

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I saw people being mad not because they are selling a 90$ mount, but because now everyone can just have it instead of grinding 5 million gold lol.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Showing off is an important part of social MMOs. If anyone can have the really cool looking thing for some cash then what's the point of grinding? For a hardcore player, what do they have to show off their prestige?

It's pretty important for an MMO to respect its most active players. Not to mention, what do new players have to look up to? To think, what do I have to get that? If the answer is "oh I just have to fork out some dough". That's kinda disappointing

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

WHALE HO!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What did you expect to happen after Diablo 4? lol

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

What did you expect to happen after Diablo ~~4~~ immortal?

After Diablo Immortal I knew not to purchase Diablo 4 in the first month. After how profitable Diablo Immortal was of course this was going to be the way Blizzard continued to go.

This is why I'm more and more playing Indie games. The game has to be made by someone who wanted to make a fun game, as anyone with a profit incentive is just going to make Candy Crush and for some reason people will pay for it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not even a new trend in WoW either.

Can't even blame Blizzard, it's the people who keep buying this shit that are actually the problem.

If these wouldn't sell in the store they could've been items to obtain through in-game activities (which don't require eternal grind).

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

Can't even blame Blizzard, it's the people who keep buying this shit that are actually the problem.

Por que no dos?

I have room in my heart to hate both groups.

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

Can’t even blame Blizzard, it’s the people who keep buying this shit that are actually the problem.

Blizzard is the problem because they are implementing the macrotransaction. The people who buy it are enablers but not the real problem.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Transactions are from two parties, if the product didn't sell they wouldn't keep doing it. The product wouldn't exist if it failed to sell in the first place.

Plenty of shitty products in the world that never get sold, and then stop being produced.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"People who keep buying from McDonald's despite an e coli outbreak are the real problem!"

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

It wouldn't bother me if you were still able to earn the mount in-game.

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