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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] 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They'll keep doing this because dipshits keep paying for it. Blame the whales.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Gee, for the same money... a digital brontosaurus for Orc Game that you need to pay a recurring subscription to actually use, can be taken away from you at any time, or one day the servers may simply be turned off erasing not only your "investments" but also your years of "work." Or, I don't know, a CIVIVI Hyperpulse with a groovy pattern welded blade that also happens to be a physical object you can actually hold in your hands and keep forever. Just to pick something out of a hat.

What a tough choice!

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

It's actually more insidious. Blizzard facilitates gold buying by being a middle man. 30 days of wow subscription is $15. Blizzard sells a $20 wow token. Buyers of the token automatically sell it in game to players for gold. Players who sell their In game gold can redeem the token for game time or $15 Blizzard bucks, which can buy any virtual item in the Blizzard store. Games, expansions, and mounts such as this.

If you don't want to spend $90 in real life, you can sell your gold for 6 tokens for $90 Blizzard bucks and get the mount.

The token has been hovering around $170k all month and now it spiked to almost $360k (token price tracker). So now cash buyers can get way more gold for their bucks, and the 6 tokens exchanged for gold (to buy the mount) will net Blizzard $120.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

it's selling well too though it's actually 78$. They put Mailbox and Auction House on it which AFAIK the only mount that has both which is incredibly valuable.

If not the fuction I wouldn't mind but because the function is so valuable it's really poor form by Blizzard. I even love the mount and buy it as cosmetic but I'm not supporting this at the state it is currently.

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

There was a green mount similar to this one they added in BFA for a large sum of gold. But they claimed to dislike how it encouraged so many people to play the market and removed it.

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

Yes, we get it, your dad has a good job.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm more surprised that this game is still running. I haven't heard of anyone playing it in years.

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

I quit after they fraudulently charged me a 6 month subscription renewal and then refused to refund it for months because no customer service reps anymore, and then the next expansion had paid early access for a huge paywall. It's a total scam now

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

There's a few at work who have admitted to still playing. Blizzard owes a lot to the very concrete social structures built around the game.

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[–] [email protected] 157 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Imagine a parallel world where no one brought the horse armour

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

Imagine a parallel world where no one brought the horse armour

Redditors said the same thing

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I still haven't escaped the hive mind it seems

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago

God dammit Todd…

The Wizard Tower was so cool too…

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Unfortunately this seems to be a rising trend for AAA studios/games: Riot Said The Quiet Part Out Loud.

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

That's totally wild

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