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Let's see how much money they make off the mount alone. >_>
Edited by Mania: MMO Champion is reporting that the Celestial Steed -- a new mount that scales its speed to your fastest mount -- and Lil'XT the mini-pet will soon be sold in the Blizzard Store. This will be the first time that a mount is directly available for cash (although you can of course buy the TCG loot cards for cash and get certain mounts that way).
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Won't be long until we see purchasable gear.
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To date, nothing the Blizzard pet store has sold or made available has had any mechanical in-game advantage. Even with the addition of the Celestial Horse, this still holds true. Yes, it looks cool, but it doesn't go any faster than you are already permitted to go by your training or the mounts you already had before buying it. Blizzard repeatedly said, back when the pet store first launched, that they would not offer anything for sale there that offered a mechanical advantage in-game. They know that being able to buy good gear because you make a lot of money IRL is a break point and a touchy subject for their subscribers, and they know that those services appearing will cost them business.Saturo wrote:Why am I not surprised.
Won't be long until we see purchasable gear.
I'm not worried about my hunter BiS pieces only being available from the Blizzard store until they make the announcement that that's what's going to happen. So far all I've seen in the Blizzard store is some cool minipets (which I do plan to keep collecting because they're fun and not terribly expensive at that) and a mount that has the slight added convenience of scaling with your riding training.
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The "celestialhorse_nonflying" has the jump animation. It's just like a normal horse, which is kind of disappointing...
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Still, now I'm anxious to see what other sort of mounts will pop up in the future. I, personally, have absolutely no problem with Blizzard selling vanity items. I don't think they'll ever start selling gear or anything that will give someone an in-game advantage. Mounts and minipets are absolutely fine by me.
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NEW SIGNATURE PENDING... SOON.
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And once again 25€ = $25. :P They're ripping us Europians off, seriously!Aleu wrote:$25 for the mount. o.O I honestly don't know if that's worth it for me. I'll see what I can do. >_>
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Um what's wrong with a purchable mount Saturo? I always wanted a flying horse for my paladin. NOW I WILL GET ONE OH GOD I AM SO HAPPY I COULD EXPLODE WITH JOY.Saturo wrote:Why am I not surprised.
Won't be long until we see purchasable gear.
And you people questioning the price; look at the TCG loot. 300 dollars for like say the griff hatchling. And you can only use it once.
25 bucks for a BoA horse and oh my god I am so happy.
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And OMGWTFBBQ no more ugly Kodo or Elekk mounts or boring rep grinds on alts! <3
Edit2: Looks like the mount's armor has a slight bug on live, black scratches keep flashing around it.
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It's just that they are moving closer to giving us somethig like gear. And I don't like that. Minipets and mounts are ok. I'm just a bit scared at what this might develop into...
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I'm with Ryai here to be honest. They've been selling mounts, pets and other vanity items through TCG for ages, how is this any different? I'm fairly confident they'll stick to their philosophy of only selling vanity stuff for real life money.Saturo wrote:Not the actual mount that I dislike. (Tough I do dislike the model)
It's just that they are moving closer to giving us somethig like gear. And I don't like that. Minipets and mounts are ok. I'm just a bit scared at what this might develop into...
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Ok mounts are the same as pets. Vanity items. Mounts aren't gear Saturo, you don't need to fear. I mean seriously, it's a vanity item. It's why I get so annoyed when people insult me for Embront having a basic mount and being 46+. It's not required that you actually get it; this is really no different than Warlocks and Pallies and DK's getting free horses, or droods getting free flight skill+'mount'.Saturo wrote:Not the actual mount that I dislike. (Tough I do dislike the model)
It's just that they are moving closer to giving us somethig like gear. And I don't like that. Minipets and mounts are ok. I'm just a bit scared at what this might develop into...
The ONLY way I could see gear ever being placed in the store? Would be like for tabards. As it's evident the items they sell are Bind to Account so it'd be pretty stupid to offer sellable BoA items when there are already a crapload of soon to be useless boa items in game already.
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