*Bare in mind right here that this is my opinion. Feel free to agree or disagree but do not bash me for my opinion.*
"Mounts are on the list of things to be made account wide, either at launch or a patch soon after."
This must be a joke. Please tell me this is some sick prank they're playing on me. Either that or I'm reading it wrong because there is no way they can make mounts account wide. In my mind what this means is that when you obtain a new mount it instantly goes to all your current and future characters as well. Remember that fun camping for Time Lost for your alts? Won't happen anymore. Remember doing a million runs for a mount for your main when your alt got it in just a few runs and it was annoying but it was still fun? Won't happen anymore.
Yes, I did just read this, so no doubt my opinion on it is a little over the top. But this is something I don't feel confident about at all. Same goes for account wide achievements, titles and pets too.
No I'm not going 'OMG IF THEY DO THIS I'LL QUIT WOW AND NEVER PLAY AGAIN' but it will be a massive stab in the chest for me. MoP is a long way off still but they did seem rather set on this idea. Also it's not too clear what the intentions are exactly. All it says is that they plan on making mounts account wide, it doesn't say if this means you'll be able to trade a mount to another character or what, as far as I know it just means that characters will all have the same mount pages.
Give your opinions.
Edit:
Chaoyll wrote:There's still a lot of people here making their opinions sound like facts, but hey, that's every forum for you and I'll just ignore it.
I thought about this over-night and yes, I can see the good sides to this. I can see good and bad sides and it's slowly growing on me. Hopefully by MoP I'll completely like the idea. I wouldn't want to leave the game over something as trivial as this. I am, like everyone else, also wondering how certain mounts will work. I wonder if they'll remove the profession requirements on mounts now, I would love to see that, I hate the idea of having a profession I don't like just to get mounts. (I'm a grind-profession person, don't have the patience to level crafting profs, hehe.) And I also wonder how it would work for cross faction characters. I'll assume it's the same as when you faction transfer, since there's always a faction equivalent of every mount. I'll also assume they take at the start whichever character has the most mounts and apply it to all current and future characters. Also class-specific mounts won't be counted I guess, they'll just go to the right classes and that's all. (Still waiting to see if they ever add in mounts for other classes!)
Otherwise I must apologise for my blunt and very negative response in the first post. I was not having a good evening at all.