Makes no sense.
The only reason this move makes sense to me is if they are trying to scale back the economy in Shadowlands, making gold harder to acquire and thus the Brutosaur out of range under the new economy in SL. They can't just make it cheaper, or those who currently own it would feel ripped off. Or maybe there's a new gold-sink mount that will have AH and cost less? Even then, stupid move. I just don't understand the logic.
i think it might have something to do with the new AH and the economy of the next expansion. get everyone to spend as much gold now in order to realign and create more opportunity for sellers in SL.just a thoughtDrezoops did nt reaad the one above me...same idea
The more I think about it, this may just be an enticement to keep players playing BfA all the way to Shadowlands launch. By creating a deadline to get the mount, they're forcing players who otherwise might just take the next year off waiting on SL to keep grinding play to get enough gold for the mount. Blizz's priority over the next year will be to keep subscriptions from dropping off a cliff until Shadowlands, and this might be part of that strategy. If so, pathetic, IMO.
it is going to BMAH i would rather spend money on next raid than on mount -.-
I'm surprised to see that there is barely any backlash going on about this yet. In my opinion this is a major issue considering this is a unique feature, not just "another" mount, toy or pet. To me it's clear that Blizzard is once again looking for new ways to milk out their player-base. Many years ago it started with transmogs, then it became mounts, then it became pets, then it became time-limited mounts/pets, and now we're at a point where Blizzard is going to start selling quality-of-life features. Once again it starts off very small and innocent-looking, but in the future we could be looking at purchasable QoL-features such as priority-queuing, and once that gets accepted by the community they'll move on to even more dire schemes such as paid with $$$ bonus rolls, and so on.My hopes for WoW were sort of revived after Blizzcon earlier this month, but to me it's pretty apparent that Blizzard is about to get more greedy than ever before. Anyone with basic economical knowledge about the BGC-matrix knows that WoW is currently in its "cash cow"-phase; Blizzard is just going to milk the game out more and more until the players will stop giving into it. And worst of all, at that point, no doubt, Blizzard will shut down WoW. Of course I'm still going to play the game nonetheless, but I'm saddened to see that once again Blizzard is doing nothing but showing their greed and that they'll milk out the community until the game is dead (or stays up only for the minority of the player-base who doesn't mind throwing 1000s of dollars into the game annually). If anyone thinks I'm a doomsayer, I'd love for you to explain me how you think Blizzard isn't going to milk out WoW more and more until its dead.
...and Token prices are already up.Yep, total cash grab to boost the year-end as well as first couple of 2020's quarterlies.