Heart of the AspectsFollow

I saw a few of these in Orgrimmar last night. Fairly large and more than two close by becomes very annoying. I talked to a guy that had one and he said you can't land them, they just hover. We got on the zep to Borean Tundra and he never touched down. They do look cool but really bright.

Paying $25 for something in-game seems so, I don't know, unfair. You buy the game, get an online subscription, and then they come out with in-game matter that cost money. At least it is not as bad as those F2P games where shelling-out $30-40 a month is the only way to experience the game. :P

{EDIT}

@IDrownFish I want a White Russian now! Duuude there's a beverage in my hand.

Edited, Feb 15th 2012 11:05pm by ovshanevo

It's mere existance changes the game for everyone unless they'd include an option that would allow to turn off the display of any premium models and replace them with something else. There is nothing wrong with driving a KIA as long as everybody does, but things change once people start putting Bentleys in their driveways.

I'm just thinking that a game world should overcome social differences rather than duplicating them in a purely one-way fashion. There is absolutely nothing you could do in the game world to obtain this or any other premium model. In fact, the more time you spend in the game, the less likely is it that you spend it earning the $25 required.

I could tolerate this, if earnings from these things went towards charity projects, and you'd receive those mounts and pets as a little token of gratitude. But instead they're creating more and more status symbols to fill their sharehoolder's pockets, and that I think is just plain wrong.

This might just be a case of an old-fashioned pen & paper player meeting the modern gaming industry. Fine, if that kind of thing is what people want, then by all means be it that way. I don't have to like it, though, let alone participate or even having a positive attitude towards this kind of thing.

Btw, where is the lore behind this new type of dragon? What's Tyrael's charger doing in World of Warcraft? Murlock Marine? Thor?

Guess it doesn't matter as long as it brings in money in some way.

Edited, Feb 16th 2012 7:28am by Kanngarnix

I have to admit it. Of all the mounts they've released, this is the one that's got the best shot at getting my money. Nonetheless, $25 is simply far too much to spend on something like that, when I consider that there are still things I want that cost about that much that I can use outside of WoW.

I don't' think the picture/gif does it justice. Saw them yesterday and my reaction was "meh" and then I saw one in game and thought "awesome". I still won't be buying one (I don't think I'll ever be willing to pay for something that is purely digital) but I hope they use this model in the new expansion for an in-game mount reward. I've been getting a bit sick of drakes and this design just puts me in mind of something a bit more magical.

Stormwind has been full of pretty yellow sparkles the last couple of days. I'm firmly in the "It's nice but not $25 nice" crowd.

Well, it makes people around you think you're a !$%^.

Although I guess for most of the people who buy this, that really isn't a change...

Why would I care?

There's no way in !@$!%^ I'm paying $25 real money for a pixel mount that flies the same speed and does the same things that my "free" mounts do.

When I see one, I just think, "There's a !$^% idiot."

I wouldn't label anyone who purchased Blizzard pets/mounts an idiot. But I would not spend any money on things like that either.
I'm rather indifferent to it.