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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] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not even a new trend in WoW either.

Can't even blame Blizzard, it's the people who keep buying this shit that are actually the problem.

If these wouldn't sell in the store they could've been items to obtain through in-game activities (which don't require eternal grind).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Can't even blame Blizzard, it's the people who keep buying this shit that are actually the problem.

Por que no dos?

I have room in my heart to hate both groups.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can’t even blame Blizzard, it’s the people who keep buying this shit that are actually the problem.

Blizzard is the problem because they are implementing the macrotransaction. The people who buy it are enablers but not the real problem.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Transactions are from two parties, if the product didn't sell they wouldn't keep doing it. The product wouldn't exist if it failed to sell in the first place.

Plenty of shitty products in the world that never get sold, and then stop being produced.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"People who keep buying from McDonald's despite an e coli outbreak are the real problem!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

That's no comparison. McDonalds doesn't sell the infected products intentionally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

This is equally as infuriating to me as the rising cost of stamps. 😐

If you are going to pretend to have scruples then at least pretend to have standards, or dignity for that matter. 😂 If you are so involved (even in the most modest terms) in the ecosystem of predatory games like World of Warcraft, to the point that you are even tenuously aware of news relating to them then you deserve all of it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

People that buy it deserved to get scam

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

5 million gold costs about 220 bucks right now. If I'm not mistaken that was the price of the AH mount back in BFA, no?

90 bucks for this mount is actually at a massive bargain, we're talking 40% of what it's actually worth. Like I get it, you think it's scummy but... idk, if I still played WoW I would probably buy it - and I doubt I would regret it. That being said, I do not play anymore and will not come back for the mount lol.

Like, technically speaking they could charge double what they're asking and it would still be cheaper than the BFA AH mount.

Edit: Mad because bad at math.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

they are starting to employ the star citizen model it seems with how cultlike wow sometimes felt im surprised it took that long

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It wouldn't bother me if you were still able to earn the mount in-game.

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