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World of Warcraft: Warforged Nightmare Wings Its Way into the Shop
SBFord
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World of Warcraft players can now purchase the Warforged Nightmare from the in-game shop. For $30, players get the steed itself and the Nightmareish Hitching Post that allows an entire party or raid to transform their mounts into Warforged Steeds for a limited period of time.
Charge into battle astride a Warforged Nightmare, unleashing unbridled chaos upon your enemies! Those who own this terrifying steed, crafted from cold steel and vengeful spirits by grandmaster smiths, are also able to place a Nightmarish Hitching Post. This mysterious artifact has the power to summon a Warforged Nightmare for every member of your war party strong enough to handle the reins and worthy enough to be given the honor.
The Warforged Nightmare mount is available now from the in-game Shop as well as the Battle.net Shop.
Source: World of Warcraft community site
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WoW forums are exploding atm with anger due to being $30. More than it normally does. I think the lack of content for the last...what...6 months...if not more? Its starting to get to them.
Funny how they have plenty of time to create cash shop items rather than improving the game people pay monthly for.
Who the actual fuck writes the descriptions of these things? Are we still 14? And how is it that Blizzard can't push out an ounce of content for over a year but they have time to make more edgy mounts for their cash shop?
I just can't even comprehend why Azeroth isn't in flames right now with the amount of pissed off and bored subscribers they have.
Double this.
WoW forums are exploding atm with anger due to being $30. More than it normally does. I think the lack of content for the last...what...6 months...if not more? Its starting to get to them.
Funny how they have plenty of time to create cash shop items rather than improving the game people pay monthly for.
Because providing content detracts from profit. its really easy to understand why they don't.
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I don't think most people are pissed about them putting an item in the cash shop.
I think most people are pissed that even though there's a drought of content that'll go from about August 2013 to November 2014... Blizz still finds time to stock the cash-shop.
I never thought I'd say this, but I really am giving Wildstar a *long* look these days... and if EQ Next comes out before Draenor, I'm never looking at WoW again.
Then perhaps the modeling team could be better spending its time finishing the other half of the revamped models that still aren't done for WoD.
Bottom line, even if they had absolutely nothing to do, many posters have said: "Gee, that would have made a great Blacksmith mount - guess we don't put cool things in the game you don't have to pay extra for anymore."
Sure, Blizzard's a company... but a subscription based MMO that goes nearly 15 months without a significant patch, especially one with millions of subscriptions, is screwing up huge. I don't care if the questing team is doing one thing, the modeling team the other and the bad dialogue team a third... I'm sorry, there's just no excuse.
And when you add a $30 mount ontop of that... you start developing a bit of a perception issue.
I'll be the first to defend blizzard, but they seriously need to flood the news sections with more warlords previews at this time and not mounts.
For anyone who is still debating this, the team that makes these mounts has nothing to do with content.
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reminds me of the cheesy video for EQ2 Station Store wings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0F9SXO8wY
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The team that makes these mounts has EVERYTHING to do with content! Why? Because MOUNTS ARE CONTENT! I'm not sure how current WoW is, but back in vanilla and TBC, collection of mounts, pets, instruments, and other non-combat items was an actual style of gameplay. Stratholme (sp?) was ran so many times just to get the piccolo, not for the actual dungeon itself.
Artists, animators, sound teams, more were used to make these items. These items that could have been stuck in the game as a quest item, as a rep reward, as a reward given to loyal fans who still subscribe to a game paying $15 a month for what is so far 10 months of no content in a subscription based game. But no....not at all. Instead they take this item that is paid for by the subscriber's monthly, and throw it behind a cash wall for $30 (twice as much as a monthly subscription).
Bottom line: Blizzard just openly bent over their existing fan base and did something that most go to jail for!
Mounts that are made by the cash shop team and go to the cash shop are not actual content pieces, they did not have nearly as many people that you listed work on this type of thing and it wasn't a big project, they pump these things out on the reg.
It's not effecting the raid design team, or anyone currently working on the expansion. That was my point behind the content related statement. Useless rant is useless.
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Originally posted by Arskaaa
"when players learned tacticks in dungeon/raids, its bread".
Who exactly are they gouging? I haven't spent a single cent in their cash shop nor do I ever see a reason to. Then there's people out there who look forward to the next addition to it. No gouging here.
The point of playing WoW is to either be a casual and do whatever that large mass of people does, or be hardcore and do high end raids/pvp. WoW's flexible amount of content is the reason is attracts so many, they don't cater to one or the other anymore but all and they do a rather fine job with it seeing as the heroic completion rates during Cata and MoP progression were at very low numbers and the easy content such as LFR is at very high numbers.
If you had to ask what the point of WoW is now, I'd have to assume you still think its like vanilla where it takes a lengthy amount of time to hit level cap and the end game raiding community is nearly non existent. It's not like that, spending 5 minutes on google could've gotten you that answer.
The only real issue right now is..blizzard apparently doesn't understand this is not the time for players to see the headline of their website with a new mount announcement, that can wait until WoD is out and we are pleased again.
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It's the perception fhat matters. It's been around 9 months since their latest patch, and another 6 months until their next expansion, without any new content patch on the horizon.
Would it have hurt them, to release all these new mounts, as some kind of content to be earned in game, instead of just throwing it on the cash shop, especially for $30? That's 2 months of game time, just for a mount. That's ridiculous. It's bad enough they are selling level 90 characters for $60, then their loyal subscribers see this cash-grab, and the frustration is just piling up over time.
Players don't mind fluff or cosmetic items, as long as it's proportionate to the content in-game, which isn't the case here. Over a year without actual content is just another slap in the face to their playerbase.
Red-Yes it would have hurt them because then it would've involved people currently working on content for the new expansion which they want to get out "As soon as possible".
Yellow- As a loyal customer I can care less about this. The level cap will be 100 soon, and the majority if not all of the playerbase has the characters they want to be 90 at level 90. This option would likely appeal to people with very limited time or too much money. Their decision to do that has had no effect on me.
Teal- I 100% agree, like I said this isn't the right time to be putting cash mounts on the front page we need warlords first and soon.
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Agree 100%
I cant stand anymore doing SoO for a year, or having updates every six months. This was maybe the major reason, after the boredom of playing almost 10 years, why i quit WoW a couple of months ago.
This is also my no1 reason why i m playing WildStar and i ll stick to it as long they offer quality content updates with a fast pace. Despite i m loving WS, if the content additions will not be as they promised, then i ll quit this game too.
In general i believe (at least anymore) that every game that comes with a sub MUST have monthly content updates (not daily quests etc ofc but real content) in order to justify the monthly sub.
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I love how you people always make things sound way worse than they really are.
Forums: "RIOT!"
Ingame: "Meh, too busy playing. I'lle check later".
Go on! Tell us more about why you quit playing and how WoW is going to die!
And people thought the whole reason why Blizzard wanted to break free from Vivendi, is that they were able to act like a Game Studio again, instead of Money milking corporate giant.
I Guess in the end, they just wanted to keep all the Money themselves and continue on milking. /shrug lol.
Well, I do because I would have liked to have found one in game. My huge issue is that they release these things in the cash shop but don't give people the possibility of ever finding something similar in the game. I think that they should, even if the chance is very slim.
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I for one stopped playing it for lack of content. I got tired of TI and although I really enjoy PVP the
Lackluster armor sets with the amount of time they have before new content makes me a little miffed.
I pre-ordered WOD but jeez by the time it comes out I am not sure I can muster the will to play it. It better be really good if they want me back.
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