Fancy Horse Makes Blizzard $2 Million in Four Hours at $25 a pop

[smackababy]

Anyone spending $25 they don't have (not to mention the monthly fees as well) to feed their gaming addiction are irresponsible and need help.

If you're maxing out your sixth or seventh credit card or missing rent payments because you want a special pony, you're an idiot and need to get your priorities in line.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RjMSWhGWak

 

[Anubis]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RjMSWhGWak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCjuFpQ3EeA

 

[darkxshade]

I didn't buy the horse, but I did buy ATVI stock... thanks for the dividend chumps 😛

 

[BladeVenom]

I've spent far more on tickets to a concert, gas, and beer at the concert to have nothing but a memory. At least this horse will be on my WoW account until the WoW servers close their doors. Ridiculing people for spending their money however they please is completely stupid.

I am sure every person in here bitching has blown more money on dumber things.

Here's the difference. Lets say you spend $25 on a concert ticket, once you divide the cost of creating the concert by the number of tickets sold, it probably cost $20 per person to set up the concert. When you divide the cost of making a digital horse by the number of players that $25 horse probably only cost a penny to make.

I don't mind a 20% markup, everyone deserves to make some profit. However a 2500% markup seems like highway robbery.

 

[Satyrist]

Maybe if they went and sold the spectral tiger mount on the store, or something similar to it, there'd be a stop to the scammers 'selling it for 250k gold' (or whatever the limit per character is) on most servers I've seen.

This mount looks ugly for the most part, though. I'd prefer the rocket mount to it, that's for sure.

 

[Kev]

That is pathetic.

 

[lothar]

If you're maxing out your sixth or seventh credit card or missing rent payments because you want a special pony, you're an idiot and need to get your priorities in line.

If you're maxing out your sixth or seventh credit card or missing rent payments because you own an active WoW subscription and don't want to own a pony, you're an idiot and need to get your priorities in line.

 

[Kev]

I've spent far more on tickets to a concert, gas, and beer at the concert to have nothing but a memory. At least this horse will be on my WoW account until the WoW servers close their doors. Ridiculing people for spending their money however they please is completely stupid.

I am sure every person in here bitching has blown more money on dumber things.

You spent $25 to make your online barbie doll look prettier. That is definitely something to be proud of.

 

[VashHT]

Because the computer game is tuned to trick your brain into thinking you've accomplished something, whereas the sports team has actually accomplished something and you're ingrouping with them.
Beating a boss who's designed to be beaten so you can get better armor to reduce the chance of fictional death, then spending hours trying to gather fictional money so that your fictionally damaged armor can be repaired just so that it doesn't break in a fictional battle and leave you fictionally dead -- the only effect of said death is to fictionally damage armor leading to more grinding for fictional gold so that you can afford to repair it so that you won't fictionally die and have to grind for fictional gold to repair it?

Being trapped in that loop is not an accomplishment akin to the UConn Lady Huskies' back-to-back perfect seasons and 78 game winning streak.

It's not real. Blizzard could make everyone invulnerable and give them a 10 billion yard 30 sextillion DPS AOE attack at level 1 with a million flying ponies tucked into their 64bit addressable inventory. That's far more than any level 80 has now. It that worth celebrating?

Lmao, the UConn huskies might as well be fictional for you, because you will never be on their team, I think you're the one who is fooled into thinking you've accomplished something. Don't get me wrong, I watch sports too, but to pretend like watching a sports team win is somehow in part due to you sitting on your ass watching them is just ridiculous man.

 

[Satyrist]

lol nerdrage lol

 

[Tsavo]

Who cares? I spent close to $20 on TWO beers the other night. Granted, Rogue Hazelnut Nectar is as close to heaven as you can get as far as beers go, but after I drank them they were gone. $20 was gone. Etc.

I've never understood why some of you get so bent out of shape over what others choose to do with their money.

(I did NOT buy the Celestial Mount... but now that the OP advertised for Blizz I may have to look into it! 😛)

This.

I would have purchased the mount if it came with max flying skill.

 

[KaOTiK]

Maybe if they went and sold the spectral tiger mount on the store, or something similar to it, there'd be a stop to the scammers 'selling it for 250k gold' (or whatever the limit per character is) on most servers I've seen.

This mount looks ugly for the most part, though. I'd prefer the rocket mount to it, that's for sure.

I always wanted the rocket mount but I'll be damned if I pay like $300 or whatever it was going for on ebay. I almost had a deal worked out with someone for it with gold though but they backed out at the last minute cause they wanted the cash. Even though I was selling gold, I just couldn't justify actually spending the money for the thing even though the money was from gold hah.

 

[AstroManLuca]

I don't fault Blizzard one bit for selling these. Hell they could charge $50, $100, or more, and the idiots would still pay.

This is 100% on the people who bought it. They're the stupid ones, not Blizzard. Blizzard are geniuses.

 

[lothar]

Because the computer game is tuned to trick your brain into thinking you've accomplished something, whereas the sports team has actually accomplished something and you're ingrouping with them.
Beating a boss who's designed to be beaten so you can get better armor to reduce the chance of fictional death, then spending hours trying to gather fictional money so that your fictionally damaged armor can be repaired just so that it doesn't break in a fictional battle and leave you fictionally dead -- the only effect of said death is to fictionally damage armor leading to more grinding for fictional gold so that you can afford to repair it so that you won't fictionally die and have to grind for fictional gold to repair it?

Being trapped in that loop is not an accomplishment akin to the UConn Lady Huskies' back-to-back perfect seasons and 78 game winning streak.

It's not real. Blizzard could make everyone invulnerable and give them a 10 billion yard 30 sextillion DPS AOE attack at level 1 with a million flying ponies tucked into their 64bit addressable inventory. That's far more than any level 80 has now. It that worth celebrating?

So you're relishing in someone else's victory in which you had absolutely no part in other than drinking yourself into oblivion and yelling at pretty light emanating from a screen?

This.

*crickets*
Still waiting for his response to your post.

 

[smackababy]

You spent $25 to make your online barbie doll look prettier. That is definitely something to be proud of.

And for the record, all my characters look ballin' on it. That, and I have a server first title of Celstial Defender so why wouldn't I get a celestial horse?

 

[ViperXX]

If they made a mount titled "Your Mom". I would buy it.

 

[MikeyLSU]

the big difference is buying something tangable actually gives you something. Buying this horse does not make your character better or anything. You can't fly faster, it just looks different, nothing more, nothing less.

And to those saying you save money on mounts, they cost nearly nothing, and the fast flying mount is free from a dungeon(everyone ends up getting it).

But if people want to spend their money on it, so be it. Blizzard knows how to get their customers to give their money away.

 

[smackababy]

I don't understand how you can say this mount isn't tangable? I can see it everyday I play WoW. Pretty tangable to me. At least in the same as buying an album off iTunes. Are those people just as sad? You're not getting any physical media, merely a digital version of a song. Is the enjoyment any different?

Just because your hobby isn't someone else's does make them any sadder than you. How about those guys who have gigantic model train systems in their houses / basements? Are they sad as well? Having a network of model railways doesn't make them any faster, smarter, better looking.

 

[blurredvision]

I don't understand how you can say this mount isn't tangable? I can see it everyday I play WoW. Pretty tangable to me. At least in the same as buying an album off iTunes. Are those people just as sad? You're not getting any physical media, merely a digital version of a song. Is the enjoyment any different?

Just because your hobby isn't someone else's does make them any sadder than you. How about those guys who have gigantic model train systems in their houses / basements? Are they sad as well? Having a network of model railways doesn't make them any faster, smarter, better looking.

Bingo.

 

[ajskydiver]

I'd love to see Blizzard really go crazy with this and test just how much people would be willing to pay for exclusivity.*

I wouldn't be surprised to see or read of someone paying high 3 or 4 figures to own something that no one else or very few other people "own".

Imagine if they did make the unicorn, one of a kind, item -- how much do you think someone would be willing to pay?

* I've never played WoW, but did play older, text based MUDS and know of people that spent tens/hundreds of real world dollars for unique TEXT descriptions!

 

[MikeyLSU]

I'm waiting for actual gear to go for sale, like if shadowmourne(really good sword) was to be sold. I'm sure they could sell it for $100 easy and thousands would easily pay for it.

 

[blurredvision]

That would be interesting. Charge $15k for something, and see if anybody actually buys it.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

I'm waiting for actual gear to go for sale, like if shadowmourne(really good sword) was to be sold. I'm sure they could sell it for $100 easy and thousands would easily pay for it.

Many more would stop playing as a result; I doubt many people care about being charged for pets enough to quit, but I'm sure many would if the game basicly became microtransaction driven with a subscription on top of it. Would the people that buy that outweigh the loss of however many 15$ a month subscriptions.

 

[smackababy]

Many more would stop playing as a result; I doubt many people care about being charged for pets enough to quit, but I'm sure many would if the game basicly became microtransaction driven with a subscription on top of it. Would the people that buy that outweigh the loss of however many 15$ a month subscriptions.

I would say if they started offering actual gear for cash, 90% of the end game raiders would quit. I know I would leave immediately. I don't mind the stuff that doesn't do anything except appearance, but something that people "work" for being sold would be too much. I think a lot of people feel the same way.