Borys owned by Blizzard owned by Activison: 25$ avatar/mount

[Tieno]

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]


lol pc gamers

[ManaByte]

http://www.wow.com/2010/04/15/queue-for-celestrial-steed-and-lil-xt-is-above-70-000/

Seven hour wait to buy one.

[Tieno]

hahahah, online gaming is over. Have fun, i'll be playing single player games for as long as they're made and then I'm outta this hobby. Don't wanna keep associating myself with fucktards.


The Apple hipster image is way better.

[Great Rumbler]

Valve

[demi]

hahahah, online gaming is over. Have fun, i'll be playing single player games for as long as they're made and then I'm outta this hobby. Don't wanna keep associating myself with fucktards.


The Apple hipster image is way better.

> he cares about his image

[Smooth Groove]

hahahah, online gaming is over. Have fun, i'll be playing single player games for as long as they're made and then I'm outta this hobby. Don't wanna keep associating myself with fucktards.


The Apple hipster image is way better.

But you could find yourself a wife @WOW.  I bet you can't do that in an Apple store. 

[demi]

Valve

Didnt Valve just announce if you buy some shitty game you get some hats? Not seeing the diff..

[Smooth Groove]

Valve is a way better company, IMO.  At least they try to push the envelope.  Blizzard just milks as much out of their tech as they possibly can. 

[Akala]

hilarious.

[GilloD]

Valve

Didnt Valve just announce if you buy some shitty game you get some hats? Not seeing the diff..

The difference is this: If you were to buy Sam & Max and you have TF2- Great, you get new hats! It's a little incentive to buy a whole game. This mount thing is BUYING CONTENT for a game. It's not an incentive to buy the same, you're paying your way up the ladder.

[ManaByte]

Valve

Didnt Valve just announce if you buy some shitty game you get some hats? Not seeing the diff..

The difference is this: If you were to buy Sam & Max and you have TF2- Great, you get new hats! It's a little incentive to buy a whole game. This mount thing is BUYING CONTENT for a game. It's not an incentive to buy the same, you're paying your way up the ladder.

How exactly does a mount move you up the ladder?

[Brehvolution]

Stimulus Package

[demi]

Valve

Didnt Valve just announce if you buy some shitty game you get some hats? Not seeing the diff..

The difference is this: If you were to buy Sam & Max and you have TF2- Great, you get new hats! It's a little incentive to buy a whole game. This mount thing is BUYING CONTENT for a game. It's not an incentive to buy the same, you're paying your way up the ladder.

Nice FUD. You're still buying a shitty game.

[GilloD]

Valve

Didnt Valve just announce if you buy some shitty game you get some hats? Not seeing the diff..

The difference is this: If you were to buy Sam & Max and you have TF2- Great, you get new hats! It's a little incentive to buy a whole game. This mount thing is BUYING CONTENT for a game. It's not an incentive to buy the same, you're paying your way up the ladder.

Nice FUD. You're still buying a shitty game.

I didn't buy shit. Although if I was going to ever buy S&M, it'd be now.

[Great Rumbler]

The new Sam and Max is pretty good, but I liked their Monkey Island game more.

[pilonv1]

Queue is apparently well over 125k now.

[Joe Molotov]

Queue is apparently well over 125k now.

My friend's in it, he said he's got a 10 hour wait.

[Tieno]

Borys seeing Blizzard as some untouchable developer, resisting the influence and power of Activison

[ManaByte]

Valve

Didnt Valve just announce if you buy some shitty game you get some hats? Not seeing the diff..

The difference is this: If you were to buy Sam & Max and you have TF2- Great, you get new hats! It's a little incentive to buy a whole game. This mount thing is BUYING CONTENT for a game. It's not an incentive to buy the same, you're paying your way up the ladder.

How exactly does a mount move you up the ladder?

Having all the sweet shit in WoW makes you instantly cool.

Once I got so rare lookin' shit, the men pretending to be ladies were ALL OVER ME.


Don't you know anything about MMOs, fucking Christ.

Except that EVERYONE is scrambling to buy this thing...so it won't be rare at all. By this afternoon you'll just look like someone who spent $25 on a cosmetic mount that does nothing but look cool.

[Draft]

Blizzard just made $2M in 4 hours.

More than Tieno will make in his 10 lifetimes.

Tieno

Haha, destroyed.

Blizzard

Can't wait to buy custom spell colors in Diablo 3

[ManaByte]

http://www.massively.com/2010/04/16/anti-aliased-shut-up-people-come-buy-my-horse/

Have people noticed that this horse is half the cost of an expansion? Have people noticed that many other games, like Champions Online or City of Heroes, offer more items for less cost? Has anyone noticed that this horse actually provides an in-game "advantage," as all of your alts now no longer have to purchase mounts with gold, they'll just have the horse to ride around on from level 20 on up? Where is all of the standard whining and complaining? What makes Blizzard allowed to do this and other companies become the devilspawn when they try it?

It's ok, it's Blizzard!

If this was any other video game company, especially Cryptic or Gala-Net or even Turbine, people would be rioting in the streets. Instead, I drop by the World of Warcraft forums, and I find a huge thread of people defending the addition of the overpriced mount.

So, let's recap. 20 dollar backpack expansion from Allods Online: Bad. 10 dollar respec in Champions Online: Terribly bad. 25 dollar mount in World of Warcraft: OMGEPICMUSTBUYT3HPRETTY!!!!!1@2. Also, the latter comes with odd amounts of drooling, seizures, and compulsive credit card stroking.

We seem to be engaged in a horrific double standard. We have people who find spending 25 bucks on a single item appalling when it's done in a F2P game, but seriously ok when it's done in World of Warcraft.

[Draft]

Shit article from a moron. Comparing something like a character respec to not having to buy a 20 gold mount is asinine. The reason very few people are up in arms is that this is a purely cosmetic thing easily ignored if the player isn't interested.

Blizzard are financial and PR geniuses. Another roaring success for Blizzard.

[ManaByte]

Character respecs are available in those games for in-game currency as well, but they make them available as a microtransactions too.

[Draft]

Character respecs are available in those games for in-game currency as well, but they make them available as a microtransactions too.

That's irrelevant. Respec is a gameplay mechanic, mount graphic model is not.

The only thing crazy or notable about this is the price, which is completely nanners.

[Smooth Groove]

Maybe Tieno should embrace WOW.  It's the only world where he could become a millionaire. 

[Yeti]

People are really paying $25 to ride a horse that looks like it is made of jello and has dandruff? 

[tehjaybo]

I remember way back when I played and first hit 60, I farmed runecloth to get rep with Darnassus, then bought a nightsaber for my gnome.  Everyone thought I was the shit. 

But fuck spending money for it.

[ManaByte]

That's the thing. If you see someone on a Frost drake, Icebound Protodrake, of even the Violet Protodrake; you know they EARNED that mount through hard work.

[drew]

There are idiots on every gaming platform and there are idiot fans of every genre. Ones like buying expensive maps for MW2, others hats for tuftoo and others pets like this.

it was five fucking dollars extra you cheap fucking faggot

go spend three grand on another pc you fucking fuck

[fistfulofmetal]

i know two people at work who bought this

[Brehvolution]

$25 

[Third]

WoW

[chronovore]

hahahah, online gaming is over. Have fun, i'll be playing single player games for as long as they're made and then I'm outta this hobby. Don't wanna keep associating myself with fucktards.


The Apple hipster image is way better.

But you could find yourself a wife @WOW.  I bet you can't do that in an Apple store. 

Yeah, but if you /could/ she'd actually be someone you'd want to fuck instead of some SCA rhinoceros woman.

[Smooth Groove]

hahahah, online gaming is over. Have fun, i'll be playing single player games for as long as they're made and then I'm outta this hobby. Don't wanna keep associating myself with fucktards.


The Apple hipster image is way better.

But you could find yourself a wife @WOW.  I bet you can't do that in an Apple store. 

Yeah, but if you /could/ she'd actually be someone you'd want to fuck instead of some SCA rhinoceros woman.

Former EB MILF Cyanista is not that bad looking according to many people and she met her baby daddy in WOW. 

[AdmiralViscen]

That's the thing. If you see someone on a Frost drake, Icebound Protodrake, of even the Violet Protodrake; you know they EARNED that mount through hard work.

the fuck