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

    • EatATaco@lemm.ee
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      10 天前

      This is truly lowest of the low type of scum behavior.

      I get being upset about it. But, ffs, get some perspective.

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      10 天前

      It is literally earnable in game lol

      You can sell gold straight to Blizzard. Even at 360k per token, this is WAY CHEAPER than it was when it was originally introduced for 5 million gold

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        10 天前

        You can not sell gold to Blizzard

        Edit: I stand corrected, you can purchase tokens and turn them into game time, but I didn’t know they could be turned into $15 battle net balance. This mount does, indeed, cost less gold than the original Brutosaur (or did before token prices skyrocketed)

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        10 天前

        Lol, that is not realistic for most players. The original 5 million gold was not realistic back then either.

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          10 天前

          Yeah it’s always been a status symbol. Nowadays it isn’t even that useful because they put auction houses in the expansion cities anyway, so it’s basically just a status symbol for people who spend WAY too much time on the auction house. This mount isn’t even half as P2W as people would have you believe.