She dreams in color, she dreams in red… Can’t find a betting man…

Some raisin

thinking having access to the auction house without having to travel 2 minutes is pay to win in any way and that it constitutes half the functionality of an entire city

Doesn’t realize you don’t have to spend a cent to buy the mount

I’m just gonna copy and paste my comment from the other big thread about this but I want to ask: why are you lying with the post title? It’s $90, not $132.

TLDR: this is obtainable through in-game currency for significantly less than the price of the original brutosaur mount. Most long time players can afford it and I’d imagine most people who bought it did so this way.

Ok so I cackled when I saw the price on this thing but the more I thought about it, the less shitty it is. FWIW I am not a WoW lifer or Blizzard apologist. I got talked into Classic for a year then played a month or two of each expansion since before quitting but I know the background of the story. It looks way worse from an outsider perspective.

You could buy the original auction house mount for 5 million gold back in the day. It stopped being available regularly and now it’s available occasionally in the “black market auction house” and it always sells for the maximum bid.

To combat Chinese gold farmers, Blizzard started selling gold in a bit of a roundabout way. For $20, you can buy a WoW token to sell on the auction house. This token can be purchased by a player and traded for 1 month of game time. Some players dont pay a dime to play - gold is not hard to acquire.

When this new mount came out, WoW tokens were worth about 200k gold. You’d need to exchange them for 5 tokens to get this mount. 1/5 of the original price.

Now tokens are worth 330k. 1.65m gold. STILL significantly cheaper than it was originally.

Tokens will need to rise to triple in price to match the original cost which will still be a tiny fraction of what it cost a month ago.

By far the shittiest thing about this - and I think the only real reason to complain - is that the rising value of the token hurts players who pay for the subscription purely with gold as it adds a few hours to their “working” time in game. For context, watching TV and semi-afk farming will get you like 50k/hour. You can earn way, way more if you’ve leveled up a profession.

The other (not so bad) thing I don’t like about it is that…I hate those mounts. They’re HUGE and people just AFK on them blocking NPCs I want to talk to.

Hi Aaron, how quickly did you get sick of people deliberately mispronouncing your name?

Also, I think your name is very fun to write in cursive.

Turn off your computer, move to a cave in the mountains, and abandon society.

A bit extreme but there is nothing you can do to stop your messages from appearing on Windows machines except not sending them to anyone who might view them on Windows machines…which will definitely be nearly impossible in 2024

They found the files from a 2003 alpha build of Palworld with a text document listing all the Pal designs to steal

I thought discord streaming was so dumb until I was trying to reach my friend something in a game. Now we use it a couple times per month, it’s great. I hate that I like Discord lol

Me neither but it’s still a bold move

NDA was the wrong term to use there but I’m sure there was a “don’t give the game to anyone” in there they might be enforceable. I hope they don’t sue, though

I’m guessing he signed an NDA so I’m not sure what he was thinking distributing it so publicly.

TLDR: a guy who beta tested Half-Life found a CD of said beta

That’s where I’m at with it. I can’t get into a game knowing I don’t have the energy to get good at playing…

I’ll never understand why Overwatch 1’s lootboxes are always held up as an example of BAD BAD NOT GOOD MICROTRANSACTIONS when it was the best kind of lootbox. Uncomplicated, all cosmetics you could unlock by just playing, no paid keys, etc.

No lootbox system before it was nearly that "generous* so how did OW become the poster child for predatory games in so many article photos?

I haven’t been to a Spanish speaking country in 2 decades, don’t speak Spanish, and the only Spanish speakers I know primarily speak in English around me.

Yet 50% of the ads I’ve been getting on SoundCloud for years are in Spanish…

Is it because I faved a bunch of songs in Portuguese? That’s not even the same language! Is soundcloud’d ad network racist? The people (me) demand answers!

Yeah…so you’ve moved the goalposts to counter a point I didn’t make…

You’re moving it again with the “I eat birds too” part. You SHOULD give a fuck about what cats do to wildlife. And to be clear, they aren’t eating the birds. They’re killing for fun.

All right, you’ve moved the goalposts pretty far. A feral dog being more dangerous to humans than a cat doesn’t mean they’re a more inherently aggressive animal like the person I was replying to said.

I said “bad” cats - as in “hard to train/untrainable” in the context of my comment.

The rest of your comment is also about aggression towards humans even though in my previous reply I was speaking about aggression in general but I’ll respond to it anyway: Of course a tiny feral cat is less likely to square up with a human…they know they’re one kick from death. Towards smaller animals, stray cats are absolutely more aggressive. Even house cats kill for fun.

None of this is admonishment (except toward owners who let their cats roam the neighborhood), by the way. I love cats. I’m just not into the toxoplasmosis-driven defending them as perfect little creatures who do no wrong

No…not good

I’m not on crack. I volunteered at a shelter (cats/dogs) for 6 years and another shelter (cats/dogs/rabbits) for 2 more. I have a lot of experience with animals even outside of having at least one pet in my home for 95% of my life. Very few dogs are untrainable and even fewer from birth… It’s usually the result of abuse or years of neglect. (ETA: only having experience with bad neighbors and one dog of your own doesn’t really give you “a means to judge”)

Likewise, there’s very few “bad” cats - though I’d wager the percentage is higher given the prevalence of feral cats. They are MUCH less domesticated and will “revert” to being completely feral in one generation. Not a bad thing, just pointing it out.

The majority of dogs don’t need to be trained to not rip a toddler’s fade off and those that do are usually from breeds that were bred for aggression. Pitbulls, as much as I love them, are in that category. Golden Retrievers are not.