Duct Tape and a Prayer

Quasi of <Exturo> says:

Now:
Mount training 510g
Mount: 85g

The day after SOON:
Mount training: 50g
Mount: 10g

Being backstabbed by Blizzard: Priceless

But the question remains (even knowing that 600g is not a whole alot) shouldn’t I get a refund for this?

No.

If you buy mount training now – as I did last night on my Death Knight* – you are paying for the privilege of not having to wait. Having the mount in 2-3 weeks (whenever 3.2 comes out) is not equivalent to having it now. By buying it early, you have an advantage over people who are waiting until the price drops. Their patience is rewarded with a lower price. Your paying the higher price is rewarded by having the extra speed for weeks or months longer than others.

There is one concession I would make to this argument: not everybody who plays the game interacts with the WOW community outside the game. There are some players who genuinely don’t know that the mount training prices are dropping. The proper solution for this problem, in my mind, is to add gossip options to the riding trainers, saying “Hey, I’m dropping my prices in a few weeks – I don’t know exactly when yet, but if you’re interested in saving money you might want to hold off for a while.” (That also has the added benefit of letting Blizzard tell the whiners “you had to click past the message telling you the price was dropping. You have no excuse.”)

* Then, in a moment of standard braindeadness, I realized that I needed 200g more for the actual epic flying mount.

You may be aware that for the last couple weeks, I’ve been fighting a script-injection infection on etherjammer.com. Last weekend was the third in a row that I’d been infected, and I finally got annoyed enough to nuke the site to the ground. Nothing left except directories. I even destroyed the hidden files.

Today I’m finally bringing things back online.

You may notice some quirks as the blog reasserts itself. Things may not be as you remember them – I kept the posts and comments but couldn’t save the blog settings, so I’m reworking it from memory, and from changed tastes. I’ll be back in posting trim here soon enough. For now, I’m happy enough that I’m back at all.