Shouldn’t I get a refund for this?
Loading ...Quasi of <Exturo> says:
Now:
Mount training 510g
Mount: 85gThe day after SOON:
Mount training: 50g
Mount: 10gBeing 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.
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This is one of the most well thought out responses to the question I have seen. I have 4 level 77’s who I leveled through Outland after Wrath came out and I have decided to wait until the patch to make the double purchase of flying and cold weather flying until the patch.
The wait SUCKS when I know I could just go buy it now and do some of the things I’d like to do, but instead I’m trotting around on land mounts and generally avoiding playing those toons til the patch.
There is a cost associated with purchasing or not purchasing, and I applaud you for actually pointing that out when most people would rather jsut whine about it.
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I really like the idea of gossiping NPCs especially if they added extravagant stories as to why things were changing. A little bit of small Lore goes a long way even for a non-Lore type like myself.
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