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.

From the official forums:

Let’s not everybody get too excited here. Yes, they’re planning on letting us switch factions. No, we have no damn idea how it’s going to work. Maybe we’ll be able to pay a one-time fee and redesign our characters from the ground up, only on the other side. Maybe we’ll have to get sponsorship from someone on the other side, guild-charter style. Maybe it’ll be race roulette (thanks to Anea), where you can switch factions but everything is randomized. We don’t know.

I’m aware that fandom rule #1 is “If a situation is ever unclear, assume whatever it would take to drive you into a blind rage.” Please resist that urge. This probably won’t be out until WOW 4.0 at the earliest, so be patient and rational, and withhold judgment until you actually know what’s going on. Okay?

I’ve shuffled some things around on the server, and hopefully now the old etherjammer.com/wowblog/* links will redirect to ducttape.etherjammer.com/* . Specifically, this should mean that RSS readers using www.etherjammer.com/wowblog/feed should start updating again! If you’re still having trouble, please let me know below.

I’ve been packing my wife up for a vacation today and seeing her off to the airport, so I haven’t really had a lot of time to put together a post. The 3/31 Linksation will be put off until 4/1 (and no, it’s not a joke), and I’ll have some more comments on Discipline, haste, crit, and gear later in the week.

In the meantime, enjoy the Plague of Hakkar decimating Ironforge (way back before Naxx 40!).

Is it, perhaps, silly to have a “World of Warcraft” tag on a World of Warcraft blog?