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They are finally "adding" worgen mounts:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3401307#blog

Don't think I've ever seen such negative response, especially from fanbois:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3082213933



LMFAO!!!!!

 

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Yeah just saw that. My first thought way "Okay now that's just reaching". My second thought was maybe it's a placeholder but then....why announce it...with pictures....if it wasn't even kinda ready? I know they're trying to balance the horde mounts vs alliance mounts but it makes me feel like they're just adding things now that people have been asking for/screaming about in an attempt to hold onto subscribers. But again, this one is just reaching. You could at least make something cool like this:

http://i439.photobucket.com/albums/qq111/Darcubus/FerineSteed-1.jpg?t=1311226646

 

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I normally don't agree with a lot (most of) the team b threads but I was like REALLY? when I saw that update :\

 

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I can't believe it.

I only have one worgen character (a druid), so I don't really care, but damn. Like they didn't even try, lmao.

 

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Wow. Really terrible.

 

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Subject: Just When You Think The B Team Cannot Top Their Recycling Efforts...
Obviously none of you have bothered to look at a calendar and realized its Sept 1st..unless you have been under a rock for the last 7 YEARS you should know Blizz always plays some major gag on Apr...i..l... hey.. waitaminit... shock

 

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_Kewk_ posted:
I normally don't agree with a lot (most of) the team b threads but I was like REALLY? when I saw that update :\



Like I said, even the fanbois are waking up grin

 

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all in response to people like me complaining since BEFORE cata came out that alliance is being sold short on the amount of mounts towards our achievements. it'll help some for sure so i like it for that reason, but the fact it is the same horses as humans.... come on.

 

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Wow, I mean like I see their excuse, they were humans, but like, couldn't we have some sort of mutated horse or something?

 

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To be fair, the Goblin mounts were pretty terrible too. They were different, sure. But they still look like crap.

 

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Talehon69 posted:
To be fair, the Goblin mounts were pretty terrible too. They were different, sure. But they still look like crap.


Nah, my gobby trike is rad.

 

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Talehon69 posted:
To be fair, the Goblin mounts were pretty terrible too. They were different, sure. But they still look like crap.


Nah, my gobby trike is rad.


Yeah, the gobby trike is very rad. I love it. All of my Horde toons have it, even though I don't use it all the time.

Anyway, as for recycling... I thought it was bad when they decided to "revamp" the darkmoon fair. At the time I thought that was just another poor recycling effort, probably the worst one. It's not like there's a whole lot new going on. Sure there is some new gear to be had, and a new "permanent" location. But it's still the same old fair that's been in game since vanilla. It's like recycling the last thing they could recycle. Or so I thought.

Then they do this. Horses for worgen. I know the actual reason for it was just to even the number of mounts available between horde and alliance. But gimme a break. Plain simple horses that have been in game for years? This is just about the ultimate lazy recycling effort.

Blizzard has lost my business permanently. I'm tired of paying for crap that's been out for 6 years and labeled as "new".

 

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A much better Worgen mount would have been an infected horse but that would have required a new model.

 

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Blizzard posted:
The intention with the new mounts was just to honor player concerns about achievements and even up the mount totals between the alliance and the horde. It’s something people had been requesting since the release of Cataclysm, so we’re evening up the numbers by giving the Alliance some additional mounts to add to their totals.

The Worgen racial mount is Running Wild. These are just some extra horses, for your horse needs. Perhaps the blog should have been titled 'New Gilnean Faction Mount'? Or maybe just 'Wyld Stallyns'? We may actually edit the blog to clarify why these mounts were added. To be clear, it’s not because we think worgen look their awesomest riding horses.

The intention wasn't really to hype this up, so much as to simply inform and reduce confusion. Our thought was, rather than let these be introduced without any context via data-mining, that it seemed like a better idea to introduce them ourselves with a bit of context.

[...] There was some miscommunication regarding the initial reason why these mounts were added. After talking with the devs again these mounts are actually being added because they already happened to be available and we thought it’d be nice to make them able to be purchased and ridden. Which is unfortunately quite a bit different than how we understood and framed the blog.

Their existence also allows us to give players that faction change to Worgen something in exchange for their old racial mount. Right now if you faction change to Worgen you lose your previous home-faction mounts, and so we’re also trying to correct that with this change.


http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3116591708?page=4#75

 

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Blizzard posted:
Wow are people pissed, so we're sending you a message to try to fix things. We released these new mounts to even the number of mounts on both sides. Unfortunately, our art team spent less time on the new models than the community team did drafting the announcement. Please don't be mad but praise us for balancing Alliance's number of mounts.


fixed.

 

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Errtuu posted:
Blizzard posted:
Wow are people pissed, so we're sending you a message to try to fix things. We released these new mounts to even the number of mounts on both sides. Unfortunately, our art team spent less time on the new models than the community team did drafting the announcement. Please don't be mad but praise us for balancing Alliance's number of mounts.


fixed.



This, in spades.


Blizzard got busted once again, being completely lazy and retarded, and now they are backpedaling, as usual.

Pathetic really.

 

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Spookysheep posted:
Errtuu posted:
Blizzard posted:
Wow are people pissed, so we're sending you a message to try to fix things. We released these new mounts to even the number of mounts on both sides. Unfortunately, our art team spent less time on the new models than the community team did drafting the announcement. Please don't be mad but praise us for balancing Alliance's number of mounts.


fixed.



This, in spades.


Blizzard got busted once again, being completely lazy and retarded, and now they are backpedaling, as usual.

Pathetic really.


At this point, I don't think it matters what they say anymore, as you plan on finding a way to negatively interpret it anyway. I'm just wondering, why even bother? I assume it's just because you get to see your post count go up, but I could be wrong. I do find it slightly entertaining to be honest.

 

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This seems appropriate now

 

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The-Sofa-King posted:


Pathetic really.
At this point, I don't think it matters what they say anymore, as you plan on finding a way to negatively interpret it anyway. I'm just wondering, why even bother? I assume it's just because you get to see your post count go up, but I could be wrong. I do find it slightly entertaining to be honest.



I equally wonder why you get so butthurt about what I post on VN happy

 

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UH, do you still have the option of running on all fours. Because I'd be embarrassed on one of those horses.

Or don't the horses get infected?

/mourn lost opportunity

 

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Acao posted:
A much better Worgen mount would have been an infected horse but that would have required a new model.



They could have just "skinned" an existing model (a la infected Bears in Felwood.)


 

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Spookysheep posted:
The-Sofa-King posted:


Pathetic really.
At this point, I don't think it matters what they say anymore, as you plan on finding a way to negatively interpret it anyway. I'm just wondering, why even bother? I assume it's just because you get to see your post count go up, but I could be wrong. I do find it slightly entertaining to be honest.



I equally wonder why you get so butthurt about what I post on VN happy


Of course, because my post sounded very, as you put it, "butthurt". It was merely an observation, and a curiousity. Thanks, however, I'm now convinced you actually don't read anything before posting.

 

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Just imagine if they did new models for the mounts, people would be complaining that Blizz put man-hours into art instead of fixing something else. And the 'B Team' would get blamed for that too.

 

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The only thing that could redeem this of it's stupidity is if you could purchase the WHITE and PALAMINO horses without their armor again.

If that's the case, then I'll be kissing feet. Palamino pony sans armor = best mount in game.

 

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Boy that's lazy. I assume they're losing so many customers that they're trying to "resolve" as many concerns in the shortest amount of time possible. So a complaint like this is easy: just give them a mount and use some generic asset you had laying around: done.

 

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The-Sofa-King posted:
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Of course, because my post sounded very, as you put it, "butthurt". It was merely an observation, and a curiousity. Thanks, however, I'm now convinced you actually don't read anything before posting.



For someone who seems to desperately want everyone to believe you are not butthurt, you sure are defensive about being called out on it wink

 

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Spookysheep posted:
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Of course, because my post sounded very, as you put it, "butthurt". It was merely an observation, and a curiousity. Thanks, however, I'm now convinced you actually don't read anything before posting.



For someone who seems to desperately want everyone to believe you are not butthurt, you sure are defensive about being called out on it wink


damn, why must you always see through my thinly veiled lies. You caught me. I was totally being defensive there.

 

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Blizzard is due for some humility. Here's hoping they make appropriate changes when it comes.

 

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Blizzard is due for some humility. Here's hoping they make appropriate changes when it comes.



Sorry, all you'll get is a post from a dev explaining what "Humility" actually means from Blizzard's perspective and why appropriate changes aren't necessary, because the players need to L2Define.

 

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Personally I think they could have used Lady Gaga for a mount.

 

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damn, why must you always see through my thinly veiled lies. You caught me. I was totally being defensive there.


So this is the part where you try to pretend that you are just trolling and not really butthurt.


Gotcha wink

 

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damn, why must you always see through my thinly veiled lies. You caught me. I was totally being defensive there.


So this is the part where you try to pretend that you are just trolling and not really butthurt.


Gotcha wink



That fact that you think I'm trying to troll you laughable. I was asking you an honest question based on my observation of your recent posting habits, and you took it in a negative sense, which reinforced my initial thoughts. Thanks!

 

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That fact that you think I'm trying to troll you laughable. I was asking you an honest question based on my observation of your recent posting habits, and you took it in a negative sense, which reinforced my initial thoughts. Thanks!


Re-read my post bro, I never said you were trolling.

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Re-read my post bro, I never said you were trolling.

Certainly not successfully grin


Re-read my post brah, I didn't say I was trolling.

I wouldn't know how to do that successfully.

 

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