Comments on: It’s not Blizzard, it’s You

By: Peaceguard

Peaceguard — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:07:39 +0000

Apparently 120.000 players have already ordered the item.
I guess it’s really up to each person to decide whether they find in necessary to buy/ not to buy.
Although I paid some money to see the blizzcon stream I agree with you on this one.

By: Dali

Dali — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:41:57 +0000

yeah this is kind of a pointless “discussion” and I feel that the longer I keep it up the more it makes me seem stupid or thick-headed.

So, i’ll agree with you here that it is pretty stupid to buy this mount especially for such a ridiculous price. It is just as stupid as paying $300 for a pair of sunglasses with an ugly brand name plastered in gold all over it.

By: scrusi

scrusi — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:44:26 +0000

Oh arguing is fine with me. I do it all the time on the most moot of points.

I see why you’d get the feeling that I meant to separate people into stupid and not stupid, but that’s not what I meant. Me, I do stupid things all the time (even knowingly) but I don’t consider myself generally stupid because of that.

The main point I was trying to make was not “buying the horse is stupid” but rather “Don’t blame Blizzard for selling it, blame yourself for buying it” in response to all those who criticized the sale of the horse in the first place. I think I was simply a bit loose in my terminology using the word stupid.

By: Dali

Dali — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:40:45 +0000

I understand your point and it’s an argument I’ve made in the past about other things. I guess I’m thinking more in terms of “how much do I value my time” rather than “how much do I value my money”. I think that the only advantage a rare mount has over a store-bought-everybody-else-has-it mount are bragging rights. Perhaps my sense of in-game fun isn’t quite the same as yours?

You will have your opinion and I will have mine. My point in leaving a comment isn’t to argue whether or not it’s a good idea to buy the mount. My problem is that you’re separating people who buy the mount and people who don’t into the groups of “stupid enough to buy it” and “the rest of us”. It certainly doesn’t sound like the act of buying it is stupid, but rather that the people themselves are stupid.

It just irked me at the time, that’s all. But it doesn’t really matter… I just like to argue a little. Sigh.

By: scrusi

scrusi — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:59:01 +0000

Hey, thanks for commenting intelligently instead of just rage-quitting my blog
If you actually get $25 worth of enjoyment out of the horse – kudos to you. I just find that hard to believe since there are so many things I can think of that I could get for $25 that are way more fun than any item I’ve ever had in WoW – especially considering the fact that the mount is hardly rare.

On a sidenote, I don’t mean to say that people buying the horse are stupid – for all I know many of them are much more clever than I am. What I mean to say is that I consider the act of buying the horse stupid because I can’t see people getting remotely their money’s worth out of it.

By: Dali

Dali — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:39:33 +0000

Hi. I feel kind of bad that you’re calling me stupid for buying the mount. I enjoy looking at it as I ride around Azeroth. It brings me pleasure. Dare I say it, the same kind of pleasure that you and everybody else who pays to watch colorful pixels and smash buttons for hours on end gets? Besides, if you think about it, I spent way less time earning those $25 than a lot of people spend farming for Rivendare’s Deathcharger. So, who is the stupid one?

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:53:04 +0000

Thing is, I don’t think games will get cheaper and, in fact, I believe SC2 was just charged at a higher price because Blizzvision reckon they can get away with charging it. They would still make a tidy profit selling the game for $50 but have just decided that they want to make more because they can.

Ultimately though it’s the consumer who has the power to say ‘no’ to these things and we have to stop paying if we don’t like it. We have a choice!!
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