5 million gold for a mount is ludicrous (as is 2 million for the spider mount) when you take into consideration that in-game gold now holds a real-world value via the WoW token. For example, 5 million gold, at the current (EU) going rate for WoW tokens, would amount to just over 14 tokens. Each token can be redeemed for a month of gametime or €13 in Blizzard Balance, which can be used to buy anything on Battle.net. 5 million gold is worth over €182, or over a full year of subscription time.Of course there are going to be players who won't be interested in buying Hearthstone packs or even subscription time with their WoW gold, but it's pretty cruel of Blizzard to basically make people choose between €182 or a single mount.
It's even more ridiculous in the US. In the US lately a token has been around 200k, so 5 tokens to a million gold, so 25 tokens for the brutosaur. That's two years of subscription time, or $375 on your account. If you want to buy the gold that's $500. The token price is just going to keep going up, but still, at this point it's a little nuts.
I'll probably have 15 mil gold by the time BFA launches (13.7mil atm), but i make 99% of my gold from WQs/missions/trash items and NOT the AH. So that mount has 0 value for me. That and the fact i could buy a year of WoW with that gold, lol.
Well in like 3-4 years I can afford the bronto. Here I thought I was pretty set with breaking 1mil gold with my casual playing. Someday.. someday. my dreams died a little today though heh.. Just think the next expansion will have a 10 million gold mount or something absurd. I get it is a gold sink but good lord are there that many people with that much gold floating around for this to happen? Maybe I'm just poor.
Oh my god, I want that spectral Phoenix!
There goes my Brontosaur mount - doubt i'll be able to get 5M gold.. :(
To me 5million is fine especially in BFA when inflation will take place.
5 million gods? you're kidding.
Yay squig mount. I home we get tameable version aswell. Now we be da real orks we were meant to be! WAAAAAGHH!
"Broken Highland MustangOne of the Arathi horses, taken and broken by the Horde conquerers of Stromgarde."the monsters will pay for this.