WoW stays true to form by dropping a $90 dinosaur mount during a controversial balance patch—and of course players are buying enough of them to gather in herds
World of Warcraft's been making a lot of positive changes, recently—a more alt-friendly warband system, a bigger focus on character-driven story, and an overall ease-up on the grind. I mean, there still is a grind. This is World of Warcraft after all, but it's nowhere near as bad as it used to be. The future's looking bright, and—what's that? There's a $90 dinosaur mount? People are mad about balance patches? Ah, crud.
In what looks like an effort to not let players get too excited about the overall positive direction of the game, World of Warcraft's had a bit of a time lately, starting with a patch that, aside from having a bug that meant Outlaw Rogues did obscene damage, seems so unilaterally unpopular that some players have been protesting in Mythic+. I'm not gonna get into the nitty-gritty here, since Blizzard has already started applying hotfixes, but it's had a clunky entry into the atmosphere.
Luckily, good ol' reliable Blizz has a cure for what ails ya—a very expensive dinosaur that also happens to have an auction house and mailbox strapped to the side: The Trader’s Gilded Brutosaur. It costs $90 (£50). In what I can only assume is a fit of madness (or the fact that the only other mount in the game with a mobile auctioneer costs 5 million gold), a lot of players are buying it.
«Maybe we deserve unfinished/half baked patches and sh*tty class balancing after all,» writes a numb player on the game's subreddit under an image of $90 dinosaurs flooding the streets, writing with the same dread as a scientist in a movie watching a kaiju knock over a skyscraper.
«The universal response to one of the worst QA'd patches we've had is to fork over an entire expansion's worth of money. This is what we've chosen, yeah,» adds another. Elsewhere on the subreddit, a different player directly thanks Todd Howard before posting the big, gaudy dino next to the infamous Oblivion Horse Armour, a meme of a microtransaction that's endured in the public consciousness for almost 20
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