Born from the utmost depths of the Fissure, comes the Celestial Steed, or something like that.
Blizzard has been adding micro-payment items to their store lately, little things like in game pets, and their latest offering was the Steed mount, this little item netted Blizzard around half a million dollars within the first hour of it being up, later there were some 140,000 people queuing for the item, which equaled around $3.5 million in sales, and that was apparently just in the US just in one afternoon, crazy.
My main problem with the items they have is the price, I feel they are a little expensive for what they are, $10 for an in-game pet seems a little much, it’s a virtual item, which you’ll probably loose when the game closes (whenever that happens), I would think $5 would be more likely, but that’s me.
Blizzard can sell for those prices and people will buy them….like us >.>
Normally I wouldn’t have gone for it but my wife called it an early birthday present (along with a copy of Garry’s Mod), however there were 2 things I like about it which made it feel a little (note I say little) better about it (price wise).
- It’s account bound, which means any characters I have in WoW will get it, and any new ones I create will get it.
- It scales with riding skill. WoW has 4 riding styles, Mounts, Epic Mounts, Flying Mounts and Epic Flying Mounts. Each of these are learned at a different level and for different amounts of gold (plus extra gold for the actual mounts). With the Steed scaling it means when my Level 20 Mage learns riding, he can ride the Steed for a 60% speed increase. When he hits 40 and learns epic riding, the mount will automatically go 100% faster instead, the same applies for the flying too.