Quote Originally Posted by Plumfairy View Post
The fat cat mount, for example, is $24.00! It is just a single mount and yet it costs more than an expansion for the game. The expansion includes all kinds of shit, and is somehow cheaper than this one object in t0he game.

The fact that it's the same price as a full game is why I'll never buy mounts. I understand that most of them are "account-wide" but I think having more than 2 characters is kind of the minority (i.e. the account wide feature is not very valuable). That being said, I know that it's also expensive to design and model additional features, like mounts... but I personally just can't afford them. I don't think I would even want to afford them when they cost as much as a game.

I don't know their sales, but I kind of think that they would be able to make more money in the long run if they made their items cheaper. If people see they're in an "affordable price range," the more likely they're going to buy them.The more mounts or emotes or whatever they sell, the more able they are to pay the artists/programmers. The profit margin is probably too high, but I honestly wouldn't know. It's not my field. If the mounts were between $10 & $15 (something like that), I would definitely snap all of them up along the way for myself and even for my friends on special occasions.

That being said, I do buy the dances and rarely minions for myself and for friends when on sale. Usually for something special like a birthday present. A minion or a dance costs about as much as a decent card with a little something extra so I like them for things like that. So, the price of minions and dances/emotes usually don't bother me. If they're in the more expensive range, I just gloss over them.