We talked about this a little bit the other day while speaking about the mail delay now built into the game. I asked what goldsellers were even selling gold for anymore (because there’s so much of it to be found in Azeroth, and both Turpster and Robin answered me with: “buying cheap gold is the fastest way to get an epic mount.”
Yes, there is no bigger drain on the funds than the epic mount price of a whopping 5,000g, and Bornakk says that isn’t changing any time soon. I completely agree that having an epic flying mount is definitely an epic achievement, and if Blizzard doesn’t want to lower the price, that’s their business. But as Captnclaw notes, the refusal to change the way epic flying mounts are obtained(buying wow gold) is almost singlehandedly keeping wow goldsellers alive.
There are lots of ways to give out epic mounts and keep them epic– one we mentioned on the show was daily quests (which is what you’re doing anyway, if you’re trying to raise 5k wow gold legally), but anything in that vein would work– a reputation grind, an item turn-in, an epic questline, or a combination of all of these. Making one of the best, most wanted items in the game simply cost a chunk of wow gold is more or less creating a market for wow goldsellers (which can offer you a big amount of cheap wow gold in nearly no time) . And refusing to lower the price (or, better yet, take the whole process out of the wow gold market entirely) is leaving the door wide open for wow gold sellers to continue hawking their wares.
