Hey ZoS; How about we compare your Storm Atro mounts with your 600 priced Ice Popsicle with legs

Exodium

I know there's other threads on this topic already but I figured I wanted to make one to compare two different mounts and use that comparison to summarise ZoS' philosophy for their game: Lower the quality, Raise the price.

I have 450 crown gems saved and in knowing that this Ice mount would be released, I figured I'd wait it out so that I could purchase it. I was wrong, knowing that I'd need another 150 gems to purchase it. So I wanted to know if those 600 gems are justifiable and after looking at the below video, I definitely am not bothering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPtbp6xENZw


Now compare that to the FIRST crown crate season over 2 years ago - The Storm Atro Crate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL7tThH62gs

I said this in another thread but I'm going to restate it....How can, after two years and WITH a higher price attached to it, you still decide not to at least provide value for people's 600 gems?
- There's no summoning animation
- The howling effect pales in comparison to the thunderbolt from the storm ones....Even the wild wolf crates had a flower effect which was decent
- The cat (or popsicle) has an awkward robotic movement to it - compare that to the atro where you can clearly see each part of the body moving in sync.
- The textures are awful - I feel like one of your employees took a polaroid of a glacier 20-30 years and used that as the model for this mounts design.

What has happened to ZoS? After 2 years clearly they don't care about the server performance/bugs etc and we just assumed they are distributing their resources on cosmetics in the crown crates. But IRONICALLY the cosmetics are even worse than they are 2 years ago, on the same downwards slope that every other aspect of the game is taking....

Like wtf ZoS what are you even doing with your game anymore?

Wolfkeks

I'm guessing they're testing as how far they can go with the crown gem prices.
I remember the outrage when the DroMathra senchd mount came out for 4k (or 4.5k can't remember) and they argued that the DroMathra senchd had a special summoning animation, therefore the high price.
I mean, buying things with just gems... Well that's just messed up...
But it has nothing special (expect that is is a frozen cat) so I don't understand their reasoning behind it.
And it's not as cool as the Apex mounts so 600 gems is def too high.

Reistr_the_Unbroken

When is the storm atro crates coming out like omg-

AlienatedGoat

Reistr_the_Unbroken wrote: »

When is the storm atro crates coming out like omg-

Lord_Eomer

It makes good pair with Crystalfrost skin.