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My God, it’s full of Stars! – New Warcraft Mount
By flisk | April 21, 2010
Blizzard released last week, via their Blizzard Online Store, a new “toy” to obtain within World of Warcraft. Previously we have been able to purchase in game pets via their store (for $10.00 cold hard cash), Lil’ K.T., and the Pandaren Monk. Also released was a new pet, Lil’ XT. But we don’t care about him. What we care about is this new guy…
The Celestial Steed Mount
Yep, it’s a mount! And it’s full of stars! Here is the description right from Blizzard’s store:
“Freshly born from the Twisting Nether, the Celestial Steed flying mount lets you travel in style astride wings of pure elemental stardust. So saddle up, because this supernatural warhorse will fly as fast as your riding skill will take you, and it will travel at 310% speed if you have at least one other 310% mount.”
The bad part; it’s $25.00. Yeah, Twenty-Five bucks! Ouch Blizzard aren’t you rich enough?? Evidently not.
Check this out: When it [Celestial Steed] became available to purchase, hordes of fans (Alliance and Horde alike) flocked to the store to purchase it. This caused a major back-log of stock. How’s that, you may ask, it’s a virtual item!!! Virtual item it may be, but there were so many players attempting to purchase it at the same time that Blizzard placed everyone into a ‘Purchase Queue’.
At one point it is estimated that there were about 90,000 people in queue each HOUR to purchase this guy. That went on for just over 4 hours. It’s estimated that Blizzard sold about 500,000 (if not more, of these. At $25.00 a pop… That’s over $12,000,000 (yep Twelve Million) they made… In just a few hours!
Now this begs the question, with something as sucessful as this (and oh yes, it was certainly a success at 12 Million) will we see more items, possibly ones that could alter game play? Weapons? Armor? Spells? Maybe the next item will be a 30 slot Celestial Bag for every-day use.
Damnit. I’m one of the ones that helped to contribute to Blizzard making loads of money from this Celestial Steed. It’s a fun little guy and I had a little extra cash to spend.
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Topics: World of Warcraft | 3 Comments »
April 21st, 2010 at 8:06 pm
/sigh
12m?
Madness…
Bring on the Apocalypse.
Prime.
May 20th, 2010 at 8:51 am
I don’t usually buy any of the items Blizzard offers up, but I was close on the pet that had the proceeds going to a charity. But I couldn’t pass up the mount. It was account bound and it means I really don’t have to buy a mount for any character I ever create again. Being an altoholic it was well worth it for me.
May 20th, 2010 at 9:16 am
I enjoy mine, silly as it sounds, it’s pretty to look at.