EverQuest II Adds $25 Mounts

How do charge $25 for that crap and look at yourself in the mirror? $15 for 3 maps and $25 for a virtual horse. And young gamers wonder why the older gamers miss the Golden Age of Video/PC games so much.

soe's marketplace is just all fluff items (except the character transfer/renaming services). these mounts are barely on par with mounts 3 expansions ago in stats/effects/bonus' and no way worth $25.

"a move, believe it or not, the company says was driven by "player demand."

I guess 10 out of 12 total players would constitute demand...serious, does anyone play it?

The $25 Celestial Mount and pets in WOW are a badge of fail IMO. The day they launched it I was them everywhere. I don't see them that much anymore. To top it off it's the gheyest looking mount in the game...and people paid for them.

like taking money from drug addicts... easy profit

Reminds me of T.R.H.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCjuFpQ3EeA

Actually, there are two versions of each of these three mounts. They have an Arcane and a Fierce version.

The Arcane has the following stats:
Increases Disruption, Focus, Ministration, Subjugation and Ordination of caster by 5.0
Reduces maximum falling speed of caster
Increases caster run speed by 65%

The Fierce has the following stats:
Increases Slashing, Aggression, Ranged, Piercing and Crushing of caster by 5.0
Reduces maximum falling speed of caster
Increases caster run speed by 65%

All in all, I think this was a good move business wise from SOE. They have other ways to get mounts outside of the game(the Legends of Norrath card game), but the mounts are very rare, and you're not guaranteed one that suits your main. You should spend hundreds of dollars trying to get one of these things. Now, they are offering comparable mounts for straight up $25. I for one will be purchasing one of these to use until I get my raid mount.

**Yes, I play EverQuest 2. Have since launch, and will until I find another game I enjoy more(keyword there being "I").**

I lol'd at this headline so much. Seems like it should say:
Source; The Onion

Nice try

i don't see any reason why companies can't do this for thier games.... as long as your not giving a huge advantage or upsetting the balance of play; there should be no problems with things like this.

i'd love to see eve: online offer a way to pay for a ship in game that is a custom color... or just a way to buy those bigger ships... i don't have enough time to play and earn a billion isk just for one ship.. i'd rather pay 10 bucks....

I'm sure that the two people who were demanding these mounts are excited about their release.

lol

what more can be said