The game's been out this long and all they add to the point store is some new color schemes on an already existing tabard design?

I'm just glad to see SOMETHING in the point store for the MMO. It's a bit sad that it's a re-colored tabarad, but it's something.

I assume these will be 2000 points as well . They better be or it'll be a bit of a rip off. See above comment about re-colord skin.

So will we see more?How about moving some of the discontinued loot card items to the point store? Can anyone say turtle mount?

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How about moving some of the discontinued loot card items to the point store? Can anyone say turtle mount?

HoA packs are still widely in circulation and were only recently introduced to China. Making the turtle mount a points store item would probably cannibalize a fair chunk of the sales of the remaining stock. Nor do I think they'd want to send the message to collectors that the items that people are paying lots of money for now are going to be worth a lot less in the future when they're available via the points store.

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Right! Alienate the majority to please the minoity. Great plan.

Also basing your entire slaes plan on secondary market speculation always works out in the end. Never seen that fall flat on it's face before. UDE need to reward the people who actually buy the packs. The peopel who pay big bucks for loot buy the card ont he secondary market. And while it does drive sales to a degree satisfying the core player base willa dvavance the game more and add to the stability of the product.

Go look at comics in the early 90's to see what I mean.

The Tabard of Frost goes for 300-600 gold on most hi-pop WoW servers.  I see Arcane and Void going for hi-end if not more cause they look cool.

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1121056:

Right! Alienate the majority to please the minoity. Great plan.

Also basing your entire slaes plan on secondary market speculation always works out in the end. Never seen that fall flat on it's face before. UDE need to reward the people who actually buy the packs. The peopel who pay big bucks for loot buy the card ont he secondary market. And while it does drive sales to a degree satisfying the core player base willa dvavance the game more and add to the stability of the product.

Go look at comics in the early 90's to see what I mean.

I don't think they're alienating anyone by not putting loot card items on the points store. Nor are they basing their "entire sales plan on secondary market speculation". Get your selfish head out of your ass.

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That's great and all but the objective of online WoW is to have items that make other people jealous, and noones notices or cares about tabards at all. Expect these to be low sellers.

Clearly, you have no idea just how well Tabard of the Flame sells.

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I'd personally like to see more tabard loot cards as common rewards - no, not temporary "charged" tabards!

If you could use a common loot card to buy one tabard of one colour of your choice I could see people climbing over each other to buy these for their chars and alts and collect the full set.

That way when you pull 2 loots per box you'd be thinking "oh yay, I think this'll be purple for my lock, and this'll be green for my druid". Which is much better than thinking "How much with this sell for on Ebay?"

It'd be even nicer if the new tabards didn't all recycle the same logo.

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I am just waiting for some more items , not just different colors of the same one.

What a crappy job of updating the point store's in-game items. All they did was change the colors of the Tabard of Frost/Flame to six new colors. This is a disappointment from Blizzard/UDE. It basically took a year and a half to come out with new in-game items that aren't even worth getting.

Step up your game, Blizzard. UDE is putting out new TCG sets every 2-3 months, and it took you a year and a half to change 1 tabard into 6 more colors? I'm no game programmer, and I could still do that in my sleep!

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What I do not get about tabards (not just the ones from the TCG but the special ones in game too) is they are so ordinary.

Why cann't they have special graphics like a spinning wheel, planet rotating around a star, or some special graphic like some weapons and items have.

If they are going to only be visual atleast make them spectacular in the artwork. I have yet to see a tabard I think is even real good much less great or spectacular.

I can look at how some armor looks better then other armor and how some weapons look better then other weapons and I do feel the concept is known but for whatever reason they choose not to make tabards look good.

Make the tabards special in some way. If everyone in the same guild is wearing a special tabard then the tabard will somehow customize itself to the guild tabard design when 3 or more people in the guild are grouped.

Make the special tabards customizable in some small way.

I am not a artist type person but I would have to think the options with tabards are as limitless as the artists mind and the programming.

With that said I am glad something new is up even if it is pretty much the same tabard in 6 different main colors. It is better then nothing.

i'm also one of those people.  i've turned into a collector of sorts in-game.

tabards from each faction i've gotten exalted with (so far: Sha'tar, Scryer, Lower City, Mag'har, Cenarion Expedition, Ogri'la, Sha'tari Skyguard, Shattered Sun Offensive), tabard of frost, tabard of summer flames, green trophy tabard of the illidari, and my guild tabard.  (currently i'm rotating between the green trophy tabard of the illidari, which, by the way, looks really awesome with the headpiece off illidan + t6.  i feel like i should be working at black temple, not raiding it)

 

i also collect non-combat pets.  currently i'm sitting on ~22 or so.  and then there's novelty items: Piccolo of the Flaming Fire, Orb of Deception, Carved Ogre Idol, and come 2.4.3 Disco in a Box, among others.

1121056:

Right! Alienate the majority to please the minority. Great plan.

blizzard i could see handing the loot cards out to people eventually, easily seen in how the mmo has progressed recently tending towards the majority of players (casual players).  UDE however will hopefully not ruin their game for sales so much.

 

**by ruin i mean change the game so that its fun and rewarding for people who play infrequently as opposed to often, being myself.  well not often anymore.**

I never bough the already existing tabard, but my question is..

Are those tabard soulbound items? Or we can trade them? How about the other items?

Let me know, Thx

 

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