Thanks Blizzard
November 19th, 2008First off, let me say wow. Two posts in the same week. Now down to business.
Last night was what I thought would be an awesome event. I hit level 60 on my main, because I decided to give my dk a chance to gain some rested XP. I was so happy to get the chance of an epic mount. I had assumed that training for riding would be 50-75 gold, so the 90 I currently have would have covered it. I also have the recruit a friend mount, so I wasn’t in a hurry to buy a new mount.
Anyways, first off after hitting 60, I try to equip my mount. No dice. So I head off to Brill to hit the riding trainer, but I’m not exalted with the Undercity, so I head off to Silvermoon City (being as I’m a Blood Elf). After searching for the training, I finally find him and discover it’s going to cost me 500 gold to learn the higher riding skill.
At that moment, I truly understand why people buy gold. I used to think that the people who bought gold were greedy people who didn’t want to pay their dues and were really cheating themselves out of alot of the content the game had to offer.
What I think really sucks about this is that I have two options. Either forge forward with the game, which allows me to earn XP and wait until I have 500 gold to spend. Or start doing things like SM, where I don’t earn XP but can make some ok gold.


