Ask Gauss

Happy Sunday everyone! Hope your week has been good. Mine hasn't been that bad. Today would mark my 1 month being back in WoW and I must even with all the changes it has been fun. Sure a lot has changed but I am really enjoying my time playing. Something I wasn't really doing before I stopped playing. Once again thanks to everyone for there support and all of you who have came by and said hello. Tried to respond to all of you if I didn't keep trying and call me an asshole for not getting back to you sooner.

Now it is Sunday after all so why don't we get these questions answered.

So you have been back to WoW for a bit do you plan at going hard into raiding?

I have done some LFR and even a little flex and while LFR in my opinion isn't really raiding it does have a little spark for me. I can say for sure though I don't plan on going crazy into raiding any time during Mists. Not saying I won't do some raids but I have no plan to go all crazy. Now will I raid I raid in the future? That is still up in the air. Warlords interests me and I have had a lot of old time raiders tell me if I start up they will gladly follow me. Honestly I don't know if I should take this as a complement for how I ran raids or not. Many people used to say I was tough on people when was raiding. I demanded a lot from people, but never more then I thought they could give. I think at the time it may have made some people angry but now after the fact and with them being in some other environments they see what I was trying to do. So hearing back from them now I can see they appreciated what I brought to them and their raiding career.

Do you think the PS4 came out to early? There is like hardly any games.

 Truly I would say yes, but it is like this with every  new generation. There is a select few games which come out and then there is also overlap from the previous generation games still coming out. Now would it make more sense to have the system come out in may when the last generation games out. Maybe but then there would be too little games coming out before the new system was out. So while it is not the perfect system it works and if you are worried about no games the best thing to do is wait till the old generation games stop coming out before you buy the new system.

What mount you currently using?

For now at least.

There you have it this week's questions answered. Thank you to everyone who sent something in this wouldn't be possible without you doing so.

Printing Money??

So yesterday the "Heart of The Aspects" mount became available. This to me is obviously the best looking mount they have ever made to be purchased in the Blizzard Store. If you haven't seen the mount here is what it looks like.

Now being an MMO it seems a little weird to buy a mount for the purpose of advancing your character. I know it doesn't give an unfair advantage so it doesn't really apply, but still. The only exception to me would be if the money itself goes to charity, which is why I have bought a few of the pets. Regardless of that many people like to purchase these mounts.2 As you probably know they cost $25 a piece. With that in mind you may wonder how much money Blizzard makes off of these mounts. Well here is a little idea. Within 5 minutes on the North American store it looked like this

That is 40226 x $25 = $1,005,650. That is right over a million dollars. So it is safe to say that making a mount like this is a license to print money

My Little Pony

So anyone heard about the pretty little horse you can get? It seems to be this topic has caused some serious uproar. Of course Blizzard is doing this to make money. Why do you think there is a pet store in the first place? The question of if $25 for a mount is a fair amount is not the point. They can charge whatever they want for it since they are selling it. If people are buying it, then it can't be that bad. I am sure they did extensive research on prices and all that crap to figure out the price. Wait I said I wasn't going to talk about that. Anyways, the question is, is selling this mount wrong? Of course not. Is it greedy? Some may take it that way, but really it is their company they can do what they want. If I started selling T-Shirts would I be greedy? People have asked for them and I am just doing what people have asked for. So I assume they have had millions of requests for mounts to be purchasable. They started out with the card game and I guess realized with the sale of many of those mounts on ebay they could make actual money off them.

So in a business sense it is like the decision to legalize things like alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana. When governments realize they can make money off it they it is a completely different story. Why not get your cut right? No one is forcing you to get said mount. Do you feel you have to? If you have a problem with Blizzard selling mounts and pets you could always boycott WoW, but you won't you.

The question if I will get one. Well the mount looks cool. If you can get the my little pony vision out of your head. I probably wouldn't use it as a ground mount over my Hog. I just enjoy doing flips and spins too much, in addition to the killing people thing. Flying wise I really enjoy the if you have a 310% it goes 310%. This leads me to a bitch point. Why doesn't this apply to other mounts? I would love to ride a bunch of my mounts, but they aren't 310% so I am there wondering why I am going so damn slow. So there is my only real beef with the mount. The biggest reason I probably won't get the mount is because so many people have it. I am not one who enjoys to blend in, so I think it would be very anti-Gauss of me.

I hope that satisfies all the requests for a rant on "Sparkle" Blizzard's new addition to the My Little Pony family.

Dude That's My Mount

So today is Friday and as was asked you all submited your screens of you and your mounts. Now I obviously couldn't post them all, although I am going to post quite a few. I also am not going to post repeats of the same mount because that would be rather boring. I did get many multiples and I think everyone who sent me one also sent one with their Black War Bear. So today there won't be much reading just viewing, but hey there was a new patch and new content you don't got time to read. But let's have a little contest, vote on the one you like the best and I will think of something to give the person.

What Your Flying Mount says

So as promised after all your constant bitching after the ground mounts her are my thoughts on flying mounts

No Epic Flying: There are not words to describe how much you fail. Yopu fail so much Bagellord is someone you look up to. You know where all the flight paths are because you use them! You are constantly made fun of for being last and if you actually arrive somewhere early you dismount and either show no mount or ride a ground mount you think is cool. Your not fooling anyone with this tatic, and worse of all you actually noticed they buffed the speed of non epic flying speed /facepalm

Wind Rider or Gryphon: So your level 80 and your riding this crap which was boring and dull at level 70. You obviously are boring and dumb for not realizing this. You ride a black war mammoth don't you?

Magic Carpet: So you are on a carpet. You enjoy disney movies don't you? we all know "magic carpet ride" is on everyone of your playlists isn't it? Too bad this carpet is the only carpet you will ever see

Nether Drake: So you spent time farming this rep so you could get a pretty little dragon. To bad its outdated and you wasted your time. No matter, no one believes that you had anything better to do with your time anyway.

Skyguard Mounts: You obviously have a sperm facination. This is either because a) you are living your sperms fantasy and actually seeing other people or b) Your a slut

Ashes of A'lar: No matter what you tell people they think your a ninja. So I suggest making up some crazy story macro it and tell it to everyone who asks. You will then become that guy who ninja'd Ashes and will be made WoW eternal. This might actually lead people to want to talk to you. But don't worry you still have no friends

Helicopter: Get to the chopper is not funny. It never was. You fail hardcore for ever thinking it was.

Green Proto: God dam eggs. Anyone who has this dream of throwing my Yolk at you every 6 days. At least I can get my frustration out on the Polar Bar girl somehow why not here!

Blue Proto: You have toll hacks and no one will ever go anywhere if you want something they do. Winning this mount has now cost you your ability to get groups until people forget where the mount came from of course.

Amber Drake: Grats to you for putting up with Arthas' slow ass in CoS. This mount is a joke to get and therefore if you think riding it shows off your L33t skills it just proves you have none. Please go fail more the fires to die in are on your right.

Twilight/Black Drake: You did sarth 3D and you think your awesome. We all know you were that idiot who died to a firewall or stood in a void zone. You then somehow were allowed to roll on the dam drake. We shall call you Champion of Failboat Admirals.

Red Proto: You wasted your time doing pointless achievements in heroics for a dam mount which is no quicker than any other crappy flying mount. You obviously have have too much time and are braggin about it. Let me guess you ride other cities ground mounts as well? Grats on wiping in real life.

DK Frost Worm: Your a DK you fail anyways riding this just proves the point further.

Raid Protos: You think you are full of win. You sit on your mount in Dalaran like your shit don't stink. When in truth you know it does since you shit your pants during last nights raid to avoid taking an afk. They are pixels and not lifetime achievement awards. Your mom needs your rent money by the way.

Arena Mount: You think people should bow before you greatness. You are a god among WoW players in your own eyes. We all know you play with some facerolling combo and requires little to no skill to be even remotely good. So grats on your pretty mount I am sure it will impress someone and you can explain your self proclaimed l33tness to them.

What the Mount You Ride Says

Will start with ground and will doing flying another day. Also if you are one of those people that chills on your mount pretending to be afk please look back at the "things that bother me" section.

Black War Bear: Proud member of the Gauss Nation. This mount doesn't look that bad, but there are lots around thanks to yours truly. So its like driving a Toyota Camry not that bad of a car but not too original either. You are what we call a follower

Armored Brown Bear: Who the Hell rides this thing? I assume people with the "Champion of the Frozen Wastes" title enjoy this mount. You fail ride something else.

Zulian Tiger: I know you yell "BY THE POWER OF GREYSKULL" every time you mount it. This mount may look cool but I know you only ride it so people whisper you and ask where you got it. Let's be clear this doesn't mean you have friends.

Amani War Bear: This doesn't mean your awesome, it means your living in the past. You probably are the person that reads their high school yearbook daily if only it actually had comments in it.

Your Races Mount: You have no friends just face it.

Another Races Mount: You have too much time and yet you want to broadcast this to everyone.

Any Hawkstrider: You look like a dumbass. You also probably wear Crocs in real life since you are so used to looking like an idiot.

Talbuk: You are on this mount because you think it looks elegant and high class. Think again its a goat.

Black War Mammoth: Face it your riding this because obviously you have nothing better. Everyone has this mount because it is a joke to get. You are so full of fail you might as well have rolled a ret pally.

Traveler's Tundra Mammoth: You just wasted 16000g on a mount. Do I really need to say anything else?

White Polar Bear: I hate you go die in a fire.

Zhevra: You want people to think you actually have friends. Sorry your not fooling anyone.