You guys lack some serious empathy when you ask with a straight face for paid content to be removed, when it may have impacted other people's decision to buy an expansion. It's not going to happen. You may dislike the direction that ANet went with mounts but that's the new landscape, there is no way they can revert content that was clearly advertised (and yes, we have known that mounts would be in core tyria for a while now, and while Griffon was not part of the promotional material, it has been out and associated to a paid expansion; it's appearance in core tyria maps is advertisement enough). If they were to take them out of tyria maps, I would stop supporting the game immediately, as they were the main/only reason why I purchased PoF. I'm not alone in this. So here is my suggestion: Relax. Make your own fun. If you think mounts trivialize content, don't use mounts. Find a guild with like minded people. If you are still angry that other people can be more efficient than you, I'm not sure what to tell you at this point. There are also people that can convert gems into thousands of gold at the flick of a credit card, and you have been living with that for longer.
You guys lack some serious empathy when you ask with a straight face for paid content to be removed, when it may have impacted other people's decision to buy an expansion. It's not going to happen. You may dislike the direction that ANet went with mounts but that's the new landscape, there is no way they can revert content that was clearly advertised (and yes, we have known that mounts would be in core tyria for a while now, and while Griffon was not part of the promotional material, it has been out and associated to a paid expansion; it's appearance in core tyria maps is advertisement enough). If they were to take them out of tyria maps, I would stop supporting the game immediately, as they were the main/only reason why I purchased PoF. I'm not alone in this. So here is my suggestion: Relax. Make your own fun. If you think mounts trivialize content, don't use mounts. Find a guild with like minded people. If you are still angry that other people can be more efficient than you, I'm not sure what to tell you at this point. There are also people that can convert gems into thousands of gold at the flick of a credit card, and you have been living with that for longer.