Jimmy.8402

I was mad at first. Yes, I would have preferred being able to purchase the mounts that I wanted, and then never look back. After I eventually failed to convince myself that I have an extra $240 laying around to get all the mounts (and therefore the 5 or 6 that I really wanted) for myself and my wife, I had to devise a new plan: gold to gem conversion, as I am able. I don’t usually sit on loads of gold, but when I recently finished Aurora, I went on a mad selling spree through my bank, and ended up with more gold than I needed. So I was able to buy 8 mounts, 4 each for myself and my wife. Of those 8, maybe 3 were skins that I would have never looked at twice. But once I got playing around with the dye channels, I realized that those specific mounts still look amazing, are thematically appropriate for one or more of our combined 84 toons, and I’m really glad that I have them! And I’m super excited to grind out the gold to get the next one, which will go to my wife, and the next one, that will go to me! And guess what, the others are super rad also! I got twin sands, and my wife got the frozen bunny. Super cool! At first I was angry and super jealous that a bunch of people who dropped $120 were running around with the fiery griffon. But now they just psyche me out for when I eventually get my fiery griffon. And I’m glad that some people have more dollars than sense, allowing Anet to continue developing this amazing game. I hope people eventually come around like this. Just because you probably won’t get the mount you want RIGHT NOW, doesn’t mean that you won’t get it eventually, and doesn’t mean that the one you got this week or this month is totally worthless. Own it. Enjoy it. Make it yours, at least in the mean time. I, personally, like having something to work towards. And I like that not EVERYBODY is running around on a fiery griffon.