October 12th 2011 04:34 am
Guardian Cub takes on Gold Buying… and FAILS!
So you may have heard by now about how you won’t ever need to buy WoW Gold again… Well, you heard wrong.
The Guardian Cub isn’t the magical cure-all to your WoW Gold needs. Far from it. At best this tradable pet — which can be bought for $10 and re-sold for WoW Gold via the auction house — is a supplemental way to shore up your funds. Even, then it can be unreliable and pretty much a gamble for your cash. Consider these points:
1. The Guardian Cub has a fluctuating value
There is no fixed rate for the Guardian Cub. But as many are predicting now, there is a strong chance that there will be a fast saturating rate for this tradable pet. I expect to see hundreds of these to be put up for sale at any given time and, like any oversupplied commodity, will see its price plummet faster than a priest’s HP after a Backstab.
2. The Guardian Cub is a companion pet NOT a mount
Some special commodities, such as the upcoming epic gems in Patch 4.3, will retain much of their value despite an oversupply because they have a constant demand. But the Guardian Cub is a one-time-buy-and-forget item. Suppose if you make new alts, you’d think about snapping one up at the auction house, but it’s not likely.
It would have been a different matter altogether if the Guardian Cub was a mount, since we all become stupid crazy people with mounts, and some slippery-slopers predict that a mount will be the next “experimental case,” but let’s cross that controversial bridge when we get there.
3. The Guardian Cub is a re-sized Winged Guardian
Raise your hand if you bought the Winged Guardian mount. Now raise your other hand if you’re equally excited to buy the Guardian Cub, which is basically a miniaturized version of the lion-eagle ride. No deal, eh? Don’t worry, you’re not alone.
Thousands of Winged Guardian owners are going to snub the Guardian Cub precisely because there’s nothing cool about whipping out an identical pet and mount. It only makes you look like a money-wasting fanboy or a gotta-have-em-all geek. Choose your poison.
And with that snubbing comes less buyers, which drive down the price of the Guardian Cub even more. It makes me sad imagining all those unbought Guardian Cubs wasting away at the auction house, and the equally frustrated owners who wasted $10 for something they can’t sell for $1,000 Gold.
Call it a fearless forecast: I fully expect this companion pet to bomb as a Gold trade enabler. The economics behind it are just too wonky to work. WoW Gold buyers might feel a pinch, but give it a month, a couple of weeks even, and it’s going to be business as usual.
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