Severaly limit mounts in their ‘flashyness’. The raptor (i’ll give you that Anet, but only that), was surprisingly… real and normal. Tjhe other mounts are already immersion killing. Any cashhop grab with a superflashy purple, magical aura dinasaur you can walk on for 1000 gems, nope, no way. i’m still clueless how mounts are linked to masteries (and only 4) cause everyone knows you want a new glide skin cash cow successor. I really hope you use your love for the game, rather then ‘mindset for maximum income’.
This ^
I remember wow, in the beginning there was not a lot of different mounts, and they weren’t flashy, you didn’t see a lot of people with other races mount too cause it was a pain to get so it didn’t break my immersion, nowadays it’s a kittenfest of flashy big ugly mounts.
Just compare the beginning of AV (the biggest battleground) in the past wow and now :
Past AV : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiRhbkMTwYs (they start at 2:00 min).
Recent AV : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlJb6mnxDAg (1 min start)