Hunter, Thunderhorn.

First of all “a player discovers an inventive use of a spell or an item or a game feature, and has a lot of fun with it” - the player(s) who discovered it had a lot of fun with it and moved on to the next thing to have fun with. Why feel bad for the hundreds of copycats who HAVEN’T discovered an inventive use of anything.

Secondly whenever something like this goes public, Blizzard has to react. Either they have to fix it, or they have to include it into the game. The second would mean to fix the running animation of the wolf, etc. The number of people screaming “why do I have to spend hundreds of gold to get a pet?” or “this is not acceptable Blizz make Ghost Wolf Pets available to us casuals” would have been much higher than the number of those screaming now. Plus those who acquired it the hard way would have complained when the acquisition of the pet was made easier.

Thirdly I don’t see why anybody still doesn’t know that gamemasters don’t/can’t speak for the devs. They do their job and help people, answer questions, but they don’t anything about such delicate matters. When people go “Blizzard lied to us” I can only laugh and think: “No, a GM told you something from the top of his head and you trusted that because it was what you wanted to hear”.

And finally I want to add that there is (maybe are?) an other transparent pet that no one ever uses, so why whine about this one?

If you want to be special, find out about something yourself and enjoy it while it lasts. Please compare this incident to the first guy who got a mount from another faction.

Oh Blizzard, why do you do these things? I really hope somebody is reading all these posts.

I’m a long time player. I’ve been here since the beginning. Every nerf, and tweek, and patch, and hotfix kills a little more of that kid in me that once reveled in wonder at this game.

You know, that feeling we all had when the game was new and fantastic and full of potential? When anything seemed possible, and a lot of it was. Where you felt really immersed, and thought… this place is huge! Its amazing! You were filled with respect for the power of human imagination.

These days, that feeling is about the size of a mote of dust. Something you can only see when you stop and look at the light just right, then you remember what it used to feel like. We’re now under this oppresive lockdown. Everything has to be fair. Everything has to make sense. Things that aren’t intended MUST be removed.

You’re breaking my heart Blizzard. One slow thud of the nerfbat at a time, and with each passing fix or nerf I find myself glad I can still logout and leave whenever I want, and that there is still a free place where your control can’t reach. I used to be so happy in this game…seems lately, I’m happier out of it. Just add this ghost wolf to the pile… It’s all adding up.

Removing the spirit wolf is a bitter irony, the spirit of the game seems to be leaving as well.
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It stung, because its so true. Hey Digit. I don’t know about blizzard, but I’m reading and I know where you’re coming from all too well.

FEI:me persanaly i would like a mor of a veriety of pets and thay need to fix the creatchers that say beast and cant be tamed plz so u dont get the hopes of all the new commers to the hunter world.(FEI=for everyones information):P

So perhaps Blizzard will change it’s stance again and say Fine, Have your ghost wolf!

Blizzard at times just don’t seem to like players having fun at something that wasnt at first by intended design by them. The game is suppose to be fun to play and enjoy. Removing the pet just goes totally against that fun factor. Just like when you think of War of Warcraft sometimes you wonder, where is the war? Its bad that Blizzard just shot down the credability of their CM who did not too long ago said the pet would remain but which on reverse course is now removed by Blizzard. I won’t be surprised if in the end Blizzard reverse course again on this pet issue.