I am against loot boxes, will never buy them. I am no big spender in the gem store but at 5€ I would consider buying 1 for each mount, and would definitely buy my favourite even if I had to gold to gems to get it. At 10€ per mount, I might buy my favourite in the future. At any kind of gambling for the one I want, I spend nothing and risk nothing.This is just my personal threshold. With my personal levels out of the way, I would like to say that I personally feel that whoever made this decision has forgotten that this is a game. The collection rewards have gotten quite good, Caladbolg quest in particular I really enjoyed.If there was a caladbolg like quest for one of these mount skins, even the low effort just add a few dye channels and (slightly) change the channel pattern, I would have eaten it up and earned that mount. I would have then been encouraged to spend some money/gems on buying the gem store mount skin I really loved, if it was not random (I'm a simple man, you give me fun quests and I like how you do stuff, I buy a small gem pack. Otherway around I don't.) I'm no whale so your market management people probably don't care, but this is a player unfriendly decision in my book.