Blizzard Opens Pet Store for World of Warcraft

"All is vanity."

It's sad to see that the game industry's sales numbers have been unjustly bolstered by a bunch of douchelords who care more about digital hats than actual gameplay. How many real gamers are left out there? HELLO?!!! *hears echo*

For those of you complaining about these pets, don't buy them, and thank God above that Blizzard is charging for them. This is an elective expense. This is how they increase their income without increasing the base fee. Every time a WoW addict changes his server, or his race, or his faction, it's money he spends so that the profit margins stay strong and they continue to charge $15/month for the game service. Every time a pet is purchased, WoW becomes a bigger part of the parent company's profits, leading them to spend more money to keep it current and high-quality.

So let this "tax on the stupid" continue. I have already joined the ranks of the stupid, having paid $25 to change my race earlier this month.

Blizzard recognizes that an increase of the base fee would probably be a harmful pricing decision. Better that they goose the income by making a'la carte offerings. As long as it's nothing important, like a new spell or something that pwns in PvP or PvE, I don't care. The mocking Kel'Thuzad, in fact, strikes me as pretty cool. I spend $10 on lunch. If I decide I want one, what's the big deal?

Wow, I was thinking $2 at the most for an in game non combat pet that has no benefit.

People, you DO have a choice. While I can detest the greed that motivates companies like Blizzard, Activision, Microsoft, etc, to promote this garbage I can't blame them. Don't buy their products if it offends you so much.

The price for that is too high. At $5 okay, but 10, no way.

So which of you have done the following:

1. Bought extra tracks for RB/GH?
2. Better yet: Bought that extra piece of plastic for your game?
3. Bought an add-on pack to a game?
4. Pay a monthly fee for a game?
5. Paid extra for a fancy light in your gaming case so it looks cool?
6. Paid extra for a fancy logo on your rig?
7. Bought a fancy mousepad?
8. A 5-1 speaker set for your computer?
9. Bought Madden '0X every year since it's release?

My point is: we all have our vices where we pay stupid money for crap that is unneeded. So someone has dispolsable income to get an ingame vanity pet. What do YOU spend your disposable income on? How much extra do you pay for name-brand crap, unnecessary crap? I guarantee we all have it. Blizz is a business and their business is to provide a product. If you have never purchased a useless product, go ahead and continue to throw your stones.

good lord, i will never understand the desire for pets/mounts etc. undoubtedly blizzard will make a killing at this though. Bets on how long before a $25 spectral tiger appears...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpn9sxtbY-g

Panda in action

ActiBlizz makes more money than poland and their chief Bobby Kotick the devil said theyre next game will be as casual as possible when they could make hundreds of dozens of magnum opuses like Avatar tried to be.
They don't need the money they just makes games and sell these pets for money = where the gaming love freaking 50 yo excel programmers.

"A fool and his money are soon parted."

I'm just sad the price point they went with is too much for me to stomach. I buy lots of dumb shit all the time, but I can't pay $10 for a non-combat pet :[

The real tragedy is that there are people who will actually pay for these things/

The shark has officially been jumped. Wow. $10 each? That's horrible. That's more than most other game's dlc for whole levels, and these are just pets.

Is this a door way to selling experience potions, maybe even gold in the future?

I'm getting pretty sure that if the world is supposed to end at december 2012 then it has nothing to do with global warming or anything close to that.. freakin' Blizzard has everyone so addicted with WoW and pretty much mind raping people, this is getting way out of hand and not sure if to be scared

But seriously this is getting way out of hand, Blizzard already makes more then any other game from WoW sales and the monthly subscriptions and they keep charging for every little thing, now i can understand like charging for name change, so people don't always do that and kinda with server, but what was the newest one again prior to this.. forgot what it was, I dunno what's next.. i freakin' loved Blizzard around Warcraft 3 and though not a huge fan, but liked playing Diablo 2, back in the way, the longer WoW is and the more popular it is, the more greedy they get and my respect for them is falling to the toilet soon.

Pandaran Monk? This is why they can't sell the game in China anymore

I imagine Blizzard headquarters looks something like this:
http://www.jklp.org/public/things/scrooge/pictures/a173.jpg

What a joke. I could easily stomach seeing an airport of blizzard employees become terrorist statistics

Haha, if there's one group of wow players I'm happy for Blizzard to make cash from and fun at, it's pet collectors. Dear god there is nothing sadder.

Blizzard must be running low on their supply of money hats.

Drug dealers the world over should be making a note of Blizzards marketing strategy.

In the UK there are more people addicted to WoW than there are people addicted to Heroin.

Also on a completely (not quite) unrelated matter ;

WoW - Singlehandedly raising the worlds obesity statistics.

Gratz Blizzard.
Put this fucking game to bed...