Am I the only one sick of that being an excuse to justify everything? Seems like whenever someone brings up a point on ... well, anything at all being wrong with WoW a blizzard defense police volunteer pops up and goes "WELL HERPTY BLOODY DERP, BLIZZARD IS A BUSINESS! ERRYTHING IS FINE. DONT LIKE IT JESS UNSUB LOL".
No. It's not fine. Being a business shouldn't automatically mean you can get away with anything as long as it's 'your' product. I personally find such philosophy harmful to both said product and those of us who still enjoy the game at large, outside of perhaps a few little things we find unsatisfactory. So to those of you who keep saying 'Blizzard is a business' - please stop. You're not helping -anyone-. You're just showing how much of a tool you are.
Saddest thing of all is that they're not necessarily wrong, blizzard -is- a business. But that's precisely why said business should care about their product and their community because good word of mouth + good will of their consumers will amount to much more $$$ than blatant cash-grabs like mount store or desperate attempts to keep people subbed with temporary buffs -- just to make a few recently-annoying examples.
/Rant