Originally Posted by
Thrif
In a game who charges the price of a full new AAA titlte for each expansion, 8-25 euro for in-game services and a ridiculous 13 euro per month sub fee, yeah, things should definitely be free. Saying otherwise is pretty much just bending over willingly and ignorantly.
No other game ever would get away with having a cash shop on top of all that, and Blizzard can only do it because a) It's fucking Blizzard and people will play WoW no matter what, and b) their cash shop is fairly small with only a handfull of pets and mounts. And even then, they regularly catch heat over it, so much that they had to give in and make the Moose, which was intended to be an in-store mount, to be obtained from raiding instead.