Before you make a claim as to what Blizzard "owes" us as players or make insinuations as to their "insidious" business practices, please consider the following:
When you purchase World of Warcraft and its expansions, Blizzard Entertainment is granting you a limited license to use its property subject to your agreement to the EULA. These terms are mostly similar to those found in other games (with a few notable exceptions). When you install the game and when you log in, you agree to these terms. At this point in time, you have entered into a contract with Blizzard Entertainment for a limited license to use their software. Simple enough right?
The EULA also contains a clause that requires you to: "have registered a Battle.net® Account to access the Service and play the Game. The Battle.net® Service is subject to the BNET Terms of Use Agreement...You must also accept the WoW Terms of Use in order to access the Service to play the Game." If you do not wish to agree to these terms you may return the game to the vendor within 30days of purchase for a refund. So there are now Terms of Use that you must agree to in addition to the EULA.
S 1(2) of the ToU grants you another limited license, but this time it is in respect to use of "the service" (defined in the preamble), provided you also agree to pay any relevant fees as consideration under S1(3). Subject to your adherence of the other clauses in the agreement, S.15(1) grants you the right to terminate the agreement if you no longer wish to be a party to it. More simply, you could cease payments and your breach of S1(3) would terminate the agreement.
I would like to highlight S.16 of the ToU, specifically, subsection (11). By agreeing to the ToU you agree to allow Blizzard Entertainment to modify or even outright delete game data. Therefore, any new feature, content update, class changes or premium service that Blizzard Entertainment decides to add or remove is within their rights as a party to the contract as long as it adheres to the ToU.
In fact, beyond Blizzard Entertainment's agreement to provide the service under S.9 and to use "reasonable effort" to maintain game data under S.16(10), Blizzard owes you no other contractual duty. Assertions as to an entitlement to anything beyond these obligations (including those of a ethical or moral nature) are not valid claims of action.
Under S.12 of the ToU grants Blizzard Entertainment the express right to change and alter the agreement, specifically in relation to fees and services as they see fit. Furthermore, it is provided: "If any future changes to this Agreement are unacceptable to you or cause you to no longer be in compliance with this Agreement, you may cease to use your World of Warcraft account and terminate the Account in accordance with Section XVII, Section 1, herein".
As you can see, there is really no enforceable right to stop Blizzard Entertainment from implementing such as change as the one in issue. Blizzard is perfectly entitled to "nickel and dime" you, regardless of whether it is in fact "lame" or "stupid", as long as it falls within the ambit of the relevant terms . If you find the terms of the agreement to be onerous, freedom of contract allows you to decline to accept the offer of service. Furthermore, provided that such a service would be offered in a similar fashion to the "World of Warcraft Remote" service, agreement to its separate ToU is not required under any provisions in either the EULA and ToU (agreement to which is minimum to play in the first place) and are therefore not requisite to enjoy your existing license.
If you wish for Blizzard Entertainment to continue to grant you these licences, but to not agree to the current terms of the EULA and/or ToU, you are definitely more than welcome to propose a counter offer with different terms for them to accept.
Blizzard Entertainment is in no way obligated to collect community feedback in regards to proposed changes in any respect. The fact that they have decided to do so above and beyond their contractual obligation to us as licencees and subscribers should be evidential of at least some degree of consideration as to our concerns regarding this issue. I would also hold any further speculation as to the merit of such a service until the full details are made available.
All legal documentation can be found here :
http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/company/legal/