https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_...e_(video_game)
Anyway, don't see what relevance this has to WoW. Besides, you didn't have stone in the original or the sequel. If you gave them food and wood, they would get lazy and start humping all the time.
Maybe you're analogy is related to the fact that if you give players everything they want, they get lazy?
Damn good game though. Spent hundreds of hours on it growing my creature and changing them around.