- Wow content patches are FREE.Which is exactly how I feel. I refuse to support a company that allows RMAH in one game, releases two raid patches in 1.5-2 years of an expansion (Cataclysm), and still charges 25 dollars for realm/faction transfer when other games do it for free.
- Diablo 3 is FREE for Annual Pass subscribers.
- Realm/faction changes cost money because it keeps people from arbitrarily causing population shifts on servers. It also safeguards against exploiting the economies of servers.
Also, the main point of many people here, is that the gaming industry is becoming increasingly greedy as time goes on. Once upon a time you could buy a game, and it would come with free merchandise to help promote the game. Now, they want you to pay EXTRA just to get access to the full game, and they want you to BUY merchandise that is marked up at a crazy price. $3 mouse pad for $50? Really!?
And yes, we all know that you don't HAVE to buy any of that stuff. The point is that once upon a time you didn't have to buy that stuff..... and you got it for FREE anyway. It really does amount to corporate greed, and the only cure is for consumers to stop throwing money at the problem.