Originally Posted by
Deficineiron
Re pay-to-level - as far as i can tell, if I give blizzard 60 bucks today, i get a max level toon today (and I get charged today, and they book the revenue today). Not sure what wod (which doesn't even have a release date) has to do with this feature. If they wanted it to be a wod-only feature it wouldn't be available yet, or it would only be level 85 now, etc.
maybe I am wrong and you cannot actually buy a max-level character today, live?
I do agree on the pet, and have wondered if they might try to find a more easily resold boe item to put in cash shop.
Here is another idea - how about ability to buy valor or whatever the gear-buying points are? price it so it hurts a little (like the level 90 thing), and even better, introduce it halfway into wod, include it in a description of features about the following expansion and call it a catch-up feature, but let it go live a year earlier, like level 90 purchasable did, so you can actually buy points today for max level gear today. When folks object, you can remind them it is a next-expansion feature and it just went live a little early, so it doesn't really count.