Comments on: Pay For Pets: WoW Cash Event Horizon

By: Malibu Stacey

Malibu Stacey — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:55:45 +0000

When I were a lad there was no such thing as DLC. It was called either patches or expansions.
Patches were when the dev’s fixed bugs & generally made the game better. Sometimes they gave you some new content for free with the patch too if you were really good all year.
Expansions were optional extras you paid for if you wanted to play them. In most cases they were completely separate from patches.

Kids these days, don’t know they’re born.

By: aaa

aaa — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:09:00 +0000

By: Scarves

Scarves — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:04:10 +0000

‘negative stigmata’ is reduntantly redundant………

and I lost the edit button in the couch somewhere.

By: Scarves

Scarves — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:01:21 +0000

These pets look cool, but they have the negative stigmata of being obviously bought.

They should unlock an achievement called ‘Me and My Money are Some Party’.

Ah, I should mention to all you Britishers, you can buy the American ones for the $10 and save yourselves some munnies if you absolutely neeeeeeeeed them. They will still work on the EU servers.

I ain’t getting them though.

Mr. Pinchy is still cooler.

By: sigma83

sigma83 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:14:12 +0000

Backdrop: The roiling disgust of late ’09, with the dick moves pulled by Infinity Ward fresh overhead

The scene: sigma83 comments on Blizzard’s new monetization features.

AN OFFICE IN KUALA LUMPUR
INT DAY

SIGMA83
Well, they’ve promised never to monetize actual game-affecting items, and looking at them so far they’ve stuck to their word. With regard to B-net sales, they’re not B-net exclusives and they don’t have to be. Any creator who releases something as a B-net exclusive is going to get ostracized by the community unless they release something DOTA level, and even then they’re going to need to work up to it a la Tripwire and their Red Orchestra efforts.

sigma83 clicks ‘Opinion, Away!’

SCENE.

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:09:33 +0000

As for the slippery slope, Blizzard have been making money giving vanity items away with the card game for about two years now. In all that time, it’s never progressed past vanity items.

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:20:57 +0000

$10 is indeed excessive. And once you figure out that they’re charging the equivilent of $15 to UK and European players, you’re head will explode. Go go Euro exploitation!

By: Carra

Carra — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:08:57 +0000

$10 is excessive.

Save your money and go buy Psychonauts on gog.com instead.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:02:02 +0000

SoE have been doing this with EQ/2 (and probably their other games) for a while now. Pretty annoying.

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:59:46 +0000

They wouldn’t actually be the first
http://support.eve-online.com/Pages/KB/Article.aspx?id=495

By: Sonic Goo

Sonic Goo — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:57:52 +0000

But does it comes with an achievement called ‘more money than sense’? That’s what I want to know.

By: rupert

rupert — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:17:41 +0000

dunno if anyone else has said this , got bored reading all the comments but …
i wonder when they will make it so you can buy gold with real money :)