World of Warcraft Gets Microtransaction Pets, Players Freak Out
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I've never played WOW, but I do have lots of friends that play. I don't know how this could affect gameplay badly, but as for buying a character? I play Guild Wars and they have microtransactions now, but I'm pretty sure you can't buy a level 20 character right off the bat. If they're not going to do it, why would a p2p game do it? I can't see where pets equal characters.
There was a fiasco on genral discussion the day after I get suspended?
dagnabit, of all the luck.
That said, the pets are awesome; I'm seriously tempted to dish out the $20 for them.
dagnabit, of all the luck.
That said, the pets are awesome; I'm seriously tempted to dish out the $20 for them.
I personally love how those who can't defend their position attempt to dismiss well-reasoned arguments with "It's just the pro-fags talking".
My WoW-playing friend was skeptical at first about buying a pet. Then he saw his girlfriend with Lil' K.T., realized just how awesomely cute it is, and got his own immediately. He LOVES it.CantFaketheFunk said:Speak for yourself, man. Do I want a pet that murders all nearby Critters and cackles maniacally when I dominate someone in PvP? You bet your ass I do.
Uhh... what? Blizzard have plenty of villains left and that's without building up new ones in the comics, novels, expansions and content patches.Pirce said:
I'm a bit of a lore geek, so bear with me here...
- Deathwing, formerly Neltharion the Earthwarder, fallen leader of the Black Dragonflight. He's being used as the main villain in the next expansion.
- Nozdormu the Timeless, leader of the Bronze Dragonflight. Rather than fighting against them, quests have hinted that Nozdormu may actually be leading the Infinite Dragonflight which players have been fighting in the Caverns of Time instances.
- The Old Gods. C'Thun and Yogg-Saron have been defeated, but depending on which source is correct there are up to three of them left imprisoned beneath Azeroth. One of them is corrupting the Emerald Dream and one of them turned the Highborne into the Naga.
- Ragnaros the Firelord was banished back to the Elemental Plane. He didn't die in Molten Core and will be back in Cataclysm.
- Kil'Jaeden the Deciever wasn't killed at the end of The Burning Crusade, players only interrupted his attempt to summon himself to Azeroth.
- Sargeras, the Dark Titan. Lord and creator of the Burning Legion and basically the ultimate expression of evil in the Warcraft universe.
Hah, I used to work for a video game store and the obsession with that game amused me to no end. We would always be out of WoW trading cards because a couple who played WoW would literally call us every day until we got more in. They'd buy the entire carton of booster packs each time.
I like the idea of the vanity pets though. A lot of MMOs have stuff you can buy that's purely for aesthetics. I should expect the same from the MMO that people worship, ruin school lives, and end marraiges over.
I like the idea of the vanity pets though. A lot of MMOs have stuff you can buy that's purely for aesthetics. I should expect the same from the MMO that people worship, ruin school lives, and end marraiges over.
I'm all for easily attained pets, but the real piss-take for me is the Pandaren Monk.
I'm getting the feeling that if you can have it as an actual Pet, then it's incresingly less likely that they'll be a playable class in the future.
(Which is what I honestly think they should have gone with instead of Worgens for Cataclysm).
This makes me entirely unimpressed.
But agreed, Lil' K.T is freaking awesome.
Just a shame I have no real-world money for one, I'll just have to make do with my Mr. Chilly.
I'm getting the feeling that if you can have it as an actual Pet, then it's incresingly less likely that they'll be a playable class in the future.
(Which is what I honestly think they should have gone with instead of Worgens for Cataclysm).
This makes me entirely unimpressed.
But agreed, Lil' K.T is freaking awesome.
Just a shame I have no real-world money for one, I'll just have to make do with my Mr. Chilly.
When spoken by Mr. S. Thompson, those words carry some extra weight for me.Slider2k said:
As for the pets, I'm amused that the cooler pet does not put any money to charity. I gotta budget this out soon, I need that KT. I am all for the charity donation as well.
Yeah, I was disappointed that they're only making donations for one of the two pets.coldfrog said:
Also, the cash is an issue, if they'd made it a dollar or two, it's still a million bucks for designing one new pet if 10% take it up.
To me, $10 is nearly a month's playtime or a Fallout DLC, or a full game like Plants vs Zombies.
I'm pretty careful with my cash, apart from my regular £9 a month to Blizz, so I'm going to have to pass.
There again, maybe they're NOT planning on flooding the game with stuff like this, in which case, if it's only occasional items here and there, the price isn't so bad as they're not going to rake it in so much at low costs without a lot of items.
If it does continue, I'd at least want them to keep the quality up by having this level of individuality, and the fact that they interact with either players or the environment, the panda replying to /bow emotes with his own, for instance.
Wouldn't the term "pet" be a misnomer here? Both of these "pets" sound like they are sentient beings. As such wouldn't it be correct to call them "slaves"? Although, that doesn't sound as cute.
I might be a little late to the party with this question, seeing as how I don't play WOW.
I might be a little late to the party with this question, seeing as how I don't play WOW.