highlatencylife.wordpress.com - 25 days ago
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So Blizz is starting to sell pets for real cash. I knew this day would come. What you didn’t? Please with the name changes, server changes, faction changes, haircuts, etc..etc.
I am a little upset because you know how I got my very first mount, that’s right selling pets, I use ...
tobolds.blogspot.com - 21 days ago
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If you consider what the most likely business
model for future MMORPGs is, you might be surprised...
to realize that the most likely scenario is that you will pay for that future MMORPG three times: Once for buying the game, a second time in the form of ...
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World of Microtransactions, and how we got there
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Shop Smart, RMT Pet Shop…Smart?
The Pink Pigtail Inn —
... Chris thinks the new pet store is just a logical extension of Blizzard revamping of account services but I don’t agree. If I am standing on the auction house bridge in Ironforge and your character that just had a faction change walks by I am clueless about any RMT activity unless I know you personally. If you have a RMT pet I know. I know because it is staring me in the face (my bank alt is a gnome.) With account services what is essentially out of sight can easily stay out of mind. Precisely because RMT pets are going to be always in sight the classist distinction will always ...
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