Wow makes more money

[Khatovar]

Sony had for purchase items for EQ and EQ2 last year at Christmas. I think it was like $10 or something for an ingame bear cub with the money going to Child's Play. We bought 2. I can always support something like that.

[Homer]

The 50% donation is only for the monk, Not lil'KT

[IkYiolul]

Anyone have a link on this china going offline thing? I want to check the validity on this...

[Des]

Anyone have a link on this china going offline thing? I want to check the validity on this...

http://www.reuters.com/article/compa...45010720091102

Link to the story from Reuters about how the communist censored the game because of "gross violations of regulations."

[Mokoi]

HOLY SHIT!! A Video Game company trying to make money? Jesus.. what has the world come to? Don't they know everything they make and services they provide should come free?

I would like to point out, that there is NOTHING extra above and beyond your subscription fee that you are required to pay to play the game and enjoy every bit of it's content from lvl 1-80, apart from xpacs, which are huge and reasonably cheap to buy.

And yet, they offer extra services (which DO NOT give other players any kind of advantage) for money to offset some of their extraordinary costs (if you believe that Blizzard is making all the money they get from subscriptions you are sorely mistaken and far from reality)

If you do not wish to support Blizzard, and think they are just out to get your money, wtf are you doing on these forums. You are not here because you hate video games, even if you don't play WoW you support some other game in some way or another.

Good on Blizz, and great on them for giving HALF their sales to charity for the panda monks.

I bet you don't spit on coca-cola for selling you a product which costs them nothing to make and has a profit margin of over 5000% do you? Yet Blizzard offers services that the community has been CRYING for, and they are making them available for people. Could you imagine the frenzy it would cause if they were allowed to be free? server xfers? faction / name xfers? .. don't be so stupid please. Stop hating on a company who gives you what you want just because its not free.

Yes, Blizzard is owned by a company who enjoys profit. guess what, if you were a shareholder in Vivendi Games, you would too. The world is driven by the market, and wherever you can make money from people willing to pay for it is fair game. Grow up and join the real world.

PS sorry for being so rude and obnoxious, I blame my Swine Flu.

[Naysayer]

^^ lolfreakout

[Ogloo]

HOLY SHIT!! A Video Game company trying to make money? Jesus.. what has the world come to? Don't they know everything they make and services they provide should come free?

I would like to point out, that there is NOTHING extra above and beyond your subscription fee that you are required to pay to play the game and enjoy every bit of it's content from lvl 1-80, apart from xpacs, which are huge and reasonably cheap to buy.

And yet, they offer extra services (which DO NOT give other players any kind of advantage) for money to offset some of their extraordinary costs (if you believe that Blizzard is making all the money they get from subscriptions you are sorely mistaken and far from reality)

If you do not wish to support Blizzard, and think they are just out to get your money, wtf are you doing on these forums. You are not here because you hate video games, even if you don't play WoW you support some other game in some way or another.

Good on Blizz, and great on them for giving HALF their sales to charity for the panda monks.

I bet you don't spit on coca-cola for selling you a product which costs them nothing to make and has a profit margin of over 5000% do you? Yet Blizzard offers services that the community has been CRYING for, and they are making them available for people. Could you imagine the frenzy it would cause if they were allowed to be free? server xfers? faction / name xfers? .. don't be so stupid please. Stop hating on a company who gives you what you want just because its not free.

Yes, Blizzard is owned by a company who enjoys profit. guess what, if you were a shareholder in Vivendi Games, you would too. The world is driven by the market, and wherever you can make money from people willing to pay for it is fair game. Grow up and join the real world.

PS sorry for being so rude and obnoxious, I blame my Swine Flu.

haha i was just making a point how they are two coming out with new things to offset the economy's problem, i dont hate the new things they open crap ive done every one of the services other than the character recustomize

[Fat Tire]

On the plus side this is probably the most legal way to buy gold. Pets are selling for 1500g-2000g on my server.

[boxblizzard]

HOLY SHIT!! A Video Game company trying to make money? Jesus.. what has the world come to? Don't they know everything they make and services they provide should come free?

I would like to point out, that there is NOTHING extra above and beyond your subscription fee that you are required to pay to play the game and enjoy every bit of it's content from lvl 1-80, apart from xpacs, which are huge and reasonably cheap to buy.

And yet, they offer extra services (which DO NOT give other players any kind of advantage) for money to offset some of their extraordinary costs (if you believe that Blizzard is making all the money they get from subscriptions you are sorely mistaken and far from reality)

If you do not wish to support Blizzard, and think they are just out to get your money, wtf are you doing on these forums. You are not here because you hate video games, even if you don't play WoW you support some other game in some way or another.

Good on Blizz, and great on them for giving HALF their sales to charity for the panda monks.

I bet you don't spit on coca-cola for selling you a product which costs them nothing to make and has a profit margin of over 5000% do you? Yet Blizzard offers services that the community has been CRYING for, and they are making them available for people. Could you imagine the frenzy it would cause if they were allowed to be free? server xfers? faction / name xfers? .. don't be so stupid please. Stop hating on a company who gives you what you want just because its not free.

Yes, Blizzard is owned by a company who enjoys profit. guess what, if you were a shareholder in Vivendi Games, you would too. The world is driven by the market, and wherever you can make money from people willing to pay for it is fair game. Grow up and join the real world.

PS sorry for being so rude and obnoxious, I blame my Swine Flu.

amen, some real facts here for children, read on kiddy winks

[Khatovar]

Yeah, really not seeing any posts so far that warrent that kind of reaction. Personally, I think Blizz milks the shit out of people with all this stuff. They could do a $50 Pay-per-view of WoW Employees Eating Lunch and if buying the $50 PPV got you a code for an in-game hairstyle, you bet your ass there would be thousands of idiots foaming at the mouth and running to the computer with their credit card. They know that and have no problem taking advantage. A fool and his money, as they say.

But IMO they should be donating all of it for the pandaren like Sony did. A company this big, it's like Bill Gates fishing out a pocket-full of change, picking out all the silver and throwing a couple of green, sticky pennies at the Salvation Army Santa. Personally, I'm just going to donate money directly to a charity.