Wow makes more money

[Naysayer]

Those kel'thuzad pets are a riot. I got 4 of them, they do the kel'thuzad death laugh when you kill people in pvp. Not sure if it's on my client only but I'd love it if other people could hear them (I know you can hear other peoples' kung fu panda things)

Yes, other teammates hear it. I don't know about cross faction though.

[Naysayer]

Also as far as the "China is shut down, they need money" BS, the pets were datamined from the PTR in August and I doubt they'd add the pets without knowing exactly how they'd be obtained. Not to mention the coding required for the online store/code generation/etc, I doubt they just whipped that up in a couple days :P.

China being shut down isn't something that just popped up, lol.

The code to add items through online store purchases has been around for years, lol.

[HPAVC]

I don't see a problem with the pet at all, it offers no in game advantage, its a charity promotion and both are damn good pets. For the last few days people have been qq'ing about blizzard making money and upselling or value adding the game, bit deal. I own one of their Jinx shirts, never thought that they were a problem that stole people's arena points because of it.

[alcattle]

just to add a couple things, Blizzard just gave you a pet. The new pet(s) you buy are Boa so you can have up to 10 of them one an account, but if you have 8 accounts on a b.net account, you need to buy pet on each sub account. The monk is the pet with the charity donation, not the li'kit. Still I like the idea, and will "give" Blizzard some money.

[Tonuss]

lol, But at least they are donated 50% to charity, but i mean has anyone noticed how they are coming out with more and more stuff just to get people to buy stuff that puts pixels on our screen ? lol

That's pretty typical, at least for a smart business. Windows of opportunity tend to be open only briefly. Blizzard has an unusually large (IMO) audience for its product, and like any other company with a popular product, they will market and sell the daylights out of it. Have you ever seen the amount of merchandise that sports teams produce? Same thing.

[kadaan]

China being shut down isn't something that just popped up, lol.

The code to add items through online store purchases has been around for years, lol.

It did "just pop up". The Ministry of Culture had already given their ok to the game, same as when The9 was running it. The GAPP (who have ties to The9) found a loophole in the publishing law so they could have some jurisdiction over WoW (since The9 obviously dislikes Netease.) As soon as they were able to get their foot in the door legally, they shut it down. It also sounds like WoW is back into a temporary free-play mode there and the servers are actually still up and running till they figure it out.

The online store hasn't been around for years, so not sure what code to add items you're talking about.

Not sure why you're laughing-out-loud at your own statements either... lol, lol?

[Ogloo]

didnt mean for this to be a big thing, i was really just pointed out the new offer ;0, never know i might get some one day, just pointed out fact, indeed they are gunna make more gold

sorry for the long QQ thread this made

[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."

[Naysayer]

It did "just pop up". The Ministry of Culture had already given their ok to the game, same as when The9 was running it. The GAPP (who have ties to The9) found a loophole in the publishing law so they could have some jurisdiction over WoW (since The9 obviously dislikes Netease.) As soon as they were able to get their foot in the door legally, they shut it down. It also sounds like WoW is back into a temporary free-play mode there and the servers are actually still up and running till they figure it out.

No, it didn't just pop up, lol. This is the SECOND time this has happened, and you'd have to be some major kind of tardo to not think blizzard has been keeping an eye on it since the first time it happened.

The online store hasn't been around for years, so not sure what code to add items you're talking about.

Not sure why you're laughing-out-loud at your own statements either... lol, lol?

Codes for in game items have been part of wow since 2007. Ever see a turtle mount? Spectral tiger? LOL

[dadan]

I am not shocked that Blizzard sells this kind of service, and I find it good they give some money to a charity. Now, I would have found it much more classy if they would give the whole amount to charity, and not only half.


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