Quote Originally Posted by Owltoid View Post
Unless they did away with racials, offering new races for money is the same as offering actual *advantages* ingame. I'm not disagreeing with the prediction that Blizzard will eventually go to microtransactions, I'm just clarifying that vanity pets is still a long way off from races for sale.
Good point! Though racials are kind of a mixed bag - some are better than others, but everyone seems to find different ones to be good/bad for the situation. I guess when I was saying actual advantages it might be something like "buy rep with x faction for $y" or "buy heirlooms" or stuff like that. I was actually a little iffy about the celestial mount because it basically means that you never have to spend however much gold ever again on other mounts on any other alts you make - technically, it could be considered buying gold for money, albeit very, very slowly