World of Warcraft slowly enters the world of selling virtual items

Posted Nov 4th 2009 6:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: MMO, World of Warcraft

Since its release in 2004, Blizzard's MMO World of Warcraft has stayed on the monthly subscription business model for the most part. While Blizzard does charge its players extra for things like faction or race changes in their characters, they have not gone into the business of selling in-game items for real money as other MMOs have done.

That may finally be changing, however, as Blizzard has now introduced a way to buy in-game pets for your World of Warcraft character via Blizzard's online store. Currently only two pets are available for $10 each; Lil' K.T. and Pandaren Monk (shown to the right) Blizzard has also announced that from now until December 31, half of the proceeds from the purchase of the latter character will go to the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

[Via Wow.com]

Tags: blizzard, blizzard-entertainment, world-of-warcraft

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

They did give out pets (and other items) with the trading card game, with Blizzcon tickets, etc... (and people were paying a lot of money to get those pets).
This is just more of that.. but much easier to get.Posted at 9:07AM on Nov 5th 2009 by ahac

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Use this "ibmgold" It's 70.5$ for 10k and some free g-g-g-g!O_OwelcomePosted at 10:17PM on Nov 20th 2009 by ibmgold

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