World of Warcraft Various Guides - Celestial Cash Cow Guides
Blizzard has finally revealed two new items in their World of Warcraft microtransaction based pet shop. The first is the train stomping Lil’XT, a small non-combat pet available for just $10. The other is the highly controversial Celestial Steed costing a total of $25. These pets are now available if you’re willing to wait the estimated 8 hours in queue with 160,000 other players.
The price is steep, costing a total of $25 USD. Yet, is this price unreasonable for Blizzard to ask or is it right around industry standards? Well, let’s first start by looking at Blizzard’s own pet shop. Non-combat pets, which you can not necessarily interact with, round out at $10. That’s what the new Lil’XT costs and is well within reason. Yet, you can’t necessarily use them to fly around the world with nor can you sit atop them in Dalaran. So an increased price makes sense.
The recent Allods Online drama regarding their shop and the $20 bag is old news now, but is relevant to this discussion. A lot of games get flak in the current state of the MMO Industry. If you have microtransactions then you’re usually just another free to play game. Yet, there are rumors of major AAA titles like Bioware’s Star Wars: The Old Republic may be entirely funded by microtransactions. This latest move by Blizzard does one thing that this industry has needed: opened the door for other AAA titles to go all out on microtransactions.