NPC Comic

Blizzard’s controversial Guardian Cub went on sale yesterday. There’s a 24 hour lock on trading/selling the pet, which means it’s showing up on the auction house today. As of 1:30 pm on my server, Lothar, there are 10 cubs for sale for between 14,000-20,000 gold. How much are they going for on your server? Are [...]

I like pets in WoW. They’re fun and cute and I even have a few from the store. I think they were all gifts. I like that they don’t affect gameplay. You can take them or leave them and do just as well as anyone else in raids or heroics or pvp. Or the auction [...]

On Thursday I asked if you bought the in-game non-combat pets from the Blizzard store. 885 votes later, we have this: So 49% aren’t interested in buying the pets. (The first answer plus the third answer.) At least 30% bought some or all of the pets/mounts, and let’s make it 33% since a lot of [...]

Given the topic of recent comics, I figured this poll was in order. Have at it! And feel free to share you thoughts on the matter of micro-transactions in MMOs in the comments, whether or not you’re a WoW player. The poll will close Monday evening and I’ll do a post about the results and [...]