Microtransactions: Selling in-game content for real money

[pure.Wasted]

The WarCraft 3 Collector's Edition cost $150. WarCraft 3 cost $60?

Following your vanity pet argument, Archer, you'd have to ask, "Is WC3 CE's content really MORE THAN DOUBLE that of WC3?!"

And, obviously enough, NO, it isn't. All you get is some behind-the-scenes DVDs, an artbook, and a soundtrack.

I still got it. Plenty of other people still got it. How is that not a microtransaction? 'Microtransactions' the term might be new, but the concept is as old as our economy system.

Unless you're willing to say that Collector's Editions as separately purchasable products have no right to exist, your argument has no leg to stand on. And I really doubt you'd be willing to make a claim that controversial. Are you?

[newcomplex]

WarCraft 3 cost $60?

What is this, the X-box?

[spychi]

nah, it's around 14$ in Poland

[ArcherofAiur]

The WarCraft 3 Collector's Edition cost $150. WarCraft 3 cost $60?

Following your vanity pet argument, Archer, you'd have to ask, "Is WC3 CE's content really MORE THAN DOUBLE that of WC3?!"

And, obviously enough, NO, it isn't. All you get is some behind-the-scenes DVDs, an artbook, and a soundtrack.

I still got it. Plenty of other people still got it. How is that not a microtransaction? 'Microtransactions' the term might be new, but the concept is as old as our economy system.

Unless you're willing to say that Collector's Editions as separately purchasable products have no right to exist, your argument has no leg to stand on. And I really doubt you'd be willing to make a claim that controversial. Are you?

I am not argueing against microtransactions. I am argueing against inappropriate trends in microtransactions.

[pure.Wasted]

nah, it's around 14$ in Poland

Are we talking about now or when the game first came out?

In Canada WC3 went for $60. TFT went for $50. This is standard.

No matter how much they cost, though, that discrepancy between Product X and Product X CE will always exist. It's absolutely no different from the sort of microtransactions that have been brought up by Blizzard in the context of WoW/SC2.

[newcomplex]

I am not argueing against microtransactions. I am argueing against inappropriate trends in microtransactions.

What trend?

oh you mean this one

Name Changes-At first,"No current plans for", purely aesthetic
Server Changes-At first,"No current plans for" purely aesthetic
Face Changes-At first,"No current plans for" purely aesthetic
Faction Changes-At first,"No current plans for" purely aesthetic
Race Changes-At first,"No current plans for" purely aesthetic
Cash pets-At first,"No current plans for" purely aesthetic

thats an awfully big jump to

Free Epics, Pay for View replays.

[pure.Wasted]

I am not argueing against microtransactions. I am argueing against inappropriate trends in microtransactions.

I see absolutely none in SC2 that have never existed before. If you don't like where the industry is going in general, apart from Blizzard, I don't understand why this thread is in the SC2 forum. That is misleading, because it suggests you have a problem with Blizzard's policies regarding SC2.

[ArcherofAiur]

See thats the problem with warnings and apprehensions. By the time they actually become true bad things have already happened.

[spychi]

Are we talking about now or when the game first came out?

In Canada WC3 went for $60. TFT went for $50. This is standard.

now :P, it was for 44 $ at release though

[Triceron]

What's bad about having the option of changing aspects of my WoW character that I would otherwise have not had an option to change?