Blizzard Releases Race Changer for WoW

wow news = sad

Pay for this, pay for that. Now that's what I call money well spent...Anyway, can't be angry at them. If someone is stupid enough to pay 30$ for that, he deserves to loose it. Too bad those types of people just don't die from starvation after spending all their money on such things.

Why would it incur a tax fee??

You'd think as much money as blizzard rakes in (15 bucks a month x 12 million subscribers) they could maybe...i dunno....include some services for free with your monthly fee. Or here's an idea, maybe include 30 days of play time when you buy an expansion. Nope. Squeeze every dollar you can out of everyone you can.

Gah, to counter this unnecessary WoW news, I guess I'll advertise for another game... to balance out this annoying Blizzard promotion.

Steam has a 50% off sale on The Witcher Enhanced Edition running through the end of the day today (10/29).

OK. I feel better now.

Changed race does it matter i mean you look like an ugly shit unless you play as human which then you still look ugly but then it's not on purpose usually.

For 25 bucks they should let me change my class screw it if my weapons and stuff wont work well with it better then grinding for 2 months to get to what is the level cap now 70? 80?

25 bucks for a race change, I mean really ...

The sad thing about that Witcher sale on Steam was that I had just ordered the non-enhanced version the day before from Amazon for $14 with the intention of downloading the enhanced updates once it arrived. I'd have rather bought it on Steam for $20

Its to bad this game has steadily gotten worse since Beta. I was really excited about WoW when I first was beta testing, being a big warcraft fan. WTF is WoW anymore it sure as hell isnt Warcraft

Blizzard is turning into skynet, surely but slowly........... Now where the F**K is Starcraft 2?

I love haters lol...

Its simple you don't have to pay for it. I think they charge to keep it to a minimum. Otherwise you would have retards changing their race/name/faction/sex every freaking day.

25$ for a click nice done Blizzard

I switched over to DDO its mostly free (you pay for stuff if you want too but there is no monthly free) So far I like it.

I just got so bored with WoW.

To me this service is sort of "meh" It would not have affected me one way or another. Some people might do it but I would not have.

Damn it, I bought the Witcher about two weeks ago for $39.99 at Best Buy... lame. Also, they could make it have a cool down for changing their characters, say once a month. Anyway Bliz loves $$$, why do you think it's taking so long for Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 to come out. They have so much money from WOW, they probably could of hired enough developers to make those games in like a week.

This fee isn't just to make money from the service, it probably also functions as a limiter to keep it to those serious enough to do it. Usually it would also serve to keep the frequency of changes down as well but I'm guessing that it has the same 3-day time limit as faction changes.

I think it's a great deal! I mean, Michael Jackson paid way more than $25

$25 is fucking insane. $5 max for a service so trivially pointless.

No, seriously. $25 to change race? Are you kidding? I had a friend 3 months ago try to convince me that blizzard wasn't a cash-cow!

Well... It's still cheaper than what Michael Jackson had to pay.

... Too early?

Why is everyone complaining about the cost of change? Someone on the other end has to work to get the job done. Ensure that your information isn't lost.

If you make $20 an hour, and it takes you you 200+ hours to go from level 1-80 (plus other time leveling your professions or farming on your main to pay for it).

It makes sense to charge, if it was free everyone would do it, the servers would crash, and every pvp would have the same race/faction. By charging they ensure some variety of characters by an individuals socioeconomic evaluation of their opportunity cost to do so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost

I think wow is becoming a bit like a cash shop

Would rather spend that money on pr0n.

If this was a free game that survived on Microtransactions, I wouldn't have a problem with this. However, this is a subscription-based game. This is a fairly significant cash charge for this service, and serves only as a means to generate yet more income for the company.

There are those that say that the fee is to limit the use of this service. If that was the case, there are numerous other ways to limit it without charging cash.

It's this kind of business practice that keeps me from playing many MMO's anymore.

ITT - Holier than tho overclocking nerds make fun of WOW nerds.

Yay I'm thrilled for yet another way to take my money! I like the game, really do. But I don't like all teh crap around it. Would never pay for a transfer, faction or race change or anything else like that. In fact I've once again stopped subscribing (happends once in a while when it gets just too boring).

I dont understand everyone complaining:
1) If u dont play the game, this news shouldnt be any of ur concern
2) If u dont play the game, dont think everyone will use it
3) If u play this game, then u probably wont use it anyway
4) If u use it this service, well it's not my money, so please do if u feel the need...
5) Can't blame wizard for asking money, first it takes time to do this, second it stops those that would change every 5 minutes...
6) Yes i play wow, yes i pay for it every month, I do got a life and i still like the game, and i think it giefs me value for my money...

Nerd out!

The surprising part of this news is that Sony Online Entertainment rolled this out for their games before Blizzard.

Possibly, but Activision Blizzard doesn't need rootkits to accomplish it!

The problem isn't really the race change itself, but the principle behind microtransactions and a monthly fee. Many people only want to pay for the monthly fee or can't really afford a bunch of bs pay stuff. Yet pay stuff is getting more and more useful and giving people who can willingly give cash to MMO provider a greater edge, even if they aren't good players or don't spend a lot of time on the game.

I see your point, but I kinda like this approach to some extend. I used to play a game called Gunbound from some korean provider (softnyx). I enjoyed the fact that I could afford good 'gear' to give me an edge compared to the kids that were playing for free (and generally were better players than us grownups)

I once paid to use the then-new character recustomization system, or whatever it's called. I wanted to switch my warrior from Tauren to Orc. Got a but pissed to see that I couldn't do that yet. So, it turns out I paid $20 to get new horns. Yay.

Now, I can pay $25 to really do it? Well, no thanks. Leveling will be the new cool thing when the next expansion comes out anyway.

@neiroatopelcc: Is Gunbound still around? I used to play a lot 4-5 years ago. I got frustrated and quit because I had the feeling everyone was cheating. Maybe I was just bad! Also the game a serious lag issues. It was a lot of fun though.

When I changed to vista I couldn't play because the anti cheat system detected vista as a game hack. When I switched to win 7 rc I tried playing again, but found out that EVERYBODY was cheating. Their turns never ending, them always hitting no matter what, unlimited turn time etc. 3-5 years ago only few people were able to cheat, but after they created more, smaller, servers they somehow failed top stop cheating. So definetly now everybody is cheating. 3 years ago it was rare - but there were more players. I had 4 accounts in the end - every time I was unable to play on the 'noob servers' I started a new one until I was good enough to keep up with the pros eventually reaching dragon in my country.