I know that monthly fees are required to maintain the servers for MMORPG games and some games have microtransactions and some monthly fees. But now, Blizzard is gonna do both, by adding the re-customization feature in the game. This new feature will allow you to change your character's look and even gender but at the price of $15. Certainly, this is optional and it doesn't bother many people since they just don't care about their looks but there are others who do. And as soon as Blizzard sees how much extra income this feature gives them, they will start making more microtransactions that at some point can become essential for a better success in the game.
There are a lot of other MMORPG's that use this way to make money. You level up to a certain point and from there on, you basically have to pay for some items just to get forward in the game. Sure, it's "optional" but there are already features that are payed through microtransactions that give major advantages to be more successful.
So, in near future, you might see WoW becoming the most expensive MMORPG to date. You pay for WoW+2 expansion packs (you seriously need those)+monthly fees+microtransactions.
I'll put my flameshield on just in case since there may be a lot of WoW fanboys on these forums. Oh, and I beg of you not leave comments like "You're just poor", because I am a poor college student but wealthy enough to play an MMORPG with monthly fees.
Supafly1
Thats kind of an interesting leap to say that a company like Blizzard that has exhibited good business decisions would jump from having a nice feature which takes human effort so they charge for it to a full blown micro-transaction system. Rob Pardo has said time and time again that there will be no way to discern between a rich and poor player in WoW and that their economic situations outside of the game will not come into effect in their game.
Besides... If Blizzard were to have features like Sex Changing, Name Changing, and Server Changing for free it would happen way too often and there would be chaos. Having 15 dollars acts as a nice deterrent to this kind of activity..
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