Blizzard selling in-game pets for real money

Posted Nov 5, 2009 at 10:20AM by Karl B. Listed in: Titles, News Tags: Blizzard, Make-A-Wish Foundation
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Want a purely cosmetic pet for your World of Warcraft character? Well, if you have ten bucks lying around you can buy one. And this isn't from shady gold-farming operation, mind you. This is an official Blizzard-approved transaction.


1Up reports that Blizzard has finally begun charging World of Warcraft subscribers real money for in-game stuff. They're starting with two pets added recently to the Blizzard Store: Lil' K.T., modeled after Kel'Thuzad; and a tiny Pandaren Monk.


WoW pets - Image 1 WoW pets - Image 2


Each pet goes for US$ 10. Kinda steep, but it's for a good cause. Well, for a time at least. Until December 31, half of the proceeds from the Pandaren Monk will go to the Make-a-Wish foundation. After that it's all Blizzard's profit. More pets are also planned for the future.




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