Well, I've become aware that WoW is now selling a special mount for real money ($25).

How will this impact Diablo 3 and other new Blizzard titles?

I used to think that Blizzard was against this sort of thing since it "devalues the playing experience" for other players. Even if it is just aesthetic, it's still something for players to work towards in the game and can be just as much a goal as anything else.

Leave the microtransactions that set players apart to "free" games.

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How does it even impact World of WarCraft?

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You can save 161 gold by not having to buy regular mounts! It's an outrage.

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I don't think anyone is concerned with people saving gold, but rather if three people are showing off in Dalaran on their mount, a Violet-proto drake, an icc frostwyrm, and a Celestial steed, a fresh 80 could be riding that steed and he's competing in awesomeness just because he decided to spend $25 on a mount.

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But he's not. Everyone knows where he got it. If we were selling Ashes of Al'ar I would agree. We would have just undermined the achievements of people that legitimately killed Kael'thas and managed win an extremely rare mount. But it's not an existing mount. Everyone knows where it comes from, everyone knows what it took to get it.