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Blizzard launches In-Game Special Pet Store

You know, the more I thought about it the more I was totally ok with this idea. I mean honestly we have to face facts here that Blizzard has taken the MMORPG genre and with their one game have completely reinvented the market. I’d easily make the comparison between Warcraft and Starwars. You have two stories that are vast and massive, span many years and many different mediums from books to video games and soon to be movies (obvious Starwars began as such). I don’t think I need to mention the insanely growing merchandising as well.

So Blizzard is now selling in game mini-pets for $10.00. A Pandaren monk and a little mini-kel’thuzad. 50% of the proceeds for pandaren sales will go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation from now through to December 31st 2009. This doesn’t detract from the game, it’s totally optional, and has no bearing what so ever on your character. I can argue that the other in game services and such (server transfer, race change, name change, faction change, gender and recustomization changes) are a little hard to swallow price-wise, but I’d give $10 to know half is going to a charity I support and that I’m getting a pandaren pet.

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