Gadgets and Video Games

VideoGamer.com’s recent interview with Blizzard’s Tom Chilton, game director for the totally underground MMO World of Warcraft , is full of interesting tidbits for the WoW -innoculated — info on the possible new races and classes that could make their way into the new expansions, in-game territories yet to be explored, etc. However, one blurb from the interview has the online gaming world a-buzzin’ — probably because said blurb references the possibility of a free-to-play, micro-transaction business model for the monolithic title. Don’t get your dander up too fast — Chilton merely said, “I certainly think it’s possible that we could do some kind of micro-transaction stuff,” later adding that, “whether we ever shift to a free-to-play model is really too hard to say at this point.” It’s unlikely they’ll make the switch as long as the game continues to be a veritable assembly line for giant bags of money, however. What do you guys think?

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Micro-transaction model a possibility for WoW