Think of the money you're all gonna be spending on The Burning Crusade. Is this the same or different, bearing in mind you also pay £8 a month. Some MMO companies have got over the money grabbing days, Blizzard isn't one of them, imo Episode was well worth the price dispite the challenges being a bit poor, the commentary was excellent and revealed a lot about the way that Valve make and test games before releasing them. They didn't need to add commentary but they did because people liked it in The Coast 'el Lost. In the same way Blizztard doesn't need to charge for their expansion but they will, think of how many active subscriptions they have, at $15 a month per person thats a hell of a lot of turnover, you might say they have spent money upgrading the laggy servers, but imo that money was small pocket change to them, what they need is better customer service and GM's that can spell Zul' Gurub, not Zul' Garab.

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