WoW real money vanity pet and Annual Pass mount

As I mentioned before I'm going to be playing catch up for a while but I feel it's my duty to post about this because, ummm they're cute.

Wow added a new pet to their Pet Store which is where you can purchase vanity pets and mounts for real money vs. in game gold. The Guardian cub. A baby version of what many people call the "Disco Lion" mount. The thing that is different about this pet is that it is tradeable and can be sold on the auction house. Perhaps Blizzard's way of reducing the purchasing of gold from gold selling sites. Many players thought this would be their pay day and from what I heard on some servers the first cubs sold on the AH for 20-30k gold. This however didn't last long as on my server within a few days the cubs were down to 6k gold. Some people feel in the future there will be fewer people buying them in the pet store and selling them once the "New SHINY" wears off causing the price to go back up and make them a viable source of gold again. I however feel there isn't an infinite number of people who are going to want to buy these cute little buggers off the AH. Once a lot of people have them they won't be buying any more. Only time can tell. Read More.

The other new item available from Blizzard is the lovely Tyrael’s Charger. To obtain this beautiful flying mount you must commit to subscribing to WoW's annual pass. This doesn't work like many games annual passes where you are charged all at once for the full year. Instead you choose. You can agree to subscribe for a full year and continue to pay your $14.99/month and in that full year you cannot cancel your subscription or you can choose other full year payment plans. In addition to the pretty mount you also get Diablo III for FREE and you are an automatic in for the next expansion's beta. Not too shabby. Read More.