Was WoW's "tribute" to Robin Williams a money grab?

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Nicklesbe said:

DakonBlackblade said:

The trial is permanent, you just cant pass level 20 and its more than lieklly hell be on Orgrimmar and/or Stormwind. But this post explained al, youre a veteran woW player who doesnt liek the direction the game took in the last few years/ xpacs. I played WoW from BC to start of MIsts, stopped cause of real life dont allowing enought time anymore, Ive seen enought of your type to understand the reasoning behind this post, there used ot be a dozen post in this vein proclaming how Blizzard is Evil and wanted to sdestroy the playerbase and milk ppls money dailly on WoW forums. This pretty much settles everything, at least I know youre not crazy just a hatter.

The only one so far that has said Blizzard is evil is you. You are so blinded bt your bias that you don't even understand the point. They are profiting off his likeness, that is a fact, He is behind a paywall, that is a fact. Does that make Blizzard evil? No it just mkaes them greedy dicks just like every corporation. I get it you love them but ya gotta start accepting things for what they are and stop deluding yourself.

Oh, seriously, come off the 'Because you're not on my side, you're biased towards Blizzard' cop-out, cause in my case, it comes from 'I actually think Robin Williams might have made enough of an impact on people to inspire some folks to WANT to do this' bias, not 'Blizzard is full of angels and pixie dust' bias. If you think he didn't have enough of an impact to warrant the developers wanting to do this, fair enough, but don't project that on everyone else.

I haven't even PLAYED WoW in years, (legitimately got bored before I even hit level cap, never even picked up an expansion) and I think you're bending backwards to make a mountain out of a molehill on some one-man crusade. This isn't the first time they've done a tribute to an individual, as there have been NPCs who've in some way memorialized fallen players, developers, or friends of developers. If the assumption here is that, because he's a celebrity, he should be given some form of preferential treatment, then again, I'm assuming you agree that Nintendo should never, ever, ever, ever make any kind of tribute to him in a Legend of Zelda game. Because, you know. It'll be behind a paywall too!