I do advise you look up reviews on the mobile version. Granted it’s from 2014, but it still remains to be a big example of why sometimes, having options isn’t always a good thing.
Their exist other examples too, Battlefront 2 at launch, Overwatch, Sports games, Red Dead Online, etc.
No, it doesn’t effect general gameplay, it effects your experience, which to me, is more valued then simply gameplay.
And to those people who spend hours, customizatiing their toon’s looks to be as perfect as they wanted it to be, to them, vanity items are that special kind of gameplay.
I was asking out of confusion, being curious on how is it the same exact thing.
I wasn’t being snarky there cause i actually don’t know the answer, hence why i asked.
Cause i actually don’t know?? Hence i asked? You ask questions if you don’t know, or curious about something, and that’s what i’m doing here. I’m being serious here when i ask you the question “Can you explain to me how are those two things are the same”? 
I’l gladly cop to my mistakes and admit i’m not the brightest blub in the shack, and theirs nothing wrong with admitting that. But i can tell you right now that trolling isn’t my goal, and any perceived “trolling”, whether it be me being short fused in my comments (which does happen, whenever i see comments that just rubs me the wrong way. I don’t always take the best approach with comments.), light hearted jabs (like jokes, most of them are unfunny) or heaven forbid, a different or neutral opinion, or even agreeing… Well sorry that feel that way friendo, but i think you need to stop thinking that.
Also, i put “trolling” up in quotes, cause to me, i seen this word overused to a point a meaninglessness.
You don’t know what i want or don’t want, but i will tell you as clearly and concisely as possible to disallow any accidental misinterpretation as possible.
I have the grand expedition yak, i often buy random battle pets and materials off the Auction house, i often go out in the world, grind for gold by doing embrassies, world quests, quests, old raids and dungeons, Sell materials and other things on the AH and doing mission tables. These are the activities i did ingame. Clearly i don’t have problem with grinding gold or putting the effort to get gold in the game, cause i can do it all ingame and ingame only
The problem i have, is if the said thing i want is not ingame and is a Microtransaction, and i have the option to buy with with gold (“free” option) or with money, what makes me not think that the “Free” route isn’t leveraged against me to prod me to go for the paid route? How is it a bad thing to suggest that this mount or anything on the bnet store should be Ingame as actual ingame content?
To suggest they are the same thing as getting it ingame like a regular mount (via by drop rate, buying it from a vendor or earning it) would be incrediablty ingenious of me. I can never imagine equating microtransactions on the same level as actual ingame content.
