I’d pay someone to build me a new “old” house. Something with modern heating and A/C and such, but built in the older mansion style. Think the house from “Knives Out” or the one from “Locke and Key”
Complete with secret passages and hidden rooms throughout the entire place.
No.
No.
No.
I bribe Steve Danuser and tell him that I will personally give him $100 million if he lifts all race/class restrictions immediately.
I would be yachting and wowing.
I yacht and WoW from the comfort of my own home.
That yacht would 100% be my home. Nothing more magical then the oceans of our planet to me.
I would try to buy the sword, shield and helm veteran Blizzard employees get.
Honestly nothing. I wouldn’t change in the game. Probably wouldn’t play for a while even.
One billion dollars? I would probably keep doing everything the same as I am now, except I would pay someone else to keep the journals updated.
With a billion, anyone could probably buy WoW, though, and change whatever they wanted. I wouldn’t. I might even put it all in various savings accounts and enjoy a $15 million salary.
Finding funding would be much easier. 
I’d buy every mount, toy, pet, and appearance that I don’t already have from the AH and BMAH. Then make 50 lv 60’s and use them to help farm mounts, pets, toys, and mogs.
huh.
well this sucks.
Literally sitting here trying to think of anything Id want to buy.
I think Im dead inside.
Quit WoW. Nah. After taxes, I’m now worth 100s of millions of dollars. I quit my job instead of WoW. More time to play WoW.
After quiting my job, I moved out of the state I’m currently living in. Bye bye California & Governor Newsome. Where ever I move to, I buy a nice new house decked out with new everything for the family and I. Buy a couple new cars, Gives some money to my family and my wife’s family. Donate lots of money to charities. Then buy the best gaming computer money can buy and that’s how I’d celebrate in WoW by playing the game at max setting with a great FPS.
I’ve thought about this a lot.
I don’t think $1 billion would cover the cost of extracting WoW from Blizzard and transferring ownership. Just through subscriptions alone, WoW makes between $15 and $30 million per year with virtually no overhead. When you add in expansion sales, microtransactions, BlizzCons, and character services, you’re looking at something approaching a quarter-billion in revenue every 12 months.
4 years would recoup your entire investment. I don’t think it would be valuated that low.
Chances are, it would take about 5 or 6 billion to get WoW operational as a stand-alone product with a full development team and support staff and a studio to work from.
I’d start off by buying an excellent computer system that could play this game at its highest frame rate with all the settings maxed out. (I’ve been playing WoW on slow, older computers all these years.)
Then, I would purchase all of the game store collectibles that I don’t already have (although I might be patient enough to wait for a sale).
Then, I would purchase enough gold tokens to purchase all of the vendor mounts I’ve never had enough gold to afford. Sure, I’ll use those mounts for like a day or so before reverting back to my favorites, but it would be nice to have them in my collection. I’d also buy any rare pets I needed from the AH.
I’m not in any active guilds anymore, but I would like to go back and buy some in-game gifts for my few WoW friends who have been generous or helpful to me in the past to show my appreciation for them.
Set up a factory to make black tights for everyone.
I don’t think I would give Activision much of a cut of my prize. I would probably upgrade all 5 of my computers to run WoW at 4k 144hz, and then continue to play as I do but at turbo quality.
So, you’re an idiot.
Please don’t ever run a business.
I’d probably buy some really funky gaming setup. Definitely doing 6-month sub, gotta get that mount, yo. May as well buy everything in the Blizz store for WoW, too. Mounts, xmogs, et al. Why the heck not? It’s a billion dollars.
Of course before I do all that, I’m getting the eff out of IL and getting a house with a basement so I can put my gaming stuff down there. Cool year round.
$68.7 billion for Activision-Blizzard. I doubt they’d sell you just the Blizzard portion of it, and if they did, expect it to be a substantial chunk of the overall cost.
$1 billion might get you some special treatment or a few favors, but it isn’t enough for you to buy anything related to WoW.
Quit WoW. I have a billion dollars, I can now afford to do much better things with my life like start a no kill shelter and start saving all the cats