The biggest problem I have with the 45$ is not for me buying it but it makes it very difficult to convince most of my friends to buy it just to try it out. And multiplayer does make this game much nicer.

No you’re getting somewhere. Buy 1B in property put it in a company. Then use that as a mortgage to get a higher loan to buy some more. This way you can in addition avoid paying taxes.

That’s a very good point, I never thought about that.

And the potential added problem is that once tipping becomes a large part of their salary they will just decrease their salary and say just to get tipped more. I don’t believe any outcome in this is a win for gamers or devs.

This is my biggest reason for hating on WoW. After the release wc3 custom games were rather dead