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Those who want to spend real money sprucing up their virtual World of Warcraft home can now do so, with Blizzard now offering premium-housing decor on WoW’s in-game shop.
The first premium-decor items for sale are two plushies: a lion representing the Alliance and a direwolf representing the Horde. Each plushie individually costs 100 Hearthsteel, WoW’s new premium housing currency. Buying exactly 100 Hearthsteel in the shop costs $1.
Housing decor items are single-use items, so those who want to stuff their house with plushies may instead want to buy the bundle pack that comes with four of each plushie instead. The bundle costs 500 Hearthsteel ($5).
Now that it’s officially live, Hearthsteel is actually WoW’s first real premium currency (if you don’t count the WoW Token, an item that can be sold for gold or used to pay for a WoW subscription). Hearthsteel raised concerns among WoW’s playerbase last year when Blizzard first announced its intentions, largely because players weren’t a fan of a paid game with a monthly subscription adding a premium currency as if it were a free-to-play mobile game.
Blizzard for its part stated it aimed for Hearthsteel to be “player-friendly” and said it was needed in order to make
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