{"id":77117,"date":"2026-04-30T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77117"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:36:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:36:52","slug":"world-of-warcraft-just-got-its-most-expensive-housing-microtransactions-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77117","title":{"rendered":"World Of Warcraft Just Got Its Most Expensive Housing Microtransactions Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/world-of-warcraft\/\">World of Warcraft<\/a> continues to expand its real money shop offers, with developer Blizzard now selling home exteriors for $40.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Housing is WoW&#8217;s latest and greatest new feature, having arrived in full with the MMO&#8217;s recent Midnight expansion (though players who preordered Midnight got early access to parts of housing late last year). Blizzard first started <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/you-can-now-spend-real-money-on-your-wow-house\/1100-6538189\/\">selling housing items for real money<\/a> back in February, with a shockingly-low-priced set of plushies that could be used for home decorating.<\/p>\n<p><video data-embed-type=\"video\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WKB_Hv71Oss\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"100%\" data-embed-url=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FWKB_Hv71Oss%3Fwmode%3Dopaque%26feature%3Doembed&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DWKB_Hv71Oss&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FWKB_Hv71Oss%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube\"><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Those low prices didn&#8217;t last long, however, because in March, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/wow-housing-decor-bundles-are-giving-players-sticker-shock\/1100-6538644\/\">Blizzard began selling individual trees<\/a> for 750 Hearthsteel (or $7.50) alongside an expensive bundle. Somewhat predictably, player outrage saw Blizzard quickly cut prices.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Now, the sticker shock continues, as Blizzard is selling a <a href=\"https:\/\/us.shop.battle.net\/en-us\/product\/world-of-warcraft-cozy-treehouse-retreat-bundle?p=2059114\">bundle<\/a> of two, treehouse-themed housing exteriors for $40. Another new bundle, priced at $75, includes the new exterior options and a large batch of decor items. Both bundles are the most expensive housing microtransactions on the shop to date, and there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a way to just buy one of the exteriors seperately.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s not exactly a surprise Blizzard is continuing to sell housing items, but these prices do seem to go against what Blizzard initially<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World of Warcraft continues to expand its real money shop offers, with developer Blizzard now selling home exteriors for $40. Housing is WoW&#8217;s latest and greatest new feature, having arrived in full with the MMO&#8217;s recent Midnight expansion (though players who preordered Midnight got early access to parts of housing late last year). Blizzard first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":77119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77120,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77117\/revisions\/77120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}