DigitalBattle.com

Micro-transactions are all the rage these days, what with MMOs going free and competing for your hard-earned cash through small premium items. Blizzard’s attention has also been attracted by said micro-transactions – according to this interview with Tom Chilton, game director for World of Warcraft, the company is exploring the possibility of a free-to-play, micro-transaction business model for the mega-MMO.

Don’t get your hopes too high, though, as Chilton only states that he “thinks” it’s possible to implement such a model in the game, but that it is “really too hard to say at this point.”

It’s unlikely that Blizzard will go for such a model while the monolithic MMO is still bringing in truckloads of money for them. Maybe sometime in the distant future when WoW is replaced by some other Blizzard MMO and forgotten.