They are not making a profit on these things. They are selling them at cost. In the long-run, Blizzard will save money by not needing as many people doing account restorations and such.

“Personally if you just practice safe internet procedures and not be a moron you’re at 0 risk of having your account stolen.”

Also not true. There have been exploits to flash and java quite recently. Now if you want to go so far as to say that you’d be safe by ONLY installing WoW, and NEVER browsing the internet on the same machine you play WoW on, I might say you’re getting closer to making a truthful statement. But most of us do not have the money to toss around like that. My machine was quite expensive to build — and it would be silly to dedicate it only to playing a game…no matter how much fun that game may be.

I think 1% might be underestimating. But even then, that’s over 100,000 buyers.

Yeah, because 0 day vulnerabilities don’t exist, right? And you’ve never been to a website you trust that has banner ads or flash media. (think wowhead, wowwiki, curse)

I regularly laugh at very knownledable computer users who think they’re too smart to bother implementing strong security. But rest easy, I’m sure YOU are the exception.

Personally if you just practice safe internet procedures and not be a moron you’re at 0 risk of having your account stolen. I’ve been playing wow since almost release and never had a single problem with any of my accounts.

But i guess if this helps you sleep at night, then its probably worth ti