I wonder if this is one reason why World of Warcraft does all transfers of real money through your account on the website instead of offering an in-game store.

I wonder if this is one reason why World of Warcraft does all transfers of real money through your account on the website instead of offering an in-game store. On the other hand, I have played other MMOs, online FPSes, and so forth that have in-game stores. Come to think of it, the only correlation I can think of is that web applications are more prolific for online sales than desktop apps, which typically relied on a model of "buy me, install me, and you own me". My experience in the gaming world suggests that people are happy to pay for things within the desktop game interfaces, too. I have also read that iPhone apps with in-app sales (particularly for free apps) are greater than the initial app sales, and it is obvious that users have no problems making payments for things through their phone apps. I assumed that "web app" refers to things that must be run through a web browser, as opposed to "app that can connect to the Internet", which will cover recurring subscriptions like Norton's latest virus updates and so forth. "if you follow my TOS"