people around the hubs so that PVP servers have world pvp

Zarhym, that's a great response and I for one greatly appreciate that sort of insight. I would also agree with you about not stating assumptions as fact but you have to realize that many people (anecdotally, everyone I know well in WoW) believe that CRZ's were more buy wow gold about server efficiency and cost saving and that being unwilling to provide an alternate, albeit less efficient, way to gain rep (or at least access to valor gear) is purely to keep people around the hubs so that PVP servers have world pvp.

The only way to keep people from having misconceptions (if indeed they are misconceptions) is by providing some transparency or at least insight into why the development teams disagrees with a point that obviously being loudly championed by the forum using portion of the playerbase. Personally I would suggest taking a page from CCP's playbook and do dev blogs for every feature or major change that completely lay out the design vision and how it will be implemented. Then again, I suppose from Blizzard's perspective that's just wishing for the moon.
http://www.euwowgold.com/One final point; I completely understand your point about not wanting to engage with people when they start suggesting that cost or some form of additional revenue factor into a decision. That said, its hard not to fall into that trap when according to Blizzard's representatives; that has never been the case about any decision. For all of those of us that actually work for a living, its a bit hard to believe.