my experience playing wow for years: can't talk on vent because i get barrages of creepy sexually explicit messages and men (weirdly) asking me for advice about relationships constantly, men bothering me all the time, men asking for pictures of me constantly, men asking for nude pictures of me constantly, etc. even if it were true that i got things from male players (which never happened), i wouldn't call that 'free.' it's a huge pain in the ass.