You know they removed it so they can readd it back later in the expansion? Why settle at only $60 a game when you can churn out similarly priced expansions with features initially planned for the original game? 

Blizzard is not the same company it was 10 years ago.
Now everything is paid transfers, paid character change, paid rename, blizz store, buy pets, buy mounts, RMAH, pay this, pay that...
Remember someone asked if they could make it so that we can use waypoints to go to other acts in D3, and the answer was no, they couldn't cause they already made the game like that, so its hard to make any big changes to it. And the reason why they did that is so they can emphasize on story, and I was like 'what story?'