I bought it on G2A, like I have with almost every single game I've purchased in recent years. Love that site and others like it.
I don't see why it's such a big issue to pay for the expansion through Blizzard's own store if you prefer to have the product digitally. The money goes straight to the developers without a 3rd party taking their own cuts from the profits, which is a positive in my book. If it is too expensive as you say then perhaps wait till a price drop far into the expansion, since you can't accept the price they give?
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If it's not significantly cheaper, what's the point? Saving money is fine, but if it's $2 it's TRIVIAL. That's the point. It's much whining over very little real benefit. Also... you missed my point. If $2 is important to someone's finances (ie.. their budgte is so tight that every $2 counts) then they should not be spending $50 on a game.
As for G2A... I'm going to laugh like hell if you buy one and it's suspended because the key was bought with a stolen card.
I bought the Collectors Edition Box from Best buy and it was delivered yesterday... I didnt mind waiting a few weeks from when I ordered it.
if you don't like the price on blizzards homepage wait half a year for it to go on sale like they usually do.
I'm not seeing where the convenience comes in.
You can't play Blizz games without a Battle.net account, so buying a game through Battle.net and having it activated immediately will always be more convenient than buying a code through another retailer and having to input it. You don't get more convenient by adding extra steps and middlemen.
Convenience or not. You let consumers decide.
I feel more comfortable to enter my credit card info into Amazon than Blizzard.
At one point, Blizzard wants to reveal everyone's real life info (Real ID) on a forum infested with trolls.
This is why you see these 60 days game cards. Why else does it exist?
Never Mind.
frys.com will sell it for $40.
I expect the physical copy will drop price quickly.
$50 is a ripoff.
There is no way a 2-tier expansion plus monthly free costs $50.
I bought WoD for $30 from G2A on the launch day.
However, I "invested" too much into this WoW account. Don't want to take risk this time.