yeah but dont expect an honest answer from blizzard without 5 suits over their shoulder
yeah but dont expect an honest answer from blizzard without 5 suits over their shoulder
A server or faction by themselves are decently priced. Its both at the same time that is ridiculous. IMO it should just be $25 for a transfer if that is just a server or a server and a faction it shouldn't matter.
They are gouging the customers for services that take little effort on their part. People pay it so they can keep doing it. It would be nice if they did more discounts like they did in the early spring this year or if they did something for long term customers. Even a bundle of some sort would be nice. At some point people on dead servers are punished for wanting to continue playing the game but not do it on the ghost town server they have the misfortune of being on. Moving multiple characters adds up quickly and for the people with all classes level'd which most long term players do it is over 300 dollars.
"Privilege is invisible to those who have it."
Yes, server xfers and what not are stupidly priced, and always have been. If Blizzard were smart, they'd use free transfers, race changes, etc as perks for x number of months of persistent subscriptions.
They were and really still are, but now that you can exchange wow token for blizz money, so it's not longer really an issue for me. Moved my whole army of alts to Illidan from a dead server when that went live.
lol, it probably took like 24-36 man hours to automate and do QA on that. It's just some API calls and hardly takes any server resources to perform anymore. Maybe they have an engineering team that is in charge of the service (as in, hey Jeff and Mark you guys have services now in addition to the 12 other things you do) and has to fix a bug every year.
That's literally it. I know what I'm talking about so don't try to say they are breaking even or using the price just to pay for the dev time or services.
We could argue that movie prices are excessive and cable TV prices are excessive and so on, but free market rules.
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As somebody who's put years into my characters on my server, which has been in the process of dying a slow death for the past few years. I have already quit the game once for just over a year because my guild died and I wasn't willing to pay to transfer/faction change to another server.
Even if I was to just transfer my main character, the thought of re-leveling all the professions on my alts so I don't have to pay the crazy AH prices on some servers (example: Tome of tranquil mind are over 100g each on my server) makes my stomach churn. If my guild fell apart again I would probably rather quit again then pay the transfer fees.
They're literally shell scripts. The only time an actual human being looks at any of it is in the case of an issue or a refund or whatever.
Some intern probably wrote it, it got QA'd internally 2 days later and boom there ya go.
Also lol @ saying 100g for a tome is a crazy price.
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It is excessive garbage.
Content drought is a combination of catchup mechanics and no new content.
Subscription fees mostly just pay for server upkeep. Profit and support for new titles and content comes from microtransations (like those you've mentioned) and new game/expansion releases.
I agree that some of them are more expensive than I'd like, but also keep in mind the price is, in part, to manage the volume of x service. For instance, if name changes were like a dollar (which they reasonably probably could be), there would likely be a lot of people changing names left and right, and that has ramifications for the social aspect of the game.
There were a few reasons that led me to cancelling my subscription. Server transfer costs were one of them.
I would say they're overpriced a bit. I don't really care about the cost of them anymore. I just convert my gold into tokens and then turn the tokens into blizzbuxs. Paying for 10 transfers and a faction change was painless.
Well the subscription fee hasn't gone up in price in the 12 years I been playing this game, so until they do the answer is no.
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