And the milking of EU continues

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It's called "captive customer". Why captive? Because the rest of the games in the genre are terrible.

[Deleted]

I wonder how much the Scottish will ahve to pay if they leave the UK.

[Huehuecoyotl]

As a EU player, I've always found it incredibly unfair that we have one area of europe, playing on the same servers, that gets much cheaper monthly sub.
UK income levels are compareable to rest of the Europe - why the hell do they get cheap monthly sub?

I see this price alignment as a good thing - even with £1 raise, the UK sub is still cheaper than rest of EU. Maybe they should look into dropping the sub price in rest of the EU with €1 to bring us even.

So how do you now feel about the US being out of alignment with the rest of the world? They are getting their sub cheaper than both the EU and UK once this goes through.

The UK and US were in line; only the EU wasn't. Blizzards solution was to increase the cost of the UK, still leaving a discrepancy, rather than reducing the EU, which would have left everything in line.

Strange how they went for the the "unfair" solution that makes them more money, rather than the "fair" one that would make them less, isn't it?

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So how do you now feel about the US being out of alignment with the rest of the world? They are getting their sub cheaper than both the EU and UK once this goes through.

How is the US sub out of alignment?
It's $14.99/month exl. sales tax.
The UK is £8.99 including VAT.

Add some sales tax to the US price and you'll find it's more expensive than the UK sub.
Other than that - don't really care about US/EU comparison. Diffferent servers, different economies/disposable income

[Huehuecoyotl]

How is the US sub out of alignment?
It's $14.99/month exl. sales tax.
The UK is £8.99 including VAT.

Add some sales tax to the US price and you'll find it's more expensive than the UK sub.
Other than that - don't really care about US/EU comparison. Diffferent servers, different economies/disposable income

The UK and EU are different economies as well. Yet the difference in prices there seemed to upset you. It's almost as if you have no cogent argument at all, and are just coming down on the side of "anything Blizzard does is the right thing".

[Deleted]

they arent milking the EU, just the UK

besides it is only 1 pound a month more lol

[Thrashmetal]

And Russia pays 9.94$
Why don't people whine about that? We still play on EU realms but pay almost 40% less.

how much you pay for 60 day prepaid?

[Sildor]

UK players still pay less than the rest of Europe does, and have been for some time now. This just evens the gap a little bit.

[Saeran]

"OMG I have to pay £12 a year moah to play!! Immediate unsub incoming!!"

Get a grip. The UK have been paying less than the EU for their sub for years. If you are really upset about paying £12 a year for WoW, then obviously you are just thinking of an excuse to stop playing. If you have auto-renew, the increase doesn't even affect you for TWO years anyway.

[Donald Hellscream]

Well.. in Europe the british have had the cheapest sub fee for a long fucking time so bringing their sub price in line with the rest of europe seems fair.

[Thrashmetal]

Lets bring math into this... just for the fun of it
Minimum Wage US: 7,25$ per hour
Minimum wage UK: 6,31£ = 10.54$ Per hour

US 1 Month Subscription, 14,99$ = 2,06 Work hours
UK 1 Month Subscription, 9,99£ = 1,58 Work hours.

In Poland min wage is 1.3£ or 2.2$ or 1.6€ per hour.
1 Month Sub is 12.99€ = 8.1 work hours
In other eastern eu countries minimal wage is even smaller and we all pay for wow in € not national currency.

so yeah... people in UK should stop bitching.

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So how do you now feel about the US being out of alignment with the rest of the world? They are getting their sub cheaper than both the EU and UK once this goes through.

The UK and US were in line; only the EU wasn't. Blizzards solution was to increase the cost of the UK, still leaving a discrepancy, rather than reducing the EU, which would have left everything in line.

Strange how they went for the the "unfair" solution that makes them more money, rather than the "fair" one that would make them less, isn't it?

This is the bit that people don't understand. Blizzard aren't doing this to bring it into alignment with the other currencies, they are doing it because they can.

Give it a few months and then the EU and the US prices will increase as well, how people can defend Blizzard is a joke to me.

Do you think the increase in cost will deliver content any quicker? Do you think you will get any better service? They are doing this just to make more profit.

[Deleted]

The UK and EU are different economies as well. Yet the difference in prices there seemed to upset you. It's almost as if you have no cogent argument at all, and are just coming down on the side of "anything Blizzard does is the right thing".

They're not different economies. Don't be silly.
They're all within the European Union, UK just doesn't have the currency, not all EU countries do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europea..._animation.gif

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Give it a few months and then the EU and the US prices will increase as well, how people can defend Blizzard is a joke to me.

If you don't think their product/services are worth your hard earned money - here's something: Unsubscribe. Vote with your wallet.
Plot that down as a reason in your exit survey - that's the only reliable way to get Blizzard to re-think.

[SkagenRora]

So your poor, buhuhuhu noone cares, just Unsub if you don't like it.. no need too create several pages long threads just because you can't afford a few extra coins

[Huehuecoyotl]

They're not different economies. Don't be silly.
They're all within the European Union, UK just doesn't have the currency, not all EU countries do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europea..._animation.gif

UK and EU aren't different economies? Despite the fact they have different currencies, set their own interest rates. Collect their own taxes, drive their own economic policy.

All you are showing is that you don't actually understand what an economy is. A trading group does not make it one giant economy. Even those countries that are using the Euro are still individual economies, that share a currency.

[Deleted]

Even those countries that are using the Euro are still individual economies, that share a currency.

Indeed, and still only UK has a special, lower sub fee. About time to align it.

[Deleted]

Considering the loss of subs and age of the game, perhaps they should've lowered it for the rest of the EU to match the value of the UK price.

[Deleted]

Considering the loss of subs and age of the game, perhaps they should've lowered it for the rest of the EU to match the value of the UK price.

That would have been great - thought not very surprised they elected to raise the price. Very much a typical Blizzard decision, I think.
They should take a leaf from Valve's book. Especially now that they have other ancillary products live (Hearthstone) or close to it (Heroes). Dumping sub price together with the expansion would most likely see surge of people in WoW - and - get them a ton of revenue from those other products as well.

[Huehuecoyotl]

Indeed, and still only UK has a special, lower sub fee. About time to align it.

So why not align EU with US and UK, which were inline? Oh wait, we are back to you saying "because they are different economies".

Amusing as it is having this circular argument with you, I will give it up at that point. You can't argue with someone that is using both sides of the argument at the same time, and doesn't even appear to realise it.

[Deleted]

It's kind of sad when people aggressively defend a company that's decided to charge them an extra 11% for no reason.