guess you guys are going to have to unleash the emus.
guess you guys are going to have to unleash the emus.
With Shadowlands about to release, it's most likely a ploy to spark long term subs to artificially inflate the expansions re-sub stats. At the same time they get a nice increase on their monthly takings. In reality it's just penny pinching because they can and has no real impact on Blizzards long term viability.
The most egregious costs are to do with the service costs. Race Change, Character Transfer, Character Boost, Faction Change, Name Change. These services are fully automated. All of these should be lower than $10 USD. The days of trying to motivate players to stay on specific servers to maintain population is gone, especially in the Oceanic region where if your horde and your guild/server is dying the most appealing option is just to transfer to Frostmourne Alliance.
The games profit right now comes from WoW Tokens and for years I have noticed a gradual change of in game systems that place economic pressure on players. Consumable material scarcity and high consumable material requirements, an increase in the amount of strong crafting/BoE items that compete with raid drops for new raid tiers, the black market auction house where anything rare pretty much goes for gold cap, removing items like the Burtasaur auction mount instead of keeping them available just like all the other expensive mounts. Even with the whole Gallywix debacle, they have implemented virtually zero mechanisms (e.g. no way to filter out the listings polluting the group finder by default) to tackle pay to win player activities, they pretty much encourage it. Let's not even get started with the cosmetic microtransactions.
These systems are not put in place for player enjoyment. They are implemented to take advantage of human psychology and if they were not in the game you wouldn't even miss them. At first it was just here or there, but now I've heard so many stories through my friends where someone has forked out thousands of dollars on wow tokens to buy something in game. To Blizzard/Activision the player base is just a dairy farm but I suppose that's how the game industry sees everyone these days.
It's funny how the sub never gets adjusted when US dollar is weak..
It is quite funny that some people think that Australians should be angry at the price change. They paid 25% less than I did. Even after the price changes, they will still pay less
cool, now time to adjust EU prices Blizz
They are getting more bnet balance for token redemption too.
I mean it's a 2.5$ more a month for a service, less than that if you have few months pack. It's less than a cup of coffee and blizz has not adjusted their prices in years and they don't do that at a whim. Some other games has their sub prices literally doubled over the last 10 years.
Whatever services you get - server maintenance time, customer support it's a different matter and should be discussed in different environment than screeching
Last edited by Zoibert the Bear; 2020-11-12 at 08:22 AM.
How many of you are actually going to unsub because of this?
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Its a tax change. Same thing happened here when the NZ govt introduced GST for all organisations outside of NZ... Im guessing this is the same thing here - Not Blizzards fault. Its your govts... time for a new Prime Minister - youve had the current one a tad too long
Just FYI in Russia 1 month costs 549rub which is around 7$ due to ruble devaluation. This may sound great but in reality all goods and services are becoming more and more expensive
My wife and I are considering it. It has been hard to justify the ongoing expense, especially when the game is so outdated, play time is limited, and like others have said, there are other cheaper options for entertainment. World of Warcraft should be trying to hold on to its decreasing subs, not charging them more. They have done a lot to get people back into the game by making it easier to level and setting up a great and interesting expansion, now I’m wondering if I should reconsider and get a refund before it’s released.
EDIT: We also have some of the highest costs for living in the world. Simply googling it a moment ago, we are ranked 9th in the world for cost of living while US and UK are 21st and 23rd respectively. We simply can’t afford to pay the same costs as everyone else because we are just trying to get by.
Last edited by Bladescourn; 2020-11-12 at 09:17 AM.
Blizzard seems to now lose 1 AUD on token exchanges compared to previous pricing.