How else could blizzard afford to release a mediocre content patch every 6-8 months? /s
Because WoW used to be worth $15 a month. It's going to need a fundamental shift from Blizzard to get me to think that again.
What is the point in talking about a hypothetical from 20 years ago though? It just means you are trying to re-write history to fit your idea of what a game should be rather then just stating you want it to be X. A really weird way to discuss anything. Saying "It was like this in the past" is not flawed because how it actually was is what is important.
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"Man is his own star. His acts are his angels, good or ill, While his fatal shadows walk silently beside him."-Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine AFC 54
You know a community is bad when moderators lock a thread because "...this isnt the place to talk about it either seeing as it will get trolled..."
Because it needs to be cheap for people to play it, that's why.
If they didn't have the pet/mount/toy store - the monthly fee would have to be way more.
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Indeed, and now there is WAY more content in WoW - it is worth way more, but they use the store to supplement the income to keep the price as cheap as it is.
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
$15 a month is probably a little expensive for this day and age of MMO's especially for WoW given how old it is. If Blizzard ever did a WoW 2 I wouldn't expect the subscription fee to be that high if there at all if they chose to go the F2P route. The problem is they would never lower the price now for the current WoW because it would essentially be a major loss in already accounted for profits, and secondly the public would immediately overreact and say Blizzard is getting desperate to keep subs.
The current state of WoW is atrociously bad in my opinion and nowhere near deserves $15 month.
That is a very good point. I loved Wrath but there was basically no content back then except for dungeons and raids. I remember doing the Loremaster achievement on multiple alts because there was literally not much more to do outside of that. Available gameplay in Wrath was basically: 20 minutes of tournament dailies per day...and that's it. And that only lasted for like 2 months - other patches didn't have much outside content at all. Next expansions started slowly adding more stuff to do, but it wasn't really that rich in content until like Legion. Legion/BfA/SL are much more abundant in content than all the previous expansions combined.
It's always pretty funny to me hearing people claim how the game used to be so many times better back then...the only reason I wasn't bored with the game was because I was younger and could commit to a hardcore raiding schedule. Other than that it was just doing 3000 basic quests over and over on different characters
People spend like 100$ weekly on some of the most popular mobile games worldwide, I have no idea what basis you have to say that 15$ is too much, for a game like WoW, which literally has infinite content for someone who has not played it for like 10 years+.
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Game pass is a way better deal and content and makes me sad my wow sub is 22$cnd
The 15$ is to pay for servers, free patch content, game matinence, and support.
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the officla reason is so they can provide us with free patch content, provide us with servers, provide support and matinence.
other online games that are not free mostly use "peer to peer" were players connections all go one to another, but this has a lot of issues including you cant really do it for an MMO, and also if someone lags, everyone lags.
other games also rarely ever release free content after launch, atleast that was true till we go the all too common "early access" where the game is not complete, you buy it, then as time goes on they finish the game, look to stuff like minecraft, terraria, valheim.
once a game releases what does the company care if you have a hard time completing a quest in the game? if you want help you go to the forums and find out its bugged and well oh well games released nothing you can do now.
but the 15$ a month let them open support to help you with your bugged quest and fix bugs.
so people have given you many reasons, the main 4 being
1- paying for servers
2- paying for patch content which otherwise is free
3- paying for customer support
4- paying for "matinance" devs who bugfix and balance.
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yes it used to be worth 15$, it no longer is, based on inflation it is worth 20$.
like seriously, it is quite the feat that blizz has not actually raised the sub cost since 2004, at 15$ back then is worth 20$ now.
If you have a little time on your hand check out Dungeons & Dragons Online. F2P with all kinds of other stuff to pay for. Shop always in your face. Pay for character skots etc. And while you're at it play a dungeon or two, DDO doesn't have tank/hel/dps trinity and tell me how that feels
I believe WoWs subscription model is way superior to F2P
Personally, I think its amazing that the price hasn't gone up.
not to mention it keeps A LOT of whiners out of the game, thank god
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very much this, if you check price of pretty much ANY service 20years ago and now, you would struggle to find one that is the same price...
even a goddamn library card is now more expensive than 20y back
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
If the game was currently at Legion quality then it would be worth $20 to me, I currently pay $0, over the last 2 expansions I have only been sub'ed around 4-5 months as both have been dire and the least fun WoW has ever been, this is from somebody who has played since 2005 and never been unsubbed, apart from a couple of periods when I was working away for extended periods at the end of Wrath and early Cata mostly.
I wouldn't resub now for $10 a month, the game isn't worth my time never mind my money.
They are not required to explain that to you any more than you are required to play the game. Its not like anyone could give you an answer that would satisfy you anyway, which is probably why they last out at people who choose to create a thread just to troll people about a choice you make.
*hits bong* why can goods and services be exchanged for money, man? that just aint right *hits bong again*