I've changed over the 9 years, absolutely. Over the years i've responded well to the majority of changes to the game - for better or worse.
I love games that reward time commitment. I do not stomp my feet and demand on the forums that WoW should continue to behave that way; but for me, it was a big part of spending my time playing it. Don't ask me to "don't insinuate that the cash stop is the end of the road". It is; why can't you understand that?
As i said in my post - i wish everyone else the best of luck and hope that it doesn't go too far.
Live and let live etc.
Kanx - Protection Warrior (Armory)
Blizzards intro lol
Well, look at that. Blizzard cares about designing proper good looking items as long as real money is involved. Basically everything else has been stale this expansion.
As long as the store remains a vanity store I am perfectly fine with it. The only thing that bothers me is they lack on creativity with the Tier/pvp armor sets and then come out with really awesome stuff that we will need to spend IRL money on....wtf Blizzard. WoW will die because of poor decisions they make such as that.
I don't doubt that - I'm absolutely sure they can turn profit, even with 1M subs.
But it's not about that - it's about making more profit than they did the in the same quarter previous year and the year before that. If this was their first year, then champagne would be flowing and there would be no need for cash shops. But it isn't so they're being compared to last good numbers - and have to try to deliver more - or at least try to break down the slide. I'm sure their board/shareholders are aware they can't get back to the heydays of the past but it doesn't mean they accept a shrug and a "well we still have some subs" as an explanation to declining profits.
They haven't done anything about sub prices in all these years, so playing WoW is now cheaper than ever (declining profit curve).
And in that climate, the cash shop makes sense as extra rev. stream.
And about them having a lot of money.. I wouldn't know. Quite often the profits from past years have been reinvested/shared as dividends so I'd be surprised if they actually had a lot of money sitting in their bank account. Companies tend to live by their cash flows these days - not past savings.
It was quite a ride, but this is the last drop for me. I have canceled my subscription and I hope, that it is clear message for guys at Blizzard. I know, I am just one player, but still, in my eyes, this is the best way how to say to Blizzard, that they are not anymore doing thing, which is worth my money. I do not care about the argument "it is only cosmetic", I simply think, that it is non-ethical and greedy from Blizzard, even if they are ordinary company and they need to make money. Few years back, I was able to accept pets store, but the game is not the shiny extraordinary super blockbuster nowadays, and I am not willing to support Blizzard in their work anymore.
Last edited by Deffry; 2013-07-14 at 10:34 PM.
Lol at those fugly helms and lol at blizzard mad supporters.
It is kinda funny how they push out shitugly tier sets now but as soon as its something they can earn more money from they make it amazing.
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I seriously can't get over the fact that the sickest helmets in the game I can't get IN THE GAME.
This is eating at me more than I thought it would. I am so disappointed.
"Disappointed" is the perfect word to describe how I feel.
But I'm more disappointed in Blizzard than the fact that I can't get the helms in-game. Soon they will be selling character models, haircuts, breads, tattoos, spell effects ... etc.
It will be, spend money on the store or look like a hobo.
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Sorry to break it to you but mounts and gear are considered just as much content as the paths I took to get them.
This game has always been about getting new things. Mounts, gear whatever. The entire transmog system was to expand the look of gear and give more appearance content.
No way I could pay a sub for this type of game development on wow. If it was a f2p game, I could see this happening but it's not.
If I were playing wow, I no longer would be.