How many minutes/hours of your work is these 50$ you don’t care about? You will most likely lie about it anyway, but you have already proven who you are - with such a note. Good luck in life.
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If I were to believe forum warriors ... ever ...
Apparently in Colorado the avg salary is 23$/h - that’s 2 hours of work. I appreciate my time. You do as you please. But I don’t believe you earn your own money. As simple as that.
And yet there are companies that do this kind of thing for free with similar gaming events.
Pax is free on Twitch, so is Gamescom, so is E3, so is PS Experience, so is FF14 fanfest starting this year and so on.
As I said imo Blizzcon should be 100% free. However they should sell the items on the store. They would still rake in a tidy amount and they said they operate Blizzcon at a loss anyway.
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I meant exactly what I've written. According to the his location he is living in the Colorado=USA and he is applying his standart of living upon the whole world.
And when it comes to the question if 50 bucks is a lot... Well, I can only say what I know from my own experience and that's, that 50 bucks is an awful amount for what you get when compared to the avarage sallary in the EU (won't even compare it to the whole world).
edit: For me it's around 5hrs of work for what? 1-2hrs of "exclusive" content that I will have to pay for in the form of subsription?
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The fact that you'd consider that a mount would make it worth it is just silly. I'm a dude that buys it with in-game gold - no other uses for it - for the 'event' itself, but i found it amusing that throwing a random mount to it suddenly makes it 'worth it' to others. Good for you.
Nobody is acting like it's the end of the world. People are annoyed (and reasonably so) that Blizzard have increased the price for no other reason than greed. I bet you $100 that Mike Morhaime will be up on stage at the opening ceremony and talk about how it's all about community. Clearly someone at Blizzard doesn't care to make it slightly easier for the community to be watching him speak.
Also you can hardly say it's two mounts when talking about the cost. At best it's two halfs of a mount. I cannot use one of the mounts on the faction I play. If I buy a store mount I can use it on either faction. It is nit picking, but when you're using it to try and justify costs compared to other store mounts it matters.
Finally the goodybag discount is only useful to Americans. I bought the 2015 + 16 goody bag, and the cost of shipping (to the UK) was almost the cost of the bag itself.
While yes it is subjective, the goody bag has been getting objectively worse. 2016 had a great bag. but since then it's been horrible. I've purchased either from ebay or direct from Blizzard the bag for years, but last year was awful, and this year looks just as bad. I'm kind of happy they've started to become so awful, because it's helped break my need to own them. Seriously other than the artbook, which I guess i'd pay $10-$20 for, everything else in the bag this year is just cheap tat. I wouldn't be surprised it if costs less then $10 to make.
When Overwatch was added to Blizzcon they didn't increase add new content. They took away content from other areas and gave it to Overwatch. Not sure how long you've followed Blizzcon, but world of Warcraft used to have half a dozen panels devoted to the game. They used to even have a two hour panel dedicated to lore questions. We haven't seen that panel in years. Now we get one Q&A panel that lasts only an hour and has to handle the whole game. Considering half the questions are about something explained in detail three hours earlier, then a quarter of done through a cringe nerve wracked host, it's very disappointing.
No he shouldn't. I've never watched a Blizzcon with the virtual ticket, nor have i personally met anyone who watched it, and it not be a a horrible experience. A great example, me and my girlfriend last year had to each buy the virtual ticket as we weren't living in the same city at the time. Both of us had high speed broadband capable of streaming 4k videos and movies, but we couldn't watch together as we would both get random stops in the steam for 2-5 seconds a time, and if we paused the steam it made it very difficult to go back to the point we were on.
The Blizzcon steam quality is always very poor for everyone I've ever met.
I have no understanding of your second comment. I'll try and understand, so before Overwatch it was expensive. Overwatch came out, and then it was the "correct value", but we had no Diablo content last year, so was it cheap last year? If we have Diablo this year is it the "correct" price or at a cheaper price? Also are all games priced the same? Is Hearthstone worth as much as World of Warcraft? Do esports count towards the cost even though every other gaming convention streams them for free? The cost of esports is important, because the convention took over a new wing last year which was absorbed by esports content. Also allowed them to sell more tickets, but ignore that. I mean Blizzard haven't increased Blizzcon to three days, so i'm confused at what wholly new content has been added within those two days that wasn't taken from other content that was there.
Also if there is a lot more content at Blizzcon now then last year or even the year before, why hasn't the "physical" ticket price increased since 2014?
Nobody is crying, but people are upset. Blizzard talks a lot community especially at Blizzcon, but this move only makes it harder for people to feel apart of the "Blizzard community" It flies in the face of the BS they'll try and shovel at the convention. People are upset, because it's a very obvious greed driven move by Blizzard.
Blizzard have said Blizzcon doesn't make any money in the past, but in 2017+2018 those numbers just don't add up anymore. I'll be very generous and say the convention centre doesn't cost more than $200k to rent for the weekend. I've no doubt Blizzard will get a discount based on their loyalty to the convention centre.
Physical ticket sales alone raise almost $7 Million. Being conservative of say 3 quarters of a million virtual ticket purchases is another potential 18-19 Million. Do Blizzard really need the extra 5-7 million to run Blizzcon before sponsorships?
Even homeless people can afford $50. The problem is the value, if the digital items are great then it's worth it. The content itself is almost meaningless as most of the important panels (like the opening ceremony) are free or available online shortly afterwards. Overall and in my opinion, the virtual tickets aren't worth it.
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Does anyone know when they will release the details of the World of Warcraft in-game loot? Think we will get a mount? Hopefully we do. If the mount looks really epic, I will most likely buy it.
I'm not complaining about the price, I'm calling out your bullshit.
Just because you're angry doesn't change reality, and belittling people because you're more successful is pathetic. You would be up to your neck in filth if it wasn't for blue collar workers.
Get over yourself.
And if you don't value your money, I have a nickel to sell you for $100.
Um no I see precisely the opposite, most people are saying it's not worth it.
Also I know quite a few people on six figure incomes and none of them spend any time telling people to stop being poor on gaming forums. Most of them are too busy and also too gracious for that shit. I'm casting serious doubt on your little life story you've got going there.
Oh, this post just reminded me that I haven't purchased my virtual ticket yet.
Thanks!
I don't know about your surroundings, but boy, you seem out of touch with reality. $100.- an hour is a lot for most people. Did you know the median income for a family in the Netherlands is $43.254? And we're far from a third world country. The median family income in the US is $57,230 to $59,039, the median income in canada is a bit over 70,336.
To say that $100,- isn't a lot either says a lot about your spending habbits, and your view on the world. I dont mind, if you got it, flaunt it, but don't say it "isn't a lot these days", that's just a factual lie. On the other hand, it's possible that you live at your parents house, and only know income figures from MTV, and therefore have a warped world view, in which case I pity you when you start working.
I dont make 250k a year, thank god, I would have to have a busy job and no time for WoW, or shitposting on MMOchamp :-)
I do agree on your statement regarding caviar, seldom was something as overrated as those slimey blobs of cold salty water, yuck. (same like oysters, waste of money)
It wont personally cost me a penny because I have capped my battlenet balance at £200 by buying wow tokens and have a subscription that runs to nearly the end of 2019 also from wow tokens.... Tokens that I bought with gold from Legion order hall missions for basically no extra effort (beyond 10 mins on the Legion app each day). There's nothing in game really worth spending gold on other than the AH mount (which I can almost afford now) so why wouldn't I use some battlenet balance on the virtual ticket ?
They should sell game based tickets, as in virtual tickets just for WoW or Diablo fans and etc..
50$ is a lot to ask for a bloody Virtual Ticket in which the content I can watch a few days after or u know in some..places..for..free..
just think about it ... $50 for an ingame pet? other pets from the store are $10. arguing $50 isn’t worth it is perfectly reasonable. maybe if it’s a cool mount who knows ... then again I believe $40 is more than enough since it’s essentially free money for blizzard - the ingame rewards and the actual convention would be there even without virtual ticket.