Changes to Purchasable Game Time Options

[Lumy]

Changes to Purchasable Game Time Options

We recently conducted a review on the available services in all currencies. Based on this, we have decided to alter the available Game Time options in the Blizzard Shop. As of today, the Game Time options of 30, 90, and 180 days have been removed and Game Time is only available as a purchase of 60 Days.

North America

• New Game Time Option - USD
• 60 Days Game Time - $29.99

Europe

• New Game Time Option - EURO
• 60 Days Game Time - €25.99

Please note that currently, the options and pricing for the purchase of both WoW subscriptions and WoW Tokens will remain unaffected. Also, any Game Time that has already been purchased for an account will not be affected by this.

We appreciate that players choose to spend their time with World of Warcraft, and we are committed to ensuring the game continues to provide players with great entertainment value.

If you would like to review your World of Warcraft Game Time and payment method, you can do so through Blizzard Account Management at any time.

[Eapoe]

Oh I can’t wait for the hate to come from this.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

But why? If you want just a month or longer you can sub and then unsub so what’s the point of making the one time purchase limited?

[Poe]

What the fuck man

[Biggles Worth]

Just, wow.

[Railander]

so they removed the 6 months option? i imagine that was a great deal for them as probably a lot of people (including me) bought it even though they only played for half the time or less, so i don't really know why they would remove it.

[Dread Pirate Phayde]

Well that's rather shitty, I generally bought the 6 month to save. This will definitely cause me to rethink maintaining an ongoing sub.

[Samitsu]

So basically they just removed all the discounts from non-subscriptions.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Well that's rather shitty, I generally bought the 6 month to save. This will definitely cause me to rethink maintaining an ongoing sub.

This isn’t for subs it’s just one them game time buys you can still sub for 6 months at the reduced price.

[Razorice]

So, no more 30 day plans?
This is rather bad for consumers who want to get back into the game on new patch/expansion laaunches for a couple of weeks.

[zhorteye]

The old subs are still available, you just have to look deeper for it.

[Zan15]

gotta pay for those bonuses some how

[Tsaza]

This change seems to be only in the store.

[Dread Pirate Phayde]

This isn’t for subs it’s just one them game time buys you can still sub for 6 months at the reduced price.

Oh okay, I didn't realize that, thanks for the explanation.

[BetrayedOf52]

So basically they just removed all the discounts from non-subscriptions.

I thought subscriptions and discounts stay the same, this only effects if you buy the time as a one time purchase on their store similar to the old game time card?

[SinR]

This doesn't affect Sub Pricing at all, so its moot for many people.

All the same, only allowing the 60day "Game Cards" to be purchased is kinda... yeah.

[Gurbz]

So many people are going to fail at reading comprehension and think this affects the subscriptions rather than the one-time purchase of game time.

I wonder why they did this? And why 60 days? To push more people to the subscriptions, I guess. But isn't that already the overwhelming way people pay for the game already?

[Lorgar Aurelian]

So, no more 30 day plans?
This is rather bad for consumers who want to get back into the game on new patch/expansion laaunches for a couple of weeks.

People can still do that they just need to take the extra step of ending there sub after they put it up so it doesn’t renew.

[DarkAmbient]

What's the difference between game time and subscription?

[FelPlague]

But why? If you want just a month or longer you can sub and then unsub so what’s the point of making the one time purchase limited?

You can still buy 1 month, 3 month, and 6 month reaccuring subs, its just you cant buy 1/3/6 month additional months anymore.