I could see that ye. For example Customer Service is really big and it's only a loss. So some others have to be very high profits. Marketing is maybe even higher expenses than customer service even and need to make that money back too.
I work at IT department of a decently sized house appliances shop. A lot of the things we sell are at break even, some even at a loss. Additional services is the highest margin market for us, like the "We'll setup Windows for you for 60" or "Additional year of product insurance for 100". Almost all profit.
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ACtivision-Blizzard does.ACtivision does not. Activision also answers to Activision-Blizzard. Activision and Blzzard are two separate companies with their own CEO's who answer to Activision-Blizzard who has it's own CEO. Activision does not report to Blizzard and vice versa. People need to correctly understand the corporate structure.
its funny how you say this but many classes will not replace their classic epics till level 70, and some of them wont even be replaced till phase 2.
like literally neltharions teir, an item from BWL is BIS for warlcoks phase 1.
Even after doing TBC raids, neltharions teir is still the best.
the non-cynical part of me always thinks that these things tend to be this way as a means of getting ppl to think twice before blindly impulse buying things. if the price is in a certain range you would hope that more ppl would think 'do I really need this' where as a 10$ boost is something everyone and their mom is going to blindly buy without a second thought.
too cheap and it becomes trivial
too expensive and no one buys it
sweet spot that makes ppl think about the shit they are buying? i'm not simping for blizzard they could be charging as much as they think they can get away with purely for the $$ but I don't like being cynical all the time.
I'd like to think that they'd rather ppl play the game as opposed to buying boosted characters or at least get ppl to think 'can I level my own character vs spending money on one' and at least having ppl entertain that thought.
look at it this way, to blizzard it doesn't really matter if you buy a boosted char or level one up, you're gunna be subbed for x amount of months anyway. it seems just purely a convenience thing, similarly any feature that could get ppl writing more support tickets is obviously going to require GMs who make what min wage?. in the end it is a business so the cost of doing something has to be outweighed.
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Ha, yea, two weeks. I spent years gearing my character and you think it'll take 2 weeks to get to that level? It's going to be painful to run around TBC leveling a fresh toon while fighting players in T3 or T2.5 gear. So I either pay2win the $15 fee or run around getting ganked by those who are willing to spend money. They should just give it to everyone or not sell it at all.
The problem I have is that I play on PvP servers, which means if I don't take my geared toons and level them then boosted level 58's are going to gank my new TBC leveling toon. So that means I either take my toons off Vanilla and forget Vanilla exists or pay money to clone and level peacefully and still have a geared toon in Vanilla. Sounds like pay2win. Also sounds like a problem Blizzard created and are now offering a solution for a fee.
There's already a weakaura that automatically spits on a player riding that deluxe edition lizard. I was in SW yesterday and I saw 10+ people /spit on the same guy at the same time.
Great success.
Well ... they are not allowing pve to pvp server transfer, so no, they are not greedy
Eh, tbn i believe such services should be included with the sub.
Because, you know, premium or not, we already pay a pricy base game + x-packs and a monthly sub on top of that.... paying those aren't premium enough?
People being ok with those is madness to me, but whatever. I never bought one of those services and i never will, and not because i lack the money. I just don't understand it and i would never vote with my wallet towards it.
To each its own i guess, but people reacting against people not liking that as they are entitled... well, we have the right to be paying those quotas.
Shits fucked up.
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You forgot to add the base game. Oh, and for us here since the start, we also paid every x-pack so long. And also, yeah, i laugh at people saying classic is "free" when i have here the box i once paid and the stupid amount of money i payed as a sub over the years.
I never understood they charge so much for those services when, well, most of them (Like name change) should be something you should be allowed once in a time given, you know, that you pay to support that kind of operations monthly.