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  1. #41
    you pay for access - if you don't use it, it's on you
    i suppose it would be much more expensive if blizz changed it to pay for playtime in the west

    quality bait nonetheless

  2. #42
    Quote Originally Posted by Klueade View Post
    If you pay for a month but only play 2 days worth of that time you should be compensated for your next purchase of game time.
    So the following purchase of gametime, the time spent not playing prior should roll over into a race/faction change, or something of that nature.
    I'm not saying it has to be a race/faction change but it makes sense to keep players playing to some degree.
    Anyways what's your thoughts?
    That's like being told to Hold your breath for 1 hour. After that hour we will refund you the unused oxygen.

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    The treating of my example(free faction/race change) as if it is a refund is not analogous.

    Though I guess it's fair enough that you can just unsub, play more, or even try for a refund.

    If they did prepare some form of compensation for not playing the game, I'd hate to see the disappointment in the player base that actually plays the game...I have more to add but I'm not going to bother.

  4. #44
    Quote Originally Posted by Couchpotato2013 View Post
    I am pretty sure since legion or bfa they haven’t done that (aka pay for minutes). Instead they pay a sub like us but then are restricted (heavily encouraged) to abide by a 5 hours on 3 hours off paradigm.

    And to be honest I would be rather interested to see how certain regions would freak out if their governments went beyond the usual lockdown on gambling and instituted what China has done. Would probably do those people a load of good too.

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    The flipside of that argument though is the usual order something really really large and if you can finish it then you get your meal free and with some reward.

    So if wow were to do the inane thing that op wants then why not the above situation?
    Isn't that in a way what the in-game gold for playtime is though? If you play a massive amount then you should be able to play wow essentially for free.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sondrelk View Post
    While I agree it could be an interesting idea, it does seem like it has several potential pitfalls.

    For one it would require establishing what the baseline amount of playtime is for a month of play. Obviously it cannot be a full 30 days of 24 hour playtime.
    Maybe something like 4 hours each day for 30 days. But then you would have to consider whether the timer is 4 hours x 30 days, or whether it is a daily 4 hour timer.

    Seems like it might be an idea that could work, though it would require massive amounts of iteration before it can be one something useful.
    there is also the issue of long qeueus people would feel like "they deserve money back for time wasted in qeue" or ask for ways to join queues and wait offline. also afking would be bad, it would be better for your wallet to literally just log off instead of run around oribos waiting for a queue.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Klueade View Post
    The treating of my example(free faction/race change) as if it is a refund is not analogous.

    Though I guess it's fair enough that you can just unsub, play more, or even try for a refund.

    If they did prepare some form of compensation for not playing the game, I'd hate to see the disappointment in the player base that actually plays the game...I have more to add but I'm not going to bother.
    If they did add it, then people online would find out and demand others to add it, and then we'll just have more expensive services because we'll be paying pr. day on everything such as Audible, AmazonPrime Streaming, Disney+, Netflix, HBO, and so on. And then the mentality will spread to other services, such as internet, and phone contracts, data plans, and soon, things will up in price.
    FOMO: "Fear Of Missing Out", also commonly known as people with a mental issue of managing time and activities, many expecting others to fit into their schedule so they don't miss out on things to come. If FOMO becomes a problem for you, do seek help, it can be a very unhealthy lifestyle..

  7. #47
    My thoughts are that the hole in your head has grown too large for you to be allowed access to the internet.

  8. #48
    OP is speaking straight from the EU socialism playbook. Compensation for time not played sounds ridiculous, but watch it become an EU law.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ablib View Post
    OP is speaking straight from the EU socialism playbook. Compensation for time not played sounds ridiculous, but watch it become an EU law.
    Eh... Huge doubt on that. This is about a person who does not wish to pay for an agreed service because he/she did not use it that much. I mean. Doesn't really fit the mentality of people who pay more than they need to have access to more than they need but they have access just in case they need it. Sounds more US than EU.

    But, let's stay on topic instead of pointing fingers at political beliefs and attitudes.
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  10. #50
    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Phayde View Post
    Is Blizzard preventing you from playing? If the answer is no, and you opted not to play, there is zero reason for them to compensate you in anyway.
    Second post pretty much ended the thread.
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  11. #51
    Play Chinese Wow, where you're by-the-hour.

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    A simple "pause game time" option in the account settings should be enough.
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  13. #53
    Everyone is on you for your idea, I just want to know why the fuck you're centering your post like that. Unless you're my 66 year old mother typing poetry into Word, No. No.

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    Makes sense, unfortunately it's just bad business, companies don't want you to think about how much time you spend on their service and they make way more money with the common and widespread current model. Ask yourself what would be the equivalent of a month of gametime? 1 hour play each day? 2? Then remember all those days if not months you forgot/ignored your running subscription while not using it. This happens more often than you'd think and companies love it. This is why everything from news-sites and netflix to wow and spotify are setup with the subsciption model. They make a ton of money from people that don't actually use the service they paid for, iirc on average upwards of a third of monthly subs of any given service don't login, people simply burn themselves out one month, then skip a month though still paying for it and come back the following month to binge way more than they can sustain in the long run and repeat this cycle ad-nauseam.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Klueade View Post
    If you pay for a month but only play 2 days worth of that time you should be compensated for your next purchase of game time.
    So the following purchase of gametime, the time spent not playing prior should roll over into a race/faction change, or something of that nature.
    I'm not saying it has to be a race/faction change but it makes sense to keep players playing to some degree.
    Anyways what's your thoughts?
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    Looks like someone didn't read the Terms of Service agreement that they agreed to before being able to create a World of Warcraft account.

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    You're paying for a month of access to 100s of hours of content. That's the best way to describe the subscription, so no. It doesn't make sense to refund you unless that access is denied for reasons that don't include you not logging on or being banned.
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  18. #58
    No other subscription based digital services gives a shit if you used the product or not.

  19. #59
    People got really angry just having to talk about something in theory. Sad read.

    There is a reply in here comparing the OP's idea to breathing air. You need to take a second and think how conditioned and/or inexperienced you have to be to compare anything material to breathing air. smh

  20. #60
    wait OP could be on to something... give you in-game gold to compensate you for being subbed but not playing. This could encourage people to keep subs active while not logging in lowering overhead while increasing MAU's and profit...

    ^sort of sarcasm. no, they owe you nothing, I barely play 1-2 hours a month but still stay subbed out of habit.
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