Argentina Battle.net Accounts Payment Policy Change and again Prices changes

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Heads up! Blizzard just changed their policy and all cards not in Argentinian Currency are now being declined. I’ve been in contact with Support I live in South America.

GM Answer: “Thanks for contacting us. Due to new payment regulations that came in 2 days ago its been causing problems for any card trying to make ARS payments unless they are native to that Currency, this is not something we are able to bypass ourselves so if you are using your own bank account you should be fine for payments :)”

Also Blizzard increased AGAIN the prices on Battle.net shop for the LAN customers. Early this year they changed the subs prices to:

6 month ARS1,730.00 =18.87 United States Dollar

3 month ARS930.00 = 10.14 usd

1 month ARS 330.00= 3.60 United States Dollar

and now to:

6 month ARS$3.400,00 = 37.07 United States Dollar

3 month ARS$1.800,00 = 19.63 United States Dollar

1 month ARS$ 650,00 = 7.09 United States Dollar

For those that are saying "You still pay half the price, compared to us, EU/US players. " - The price is $7 but we end up paying $16 for taxes. Is eat or play.

I hope Blizzard finds a solution since for many of us legit players from LAN (Latin America).

The silliest part of this is that the other payment method they accept is PayU, which is the method that allows you to pay with the currency of the specific country only for example Rappipay which you print out a receipt and go and pay in ARS or with PayU with an Argentinan Credit or Debit Card.

TL;DR: you can’t pay with a international credit card on LAN Blizzard accounts anymore. Also Blizzard doubled the prices on Battle.net Shop, again!

UPDATE: to gift balance on Argentinian accounts you need an Argentinian credit card! Also you can’t gift your own balance anymore.

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they don’t care about latin america anymore. They raised the price here in brazil too, after 6 month from the last raise.

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Damn, didn’t know you guys had such cheap prices. I’m from 3rd world country and have to pay 15$ for a month of gametime. Thought it’s same everywhere.

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Well played.

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Same issue here.

This screws over any international student / military service member stationed down here.

Funny thing is PayU uses a ton of banks from Brazil / Mexico so they pretty much just blacklisting all US intuitions from making payments.

I’ve never seen any game cards or blizzard balance cards at any store around me… and due to my job I am not allowed to have any open foreign accounts.

Customer service has no solution besides lie and state I live in the USA. Which funny enough sounds like a gray area for tax fraud on their side.

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As a Student that is studying abroad at University of Buenos Aires living here for over a year and potential staying here to teach younger generations the English language for a few more years to come, this ruins me. my bank is located in America and this is my only way of having a sort of reality and feeling like I’m home again playing with my friends… I recently thought that I was the only one affected by this but it’s just not me being singled out… highly upset on how Blizzard is handling this situation and they should be a shame to do this to a huge part of there community

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Interesting.

Different economies, different prices.

It’s pathetic to see that they keep squeezing the costumer specially during this times that nothing has fully recover yet economy wise (and it might never will)

I wouldnt expect any sort of empathy from this forum anyway. Specially when people believe you pay less than them and they don’t know the economy in other places of the world.

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I think some people were using VPN to take advantage of lower prices outside the US.
Sucks that legit players were caught in the crossfire.

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I said this in another post but im wondering why arent you posting about this? i dont see people complaining and posts about gas prices changing daily and food prices changing.

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Achei que não gostava de brincar com brasileiros.

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I don’t know much about SA currencies but damn that’s a tough price hike if that’s a fair bit of cash

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Two different topics, neither does well in GD.

This one for example is from another country which US people will never understand how it works.

If they see people paying less than 60-70 usd for 6 months they will flame the OP because it’s easier to speak from the ignorance stance than actually understanding how economics work in other places of the world.

And the real life things… it’s like making a crusade against the big bad goy that recently got money from stocks. The richer will always get richer unless they do some moronic market move and lose everything in matter of minutes.

I’m not sure what’s your point in quoting me saying things that to me makes no sense to discuss on the internet and it wont change no matter how much you dislike it.

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And you think that happens in Argentina due to the socio-economic and political problems due to populist socialism, as it happens the same in Bolivia and Venezuela.

The problem is worldwide about what is happening with the new WoW subs purchase system.

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That is crazy because when I moved here and had to change my region they required two utility bills to prove my new address on top of my ID…

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They probably did it to stop fraudulent Argentinian accounts created by Americans living in America but using a VPN just to get a cheaper sub price.

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yep, Brazil has no local server , the office was closed (well, the brazilian office was full of “bad” managers, but closing it still a problem) and they are rising prices here more than in other locations…i don’t know why.

Ok brazil is a huge mega country but, stop that blizzard.

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Great, blizzard once again killing the game for all people who are not in the US what a great douchebag move from them, greedy as hell.

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It is cheap when transferred to dollars, but in pesos it’s not.

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You can blame botters and multiboxers for that. On a server I was on there was an American guy 10boxing a mage team to nuke people’s world buffs (classic) turned out he had 9 of the accounts in Argentina so he was barely paying a couple subs for that luxury.

And before someone talks about how that’s just wpvp and you should expect it or not all multiboxxers are like that, you have to admit that it’s a good way to attract a lot of negative attention to your accounts which leads to blizz investigating.

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That’s interesting, does this mean that some players pay higher to subsidize the players paying lower? I had no idea that some people paid more, and some people paid less.