topkek.
https://www.wowhead.com/news=290773/new-firework-and-transmorpher-toys-now-on-sale-on-in-game-shop-25-of-proceeds-to
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If you think this is new, or even that blizzard is the first company to do this, you need to do more research.
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I would have liked to see 100% of all toy sales within 30 days, go towards the tournament. After that, Blizzard can have it all.
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They’re just selling toys.
The money all goes to the same place, and it all comes from it. This is just PR / Advertising to sell more and distract people from the fact that they’re selling toys now.
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yep its messed up. pay your own prize pool
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./sigh While I certainly would have liked to have seen a higher percentage of the purchase go towards the prize pool… You do realize that you don’t become a Billion Dollar Company by giving things away for free, yes?
Moreover, tournaments like this do cost quite a bit to set up. Computers, electricity, servers to play on, custom environments have to be built and managed by Developers who need to be paid, diverting them from other tasks or delaying those tasks significantly. Network engineers (who are not cheap), event hosting fees, the equipment and personnel to record, stream and manage viewership. Commentators, and stats gathering and analysis. The Prize pool would otherwise have to come out of the projected viewership profits, and it may simply be that they don’t feel the income from viewership would provide enough profit versus the overhead of hosting the tournament to give a sufficient prize pool to attract enough marketable talent to give enough of a viewership to make profit or even pay for the overhead.
And while you can write it all off as advertisement expenses… what about the expectation it sets for next year?
Again, I would like for more of the cost to go to the people competing, but it most certainly is not pitchfork and torch worthy to be upset over Blizzard making sure that the tournament isn’t a giant black hole in their budget.
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Go to an NFL,NBA,MLB game and buy a 9 dollar soda. Where do you think that funding goes to. I would rater buy a reusable toy for years then a soda that will be gone in about an hour. The big thing is just don’t buy the freaking toy. It gives you no better chance at loot or added stats.
You can always go play Gw2,BDO,Archage,ESO where you have to buy back half the game they stripped away just to sell it back to you for cash.
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Better yet do you think Pepsi, Taco Bell, Frito Lay give away money? Do you think you don’t pay for the prize inside your Cracker Jack? No company on this planet just gives stuff away and I can tell you they don’t give you a choice. This is a choice to buy or don’t buy. They can always just raise your sub cost a buck and fund it that way.
You think corporations don’t factor in the cost of everything including give away into the cost of the product’s your buying?
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Because its not worth it to blizz to devote resources into esports. Esports are a niche market and not mainstream. Last tourney on twitch had like 23k viewers. Thats not worth investing money into .
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Oh no, a Billion dollar company that sells products to fund and sponsor stuff. How dare Walmart and Target do that.
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What was that delightful phrase I heard the other day?
“If they’re not charging you anything for using it, you are the product.”
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Blizzard puts up a new shop item on the shop with no explanation:
“OMG blizzard money grabbing us again! Where does that money even go? No transparency, evil greedy company!”
Blizzard puts an item in the shop and explains what it’s funding:
“OMG blizzard fund your own stuff! Why would I buy that?! I don’t even like what your funding!! Evil greedy company!”
GD never ceases to entertain me.
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Exactly this is what I was thinking.
pft…how about a 40 dollar baseball cap?
or anything merchandised for that fact.
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If these people owned a business they would do the same thing but it’s not an option for them. This has been going on since trading pelts in the 1800’s. You had to factor in distance, team of men, supplies, equipment and a trade was made.
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Dont forget swtor. They gutted their free to play model of qol features. It’s pretty much unplayable for free.
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Im a fan, because now atleast I know if I dont want to support WoW esports I dont have to.
Due to this, hopefully the people who like the esports can support it themselves. and my $15 a month can go towards content development.
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Me I just wanted the toy and gave them 10 bucks. Do with it what you like but I have the toy in my possession now. I dare you to pry it from my cold dead hands.
transformer toy is pretty kewl
Radical thought - don’t buy it if you don’t support it.
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