The really odd thing is that I play multiple MMOs, and most of them just charge $15 USD and let it convert. Blizzard has managed to set their supposedly adjusted price to actually come out to more than I usually get dinged from those other games. 
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Shame that wages arenât adjusted for inflation. If so, then maybe we wouldnât be having a housing crisis.
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Wages do get adjusted, if youâre not getting a cost of living increase from your employer, you should look for another job.
The housing crisis is because zillionaires are buying up housing and leaving it vacant as âinvestmentsâ. Has nothing to do with wages.
Most jobs donât get adjusted. Go ask the retail and fast food workers.
âLook for another jobâ? So itâs okay that we allow jobs to pay wages below the poverty line? Cuz when people say that they that means that they acknowledge that the job doesnât pay enough to live off of, yet donât demand that change.
Wages do factor into it, as does letting rich write the laws and neuter regulations.
You mean how the game is actually $15/ month and coverts to their currency ?
That is all this is. They are not rasing the cost of playing the game , they are adjusting due the the currency conversion .
All Blizz gets once the funds clear from the foreign banks into the bank where BLizz has its account is $15/person/month
kinda sad ukraine is going up, poor people have enough problems as it is 
I do understand currency exchange rate, and hope lots of them took the 12 month option not long ago
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Blizzard sets the price in Canada to 22 dollars. That works out to more than 15 dollars American converted to our money. WoW is actually the most expensive MMO I pay for.
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Yeah it is funny , what is funnier is the currency you get via b-net balance that was 18 bucks for a very long time, now is 22 CAD digital per token. I am not mentioning also the digital tax that has come in when purchasing digital items that way, which is understandable due to digital-financial laws.
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Donât forget the bank conversion fee or whatever it is that I got when I paid a long time ago via credit card here that is taken is a couple of bucks from the consumer which Blizzard ends up getting more than 15 bucks anyway you look at it.
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Sorry but youâre not getting $20 an hour flipping big Mac patties at McDonaldâs
A manager position at a McDonaldâs joint? Or a district manager? Yeah itâs justified to have a high pay
GoshâŚ.I donât recall so much empathy for all those other people in war-ravaged countries who had to still pay the sub fees, while their economies fell apart, just to play WoWâŚ.
WeirdâŚâŚI wonder what changedâŚâŚ
Did they change it in the past year?
Because last time I looked (which was like less than a year ago), a subscription is still $18.99 for Canada.
If you buy a chunk of game time, itâs $22 for a month, which most people assumed is because of Trudeauâs new (in 2021) tax on digital goods, which doesnât apply to subscriptions, but would apply to a chunk of game time.
Whereas (assuming that is indeed WHY they increased the price) - Blizzard operates in California, which has no tax on Digital Goods period. I live in California, for instance, and I can buy the a game/expansion from them online for the price tag they list it for. No tax at all. If it says $89.99, I get it for $89.99. Whereas if someone lives in Texas, they have to pay tax. (I know cause I have a friend who lives in Texas who hates me for it lol) This is most likely why the US hasnât seen an increase like Canada for game time chunks - as Blizzard is based in California.
Hereâs the blue post where it explicitly states that the Subscriptions wonât be affected by the price increase, only chunks of game time before someone thinks Iâm pulling the âSubscriptions should be the same priceâ outta nowhere:
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If you canât live on a McDonalds salary then get a better paying job. Itâs hilarious that some people expect to live a life on luxury from no skill and low skill jobs.
I didnt realize being ânot homelessâ was now considered a life of luxury.
The min wage was 100% designed to allow even low skill workers the ability toâŚwell. Survive.
I guess ânot starving to deathâ is now considered a luxury in America.
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Itâs time to learn to eat on a budget or acquire the skills you need to get a better paying job.
Ok. So if a person is homeless and unable to afford proper foodâŚyou feel they suddenly will have the money to stop working and whatâŚgo to college or a tech school?
Please walk me through this.
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I remember when working at a McDonaldâs was considered a kids first job or something you did during summertime to make some cash. It was always a stepping stone or a learning experience.
Now youve got âgrownâ adults who give awful service and always get your order wrong demanding higher wages.
There was a time id fight for these folks. Id always agree they deserved more money and that so did everybody else too. I was never one for the crabs in a bucket mentality so long as you understood that the fast food worker should still be making less than a paramedic
Ive changes my opinion on this though. These folks dont want to improve. They want more handouts. A lifetime of awful experiences has me begging for automation. If I can get a Big Mac thats made correctly by a robot who wont give me dirth looks for daring to walk inside the restaurant than bring on the machines.
They did this to themselves
I absolutely applaud you for generalizing 100% of all workers.
HonestlyâŚwhatever job you work inâŚits full of no one but silly people that want hand outs.
You dont deserve good service.
The McDonaldâs here pays $21/hour because they literally could not hold people.
Also, Minimum Wage is supposed to be liveable.
People like you who think minimum wage is only for teenagers are so beyond logic. If that was true, those places would only be open on the weekends and from 4 PM - 8 PM.
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Im generalizing my experience as a customer and thats not up for debate billy.