come up with a payment plan that feels fair to both you and us as players,something like a onetime payment of $1000 or $1500 excluding expansions and other optional purchases
I mean considering how much a year sub costs, thatâs gunna be quite the discount
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Companies only do that when they really need the money right away. Usually for a new game just coming out.
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Reminds me of the story that came out a little while ago of some company that sold lifetime subs for some service I donât remember what. Then a new company bought that company and unilaterally cancelled all their lifetime subs and told all the people who bought them to pay monthly instead. In a rational world, those people should have been able to sue them. But we donât live in a rational world it seems.
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so⌠take what one pays yearly, multiply it by maybe 90 years, then add a 20% discount off?
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The only problem with this is what would one consider a âlifetimeâ? Because I assumed the longest which is about 90 to 100+ and used the current year subscription rate of 13+ dollars including tax (I also was not gonna do the math to see the tax rate so just bumped it up to a flat $13 dollars a month for 12 months).
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Looking at the cost of âlifetime accessâ to games that are a one-time purchase, no price for a âlifetime subâ to WoW is going to look attractive. Sure, some people might actually pay hundreds or (more likely) thousands of dollars for a lifetime sub, but most will look at that and think thatâs outrageous when you can buy other full games for $70 or less. A âlowâ sub cost monthly obscures how much the game costs in the long run.
Itâs kinda like why things are typically priced at x.99 instead of x.00. Itâs a marketing trick.
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Nah im good. Thats just going to result in more micro transactions because they still want to make money.
Its like asking for the game to go F2P, its a double edged sword.
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Just add a rare broto AH mount to the lifetime sub to entice people to purchase it.
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Not sure why, since you canât be certain how long WOW will continue on for, or how long you will live, or be in a situation where you have internet access and a place to play WOW at.
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Itâd probably be a few thousand dollars at least, no joke.
I was looking at my subscription fees over the years- easily more than $2k spent on the $15 a month WoW fees lol.
I mean, a whole year is about $150 before getting into discounts, if you only pay for a month at a time.
So, thatâs about ~13 years of gameplay or so? $2,000 will get you about that much, if it only goes towards subscription fees.
Not counting box prices, services, or any in-game store stuff like WoWtoken.
At the very least, I can see a one-time payment being $1k at the minimum.
But yeah Iâm never fully âlocked inâ because I donât like to shackle myself to one game, when thereâs always tons of stuff to enjoy.
Even in all my 20 years of playing, it was never the only game I was invested in.
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Itâs funny how I can buy an Assassinâs Creed game and they just sort of update it infinitely.
I donât understand how that would be any different than just having your subscription set to auto-renew.
I guess the only difference would be youâd never have to worry about changing bank accounts or something, but thatâs about it 
I donât think this is feasible because when you buy a subscription for X period of time, Blizzard is committing to running the game for that period of time. They canât commit to âforeverâ, and realistically they are probably only willing to commit to a few years out at most.
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Thatâs a massive discount if the game lasts that long. Minimizing it to $12.99/mo cuz of buying in bulk, thatâs only enough to pay for 77 months for $1,000, or 116 months for $1,500.
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Thatâs right at 10 years. That would probably be a safe bet for Blizz.
In 10 years from now, I would be blown away if Blizz was still sub-only and not on FTP with premium.
Not that I think they would do it. But 10 years of revenue upfront from people that probably wonât even play that long is a win/win. Not to mention, the money will be worth more to them now with inflation than it will be over the next 10 years unless they have a sub price hike in the works.
If you were playing when tokens came out in WoD, you basically could get a lifetime subscription. Then they restricted them.
yeah, the user always gets the short end on this crap.
When I pay by the round the golf course treats me like a paying customer.
The 3 seasons I gave them way too much money for a membership for the year, they treated me like a second class citizen because they know they got my money and theres nothing I can do about it now.
NEVER prepay for anything
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Isnât constant cash flow better than ââtemporaryââ?
Only if they are increasing the cost of the sub with inflation. Currently, we pay much less than we should be because they never increased the price. Or to put it another wayâŚour subs become less and less valuable for them every year. For example, we are still paying 14.99 instead of the 24.76 that it should be when inflation is taken into accountâŚand 10 years from now it will be closer to 31 dollars.
So getting the money up front in this case is the better optionâŚand can generate even more money depending on how they use it.
Not to mention that this would be a guranteed sub for itâs duration and the player couldnât get their money back if they decided to stop playing or even died.
If blizzard just keeps making more brutos, they donât need to have lifetime subs because theyâll make so much money