I love this site.
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Blame exchange rates. Not blizz
That’s 27 trillion and counting I guess. That is sort of a depressing site, imagine if a person had debt accumulating like that.
Have you not been reading these threads - this isn’t an exchange rate issue.
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Wow, that’s not too bad - only seven trillion in four years (since Saint Barry left office) - and that includes the Covid money we all got earlier this year…
Is the CaD worth less than the dollar y/n?
just because you repeated does not mean it’s true it is an exchange rate issue it’s blizzard finally updating the price. They did it to the Australians as well.
You have give away Joe coming - hold on to your hats.
I like to think that it’s both. The exchange rate encourages an increase - and, Blizzard increased the sub fee because they CAN. Welcome to capitalism…
It isn’t due to the exchange rate. The rate has been pretty stable since they switched us to paying in Canadian dollar.
xbox game pass is a good price i find. $5 a month for a hundred odd games.
that sort of thinking is what caused wow to go from 12 million players in 2009 to 3 million players as of warlords. to the point blizzard refused to publish active sub accounts because they had lost millions of paying subs through sheer arrogance towards their fans.
Telling people we don’t care about you, go ahead and unsub. We don’t need your subs, go pound sand.
Except of you change the rates after conversion it’s the same price being paid right now, they will be charging $2.26 USD more to play a month after conversion is already factored in. There’s no excuse for it aside from the fact there’s a new digital tax coming next year in Canada so the current sub price that didn’t change from 19$ will jump to about 22$ as well.
We don’t have Canadian servers because there is ZERO need for them. I get 25ms latency from the Chicago one. What would I need a server in Quebec or BC where my latency would be higher than that for.
We pay $18.99/month right now, which is equivalent to $14.99 USD. Bumping it up to $21.99/month is an increase of roughly $3 that US don’t have to pay.
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I believe how well we’re doing is based on Debt minus our GDP. Our Debt is 27.4 Trillion, and GDP is worth about 21.3 trillion according to that site. Which would mean we’re at a Deficit of 6.1 Trillion.
I am sure there is a line in the eula that says “subject to change” regarding probably everything.
i’d really love to see people try to sue blizzard cuz they increased their subs. 
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Well they hit the Aussies a few months back, now the Canucks. I am willing to bet the rate here in the US will increase in the near future too.
Anyone know if there was an increase in the European or Asian markets?
Those were limited in the way that the Murloc pets were and you weren’t purchasing the pet, you were purchasing the collector’s item which contained the pet or you were tuning in to Blizzcon (or there in person) and you got a pet. Another example would be the Tyreal pet that was only obtainable by going to a European Blizz event or paying someone $1-10k (at the time) on ebay.
What Sabetha is talking about are items that were open to everyone and other than those rare items which were tied to Collector’s Items or Blizz related events, all the content was in the game itself.
It’s been so long and the world is just used to it now, but people were adamant at the time that ANY cash items were going to kill this game. Faction transfers weren’t even two months old. The game was going from zero microtransactions to an actual cash shop with items for sale. People got mocked for saying it would only be a matter of time before Blizz was just straight up selling gold and kept insisting that cosmetic items were fine because they were cosmetic AND it would keep sub prices locked because cosmetics would drive sales.
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Correct, it’s a tax issue.
Either way it isn’t Blizz trying to gouge the leafs.
It isn’t a ‘tax’ issue either because they aren’t collecting taxes yet (at least on most of us) that change goes into play next July. Or at least not directly, they might have figured it was going to cost them more in terms of ‘paperwork’ to submit this and started making us pay for Trudeau yet again.