Not to mention, locking someone into a six month sub is just better. If someone pays for six, but only uses three before they get bored, etc they save money…
I do feel this change is for people who buy the game time as a gift for their friends. I am not sure it’s possible to gift a sub. Wonder what this now means for those who pay with tokens. They probably have to pay more now since they are not using CC/paypal.
So long as you’re on the automatic subscription plan then the price hasn’t increased. It’s just if you buy the actual 30 days game time from the battle net shop(which is different from the Token).
The whole thing started because I was pointing out to people who kept saying “But your sub hasn’t increased in 16 years” that that’s not a fair way of looking at it because Blizzard has added quite a bit of other monetization to the game.
16 years ago we’d get the full game for the cost. Today we don’t, specifically because of the cosmetic shop items.
Tokens actually convert to $21.99 now to align with the price increase.
So using a Token for 30 days or balance will net the same result.
Thanks, Sab
Okay, so I do disagree. Our SUB actually hasn’t changed. I have never purchased the shiny stuff so I have been steadily paying the same for a LONG time.
Interesting. Almost surprising for Blizzard. However, they probably feel it would hurt their token sales if they locked people out like that. So, probably wasn’t out of goodness of their hearths.
$3.83 USD. Just checked. While it isn’t that much, I don’t know why they would chose now to jack their rates.
This does mean we get more balance per gold spent now, allowing us to use less gold if we want to use that to fund character services or buy items from the cash shop.
I guess that’s a silver lining?
Feels like a test to do the same in the USA though. More incentive to sub over buy time to say “yeah we have subs! see?”
The sub hasn’t changed no(well for me it did, but that’s another thing) however to simply state that and act like we should be grateful because of it is being dishonest.
Because 16 years ago those cosmetics currently in the cash shop would have just been included in the game.
Yes, even though they are “optional content” that you don’t have to purchase. That’s rather irrelevant to my point.
Though admittedly, I’ve never much liked the “but it’s cosmetic so it’s okay” argument either.
My guess: end of year numbers to present to stockholders
Is this even legal without informing people… though?
fact. if you think this has anything to do with blizzard trying to milk their playerbases in tertiary countries and is not a direct response to changes in monetary value and increased taxation by incompetent governments you are fooling yourself. just google ‘rising prices of video games in canada’ or ‘rising canadian internet subscription costs’ and you will get a whole slew of articles on the issues. its not because the companies are evil and want to milk people(though they are lol), its because of increased taxes, regulations, fees, etc and decreasing monetary value in result to bad governmental policies.
you should be complaining to your congressman or whatever you folks have up there.
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Oh, I’m not acting grateful. I think it is a little high to begin with!
Not sure. I’d have to look up the Federal Trade Commission rules or something - and I used up most of my brain cells doing all of that math above…
Unless they also increased prices for that too. xD
They haven’t yet!
Was character boost always 75CAD? Feels like it was 60 in the past.
eh, americans tend to spend more time working and work harder so it’s fair tbh.
It should also be noted that when they launched the first cash shop pets, people LOUDLY complained that they were a slippery slope which would lead to a lot of the monetized things we have now and have just accepted but 16 years ago would have gotten the game labelled as either P2W or a giant rip off.
The argument THEN was that the reason it was fine was because it would keep the price of game time down and as long as they were making money from cosmetic items, they wouldn’t need to increase game time.
16 years later, I guess they aren’t making enough money off those pets nor the 100 other “death by papercuts” microtransactions that are now baked into this game’s DNA.
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