More like greed, I bought gold to buy guild bank slots for my guild, and now that the server is dead they will not let me transfer with said gold because my toon is 20 I can only transfer with 10,000 when I have 105,000. But if I buy a level up to 50 I can transfer to the realm I want to. Bunch of greedy sht, and BS. The greed of activision and the piss poor quality of the game they have pretty much made it a xbox/playstation game. No wonder they have lost so many already.
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Since you are changing us 3 dollars more what value are you going to be adding?
Maybe bonus rolls for all Canadian accounts.
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I’m not okay with this. This seems like a precursor to raising prices elsewhere too.
The game has been giving us less and less and now they want more and more money.
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Sure, lets increase costs during a global pandemic while millions of Canadians are out of work and struggling to make ends meet. What an absolute SLAP in the face. At one time I had eight active accounts with you. I’m now down to three. With this change, I will absolutely let my other two accounts run out of game time and let them lapse. I refuse to be price gouged during a GLOBAL pandemic when money is scarce for millions of Canadians right now.
Such a scummy move to do.
I refuse to let a company that had RECORD SALES for WoW in 2019 and 2020 to gouge me out of my money.
I will make sure their bottom line is slightly smaller.
Ridiculous and absurd.
It’s probably because it’s so lightning fast to level to 50 that no one in their right mind would spend close to 80 bucks Canadian for a Character boost. I can go from 1 to 50 in half a day, even with 33% off a character boost, it’s still not worth it. So, have to gouge us in another way since boosts are flatlining now.
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The big question is how many will actually be affected by this ?
Most have a recurring sub (or should) so there is 0 price increase.
I think the idea is that by raiding ‘bulk’ game time one region at a time will move more of those that buy that to the subscription model to inflate the number of ‘active subscriptions’.
Again, put sub on, wait until charges, cancel, rinse repeat.
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If anyone is wondering, the Canadian Government is going to start taxing online services such as Netflix and I suspect games like World of Warcraft. This is probably why the cost went up.
as tax is added after the fact I highly doubt it.
This increase to bulk game time is a marketing ploy in multiple regions to move people to subscriptions. Subscription prices have not gone up so it doesn’t affect me at all as I have an active 6 month subscription.
Trudeau’s latest cash grab when it comes in will cost me an extra 5% though 
feel sorry for people in provinces with a provincial tax.
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You’d think, but this article seem to imply tax collected by foreign companies on behalf of CA is different.
“Right now, the way in which they’re delivering their services, [foreign companies are] not responsible for the collection. … And so, effectively, it would mean that these [new digital goods] charges would be appearing on [their] invoices.”
Yes much like the states in the US that force Blizzard to collect tax it will be above and beyond. Feel sorry for non-Albertans who will be paying more than 5%
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shouldn’t everyone on the North American servers be paying the same price after the exchange rates? kind of insulting imo.
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After hardly playing since wotlk there were already 2 irritating things. Rating requirement on pvp gear so the better players can crush me even more as they also get farther ahead gear-wise…and so much pve required to keep abilities and gear up
Really? Confusion?? What in the dear lord are you guys thinking…
As a paying Canadian customer since 2008 I am pretty mad about this. I already pay more then Americans do for the game… why gouge us even more???
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You Greedy Greed Greedy $ucks, in the middle of a world wide pandemic and economic hardship and you increase the sub costs. It feels like wow players are subsidizing the rest of your games. This is nothing more than greed, wow should be moving to f2p not increasing the cost you money hungry pieces of human garbage.
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Im not Canadian, but this is wrong fellas
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Brainwashed is brainwashed lmao
Subs are unaffected. This is bad if you buy game-time / pre-paid cards.
F2P games are generally terrible… I think ESO is an exception but most are Pay-to-Win as there’s absolutely no way to progress to a competitive level without buying powerful gear from the cash shop. I’d hate that for WoW.
Its times like this that I remember the blizzard I knew from back in the day is dead and its carcass is constantly being twisted and squeezed by activision to extract every last ounce of blood.
Shadowlands hasn’t really been doing it for me and I’ve been searching for an excuse to quit. I think I just found it.
That’s now exactly how it works. Exchange rates don’t work both ways…just one. So if the value of American dollar is flat…then that acts as our “home currency” no matter what, but when changing it to Canadian, if your currency’s value goes up or down, so must the conversion for our items or services because your a different country.
Perhaps Blizzard exchange differential is a different meter. When you unsubscribe it basically asks two reason. 1:game related(not financial reasons), or financial reason. You must pick an option.
Conspiracy Theory: Perhaps the countries going up in price are less likely to unsubscribe based on money?
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This really sucks Blizzard. If you’re going to be increasing the amount we Canadians pay then you need to stop this time-gating BS. How do you justify people paying $22 a month when the content is locked behind a wall?
I’m sorry Blizz, I just can’t recommend your game to anyone anymore. I even used to bat for you…
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