It’s not really a price hike until they announce more changes. It’s a minor tax on existing battlenet balance, and a discount to other Blizz services.
With this change, I’m considering playing Hearthstone with Wow Gold cause I get more for my gold.
Well I cancelled. Do I care about a 18 to 23 dollar change? No. But I’m not going to get ripped off because you have somehow built your conversion assuming were going to be 50 cents.
Enjoy.
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It doesn’t affect sub prices guys, only game-time bought in blocks from the store. Why that has to go up I have no idea(?), but recurring subs are the same price as before.
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Nah, with tax ($2.19) the sub comes out to $24.18
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Please note that currently, the CAD pricing to purchase WoW subscriptions and WoW Tokens will be unaffected by this price change.
Blizzard really should have communicated that better by putting that part in a separate paragraph.
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I’d like to respectfully ask you to get bent Activision.
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People can’t read, does it even make a difference?
If it’s already with tax, that’d be counting from 19.10 which is current rate from 14.99
Socialist president? You mean prime minister. Unless you are a conservative Canadian.
I really don’t care about the price increase, it doesn’t affect me and I could afford it anyways. What I can’t afford any longer is supporting a garbage company with a mediocre at best expansion feeling they are worth the price increase.
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Dunno what Blizzard’s stated reason because exchange rate change doesn’t make too much sense. But it means Canadian players who farm gold to buy game time will now have to farm x% more to buy the same amount of game time they could yesterday.
My guess is it’s a test case with a small sample to see if this change will squeeze out more time played.
Or less likely, maybe too many Canadian players have maxed out their bnet bucks and Blizzard wants to drain their accounts. lol
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Thanks for helping me decide whether to unsub or not.
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Wow, Blizzard has been making terrible decision after terrible decision since the Shadowlands launch.
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Oh yea same here. If they ever pushed to 20 I’d peace out. I know just another 5 bucks but 20 in my head is too much.
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“People don’t forget to unsub when they buy time, and we can’t have that. From now on, you’ll pay a tax for picking the safe option that makes you immune to forgetting to unsub.”
I mean technically it’s still possible to unsub right away (right…?) so this is just adding one more step, assuming I keep playing at all.
This change is so dumb it’s almost funny.
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It’s not the blue’s fault. Can’t use generalist PR to explain anything even tangentially related to currency translation and expect a good result.
CAD is worthless that’s why. Ask your central bank about it.
15 USD translates to 19 CAD.
Why the hell are you making us pay an extra $2?
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THF I am using this term very loosely. It was a matter of time that those that play wow with sub tokens over using real cash was going to hit ActiBlizz. Not just that but also you can blame our government on this one wanting to charge companies not inside of Canada extra for services.
That’s why in a way Blizzard has been tax free all this time up until our government made this a rule on businesses. Why do you think we have to pay more for Disney+ now, Netflix, and other streaming services? It’s because they don’t originate in Canada.
Now for another reminder if people read this far. It’s not effecting our subscription yet. Only game time if you play a month here or a month or two there.
Once upon a time the central banks of the world decided to pump trillions of cash into the system so that the rich could stay rich. The end.