Most retailers don’t pass on the CC and PayPal service fees to customers openly, but some do. CC, PayPal, etc all charge the vendor to use their payment service. So it costs the company money to let you pay that way - unless they pass on the costs.
Depending on your age you might remember going to a gas station and seeing 1 price for Cash and a different higher price for Credit.
My town Public Works even charges a percentage of the bill for the online payment service if you pay online Not a small amount either. The other option is to personally go to town and pay it - face to face OR trust the mail (if you have a check, envelope, and stamp).
So yeah, payment services are not free and the vendor pays the CC company to use the option. Most of the time you don’t see it though.
Are you getting kick backs from Blizz to argue with everyone who doesn’t agree with the change? Cause you seem so hell bent on proving nothing changed, while it really does for some some people. Put your megaphone down fot a minute and listen. Every other post on here is you yapping
How does this apply here? You’re referencing historical price values that are irrelevant in modern times. We’re talking about what’s going on right now, not regarding prior era transaction fee policy. This makes it look even worse because Blizzard Balance is their own internally created currency that should retain all costs within the corporation rather then paying outside fees to credit card companies, thus having a lower cost basis in comparison. We should be receiving discounts for using their currency instead of being punished.
The goal here is to incentivize purchasing a subscription, which means a stable income stream for Blizzard and using real dollars to purchase. That’s great for Blizzard but terrible for the consumer. This is just another cash grab designed to benefit their bottom line.
this is an important little bit here: “Please note that currently, the options and pricing for the purchase of both WoW subscriptions and WoW Tokens will remain unaffected.”
the key word here is currently. they are planning on removing the 30 day option entirely if this slides by the players well enough. that means that wow effectively will cost double the amount. 15 was already asking far too much for this wreck of a game. disgusting.
so, you want the community to fund your “charity” for you. you begin price gouging people with how much time they’re allowed to buy. when are you going to just straight up demand we give up everything we own as well? 200 million dollar bonus not enough? what must we do to appease the almighty kotick?
I’m not worried about it either. When my time runs out in two weeks if I don’t see the 30 day game time option in the store when I go back to buy more, I will just spend my time and money elsewhere. Like you say, it’s too easy.
Please don’t do this. You are one of the few who are finding fault where there is none to be found. The 30 day subs (via plastic) are not changing. The blocks of time you buy from the blizzard store are changing. (they are falling in line with blocks of time you purchase from 3rd party vendors and places like game stop. Which currently (and as far as I know,) only ever offered blocks of 60 days playtime.)
If you, (specifically,) want to argue that you do not posses a plastic card capable of online purchases and have always bought blocks of time. I would then ask you, how did you purchase blocks of time? (Plastic for online. Whether PayPal or w/e, its plastic to the core that you used.) Even if you do not have access to that plastic, (Say its your significant others for ex.) You are not losing anything. You are in fact gaining more time for less money. (You could even buy it with cash from a store, so plastic is irrelevant whether you have some or not.) My last point to make against a case such as yours is this: Only sub for 30 days in case I don’t want to play it after that. Rubbish, I used to spout the exact same nonsense.
You don’t find fault when they intentionally attempt to encourage consumers to not use one of the available payment methods for the sole purpose of making their subscription numbers and revenue streams look better? It’s their own currency. In the past if you wanted to get game time you had to subscribe or buy a 60-day card from your local brick and mortar store. That’s fine because that was the only option. Now they’re pulling the rug out from under players using Blizzard Balance to pay by not only removing the one month option but removing all discounts as well.
You can purchase Blizzard Balance at most major stores. There are a considerable number of players who for whatever reason rely on these in place of credit cards. Whether its due to age, credit issues or simply not being comfortable sharing their financial information online. These players are most certainly losing something and that is money out of their own pocket from the removed discounts and the flexibility to pay for 30 days at a time. For no other reason than greed.
You can call rubbish all you want but I don’t like buying more than I need whether that is groceries or game time.
Sometimes after my time runs out I will wait a week or two before I get more to play other things. Sometimes it’s a month before I get more. Sometimes I buy 90 days of game time. It all depends on my mood at the time.
It’s not about the plastic. It’s about removing flexibility and options from customers which is never a good thing. It’s the principle.
You can call me spoiled or entitled or lazy or whatever, I don’t care, but I am not about to start subscribing, waiting, unsubscribing, subscribing, waiting, unsubscribing, subscribing, waiting, unsubscribing every 30 days when I only want 30 days worth of time.
How does this change benefit the players in any way? And please don’t say anything about bots.
Not happy with the change, now to look at jumping back into WoW, it will be $60 per family member. Thats a big asking commitment. You may have lost my business going forward, as a family we only play a few months at a time between a few MMOs. Maybe my type of customer does not matter to you any more?
I agree with Catibrie, this will most likely have me playing WoW less because when I do, I will need to commit to 2 months of play and its $60 per family member. Big ask Blizzard.
Why? I have over $400 in bnet balance from tokens with the intention to buy 6 months at a time. Thanks for stealing 4 months of game time from me, I guess. What a stupid, pointless change that benefits literally no one.
How? How do they produce content that lasts for 30 days for people who play 8 hours per day that doesn’t take 6 months for someone who plays 1-2 hours per day?
This is clearly a money grab. This will require people who pay for game time using tokens/blizzard balance to buy more often. That will drive up the gold price on tokens there for making each $ you spend on a token worth more gold incentivizing more tokens to be purchased.
And why can’t I do a subscription based on my blizzard balance and not forcing me to give you a credit card? Activision clearly still pulling your strings little puppets. Guess somebody has to pay for Bobby’s bonus.
Not a small amount either. The other option is to personally go to town and pay it - face to face OR trust the mail (if you have a check, envelope, and stamp).