It’s not bad if you are blizzard.
It’s bad if you are their customer and liked having the flexibility of when and how you pay to play and for how long.
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Bad move, guys. Doesn’t look good at all. Especially with the price hike in a few regions.
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I don’t need a youtube channel to make my mind up for me.
You still do.
If some thick skulls would undestand the difference between:
- Subscription
And
- Game time
This wouldnt invite so such basic baits but who I’m joking it’s the internet flame and blame is what matters.
There wouldn’t be nearly as much backlash if Blizzard merely explained the purpose of the change, I think.
Not really, no.
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We will never get anything but corporate double speak bulls***.
The answer is “Activision”. It really can be summed up to that imo. Every game they get their mits on tightens up the finances, tinkers with the dials, squeezes the rocks until they shatter all while one by one alienating community’s for a few extra short term dollars.
Many years ago I watched from the inside as Activision ripped apart the Guitar Hero franchise and its main community by exactly this type of tinkering. Telling us to “tell” the community one thing, when a week later the truth was uncovered as they layed off and fired more than half the staff required to fulfill the promises and commitments made. (My NDA is now long expired so screw um…)
Asking three of us to handle the hundreds of thousands of support tickets on the .com sites because the billion dollar company didn’t want to bother paying the required amount of people needed for such a popular title. Support, customer service, and communication was always less than an afterthought for them. We were forced to say “all is well” (when it wasnt) or “Yes, that tournament is still on!” (when it definitely wasnt), and so on - because business… So what Blizzard “has to say” about this truly is irrelevant if you ask me, almost as irrelevant as a politicians promise. Their actions speak… so we dont need their corporate babble!
Obviously I’m just speculating based on what I had seen of their parent company, However its a safe bet considering all we have seen over the years since the merger and the slow decline. The same type of issues are now showing up one by one in Warcraft, at least from what I have experienced. From sleezy tactics to thinning out developers and moderators while expecting them to do more with less.
Decisions like this are usually made at the suit level and the mods/admins who actually know the truthful reasoning behind this move will never risk their jobs and or a lawsuit to spill the beans officially. We will never get anything other than the BS excuse/reasoning we have already been fed by the corporate machine.
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This might have changed in the years since, but 60 days game time were all you could buy on game time cards, it’s what I did during High school.
They definitely had 30 day cards, I’ve used many of them since the games release up until a few months ago in local stores hanging like gift cards. Last few months I had paid through battlenet balance, and 30 was available there as well.
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Some are still for sale using online merchants , just google 30 day warcraft card.
nods
if i read this right than this means I can’t donate a month in game time to friends?
if so then boo.
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This move is due to two things. First, this ensures they get an additional month out of people even if that person stops playing after one month, and second, the fact that over 1/3 of people forget to cancel subscriptions. The more people blizzard moves from month to month game play to subscription game play, the higher the chance people will continue to pay for it even if they stop playing due to dry content spells.
Nope, nor can you gift someone 30 days worth of game time like you have in the past. Christmas stockings are going to be empty this year.
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well that means less money for activision then
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Can I get a source on this fact?
I know my comment will do nothing to change this, but you are going to lose players like me. I am seriously ill, and there are many months I am unable to play. When I am not hospitalized/too sick, I purchase a month of game time. On the days I feel well enough during that month, I play. I cannot justify or afford purchasing 60 days of time, when I may be to sick to use it. You’ve kept my business since 2006 because of your flexibility. I am so disappointed. 
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Yet this is a very clear move to force auto sups and to add an unneeded extra step just for a single month. Blizzard is a business its not like its hard to figure out thier motivation.
You avoided my question why defend them?
Blizzard really doesn’t care about what thier player base feels anymore. They did this change to force less options for people. You even ignore the fact for some people its more expensive to sub then just to buy 30 days of game time. They don’t make it up.
Why is it so hard to acknowledge Blizzard pulled a scummy tactic? I will ask this again, Why Defend Blizzard? They will not defend you.
I am not trying to be mean but no one should be ok with this.
I used that YouTube channel as an example of people calling Blizzard out. There are other game news platforms doing the same. And they understand the ins and outs businesses. I would recommend looking more into the matter before saying anything.
I think a lot of us are disappointed in Blizzard
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I am once again asking Blizzard to revert this change.
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I would love it if they did, Sadly I don’t believe they will.
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I have an Idea if blizzard wants to unpin this. We should share this thread everywhere and take screenshots
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