why are you trying so hard to be outraged?
6 is more than “a couple expansions”.
…and you don’t even need to buy the base game anymore, either.
yep, totes predatory.
$15 a month is fantastic value for money, so where is the predatory practice of raising that price? 
its accounts registered and they include free trials too.
Do you understand how business works? If there is no demand for old xpacs then you can’t sell them. Companies can’t create prices out of thin air that people won’t pay. It’s called marginal benefit.
They clearly milked that one too tho and I don’t see how you think that helps your argument. It makes you look like a Stockholm syndrome victim.
They do. Total accounts, not active. This might be news to you but many MMOs and online games tend to post “X amount of players” but what this really means is purely accounts ever created.
They said “players”, not accounts. We don’t know what that means. I think the number of all-time wow accounts is closer to 100 million, a number I have seen often.
Is it characters across all warcraft games since the start of warcraft?
There’s a lot both can learn from each other, but there’s a reason I’m playing WoW, not FF14.
not only was there demand, there was enough demand to create servers dedicated to those expansions.
something which never came with the original game.
…sooooooo predatory giving people access to additional games without raising the price for server access 
Two different things lol. My brain is frying like an egg. I can’t continue this conversation.
I’m playing both, and they definitely have their strengths and weaknesses. WoW is the more fun game, though. Great time to go back to FFXIV, but the Fall Guys event has revealed the extent of the poor netcode and annoying gimmicky raid mechanics.
I don’t think anyone here cares about that trash erp filled game of elitism.
pretty sure it was already fried.
it’s cool.
i’m done bumping this thread.
not that it matters, i’m sure we’ll see the usual plethora of attempted poaching threads over the next few weeks.
This is a tactic MMOs use to inflate their popularity by using total created accounts, not actual players playing.
ESO claims to have 21 million players. There is no reality where 21 million people are playing ESO in 2023.
Blizzard claimed millions of people were watching Blizzcon from home, when Asmongolds reaction to Blizzcon had twice the views and half his audience don’t even play WoW.
Registered accounts != actual number of players.
Game companies love the first number and generally hide the second. FF14 usually tops out some where around a million at any one time. More for events and releases.
The price of the pre-purchase isn’t surprising… but, that being said…
I’ve always said that financial success through volume is better than financial success through high prices. If they dropped that by, say, 25-50%, they might draw in more new and returning players, thereby surpassing what they might make at the higher price.
Just sayin’…
The biggest wow streamer gave them half of them.
Some short, obese people claim they’re 6’3" and 215 lbs. Doesn’t mean it’s true.
No not really. Thats like saying “the biggest wow streamer” gave half of wows pop back…he isnt that popular. Not that many play FFXIV or classic wow or retail wow because he did.
Millions of people DEF were not watching blizzcon LMAO. Thats such a lie. I saw the gamespot/blizzard YT channel count, it was way less. Like less then 100k less.
I mean… You’re wrong. They do…But most of them are just the RP’ers in Limsa Lominsa.
You mean the AFK dancers? Not really RPers, I don’t know what’s going on with them. I do remember a lot of vocal outcry when Endwalker added a strict AFK timer to reduce queue bloat because it interrupted the literal 24/7 idling. Super weird.
Accept Square Enix literally thanked him personally for bringing in so many people that they spent one million dollars to upgrade their servers to support the amount of people he brought in. Guess you missed the memo.