This is one conversation i do not need too get involved in…
/leaves chili fries and departs.
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But they never have. Why wasnt our price adjusted to reflect the US market when our dollar was strong? We were paying more per month then and Blizz didnt care. The EU pays more per month… why is their price not coming down?
The NZD is worse than the AUD and they are specifically excluded from the price hike.
And all of this comes after ActiBlizz recently bragged about their most profitable year ever.
But tbh talking with you is a waste of time, I would not expect anything less than a Green to defend Blizz regardless of the shadiness of their actions.
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You didn’t make an argument, you just said “you don’t understand basic investment or economics”. I’m not arguing this isn’t an economically smart decision, i’m saying it’s anti consumer. I’m not saying price gauging isn’t good for Blizzard the company, i’m saying it’s bad for us the players.
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So why is New Zealand excluded? I cant believe you are actually defending this.
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We’ve been paying $18.99 in Canada forever, as our dollar hasn’t been anywhere near the USD in years and have had to deal with that the whole time.
We did have a sweet spot with 2 month game time cards still being priced at 30 dollars and not observing the conversion rate, though unfortunately these seem to no longer be circulating and are priced around 37-38 iirc(Idrc tbh as they’re no longer worth my attention)?
Anyway, if you can get your hands on any old cards in your region it’s probably worth a try.
Turning around and abruptly changing the price like this does feel inelegant, so I can understand the salt, but your rates are just being changed to be more line with everyone else.
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I’m an Aussie,. and it’s a bit of a bummer, but a few nights ago a NZ player was saying that they pay $25 a month for WoW. I’ve paid about $14 a month (six-monthly) for years now, and when I checked the conversion, $15 US is $20.66 AUD. So it seems about right.
Looks as though we’ve been the Golden Child for years now, and things are just starting to be a bit fairer.
But I’m no good with numbers, so I might be wrong! 
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You are totally “pay to win”, I mean how dare Blizzard reward you for paying them less for your subscription!
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I’m talking about your smart remark after I explained how you could get transmog and that it wasn’t a dramatic as you claim. That’s about the time I decided that since you’re going to just toss out insults and smart remarks, why should I even attempt a real conversation?
Sorry you have to pay more, try not to get snarky with too many others around here. 
Wasnt there at the time but i heard that players heavily fought against it, which is why they never added more transmogs… until now
You can’t even spell price gouging, yelling at other people about not understanding “basic economics” is just silly. Raising prices slightly isn’t price gouging. Netflix just raised their prices too, is that “price gauging”?
Is there any argument at all that WoW or Netflix are essential goods or services? Assuming you know anything about basic economics, you’d know that’s generally what price gouging refers to. You could just say that you’re unhappy that prices were raised, which is totally fine and understandable, and stop making up ridiculous reasons why that’s an unethical business practice. If you think it’s too much, just don’t pay it.
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Honestly it should be 19.99 with inflation I am surprised it isn’t
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The quality of the content is worth $10 not $20.
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Ok then don’t pay 20
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So you think it’s right for you to pay less then other people? I will agree though they should make other countries pay more if their price is below what the american people are paying.
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These posts do and mean nothing to blizzard. They respond far more at reddit and twitter. If you or anyone else who is upset but continues to play you’re showing blizzard that you’re annoyed but don’t actually care that it is happening. That you just want to say some upset words and that will be that.
Unsubbing and stop playing is the only way that a message can be sent as it is hitting their earnings. Everything else while still playing is an empty gesture at best.
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I’ve made no insults unless you’re going to stretch the term “mindless consumer” which wasn’t directed at you or anyone else specifically. Your post talking about transmog ignored the entire sub fee argument by saying “you can buy it with gold”. Most people don’t have time to do so, don’t want to do so and once again it hardly makes charging people more money any less anti-consumer.
That’s also true, but consoomers will defend any price adjustments to consume more products. Now they’ll defend increased sub costs too mid-pandemic.
Right I made a spelling mistake, i’ll fix that so thanks for pointing it out. You can justify them charging you more money but unless you’re an employee or a shareholder you’re acting in your own interests. I never said or implied that WoW ia an essential service, but why wouldn’t or shouldn’t I speak up if they charge me more money for nothing? They haven’t even fixed our day/night cycle.
As for arguing about basic economics and price gouging being applicable here incase you aren’t familiar the term is subjective as is the definition of what prices are “fair”. The lack of NZD price adjustments and lack of inflation adjustment for 4 years plus the many points already made addressed that.
I do have to say, this sucks.
Its not the individual’s fault the Australian currency has gone down, right?
Its HORRIBLE timing too, which is my main concern.
Why would this need to happen now, of all times?
Seems very rude, as so many people are returning.
Blizzard sets the price, and we pay it, but given the delays and other issues, this does not seem like a fair business practice, if its being changed purely because their investment in this audience isn’t paying off as well as it was last year.
But, honestly, I am just surprised the overall subscription hasn’t gone up universally.
That’s the one thing I have to give them credit for.
Think about the amount of inflation that has occurred over the last 16 years, is it anything other than a courtesy that it hasn’t?
Considering they just randomly raised it less than 2 weeks before an expansion launch, its clearly not an “optics” situation right?
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This whole increased rates for Oceanic players isn’t the real outrage.
The real outrage is that for as however long as the AUD has been as weak as it is, us US players were paying MORE for our subs than you, relatively speaking.
I demand I be refunded checks to see how long I’ve been currently subbed for uh, 15 months x $5 overpaid would be… $75. I demand a refund of $75.
/me shakes fist
Oh and… /s
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They are paying more then you thats why, also its freaking 5 cents from being even
Who knows, maybe it’s coming?
I’m defending it because we’re now paying the exact same amount as Americans do, we were getting a better deal and now we’re paying the same, i can’t believe that people are up in arms about parity.