I feel like WoW has been around long enough, especially now with most income coming from store rather than sub, blizzard should offer players who have over 10 or 15 years worth of sub time bought on their account free sub. I can’t imagine that’s much of the player base anymore and would just be nice gesture for their loyal players.
if not free sub, i get that might be too far, would be cool if they did have some sort of loyalty system that gives you mounts/pets/titles at very least in game for being long time sub.
If wow has 1,000,000 players paying $14.95 a month that’s $14.95m a month. There would have to be some pretty significant store purchases going on where players are spending $15m+ a month on cash shop purchases.
The fraction is around half the peak (at least based on launch data that is a low end estimate) with sub income probably closer to the high points due to the wow token being a fake price increase.
mobile gaming, sure you’d lose 15 a month and yes they’d lose money overall, but the whale who play buying tokens out butt MORE than make up for difference. it would undoubtedly be a lose cause you could have sub AND whale money but whale money is so much more than sub money it really is.
main quote of note in article " Looking at average revenue per user, it grew from $13.50 in 2016 to $21.00 in 2018. It will also likely decline to $19.40 in 2019 due to the World of Warcraft impact, before rising to $22 levels by 2021, in our view."
I mean, even if he’s right it’s still $13-15 a month per account that pays a sub (depending on the length) and $20 for every token sold. It’s not exactly chump change.
No. And yeah I’ve played since… I don’t know… two weeks after launch? Big whoopie. My crap smells the same as everyone else’s, and I’d rather Pay my own way. It’s called being an adult.
yea like I said token/store basically makes half their income now, and if you only discount like what the 10% of players who have played that long it won’t stop bobby from buying that 2nd yacht
