Thanks, I appreciate it
You were being ripped off the whole time by spending more for the same amount of time, but Im the one supporting scams
I have a feeling you overestimate the amount of 30 day game purchasers there are.
I mean am I missing someth… am I missing something? Did you guys not read the post? They blatantly said they did a review of their game time purchases and concluded to consolidate them into 1 easy and simple option. Doing the review means they have statistics to back up their decision.
Stop the faux outrage people lol.
Y’all fell for another Jayden bait thread? Really? lol
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Lol so you posted a meme from quite literally the dumbest politician alive. Good job there.
Either way anyone should be able to tell that what they are trying to do is boost active subs. Wether is be 700,000 or 10,000. They need to be able to show shareholders, on paper, their active sub numbers
That was the interesting part of the message, to me. In my head I’m thinking that they reviewed it and saw that most accounts who purchased 30 days, stayed for 60.
So most likely the processing charge for the different transactions are static, and that this nets them more of the purchase and that 15$ is just not worth it on their end unless there is an indication of a commitment. Much like getting a 5$ discount for auto-pay.
Still, with usual Blizzard panache: not good timing for the optics.
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Yes, thank you for pointing that out as it’s the exact reason I chose it! I found it quite fitting for this thread. 
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yeah. manage their own money into activision and share holders pockets
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See, this is how you know you don’t get it.
You know this doesn’t affect me personally, right? That has nothing to do how blatantly anti consumer this move is, how it is about forcing recurring subscription models as the most appealing choice, knowing that numbers wise, a lot of people will forget to cancel -that’s how this scam works-
Yes, this won’t affect people well read on the subject. Who will this affect? New comers, older people, busy people that will say “eh will play a couple months and cancel later”. Not us, not the people on the forums discussing about this.
It’s a number’s game about sub retention, it’s all about knowing how much people will not/will forget to cancel their subs.
Not falling for a scummy tactic doesn’t make you superior than those who do, please understand that, the only ones that will rank in cash will be ActiBlizz, taking advantage of people being less aware of their possibilities here, not you, nor I.
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Unfortunately, as much time as I waste on here, I haven’t grown familiar with the routine trolls. Hell, even with all this bull 
surrounding me, I find it hard not to give peoples’ opinions the benefit of the doubt - even the controversial ones.
Is there something with my brain? … Probably.
The word “troll” doesn’t mean anything anymore, because people accuse other people of being trolls when they don’t agree with their viewpoints now days. It doesn’t matter if the argument is a good one, if they disagree they instantly resort to calling them troll instead of making logical counter arguments.
My statement stands. This is a good change because it actually might get people to be more committed to the game by subbing rather than being non-committal with purchasing 1 time game time purchases. Many companies do this to retain customers and to have longer term customers. Thats the exact reason companies who are SAAS who do provide 1 time purchase options, those options are usually more expensive than being a monthly subscriber.
The fact Blizzard un-flagged this makes me question them.
It’s the very definition of spam. It literally says in their CoC that duplicate threads are spam, and THERE’S A STICKIED POST ABOUT THIS.
This is exactly why it’s a bad change. Like, the entire crux of the issue, and the argument many are raising.
Pushing people into recurring purchases means they’re more likely to pay for more time than they want to. There is no reason whatsoever to make a change like this beyond wringing money out of people who don’t realize their payment has elapsed.
That is the entire reason strategies like this work.
When you’re ignoring genuine arguments from others, by the way, that’s what makes you a troll - not your opinion in itself.
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Jayden is just an Activision simp, don’t feed it
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Again, you can sub for 1 month and instantly cancel the subscription. That argument is invalid if this option exists.
Good you’ll be paying our subs since $30 is nothing for you?
Not really. $30 is disposable income for most people lol.
Nice we will all expect our subs to be renewed tomorrow. Step on it.
Everyone be sure to thank this kind player for disposing off his $30 dollars one player at a time.
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I think they should have more strongly emphasized that subs are not changing. It sort of got buried. I realize it’s there, but there were ways to format it to make it way more clear.
Except, under the previous method there was disparity for redeeming tokens for game time vs blizzard balance. You could spend 6 tokens buying time, or 5 tokens buying balance, to buy 6 months of time. So that 2 players buying tokens at the same time would get different value from them.
The change negates that, to an extent.
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