Subs unchanging doesn’t mean lickety spit, to be honest. All this change does is remove flexibility from the average player.
It’s not about being charged more, or being unable to afford it.
Whats the difference in buying 180 days game time with cash or blizzard balance, and subbing for 6 months?
Hint: Nothing.
You just unsub after purchasing the 6 month sub and its the same exact thing as buying 180 days game time in the blizzard shop.
I guess it’s for those who don’t want to give them any financial information.
Or it might just be a company trying to simplify the subbing process for players. Saying you can either sub to the game in the 3 different formats to save money or not, or you can purchase game time in 60 day increments is simple. Players don’t generally learn about wow tokens until they start playing the game (as with most games with in game currency).
They even said they did a review of their game time purchases and I personally believe this is to make the process simple. There is only 1 game time purchase. Not 4, and then a 3 different sub options, then the wow token.
Simple is good.
You give Target your credit card information when you buy game time from the gift card kiosk.
Am I missing something here?
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Sounds like bluzz has lost so many subs they are doing creative accounting…
Seems like something that will backfire
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I totally agree. Tin foil hats everywhere. It’s like when I was working in retail and asked for a customer’s phone number… they got all uppity and swore we were big brothering them… yet their cell phone GPS is on and they can be tracked everywhere they go. Yeah, some people don’t trust anyone or anything.
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As I said, it was about converting tokens to balance to purchase 6 months at the cost of 5. In Game Token -> Game Time: 6 tokens. In Game Token -> Store Balance -> Game Time: 5 tokens.
People shouldn’t get a month free, or a discount, because they found a conversion loophole.
The price reduction is offered for the recurring subscriptions; not intended for the ones gaming the system.
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I typically pay for a subscription and I usually do the 6-month sub as it’s the cheapest assuming I know I will play for 6 months. Currently canceled the renewal of the 6-month though with a few more weeks left.
Anyways, the difference as I understand it is if you do a monthly subscription they are going to ask you for some specific types of payments to regularly bill to (think credit card, paypal, whatever they accept online).
You also have the option of buying game time through a physical merchant and adding that code to your account. With this change if, for whatever your reasons and situation, you can only buy physical game time cards you now only have the option of 60 days of game time.
If that person wants only 30 days then they need to find an appropriate form of payment to use with the 30 day online subscription.
I think it’s greedy for them to only offer 60 days purchasable game time cards rather than 30 days and that is my opinion. But yes, if you want 30 days of game time now your only option is monthly sub + cancel.
In fairness, their cancellation process is really really easy.
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But essentially its a net zero sum.
They just changed the way that works, and in my opinion makes it much simpler instead of having a million different options for players to have to wade through to get the game time they want.
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If this change was really to combat botting, why did they also remove the 90 and 180 day options?
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Ahh, i see what you are saying now. Yeah we are saying the same thing.
Its logical isn’t it? If you plan to be non-committal, and flaky as a customer, you pay the higher price for the service. (but really its not higher at all because you still get the same value as if you had bought 2 months).
Having subscriptions for any business smooths out the revenue curve greatly and makes forecasting revenues smoother and easier. I feel for their finance and financial analyst staff, they have a job to do too.
Having spikey revenues makes it almost impossible to plan for growth and where to reinvest revenues into the business.
I’m not saying thats the only reason they made this change, im saying it could be one of the reasons, and the logic makes sense.
Maybe its to incentivize having a subscription?
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This.
I was buying game time 6 months at a time. Now I will only buy it 2 months at a time (or, more likely, just 1 token at a time). So they literally gave up on my guaranteed 6-month revenue just to make me pay $2 more every month.
I don’t understand the outrage honestly.
Is it really hard to sub a month and cancel auto renewal? Less convenient sure but freaking out about it? Grow up people
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Why would you take away a service that people like to use for years, does not make sense… Just my two cents…
have a Great Day
It will do absolutely nothing to combat botting
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You’re missing the point: You can no longer buy 30 days.
Nope, actually at the time of posting the OP had not edited yet so I responded quite correctly, only now since it’s been edited for clarification are you calling me out, maybe read the thread and you’ll see me explain this.
Next.
Terrible change, there’s lot of people who buy 30d all the time, just not wanting to subscribe and thinking “It’s just 30d, even if I get bored half-way”, but 60d is big difference.
Their management team quality has dropped significantly, are they hiring cousins/relatives?
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