So what does this change accomplish, outside of tricking people into paying more?
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You are missing an important component of this. When using Tokens that you have purchased with gold, you have the option to turn it into 30 days gameplay, or into $15 blizzard account credit. If you redeem 6, you get $90. You could then purchase 180 days at a discount ($78 vs $90). They have eliminated the discount, but only for people who use the game time option. The $12.99/mo for 6 months is still there for folks who “sub” using a credit card.
Blizzard now makes $5 per token ($30 for 6) PLUS no longer discounts the 180 day game time purchase by $12. It’s just them getting more money out of the token program…
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Well I guess I didn’t think deeply about it but if you buy a bunch of tokens and exchange them for b.net balance I guess you could’ve gotten an extra month out of it.
Didn’t think about that, thanks for mentioning.
You really believe this? Oh, you sweet summer child.
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Will this ‘increase’ in their gains impact their workforce more than their ‘CEOs’?
Doesn’t seem so, as they’ve been ‘cutting’ off some ‘jobs’ around the world, but no, someone at the ‘top’ has to get their full pay check.
With a Worldwide pandemic, the gaming industry should be one of the less impacted, negatively. They even send people to work from home and all.
Greed is a poison in these industries.
I buy game time so the price increase affects me. But it isn’t that big a deal.
If Blizzard is laying the foundation for a price increase in the $15 monthly subscription price, that would be fine by me too.
And I think I missed why that’s lucrative, I ran those for mogs and didn’t feel like I came out with extra gold or super expensive mats.
They saw the stimulus checks being cashed and wanted their share. Let’s band together and buy 0 time in protest of this horrible change.
Neither did I. I did them back when I farmed the transmogs and reputation from that place. That was it.
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One scenario not discussed is where you allow your account to lapse and then when you go to login you get the option to renew using gold across all your characters. I wonder if this will continue to be the one month rate or they will try to extract two months in gold for tokens.
And before you ask why anyone would do this, the simple answer is that when you have both alliance and horde alts across multiple realms, it’s super convenient to pay for game time with gold taken from all of them rather than trying to accumulate it all on a single alt. So you can have 100k on a horde alt, another 100k on an alliance alt, and 100k on an alt in another realm. None of them can buy a token, but cumulatively they can.
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Is that why I couldn’t use it? That’s terrible, farming and mount groups can’t only be endgame…
The thing is stuff like this tends to lead into other things, like a subscription price increase. Which like most companies they will try to do to offset the losses from this. Don’t be surprised if it happens.
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hahahaha
nice one there… you will get many bites.
Surprised that they didn’t try to get some of that covid relief check spending. The irl stores around here have had much more traffic over the past week or so. Even tourists are coming.
In my country, it’s lined up almost exactly.
I’m not ponying up forty dollars if I’m unsubscribed, and want to pop in and see how things are going in WoW. I like WoW, but I’m not married to it.
This just reeks of a bizzare change that’s meant to keep people “engaged”, rather than anything that’s meant to improve the game in any way. The claims that this’ll somehow deter botting are utterly laughable.
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I’m not trying to discredit this but I’m very curious how this truly affects botting? I understand that they now have to pay for 2 months instead of one month but honestly… I don’t really think bots get banned as fast as 2 months, at least not the ones in classic. If anyone could explain a little bit more that would be great.
I think that’s a good question! Not that I support the WoW is dying movement or anything cuz frankly it’s fine. But I personally just don’t think they correlate in this case. Players who are buying the 1 month at a time or gametime separately will just end up going to the subscriptions and cancel afterwards… Some might actually forget to cancel and end up paying for a month they didn’t want to. Subscriber #s go up, and accidental recurring subs increase as well. Also, Blizzard still doesn’t release their subscriber numbers anymore, and not they’re obligated to but it certainly does say something considering they used to be so open about it.
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Can’t botters and boosters do the same, thus negating your entire thesis?
If you look around you can buy gametime cards at discounts. They are not very hard to find. As a matter of fact, the 90 and 180 day cards have either gone up in price or gone out of stock since they announced the change.
Why can’t I like a post more then once?
If these forums had gold you could give out like reddit I totally would.
Nice post my dude/dudette/chosen pronoun.