This won’t affect botters or boosters at all
How do I know?
I don’t, let’s meet back up in a few months and we’ll see how things are 
I highly doubt it, considering the botting losers out there seem to make so much bank, paying for a second month on top of the first doesn’t even matter to them. In addition to this, Blizzard bans in waves. A bot account isn’t going to feel any sort of reprimand for MONTHS at a time. Ultimately, I feel like this changes absolutely nothing in the scheme for botting.
And on that note: Blizzard Entertainment just needs to stop being lazy and actually traverse their own game world on GM accounts. This alone will eliminate the botting accounts in a matter of a few short weeks, and once the botters realize that Blizzard is on the ball, they’ll stop trying. Even better if they keep returning to the same bogus botting locations that they’ve been using for the past months, if not years.
The botting problem is a problem that exists because of Blizzard’s ineptitude to enforce their own game rules in a sensible, reasonable and timely manner.
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In addition to my previous post, there is such a thing as “keeping up appearances.” Of course Blizzard Entertainment doesn’t want to admit that their subscriptions are hurting right now. But ultimately: What do they care if it is hurting or not? They make a lot more bank off of their other games, and various in-game store models than they do WoW subscriptions.
Imagine thinking and throwing everyone on the same bag with the agenda of “it’s all botters and boosters that pay without a CC”
I would literally quit as mvp if I posted this.
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Your list of pros is simple conjecture, where’s the proof in that? They didn’t say why they were making the change. All we know for sure is that the change was arbitrary and anti-consumer.
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oh god , another one…and it’s a mvp now.
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It does not. Bots will exist even with the sub option, and existed even before the token. I don’t know how this idea got about that this would do anything to bots. They’ll just use the gold or cash to keep subbed. They’ve made enough of it. The only thing that will stop them is them being caught and banned.
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As I do six month blocks to save a little money, I’ve got no horse in this race, but another thing.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the token gives you $20 of store credit, does it not?
If the old one month gametime option was the standard $15, that’s leaving you with money left over. To me, that seems like a highly unintended thing, because for every three tokens, you’d be getting a month for free due to left over balance.
That being said, if the two month gametime option is there for the standard $30, then what’s the problem? You can still technically go in that roundabout manner for the store credit and get that extra month every so often, or save up the extra balance for an expansion if you’re dedicated enough to pay a sub in gold.
To me, it just seems like a non-issue that people want to use for the sake of complaining. Save the energy for something that matters.
Why should I spend 30 bucks for a privilege of wasting an extra 45 days ? 30 days is fine. Gives the illusion of only getting ripped off a little.
Putting entire groups of people into neat, convenient little categories seems to be the status quo around here.
See “Casuals” and “Hardcores”. Can anyone tell you what the everloving 
they constitute? Nope! But they’ll sure as hell throw you into a category regardless.
When you have a store, and see sales dropping (amount of players on this case), what you’d do?
Blizz: increase the prices.
SMH
At least they should give a clearer explanation to everyone Wondering who in there is the voice of order on these decisions.
What any actual store would do: Host a promotion, typically lower prices, to attract more customers for a brief time, while elevating customer service qualities to retain customers, before declining again.
You don’t just hike up prices to try to make end’s meet.
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Did Blizzard specifically say this change was made to combat botting? It seems so very far fetched and more like a forum conspiracy theory.
I’m sure eventually we’ll know the reason and how this truly affects everyone, especially bots. I’m curious. I just don’t see them hurting at all. Botters don’t rely on wow tokens to continue their malicious work.
Edit: The Blizzard strategy used to be to put the suspicious/confirmed botters on a list and then ban them every half a year or something ridiculous like that. However that seems to have changed. If we report a bot that has been confirmed we get an in-game mail saying they have been dealt with(usually within days). Has anyone even seen the effect of this at all?