Amazon is only selling 60-day game cards now.
Well yeah… Why wouldn’t they be?
So, you and several of your friends can afford $15 per month for 30 days yesterday, but today, you cannot afford $15 per month for 30 days?
Everyone has already explained a hundred times you can still get 30 days of game time. Signing up for WoW isn’t an annual contract. You can click on the 30 day sub, pay for it, and literally cancel the second the confirmation page comes up.
I’m not in any disagreeance
But I still can identify business practices that are being done for nefarious avarice and not as a benefit to the players.
Yes, we can still sub, than cancel. It’s what I’ve always done. But Blizzard is clearly hoping that people sub and forget, or buy longer game time cards.
the motive here is clear. Avarice.
And I will call out every business who behaves this way, even if I’m a fanboy of them like Blizzard
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Obviously they knew Blizzard was making the change before people began posting about it on the forum.
Why should I have to go through the extra hoops of having to do that when I did not have to before?
What was wrong with the game time option that had been there for many years that it now had to be removed?
If anything, all this does is make me question whether or not I will bother to re up when my game time runs out.
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What are you talking about 3rd party? This is directly blizzard store related change,
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Yeah… budgets don’t always allow for the larger sum even if it accounts for a longer time…
You’ve never been poor have you?
Thank you for the useless information.
I shouldn’t have to jump through hoops to pay for a month… Especially when there was no reason for why the change occurred.
I’m glad you enjoy the change and cannot fathom why its a problem. You must live a wonderful life.
I do not support it and I will continue to inform Blizzard of my dislike of it.
Honestly I wouldn’t have even continued talking about it if you’d kept me out of your life. You and I are not connected in any way. Why the interest?
Thats… kinda what I’d expect though.
Blizzard didn’t make this decision today. Its just when they announced it and implemented it.
I imagine they told the folk who supply the codes/game time some time ago the change was going to happen so they could prep their shelves…
There is nothing nefarious there that is just business. You don’t want the wrong product on the shelves.
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Right, those are the pre-paid or “time card” options.
This change does not effect the subscription plans.
Just trying to clear that up as some people were confused by the OP and others saying “sub” and “plan” instead of “pre-paid” or “time card” when posting.
Must have something to do with bnet bucks. They changed it for the Canadians a while ago. Now this (negatively) affects everyone who used bnet bucks to buy discounted 3- or 6-months worth of game time.
Note that this change does not affect players who buy WoW tokens and directly convert WoW tokens into game time.
WoW gold → WoW token → 30-day game time
is still the same.
I don’t enjoy the change, I just don’t get emotional over a video game when the option to get around it exists.
Blizz is the big, evil corporation and THAT won’t change. So, rather than crying on the forums about it, I adapt and move on. The option to buy 30 days is still there. If you want to call it “jumping through hoops” (literally sitting on your butt and using your mouse to click the cancel sub button) then by all means, keep being upset over it.
Posts 7,000 times on a public video game forum. Asks why people who aren’t connected type to each other. Wut?
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Then tell them.
Voice your concern and maybe, maybe they’ll listen when enough of their players tell them, No.
Cause they have before.
You should always voice your concerns and dislikes. Companies need that information to address how best to get money from you.
Taking your frustration that others are frustrated and annoyed out on other players is just useless.
Unrelated but sure.
Why you bothering me though?
I never addressed you in my original post, and my post has nothing to do with your follow up.
All these steps to go somewhere and you could have been farther standing still.
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It’s curious, then, that they also got rid of the 90 day option.
“Slippery slope” is a fallacy.
its kinda weird. another thing to add to the list of “not a big deal but these things stack”
i kinda like these things. leaves room for eventual competition.
This won’t change that. People will just shift to doing a one month subscription and then cancelling that subscription after the payment for your one month has processed. I do it every three months for my subscription and it takes about a minute.
I don’t really understand why they’re bothering, since you can still just sub for a month and unsub. All this does is make it slightly more annoying for people who buy one month at a time.
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Wait, they removing the sub option of paying monthly? (one month at a time sub)
This is exactly the issue. It doesn’t effectively change anything, but it does make things annoying for the consumer - with no good reason to justify it.
That is, in essence, what makes it anti-consumer.
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works for 90 too, if you want minimum 90 days you gotta get 120 now 