Is Blizzard Tone Deaf?

They release a 90$ powercreep auction/mail mount to get further rewarded upon the heels of the buggiest patch they have ever released?

They should be BEGGING for our forgiveness that the patch went out in the state it did. The fact that they give such little currency for the anniversary event. The fact that they released the BRD raid without listening to PTR feedback.

But no they’ll release a 120 dollar cat mount to lock in peoples subs, have 90$ non-late access to get more per person for each expansion. And now this.

You do realize we pay 15 dollars a month to play this game right? I’m out. LMK me when anything gets close to the amount of quality they put into Legion.

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you’re right on the money here! unfortunately… you’re going to be eaten alive by people in seconds who think this type of behavior is completely acceptable given the product we pay for already. this company knows their player base, their demographics and what they can get away with.

they will continue doing it and continue leveling up this type of behavior so long as people continue to buy in and justify this game as “cheap entertainment so it’s worth it!”

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You do realize they’ve never raised that price right?

You do realize that selling optional non-power items enabled them to keep the same monthly price for 20 years right?

You do realize you are directly benefiting right?

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Fixed

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Can I have your gold (there’s a new AH mount I’d like to buy)

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No. Stop paying a subscription and stop playing. Find something else to do with your free time. End of discussion

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I’m not benefitting. From all this extra money, no expansion since legion has been even 1/10th as good. Where is all this extra money going? If the quality of the game was improving over time I would begrudgingly agree, but it really hasn’t.

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I won’t pretend to speak for anybody else, but I’ve been enjoying the launch patch of TWW more than I enjoyed the launch patch of Legion. :dracthyr_shrug:

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Sadly this will never happen. That era of Blizzard is over. Best of luck to you though OP.

well they need to do something to make back some money from the hundreds of thousands if not millions of canceled subs over the past 4-5 years.

they are too stun to realize that if they made quality expansions that was chalked full of content with no time gating and over the top esports design that people would of never left in the 1st place. game is no longer dying. it is finally dead.

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They know they have an audience that will pay beyond AAA new release title price for a dinosaur in their 20 year old game.

Kudos to them for their keen situational awareness

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not really sure what that means in this context

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Unsubscribe or get ready to buy the Invincible, Ashes of Al’ar, Mim’s Head, Swift Zulian Tiger Bundle next month for $225.

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The monthly price has never increased in $20 years. You are directly benefiting. Without their shop full of optional purchases Blizz would have no choice but to raise the monthly rate. You should be paying $40/month but you’re paying a 20 year old price. You are very directly benefiting. You are just to entitled to realize it.

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Exactly. The incentives are all wrong. Theyre looking to milk more money out of the existing players, rather than improve the game to gain new ones.

It’s called ensh!t7ification, and its a common process for many tech companies. Build a userbase with a unique/good product> management changes> in an effort to make constant record quarterly profits try and get more money out of existing userbase.

It takes a certain type of person to ignore the present moment and look ahead to the future. Intel is suffering right now for being stagnant for so long. NVIDIA is dominant because they never stopped innovating. Two different mindsets.

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Yes.

And they couldn’t care less.

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They might if people unsubscribed en masse, but very few people if any will, so no they won’t nor would it change anything. Are you planning to unsubscribe?

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Dude just shut up already you absolute wank.

The old brutosaur was only auction + repair, this new one not only looks “cooler” (subjective), but also has mail instead of repair.

Mail is far more valuable because the only way to have it previously were a few mail toys with a 3 hour cooldown, or the engineering mailbox.

They want to make money from the people who have the original too.

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Can I have your gold?