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Ya and they did that promotion right before DS came out and internally they knew there would be a massive content drought but let the players figure it out months later. Dragon Soul lasted from Nov 11 to Sep 12.
It’s not the quantity, it’s the quality. If people run out of stuff to do, they’ll come back. If they don’t like what there is to do, they’ll be doubly upset if they’re locked into a 12 month sub.
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Glad I wasn’t the only one!
The 6 month deals have invariably ended up being a stinker with almost no new content for that period or stale metas.
The fact they’ve doubled down in advance like this, not even waiting for people to play the game before the hard-sell…
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But you see, from the viewpoint of the execs at Blizzard the problem is that anybody leaves in the first place. Even if it ultimately upsets some people, corporate likely sees it as worth it to get people locked in to dampen or eliminate the expansion-patch boom-bust cycle.
They used to have a 12 month sub option years ago.
These promotions are always planned months, if not years in advance. So there’s nothing to worry about at all.
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If it takes them “years” to put together a sale that every other corporation does on a rotating weekly or monthly basis then that doubly bodes ill for DF.
I have my UI and Xbox controller setup already in wow, works fine 
Game pass will be the way to go.
I mean for all we know they could be right. I don’t think there’s gonna be any way to prove it one way or the other.
Perhaps they are doing this because they don’t have strong faith in their expansion or its Place in the development stage.
Maybe this whole thing is just a way to get guaranteed money before people can cut and run 2 months into an expansion like they always do.
Maybe not. It doesn’t matter since nobody can prove anything and only time will tell if it’s a bad expansion or not.
But even if it is bad there’s no way to prove that this was their motivation… So let people have their speculation
No, they didn’t.
They only offered it one other time which was right before the biggest content drought in the game’s history lol
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It’s padding. After two expansions that were not well received, and caused a massive drop in subscribers. They are making sure players are locked in after first month, and numbers drop again.
They have stated the subs go up at start of each new expansion, and suddenly drop after all the content is used up. Then go back up for the next patch. A full year subscription keeps those dips at lower numbers, which keeps them from loosing money.
OP asks if it’s happened before.
I say yes that it has.
You swing in and say no, but then admit that they did it before, like, what are you smoking exactly?
No, it’s not, because that’s not how MAUs work, which is the metric that Blizzard uses to determine the health of their games.
MAUs are recorded every month. If you bought into this and only played 2 months out of 12, Blizzard doesn’t count you for the other 10 because you’re subbed, you actually have to play each month to be counted.
The issue is that for the execs at Blizzard, it’s not a problem that people leave if they can make up the difference with shop sales ie mounts and tokens. That’s because they’re all about short-term profits.
They don’t use that metric anymore
They are taking the numbers from how many have purchased the year subs, and making guesstimates on how much a year worth of sub subscriptions will make. They only care about play time metrics to show share holders.
There not concerned with Monthly Active Users and Daily Active Users since they come and go. They know that once they have a player locked into a year subscription they will continue to make money no matter how much activity they are in. Blizzard will get a huge chunk of revenue right before next quarter, and report a huge success in player participation.
They literally do, try reading any quarterly report from the last few years since the Legion expansion launched.
That’s literally not how their quarterly reports work. Please educate yourself.
They don’t track how many people are subbed to WoW anymore. They have not used that metric since Warlords of Draenor. MAUs are what they track, and have been tracking, for many, many years now.
i got a bad feeling about it after seeing shadowlands and bfa and the talent trees.
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Yeah sure they don’t. They just lost that ability to not be able to keep track of player numbers.