I think we need to stop responding to this person. They are either a very good troll or someone very out of touch with reality.
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Then play those better looking games. Blizzardâs not going to lower the price point of a game that people are willing to keep paying $15 a month for, itâs just not going to happen any time soon. That they give the first 20 levels for free was a major compromise on their part.
Get your friends together and play the starter version. You get the first 20 levels free, and you just donât level up after that unless you subscribe. I know you want more than that, but as you can see, many people are willing to pay the $15, and if you canât, you just wait until you can to play again.
Go play some of those much cheaper and better looking games, and quit skipping meals to pay for Netflix and WoW.
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If itâs too much vote with your dollars. Personally Iâm happy to pay the current prices to make sure itâs profitable to make new content.
I think you and your friends might be better off finding a fremium game you donât have to pay up front for.
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Youâre skipping meals but youâre alright paying for Netflix, internet, etc. Yeah, this makes a lot of sense.
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Thatâs only a lot of money for a child or a chronically unemployed person with no hope of getting a job and no income at all. And it isnât 200.00 a year. Itâs155.00 a year. A 6 month sub is 12.95 a month.
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200 a year is a lot for something that is virtual and not real and an old game. If you want to poor shame me and other normal people who arenât rich fine. But that doesnât make you right this is expensive and would be cooler for everyone new players and old if it was cheaper
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LOL. Itâs peak season. Factory jobs are EVERYWHERE. Wal-Mart, target are all 15+ hr here.
No one is poor shaming you. You could farm the game tokens and pay zero a month. You could also find some freemium game to play. The WOW customer base is happy with the sub/game token system.
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Eventually one just started on a private server for free and never left.
I am poor. I have a budget. WoW is the centerpiece of my entertainment budget, because I do believe poor folks should have access to entertainment, too. Everyone needs to unwind and relax.
As a result, I have antenna television (which I do get a fair number of local channels), I donât have Netflix, Hulu, or any of that. I have my internet service which does come with basic cable, but I donât watch that because itâs mostly home shopping channels. 
Anyway, my entertainment budget is the $15 I put towards WoW. Would I like it to be cheaper? Hell yes. Will it be cheaper? Hell no. On the flipside, my $15 is going to create new content, pay employees, and keep the hardware running smoothly so when I login to play, Iâm not greeted with constant server crashes.
As I said first time around, I do understand, but you have to make choices. If you want WoW, cut Netflix. Thatâs almost a WoW sub right there! You seem to want WoW to be cheaper because the game is old, well yeah, the base game is old, but the new expansion coming out tomorrow isnât, and the graphics have been overhauled several times, with each new expansion adding a larger world.
I played vanilla WoW when it first came out (thanks Hani! He bought it for me because he wanted me to play). Compare Wow of 2004 and WoW of 2020, and while there certainly are similarities, itâs practically a brand new game in mechanics, graphics, and gameplay.
Paying less would be reasonable if the game stopped development in 2004, and just rode it out for 16 years, but they havenât. Theyâre constantly building on, revising, revamping, and that takes talent, and reliable hardware. Those things donât come cheap, sadly.
So you will have to choose. It is reasonable to want a lower price because your budget is small. It is unreasonable to demand a much lower price because you want it to be cheaper alongside your other entertainment expenses to the point where you skip meals to keep them.
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You got quite a few bites. Iâll give you 8/10.
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I live in California too, and WoW is literal pocket change compared to rent and food. Even if I rented the cheapest apartment in the area and only shopped at the cheapest grocery stores in the area thatâd still be true.
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Not that I think $15 is much to pay every month but, how is it a nice compromise for the company getting $15 a month now?
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No you donât. Netflix is a want. Not a need.
I am very short on cash at the moment. My netflix is running out 27th Nov. I will probably not re-sub until January. I am an adult and I understand that wants are not needs and I can choose to op out of subscription based entertainment if I canât afford it.
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Lifehack. Get a second job at a fast food joint and eat till you get fired.
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Which is why I suggested they use gold instead. lol
OP should be glad, games like runescape have nearly doubled over the past decade. As an australian wow went up like a dollar or 2, unless im remembering poorly and it was in USD that was converted before paying? And if that happened im probably paying less. But still if wow followed trends it would actually be like 25 dollars a month by now, but its not
So cancel them. I have 2 subds. WOW and netflix. When I canât afford netflix I unsub. When I canât afford wow I pay with gold.
Music? radio, youtube and private collection.
TV? screaming free to air channels.
Games? play private collection.
Books? library or reread private collection.
Plenty of ways to be entertained at home which donât require subs. If you choose to pay them that is on you.
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I had read that they are increasing it.
And yet we donât see you demanding that Netflix lower their price. In fact, they are raising their prices next month. which will be their 3rd price increase since 2017. Show me another subscription business that kept their price the same since 2004. Go ahead. Iâll wait.
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