A purchase today is a $77 charge to a persons credit card.
It shows up today in blizzards books as a $77 purchase.
Nothing is deferred. You can’t say “I’m going to charge you today, but not report it until next month” Pretty sure there’s laws about that.
Ask anyone who does the 6 month plan what the charge is on their card and what their account status shows. If it’s $77 spread over 6 months (12.99/mo) and each month their expiration date pushed back 30 days, I was wrong, but if it shows a lump payment and a 6 month extension we know otherwise.
Analogy:
You buy coffee every day for $5. You do this for 10 days. For each of those 10 days the store shows a $5 purchase. They get $5 a day and you get a cup of coffee.
You buy a “10 cup card” for $45 and it expires in 10 days. You can get your cup a day, for 10 days, and they punch the card each day. That $45 is shown on day 1 with no purchases on 2-10. They don’t care if you don’t redeem the rest of the cups. They already got paid. They’re counting on you not collecting every day.
If the books go in on days 2 and 12, selling the cards on days 1 and 11 shows a influx of $45 sales. Those sales show up on the books for days 1 and 11.
We do the same thing where I work. The day to day means nothing. We can do no business from the 1st to the 30th as long as we hit the numbers on the 31st. The boss doesn’t care what the daily income is as long as the monthly reports show green.
Question: What day does this offer expire and what is the last day of this quarter at blizzard?