The point was that this is what game time (bought with Bnet balance or gifted) used to look like:
- 1 month: $14.99
- 3 months: $41.97
$44.97($13.99/month) - 6 months: $77.94
$89.94($12.99month)
Now it looks like this:
- 60 days: $29.99
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because let me show you why they changed that
when you were able to do this
people were able to switch their locations to another country, with Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), Argentina for example
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/749338020565483613/870535328581181480/zl2085k9dap61.png
650 ars is this much in USD
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/749338020565483613/870535591450800159/Screenshot_647.png
and because people were abusing that by pretending their âlocationâ was not in US
this is why blizzard did this
Based on this, we have decided to alter the available Game Time
and thats why game time is changed to prevent people from abusing VPNs because Blizzard does not ban you for VPNs
game time now reflects on the USD no matter where in the americas, but if you are an actual resident in Argentina, your $6.73 gametime/sub will still exist, because YOU LIVE THERE
now do you understand?
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Thanks everyone itâs been fun and Clark your ok itâs just I donât use any of my real money to play and have not and wonât since paying for tokens with in game gold was made available
good nite peops
No one cares why they changed it. The fact is: IT WAS CHANGED AND SCREWED PEOPLE OVER.
Now do you understand?
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I donât think theyâll understand this.
They think being allowed to cheat the system is fine because blizzard is a corporation and corporations are bad.
Nevermind if you did this in other sub based mmos youâd be auto banned, so blizzard is pretty lenient overall here. Still scummy company, but I have no sympathy for people trying to cheat the system.
because some people abused the system, so blizzard had to change it, blame your colleague players
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Itâs hilarious that youâll defend a stupid way to fix that.
And you know full well your knighting for them makes you look even worse every time you try to die on this hill.
I blame Blizz for not fixing it correctly and screwing people over. No one wants to hear your poor excuses to defend them.
It was changed because people were cheating the system.
Good change.
Need more changes to clamp down on more like this.
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Blizzard doesnât control ISPâs nor IP addresses, this was the only solution
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It could have been done to NOT screw people over. Not sure how you donât understand that. This version wasnât the only version. But you keep defending a crap decision, too. You two make a great pair here. 
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Bro do you even math?
The answer is no.
look 5-6 posts above as I showed why, finish reading the thread first
It wasnât a crap decision at all actually. People trying to use vpn to cheat the system has been an issue since vpn went mainstream for pc gaming. You literally wonât get any sympathy from me on this, no matter how scummy blizzard is, people cheating the system doesnât make them better lol
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people move to another country/go over seas for awhile
Blizzard canât ban you for using a new IP address
currencies are lesser value depending on where, one of the people I talk to on discord is from Brazil and he pays alot less in WoW sub because his cost of living is not the same as United States, so Blizzard reflects that with lower prices for them
Blizzard was literally losing money when people cheated the system, and as a business⌠they will fix that
It absolutely was. Since none of you understand how IPs and VPNs work and how other businesses have fixed such issues without taking choices away from customers, you two are the problem here.
No one asked for it. So goodbye.
He says that was the reason, but it wasnât. They did it because a lot of people werenât subscribing to the game and were just buying one month codes from the shop. It was a push to subscriptions, some might argue because people tend to forget when they subscribe and just let it auto renew but nobody knows for sure.
Though this was not a change made to affect people buying in other currencies. This is evident by the fact they could have resolved that with a simple price balancing. Instead they also removed the other time options from the shop which makes no sense. The only reasonable conclusion is to either require people to buy two months at a time or subscribe. Or to deal with bots which we all know is a blatant f-ing lie of the highest degree.
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I showed you a screenshot of what my WoW sub would be when I used a VPN to Argentina
but ok
Steam has and will terminate accounts for people doing this, so does FFXIV as this was an issue when SB launched and they tried this crap in Eastern Europe and Brazil.
You are literally trying to do an end run on the company providing product. Of course theyâre going to respond lol
I donât want to burst your bubble but I donât pay US dollars nor do I see the price in US dollars
yes exactly
I could not buy a gift from a friend on steam, who is stationed in Germany, because my USD is lesser value to Euro
I had to pay more in a steam gift card to then give it to him to redeem, so that he can buy the game himself