I used to buy game time ever since I started playing the game. But since WoW is the only game I play now, and Dragonflight looks promising to me (I know, that’s a controversial topic) I finally decided to subscribe for 6 months about 2 weeks ago. I definitely would have subbed for 12 months though, if the option was available then…
When I saw the title of the article introducing the 12 months subscription plan, I was actually hyped. I mean it literally says “UPGRADE to 12 months”. So I immediately tried to do just that, but as we all know you can only upgrade by purchasing a 12 months sub on top of your current one.
So why can’t we just choose to, you know, UPGRADE our current subscription to 12 months and pay the difference? That would make sense, right? Please consider making this an option before the 12 month subscription offer ends.
And for any players who might respond to this post, please keep the hate to yourselves. I see so many people in-game getting called out by others for riding one of the 12 months sub mounts, it’s insane.
You’re buying a block of 12 months, just like you do when you buy a year of HBO Max. Just like you do when you buy a year of Amazon Prime. Just like you do when you buy a 6 month bundle here, too.
You’re not getting 4 mounts only paying for 8 months. You’re getting 4 mounts for buying a 12 month bundle.
And yes, it is an upgrade. You’re upgrading your sub for more months.
As much as I love this game and will always be my favorite of all time I really wish the player base would stop with the preordering and multiple month/yr subscription bonus buying. If this were Blizzard from the early days of WoW’s life I’d say ha e at it and be right there with you buying. But with Blizzards track record from the beginning of WoD up until now I really don’t think we should be “rewarding” them with preorder/sub bonus purchases.
Not until they have tightened up and start getting back to the Blizzard that genuinely care about their player base and had that passion and drive put into the game and showed in every aspect, every city/town/zone/dungeon/raid.
I’d argue the only ones at Blizzard that I’d give that showing of confidence and appreciation to and ha e actually earned that show of respect would 100% be the art design team. Certainly after THE level of hard carry they pulled off in this expansion.
I think it is worth exploring what extent customer service can work with you. It wouldn’t be unreasonable to consider a 2 week window a unique set of circumstances that would allow them to make an exception here.
I do think a request to change the entire promotion to include upgrading to 12 months is unreasonable though.
Agreed, the 6 month sub with the mana wyrm has been around for a minute. I kind of wonder if it will overlap with a third 6 month sub deal after the rabbit and then players are gonna have to buy another overlapping 6 month sub for the third mount. I hope what I wrote is understandable
I was confused by this as well. When I upgraded to 6 months, I thought I would be adding ~5 months to my 1 month sub, not buying another 6 months onto the end of my 1 month.
I’m not doing their bundles again TBH. Mount just ain’t worth it. Your mileage may vary though.
And that’s fine, if you enjoy the game and know your playing it there’s nothing wrong with that. But by paying Blizzard for preorders and these subscription packs you are actively rewarding them when they really haven’t done anything to be praised or rewarded, you’re telling them that what they did in SL and BfA was good enough and so well received that your willing to pay more and more each time even before the content is released in this case when their previous expansions had glaring issues and design flaws that hurt the quality of the game. Also incentivsing them to further development of their cash shop and the items that in a lot of cases should be in the game to be earned not outright bought.
But hey, if you and others feeling the same way genuinely think Blizzard has done right by the player base, has lived up to the bar they’ve set in previous well received and beloved expansion with both BfA and SL, and you think their monetization decisions and implementation of what they put out thus far is acceptable and fine then by all means…you do you booboo, make it rain on ol’ Ion and co.
We all have our own thoughts and opinions on this subject, I’ll not knock anyone for theirs.
And I really wish y’all would stop trying to tell me what to do with my money.
If I want to save money and buy a year sub, just like I did with HBO Max and Amazon Prime, then I will save money and buy a year sub. If I know I’m going to be here that long regardless, why do you care that I’m SAVING MONEY?
You’ve got some weird mindset that a corporation owes you something and needs to be a certain way just for you. Life don’t work that way.
It honestly could be because I’m super dumb, but I still don’t get why there shouldn’t be an option to pay for another X months, so that our current sub upgrades to 12 months.
I subbed for 6 months. I already have one of the mounts and I’m guaranteed another one in January. I’d pay for 2 more mounts (3 if you count the Classic mount) and 6 more months.
If I had 4 months left of my 6 months sub, I’d still have 2 mounts and I’d be willing to pay for 8 months + 3 additional mounts, with the 6 months mount coming after the rabbit (4 if you count the Classic mount).
Again, I could be delusional. LMAO But this makes sense to me.
Because it’s marketing. They come in bundles. If you want 4 mounts, you pay for a full year. If you want one mount, you pay for 6 months. They’re bundles, not adding onto things.
Who is “y’all”?? When did I tell anyone what to do with their money or that I have a mindset of trying to dictate others financial decisions? You tell me where I specific told YOU or anyone else this you’re falsly accusing me of??
Apparently you didn’t read all of my reply or comprehend what was said. Personally idc what you or anyone else does with “Y’ALL’S”, until we reach a point where the majority of the player base that doesn’t participate in the cash shop or preorder/sub bonus buying starts being impacted and dealing with the repercussions of the decisions made by the minority that funds that stuff.
Idk what you do, that’s none of my business and I’m not going to try and tell you what you should and shouldn’t do. But when your decisions start effecting me and the rest of players not participating in a negative way…yeah guaranteed I’m going to have a problem with that and you involving me without my consent. And I am not the only one that feels that way I assure you, by all means spend away to your hearts content. If you want to spend every dime you gave on the cash shop go for it, I will never judge you. But when your spending habits negatively effect me, I might judge you…I might be a little upset over that and rightfully so, anyone with a brain would be.
And voicing my personal opinion on a public thread meant for opinions to be shared on a subject you seemingly have emotional attachment and sensitive feelings on isn’t a legitimate reason to come at me cross like you are. You don’t agree with or like my opinion? That’s perfectly fine we don’t have to agree, but this whole attacking and insulting/criticizing others that do not share the same feelings and opinions on things is beyond played out and I’m seeing it more and more within this community.
That type of attitude and behaviour has to go, and it is absolutely indicative of your mental and emotional maturity to be that way to complete strangers on the internet you know nothing about…it’s unnecessary and does nothing to better the community. Never has and it never will.
Those who have said the same exact thing to others who will decide what to do with their own funds.
Specifically wishing people wouldn’t do what you don’t want them to do. Whether you like it or not, that’s an attempt to push people to do what you want them to do.
Of course I read it all. And I very much comprehended it. Which is why I responded.
So you do care.
Yet you’re commenting that you wish they wouldn’t do what you don’t want them to do.
Honey, people spending money on a game doesn’t affect what the devs decide. It affects marketing decisions. And if people spend less, they put in more marketing strategies to make more money.
And again, here you are, claiming that how other people spend their money directly affects you. It doesn’t. It affects marketing. The devs will take the game in the direction of marketing and where THEY want it to go.
Now you’re just getting nonsensical. No one is doing anything against your consent. You don’t dictate the game or the playerbase.
And yet you said this…
Yet here you are, judging and claiming we’re involving you without consent.
The hypocritical comments are astounding in here.
And now we go into insults against people who comprehend how corporations and marketing work while you don’t? That’s hilarious and ironic.
No one told you that you couldn’t post. And no one has an emotion attachment to anything. Nor did anyone “come at you.” Nowhere in my post was there any malice nor emotion whatsoever. It was a simple statement that YOU got triggered by.
You might want to look back at your own post. Because you’re the one who initially criticized and then you’re the one who attacked and insulted. Nowhere in my post was an attack or an insult.
Then you might want to take a step back and look at what you wrote when you first came in here to criticize what others do, because you apparently feel you’re being forced into something without your consent.
My mental and emotional maturity is just fine, thank you. Yours on the other hand is currently in question, as you are the only one who personally attacked and insulted people.
My how twisted my words have become in your hands, so do we really need to have this long drawn out back and forth for the next few hrs on how badly you have take nearly every word I’ve said and twisted them and have attempted to put words in my mouth?
Your aren’t really going to make me go through each and everyone of those quotes you’re trying to use as evidence to support this case your attempting to make for no other reason than your need to stir up confrontation and pointless argument for some dilusional slight you feel was made unto you right?
You can’t read what I said and understand exactly what I’m saying on your own? You don’t like that my opinion isn’t yours on cash shop and preorder/subpack purchases, the audacity to openly voice my opinion on the subject 100% without being disrespectful, judgemental, or so much as patronizing to other’s opinions and feelings on it.
I can promise you this right now, if what your attempting to accuse me of and trying to start something with me over were true I’d have no reason at all not to flat out tell you that. I really don’t feel like yet another unnecessary and futile back and forth with someone online that doesn’t like opinions from others that don’t align. It’s old, beyond old.
I think you know this to be true, and I think you know youve twisted what I said and put words in my mouth trying to manipulate for w.e nonsensical reason I’ll never understand when it comes to those that do this on a daily basis.
It’s Saturday man…I really don’t have the energy to prove you wrong today.
I’d say it’s the opposite, considering this was my only comment:
Which none of that was an attack nor an insult. Yet you flipped out, insulted and attacked with the following:
All of that is you overreacting to a post to ask that people such as yourself stop trying to push others to do what they want with their money, especially when it’s saving them money.
And then you continued yet again:
Once more tossing out the insults over what? No one really knows.
Something I never said but you’ve decided to twist into your own narrative. I never told you that you couldn’t have an opinion. But when you claim people should do something because you think it affects you, when it doesn’t… please understand that you’re going to get a comment in return. As you said, this is a forum for people to give their opinions. I did as much. You flipped out. I explained myself. You flipped out some more.
I made a comment on the opinion of how people want others to do something with their own money. You’re the one who flipped out and responded with insults, attacks and tried to start something, not me.
Except you were judgmental and disrespectful. And again, literally no one said you couldn’t voice your opinion. But perhaps you should be able to handle someone having a different opinion than you.
The hypocrisy and irony in your comments is astounding.
Your words are there for everyone to see and have been quoted. Best to just leave it at that and not make things worse for yourself over a benign comment that I made. Go enjoy your day. I know I’m outside doing as much.
Let’s start with this and work our way through your errors here if you just have to insist we do this.
Show me where I told you or anyone else what to do with your money. I’m not reading through your wall of misquotes and nonsensical accusations. We’ll go through it one at a time.
I’ve already done this. Either learn to read and go back through your own hostility or move on. I’m sitting outside with the family enjoying myself. I suggest you move on and stop getting outraged over benign comments. Nowhere did I insult you in my first post and yet you chose to do that instead.
Just walk away. I am. You aren’t worth it with the way you flipped out and your hypocrisy.
