Adding more items to the cash shop at a reasonable pace. As long as you also continue to make worthwhile content and rewards through actual game play.
I see nothing wrong in blizzard partaking in minor cosmetic microtransactions that don’t give an edge in gameplay. If you have the money go for it, If you have a 6 month sub then you get it for “free”. No harm no foul.
People seem to forget, a company needs to make a profit to continue making and improving the games we all love to play. The profits gained from this will go into further development of future patches and expansions. I mean isn’t this what we want?
You think we would have gotten to Endgame if no one payed money to watch Iron man 1, and every other MCU film prior to 2019? It’s common sense. Costs increase and companies need to adapt.
Stop complaining about something so silly people, this is for the greater good of WoW’s longevity.
Its the WoW Community. They will literally cry and complain like spoiled children throwing the mightiest temper tantrums around until they’re blue in the face over the most minor stuff.
Of course you see nothing wrong with it. That hairdo covers your eyeballs.
Jokes aside. If microtransactions are the business strategy Blizzard wants to take, they will have to deal with the backlash. Some people have a negative opinion of them.
Except micros aren’t their only form to generate profit. Obviously expansion sales and subs are the primary source of revenue for them. Micros simply supplement that.
Again, this will only prove beneficial to improve the game we all play. There is no harm being done at all here.
Now if you could buy arena rating or mythic gear through the shop, then I’d agree there’s a problem but so far every item on the shop is cosmetic in nature.
Lately all of their micros have been bundled with reoccurring 6 months subs, so all players who have those are receiving them free during the bundle period. Also Blizzard releases these items at a reasonable pace. I don’t see any abuse going on here. Hell sometimes, the profits even go to charities…
The thing that I think makes microtransactions in wow silly and stupid isn’t that they exist, it’s that blizz is double or triple dipping with monetization.
Right now if you want to play the newest xpac you pay $60 every two years (the price of a standalone game) which probably already gets blizz their return on investment. You also pay 12-15 $ for a sub monthly so over two years if you have an active sub the whole time you will have paid 60+12*(24-1) [*-1 since 1 month is usually free with xpac] so you will have paid 306 $ assuming you buy the 6 month sub or 375 $ if you don’t buy the best deal by the time the expansion ends. If you look at these numbers can you really justify microtransactions when you already spend more than most games JUST to play the game? Assuming that a player doesn’t even stay for more than 3 months they’ll pay 90$. Do you think 90$ per player is not enough to operate and make the game? How do you justify having content out of the game that you have to pay for separately when the game is already more expensive than any other game to play baseline?
The fact that nothing in the cash shop provides any benefit to your game-play what-so-ever. The fact that running the world’s most successful MMORPG costs money in development and employee salaries.
Costs increase and Blizz needs to ensure their revenue is as high as possible to keep this game alive and keep the developers comfortable.
The cost of my sub hasn’t increased in 15 years. Everything else in life certainly has gotten more expensive. If Blizz selling fluff in the cash shop helps hold down the sub costs, I’m all for it.
I am so sick of this as a defense for microtransactions. As though cosmetics don’t matter. As though your character’s appearance doesn’t matter. As though people don’t spend thousands of hours and thousands of gold farming transmog. As though blizzard didn’t just spend the last several years overhauling the character customisation system to give people far greater options in how their character looks. As though blizzard don’t know that people care enough about their character’s look to fork over some extra cash in order to obtain the looks that they squirrel away on their real money store.
Absolute nonsense. Of course cosmetics affect gameplay. Cosmetics are part of gameplay!
I mean… Keep in mind, this game now belongs to a corporate company where nothing seems to be genuine without money involved.
Don’t get me wrong, I really don’t care about Store items like mounts, transmogs, etc. In fact, the ONLY thing I bought from the store that involves cosmetic is Lil’ KT and he is my one of my favorite Warcraft Characters years ago. I did not care for anything else.
But there is something to keep in mind:
You are subbed $15 a month.
You are paying approximately $60 dollars biannually to keep up with the expansion.
And now, you have an option to pay more to get a mount, transmog, services, whatever you want.
I mean don’t you think it’s a bit much? This is not a small indie company like Grinding Gear Games before Tencent claimed them.
… and if this game is starting to become not any different than games like Maplestory then… well… I am quite concerned.
… At least there are no loot boxes from real money. But there are loot boxes from the things we do that will be obsolete come Shadowlands… hopefully.
Most bottom line blizzard employees recieve low salaries. We’ve all heard the stories and rumors which might just be rumors but they could be true.
The first store mount was added in wrath, yet the employee situation at blizz is rumored to be bad now. Is it not naïve to believe that the cash shop supplements employees salaries with this in mind? If you were right why are employees still complaining and sharing spreadsheets with their salaries?
If I had reason to believe you were right and that these microtransactions were helping employees or going to charity I would be more okay. But there is absolutely no evidence to imply this is the case.
No I don’t. If you were the CEO of a company and you knew there was a market to be exploited you’d be a fool to not take advantage of it. And
It could be a lot worse. Costs of subs could increase. Lootboxes could be a thing. Yet none of those are. The wow cash shop is simply for cosmetics, thats it.
Cosmetics are content not “game-play”. You don’t play wow just to play dress-up. Even for mog hunters you needs to have actual game-play skill and gear to make some of your hunts easier.
If playing dress up is the only thing that interests you in wow then that’s your problem. Sorry but blizz isn’t going to throw a monkey wrench into their revenue strategies out of fear of offending such a silly minority.
