Race to World First. Problem

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As you may know the race to world first is a big spectacle that generates a lot of revenue. The big teams such as Liquid, Method and Echo have sponsorships as well as generated revenue from viewership.

Why is Blizzard not taxing these teams for not using Blizzards IP? Companies are spending a lot of money into these teams and turned something that was made to be fun into a business surely Blizzard needs to tax these teams. I would say at least a 45% tax of all income generated should be considered for using the WoW IP to make money.

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Firstly, maybe Blizzard does take a cut, you don’t know what the deals are.

Secondly, even if Blizzard doesn’t take a cut, the hype it generates for the game in free advertising is worth millions

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I agree upon this. They literally make the raids for the Race to World First as well as they listen to players of the teams more than the general populace . Completely ruined retail WoW because of these guys.

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The whole thing behind streaming is it’s free advertisement for the company, why would you not take free advertisement

And no one would do it like the do rwf now if they took money, it would cost too much, it would go back to the wow progress watching pre stream era

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It’s not Sunday yet.

:dracthyr_hehe_animated:

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The problem with race to world first is that it exists and the people in it being the most annoying people ud ever meet. Wanting to constantly change the game to fit around there 1%

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Probably because any company in the world would kill for hundreds of thousands of eyes on their product for $0, it’s legit the cheapest, most lucrative thing possible. (100% profit)

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Yup, it’s why streaming works, technically they could dmca streamers, but… why when it can lead to sales

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you know what else generates millions. making a high quality product for your customers. something blizzard has not done in well over 10 years.

getting new customers is easy. keeping them is the hard part.

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Then they should tax all big WoW streamers for a cut

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They do seem to be showing more interest in involvement. I don’t remember a blue post / announcement specifically for the world first in past races. They actually did something this time for Neru’bar Palace.

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Wows in the best state it’s been in since legion and mop /shrug, maybe you’ve just outgrown it

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You care about money, interesting.

I care more about the exploit of redoing raids already done, the exploit of doubling rep, and balance between classes.

We are very different.

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Yea and maybe put that tax in a form of a monthly sub.

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Tbf, the raid thing has nothing to do with the rwf, the rep thing has already been dealt with

I expect bans soon for those who did the raid thing

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WoW is the best game on the market, with the longest lifespan of truly committed players, that has ever existed.

It’s not perfect, the bugs/balance tunings are annoying, but the gameplay is unrivaled.

You’re free to quit, the numbers that came out recently say they’re doing more than fine.

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No.

Since the event isn’t run by Blizzard, there’s nothing Blizzard has to do with it. Folks are, for all intents and purposes, playing their game and made a competition out of who can get to world first … well, first.

No, but it is maintenance and thus we get a few hours of additional trolling by trolls.

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wut? lol you are kidding right. or you are playing a different game than me. the vast majority of in game shards are dead and we have many mulitple realms sharded onto the same shard.

im not doomsaying and i dont want this game to dwindle and die. but lets face it. the numbers are not there anymore. realms are low. zones are empty.

this game is a shell of what it used to be.

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This is my first time tracking the race to world first and I am really enjoying it. Just throwing that out there.

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That’s a terrible business strategy… it’s basically an esports team that they didn’t have to spend any money on. It generates SO much revenue for blizzard and also basically covers bug testing/quality assurance in raids.