Lol, not even once did I aspire to be like some greasy neckbeard grinding AQ40 in the hopes that someday someone would actually bring him to Naxx.
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Yes it would. I milk the life out of my monthly fee.
If they went to a per hour model I would have to sell my children.
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Those poor calves!
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Exactly.
Blizz bloated sub count by counting every person who spent $0.50 for 3 hours of game time in China as a “sub”
But hey, why let that stop others for pointing to sub count as validation for their ideas.
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Wow no longer does this in China. They were changed to monthly plans some time ago. They’re the reason why we got mount rewards for getting long term packages, when they were changing over from pay as you go.
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Your tinfoil hat is on too tight.
Yeh they don’t want to show marketers real metics. The 2020s are the future of padded stats in every job not just gaming.
It’s already started in my job and that job is very far from data entry.
This is actually how they do it in China. You buy a time card or something.
I only read down 13 posts so my bad if someone already said this.
The way I understand it is: $14.99 is for 30 days of /played
Think of it in terms of cell phones:
Full monthly plan (Our subscription now)
Pay per minute (not this)
Prepaid time (My assumption of OPs idea)
So if you have 1 month of time on your account you only lose it if you play. Get deployed for 6 months, have to stay late at work, gotta cram for exams, moving and won’t have internet, etc. As long as you aren’t logged in you don’t lose any of your prepaid play time.
Nah you wouldn’t.
Right now you pay $14.99 and you can play for 30 days.
Sleep?
Spending time with your kids?
At work?
Eating dinner?
Pooping?
Literally anything but playing wow?
You are losing out on the money you invested in playing.
If they switched not to a pay per hour model but a prepaid amount of /played then you will only lose time when you are logged in.
Buy 30 days of time, then go on a 2 week vacation, fall off a cliff and you’re in a coma for 6 years, wake up and your spouse has divorced you and run off with someone else, develop a drinking problem and destroy your life, go to rehab and get your life back on track, think one night “hm, I used to play wow I wonder what it’s like now”, download and install it and to your surprise 
those 30 days are still there.
So? Suppose you pay whatever amount for a month’s rent. Should your landlord charge you another month’s rent only when you’ve spent an actual total 30 days’ worth of time in your apartment?
I’d be concerned how he’s tracking that lol
They do this in China, you pay per hour rather than per month. Those who play a lot prefer to join the US servers as our price point is a better value.
Look the analogies are great and all but no one else in the world is tracking how much “fun” you are having by /played or time spent doing a specific thing. Blizzard does, which is the only reason I said any of this.
This would be a great way for them to increase income. Currently you pay about 50 cents a day for game time. I can’t wait until they start selling a pack of 20 hours for 9.99 or about 50 cents per hour.
Imagine playing and trying to enter an instance only to receive a message to insert two quarters to continue playing.
Think of it like older phone plans or prepaid phone plans were you used to pay for a certain amount of minutes and you didn’t have to buy more unless you used up all those minutes.
No but the electric and gas company charge you based on how much you use.
So what’s your point?
When I started selling phones for a job in college the base plan was 29.99 for 20 minites with no caller ID, voice mail, or any other features. The 90 minutes plan was $99.99. Also it was like $10 to add texting AND you only had 20 texts per month. There was a women who came in crying a month after buying a phone because her phone bill was nearly $10000 (I kid you not).
Also the OP is making the assumption that it would still be the same price if we paid for a month’s worth of actual play time vs. a months worth of game access.
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I sold phones for a long time while going through college. Those prepaid minutes almost always expired after 30 or 90 days.
Consumption based vs. access based. If any access based changed to consumption based you better believe they would adjust their rates to make sure they were not suddenly getting less money. Not sure how hard it is to understand that your monthly subscription is not for 1 month of time played, but for 1 month of access to the server and ability to play.