That’s an outrageously high price for such a small thing. I know it’s not that taxing on the servers to swap between player races on any given character, because there is (or was) an option for Horde to queue for BGs as Alliance in order to shorten their queue times, and they would be assigned to an Alliance race (complete with new racials) at the start of the BG.
So…how is it justifiable to charge $25 for such a simple service? I could understand maybe $10, but $25 is truly absurd.
People pay it.
Its something they automated there isn’t a reason it cant be done but people buy it.
Blizzard likes money. Money good.
Hi, I’m people. If we didn’t buy it they’d probably lower the price, but we do 
I always wait for a sale, and sit on the idea of the race or faction change for at least a month before I make my final decision because the prices are so high.
One way I’m t trying to counter the desire of a race change with is leveling race/ class combos I enjoy via remix. Get some more classic combos and also more bronze to buy more stuff.
Yeah, I already knew that…It just seems like an exorbitant cost when a whole level boost is $60. You mean to tell me that simply flipping a switch and replacing one race with another is almost half as expensive as creating a whole new character and skipping the leveling process entirely?
I was hoping to avoid spending a ton of time leveling new Dracthyr alts when TWW opens their class options. To do so, I was going to take advantage of the MoP remix leveling pace, but…looks like I’ll be doing a bunch of leveling in TWW after all.
$25 is just so wild for flipping a switch lol. Same with server transfers in this day and age. It’s all so expensive for no good reason other than greed.
I think people dont really recall that outrage at blizzard has gotten them to back off on a lot of things.
Did you know that cross realm play was orginally going to be a ticket system that consumed itself each time you used it needing you to buy more and more?
Players accepted it so it is what it shall be.
Blizzard isn’t a charity, and the price is driven by what the market will pay.
If you think it’s too much, that’s fine and you’re welcome to your opinion, but the “why” or “justification” of the price isn’t a mystery.
Yeah. I get that. I think I’m mostly bothered by the fact that people are willing to pay such an incredibly high price for such a simple service. It takes like a day or less to level a whole alt these days.
Fair, but keep in mind that “incredibly high price” for some is throwaway money for others. Its all relative.
I think at this point in time, most pay using gold they’ve rolled over into BNet funds. Might not be so many people paying cash for services anymore.
I feel like the average WoW player doesn’t really see $25 as “throwaway money,” that’s dinner for two at a reasonably priced restaurant every time you want to be a human instead of an elf or something.
I have no actual data to back that up or refute your claim, so I feel like we’d be making up information to score points on the internet.
and that is all there is to it.
Don’t get me wrong, I used to buy server transfers and race changes all the time when I was younger. I know how it feels to dump hundreds into a mass-transfer only to regret it and drop hundreds more to take it back.
It wasn’t throwaway money, that was all the money I had at the time, but I still did it because it was much better than leveling new characters. This was during the WotLK days when leveling did still take a pretty considerably long time…
But nowadays it just seems like $25 is a ton of money for almost nothing. $60 for a level boost is one thing, but $25 just to change your race is wild when you’ve already put all the time and effort into leveling it lol
Bobby had to hit certain criteria to get his multi-million dollar bonus.
Now that Microsoft spent 68 billion to acquire Activision, I’d start preparing yourself. Monetization is gonna get worse.
Well, they have a monopoly so they can charge whatever they want. I mean nobody else on earth can sell you a race change for your WoW character.
I really don’t see how it can. It’s already a game with a monthly fee and the ability to buy and sell in-game currency. Short of cutting out the middle man and selling gear directly (rather than expecting people to buy carries/boosts for the gear via purchasing gold for cash), I don’t think it can get worse than it is.
And mounts, and toys, and mogs, and quests, and dungeons, etc… Hopefully my heart attack kicks in before then, but I’m usually not that lucky.
They already do this
They already do this, too. It’s called “selling an expansion” lol
I kinda doubt it. It was blizzard not Activision that tried to make cross realm play a second subscription service.
People like to scapegoat Activision but they only continued the trend. Mass outrage does work. It killed the subscription model for cross realm play and delayed transmog items from the cashshop for half a decade.