*Gal.
And when you come in here to dismiss others without attempting to understand, you’re going to get questions. Why is it so hard for you to see a different viewpoint?
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At this point, people saying “You can use the tokens to pay for it that way, so it’s fine” as a response to anybody disliking microtransactions are just trolling at this point. And the community would be better off from people who is looking to silence those who are rightfuly not happy with this.
- Creating threads for the sole purpose of causing unrest on the forums
- Making non-constructive posts
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I don’t feel it’s an issue unless they nerf how much I earn in game and/or raise prices of items to force us towards the shop transactions.
Every time I’ve googled server costs and estimating what it costs to run WoW the cost to to do so is substantially less than the $15 they get from us. It’s massively in the green.
In 2008 they stated since that since launch of the game they had spent roughly 200 million. Total. Not just server upkeep, but total. That’s 50M a year or 4.16M a month. Even if they had a subscriber base of 1M they were bringing in 15M a month from subs, and we all know this is when WoW sub count was much much MUCH higher. Then you add in expansion launches and any paid character services and they were killing it.
The cost to maintain an MMO game is far less than what most think, that’s why there are so many other MMOs out there with far less subscribers that people question how they stay afloat and this is part of it.
But you’re right, they’ve been finding other ways to monetize the game without increasing sub price, but that was an obvious choice since the sub cost was already such a massive profit margin for them and for the consumer they can associate this bottom dollar increase, but introducing purchases they sporadically make is less easy to track and thus overlooked.
Unrelated but I just saw the tendies icon on MMO so this must be what fueled this topic. Funny. Took them like, what, 6 months to hint at being able to purchase currency? Nice.
Since the dollar is most the world’s baseline.
They incrementally destroyed the game invented by, paid for by, with the infrastructure from USA citizens, and yet we are the lowest sub count, their game would not survive a USA price increase.
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That would actually be a disaster. This month on the Trading Post: MIGHTY CARAVAN BRUTOSAUR. 2500 Tendies You can buy 2400 Tendies for $25 in the In-game shop by the way wink-wink
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They lied. Blizzard said that these were simply rewards for subbing and there were no plans to monetize them.
Now they are monetizing them. And if we aren’t interested in being suckers we’ll admit that they obviously planned this from the beginning.
These ######## don’t respect their customers at all anymore. Can’t wait until AI development crushes their ###### studio in a few years.
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Oh I’m not outraged. I’m just disappointed that what we all thought was going to happen, hapened. Blizz took a universally liked system in the Trading Post and turned it into another micro transaction farm. It SPOILS the original stated principal of the Trading Post. It was supposed to be all about “rewarding” players for playing the game and completing monthly activities with cosmetic rewards. Now, it’s just an extended arm of the $$ shop.
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Do you happen to have a source you can link me to? Thank you.
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I like how no matter how much social media “outrage” there is I can log on 20 minutes after they release a new shop mount and see 20-30 of them running around the current city.
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You answered your own question: it’s being potentially placed in the SHOP for assumingly real money.
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You are not supposed to see and understand everything. Ya feel me?
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I actually like the restricted and limited number of tendies per month. As someone who sometimes gets delusions of “collecting it all so I don’t have to come back and get it later”, the forced limit of tendies makes me just accept that I literally can not so I need to pick and choose stuff I actually do want or otherwise value more. Otherwise the total tendies to buy out the vendor each month just becomes the goal for the month and doing all the chores to earn tendies would be a goal I just now don’t have to care about.
I refuse to drop money on tokens or cash shop stuff though. The only cash items I got were gifts from exes. I’m of the opinion that if items are sold on the shop, they also should have an ingame way of acquiring too and the trading post fits that perfectly.
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Read the release. It is very clear it is intended to be a monthly reward from the sub.
I am sure that a fanboy/troll like yourself will cling to the paragraph at the end where they clearly imply they want to create other systems to give us more cosmetics and say that means they were planning on monetizing it the whole time.
So let’s just skip the argument and agree that you think this is fine and are ok with Blizzard being dishonest (even though you won’t admit it is dishonesty) and I’ll agree that people can do what they want, including supporting a corporation with a CEO that is still out there lying about and discrediting the women his previous employees abused.
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That’s actually a very easy question to answer:
When the government regulates the video game industry, and/or even takes them remotely seriously. But alas, there are those in power who can’t even figure out an email system.
And the wheel keeps turning.
EDIT: Even IF these pictured tender assets are in fact not tied to real-life money payments for another digital currency, I’d like to direct you to a little game this company has completely oversaturated and tanked, called “Overwatch”. Look at what they’ve done to that game, and then form your own conclusion. I’d be lying these days if I were to resist being skeptical about modern Blizzard.
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AI tools will eventually put an end to this. The only reason all this invasive, player-hostile and exploitative-towards-minors monetization is tolerated is because it is what the best studios are all doing.
Once you can ask an AI to create a custom MMO for you and your friends that it spits out in a couple days that is all over. We might be years from that point but it is now very obviously a point in our future.
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Trading Post item prices about to double and triple.
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Strawman and a lazy one at that.
They are upset that a video game where the only external measures of your progress is gear and mounts/pets now sells what are objectively the most unique mounts, pets, and cosmetic gear on the shop.
If you are going to be pretentious then you should strive to be correct.
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This. Blizzard has already proven in their other games they are willing to gouge the hell out of their player bases because there will always be people willing to pay.
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