Stand with the Australians, this is some bull. And Australia probably just happened to be the first market they are trying this on, before pushing it on every market, 1 by 1, so that it’s “fair”.
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Blizzard happily report “Better than Expected” Q3 2020 results long into a world wide pandemic. Activision Blizzard’s net revenues presented in accordance with GAAP were $1.95 billion, as compared with $1.28 billion for the third quarter of 2019
So on the back of this you decide to absolutely gouge Australians who have a stronger dollar than NZ but keep NZ untouched.
“we are committed to ensuring the game continues to provide Australian players with great entertainment value.”
Exactly what content that my stupid a** has been paying for over the last 11 months in particular has been quality entertaining content? islands? corruption? AP Grind? because you fell short on that in BFA on a MASSIVE scale, so to turn around on the back-end of a DISMAL expansion ($1.95 billion profit - middle of pandemic) and heap this onto your Australian customers 2 weeks into an expansion is just straight-up DOG s***. Or is this a preemptive pat on the backs to how good you think Naxx and Shadowlands will be for us. Frankly this is just disgusting and you were already skating on thin ice as a company I could support but as soon as Shadowlands hype dies off (1-2 months if lucky) I’m not coming back to this absolute robbery.
Dreamhaven please release some games soon.
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I know a lot of people are very upset over this, and I was too at first. But in Blizzard’s defense, US customers pay $15USD per month, as of right now using XE currency converter if you convert the new $20AUD per month price and convert it to USD, its actually only $14.55USD. So in fact we pay a little less than US customers assuming that XE have the rates correct at 1USD = 1.37498AUD. No one likes having a price increase, I do understand that whole heartedly. But in this case I do believe it is fair given the current economic climate worldwide. And yes, it’s pretty sucky to be coming out of COVID with no job and a price increase to one of our distrations but Blizzard are extending the current pricings to mid next year to make up for that. Honestly, I’m always for a ‘defending the comon people against the evil corporation’ type of cause but in this case I think the evil corporation is being quite fair.
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Looking forward to paying more for servers that lag worse than private servers thanks blizz
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And I’m done. Really wish I hadn’t purchased Shadowlands or that I’d taken advantage of the refund they offered when they delayed the release.
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Won’t be buying shadowlands and once my remaining 3 months runs out will be done with blizzard as a company for good
Another customer lost
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Then why are you playing lol… if you can dedicate such little time to a game that requires so much time then you’d be better off playing something like Runescape where you play at your own pace.
Why is NZ specifically excluded?
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What about when/if AUD > USD like it did for 2 years in 2011-2013? Do we get a discount then?
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NZ price didn’t change because they already pay way more than us and still do, get some actual real info spastic.
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If that happens I’m more than happy to revolt with you
Well said!
Well said.
You are a horrible and egregiously greedy company.
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You know Aus Trades more with China than the us, are you clueless?
I really only play classic, and you expect me to pay 20$ a month for it? Yep no thanks, classic isn’t worth 20$ per month.
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Well… This is a giant steaming great pile of horsecrap isn’t it?
Clearly you’re committed to delivering 8% less value to your customers here in Aus.
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imagine paying for a sub
Price gouging move from the company heads, interesting its only for AUD when NZ dollar is lower? 
Pathetic.
Question - Our Auction House economy is not the same as NA, EU, or RU due to the smaller player base.
Is this taken into account with the price increase, as technically, we are not the same as other regions and should not be treated the same.
Oh yeah and agree above, people playing for free the classic server, then move to play a subbed classic service to price hikes for old content. That doesnt sound right.
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This is sketchy AF. The AUD is stronger today that any other time this year.
I was already starting to question the whole value for money thing and I really think you just helped me make my decision. Kinda sad to leave after so many years but can’t really justify paying even more for a ‘meh’ gaming experience.
Cancelled my sub and applied for a refund.
FWIW if people aren’t happy with the increase then unsub - it’s the only thing they’ll notice.
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