We are all upset at the game time changes and rightfully so, but where are the posts with people angry at the actual sub price increase?
Idk if it happened everywhere else, but in my country this is the 4th time in less than a year that Blizzard increased prices.
In november I subscribed for 6 months and it cost me 149,90 (in my local currency) and now they increased it again and by the next month it’ll go to 199,90.
Keep in mind just before the pandemic you could play for 6 months for 119,90 if I am not mistaken. So yeah, in a year the price to play wow in my country has almost DOUBLED.
I think it hasn’t changed in the US, but I know it did in a lot of other countries, especially in the SA/LA countries.
Only Blizzard has the lack of a heart to nearly double the price for a significant part of their clients amid a pandemic that left lots of people sick and jobless.
This is a moment in our lives in which we could really use the game more than ever to distract ourselves from all the crap going on right now and Blizzard just goes like “yo what if we screw them up even more?” and instead of focusing on this, we’re just focusing on the game time changes (myself included btw, I am as pissed at that as I am at the price increases).
So, have the prices increased in your country as well? Did it almost doubled like it did in mine?
Nope, blizzard has local pricing, we don’t pay in USD in international transactions, we pay in brazilian real directly to Blizzard Brasil, it has been like this since Cataclysm if I remember correctly.
We aren’t upset. We don’t all live in Brazil. Also there are posts about increased prices in LAN already.
If prices were increased there, it’s likely Blizzard has increased costs related to providing service down there, and has to pass those costs on to subscribers.
Yep, it sounds like an exchange rate issue. They simply allowed the actual price to float.
The issue is the Brazilian Real has been falling against the US Dollar over a five year period; thus, it takes more reals to make a dollar, and therefor it seems like you have to pay more.
Purchasing power should trump exchange rates. It doesn’t matter if the price is equivalent to the U.S. dollar, if the people paying can’t afford it because it’s way too expensive for by their country’s standards.
Idk, probably not.
Comparing direct values makes no sense though.
In your country people make at the very minimum like 1000 USD/mo, while in my country the minimum legal wage is less than 200 usd/mo (176 to be exactly) these are completely different realities.
Except it doesn’t. We don’t even have local servers for wow, the brazilian realms are hosted in the US. That’s why I play on moon guard. If I had local realms with 10ms ping I’d be there and not on moon guard.
Even our support isn’t, anytime we need help we either have to know english or talk to someone whose portuguese ends up being harder to understand than english.
this is the wrong game to play to be distracted from the evils of the world. activision themselves are a huge contributor to the things that make people miserable.
If my math on the conversion is correct, it’s more.
$15 USD is equivalent to about 85 Brazilian Reals. And the OP claims they are paying 199,90? That’s like having sub go to $35/m except you make like $200/m in income.
Rough, which is why… OP should pay his sub with gold and free him/herself of the burden.
It’s an option.
Isn’t Azralon LA the de facto Brazilian Server for wow?
I did check google here and if it’s right, based on the minimum legal hourly wage a US citizen may earn no less than around 1160 USD/mo. Of course that’s with all the legal stuff, there’s probably people working illegally making less than that, but it’s hard to count these.
In my country the minimum legal wave as of today is 1045 BRL (or 184,84 USD according to google). So our monthly wage is less than the average weekly wage of the minimum wage employee in the US.
Which means the 15 USD price is less than 2% of the minimum wage but for brazilian, 15 usd is a huge percentage of our minimum wage.
That increase to 199,90 BRL Blizzard did?
That’s less than the 175 BRL the government is giving unemployed people to survive a month due to the pandemic.
Let that sink in, there’s literally millions of people having to live (food, rent, gas, water etc) with less than Blizzard is charging for 6 months of game time here.
I get most of you just don’t care, this isn’t your reality and I don’t expect you to understand or care about it.
But can you really say what Blizzard has done to us here right now is right? To nearly double the prices of everything to us in the middle of the situation we are all in? Locked in our homes, unable to work or else we risk dying. We could really use the entertainment.
I was serious on my other post about paying for 6 more months if I got the mounts (my RNG subscription post) but right now? With this increase? I just can’t. Wow has simply become too expensive for me to afford right now and I’m not even poor by my country standards.
The monthly cost right now is BRL 42,90 if I’m not wrong. The 199,90 is the 6-month subscription (which has a discount, otherwise it would be around 260).