It’s not a charity or a gofundme. What is wrong with you, OP? You see a massive, hugely profitable mega-Corp failing to provide value, and your solution is to give them more money for bigger private jets?
How do those boots taste, anyway?
I doubt increasing their cost would somehow lead to better anything, except for decor on Bobby’s yachts.
They got money, they just put the bare minimum into their games. They’ll never go beyond the bare minimum. And I don’t mean the stuff they make, I bet the employees do amazing work and are proud of it, I mean the company’s investing in making more than they have to.
They’re not going to suddenly hire more people if they can turn a good profit with what they have. This is capitalism, man, and public companies are absolutely held back by it.
Let’s see them do this first and THEN if we like it we will talk about raising the price to be able to pay for it.
But since quartlerly profit reports are publicly available, I don’t think that is the issue.
The main focus of this company is purely, to invest the LEAST amount of money possible into the game while also being able to extract the MOST AMOUNT OF PROFIT possible from it.
They would rather spend 50 cents to make 10 bucks than spent 5 bucks to make 90 bucks.
Even though they technically lost 80 bucks worth of profit, they only had to fork over 10% of the risk.
Maybe for them it’s not about producing the best game possible, but really milking the game for as long as possible without having to put too much effort into it to keep it going.
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It’s true that sub price hasn’t gone up since release. You know what has? Revenue, massively.
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I have noticed they are increasing sub fees for Russia as they did for other countries before.
Lmao maw is awesome, are you even playing the game?
Yup. Renown forced me to visit Maw at least weekly. It improved my Rep with Ve’nari. After maxing my renown to 40, Appreciative rep went so close. So I just spent some days on it and boom… got Exalted and boom… gem slots… yeah gem slots… yummy.
I only play one toon and I chose a Class which I find very efficient on World PvE. Yup, a hunter… misdirection to pet, freeze trap, binding shot, concussive shot, tar trap and our OP ability we called Feign death. IT’S HARD TO DIE AS A HUNTER on PvE World. And Maw is one of this PvE zone. All the mobs in there are easy to fool. Misdirection my Pet to aggro all the mobs and have my pet run away opposite my location and I could sneak in ANYWHERE I WANT TO GO. And when it gets messy, run away and feign death. Impossible to be killed as a Hunter. Yup Maw is a joke with my Class. Perdition Hold mobs is not a threat to me. Now at decent ilevel, cmon… I dont need much of my tricks anymore. I can just melt them.
I love the Maw games. Locate the Daily Quests… Go to location easily with Hound mount stolen from its rider scattered all over Maw. And there are Portals too and have its own hearthstone back to Ve’nari. We dont need to fly in there.
Complete the quests then go next to the location. When I completed the last daily quest, my Eye of the Jailer threat is still far from max. No swet.
Not unless it came with a direct promise that it would improve the RETAIL version of the game, and not go to improving the experience of Classic and BC Servers. No nonsense. No clever legalese that has multiple meanings. No. Something that pins Blizzard down and sticks them for once to their words.
Right now the treatment of retail players screams of bad-faith business.
Even with such a promise however, I’d still be hard pressed to consider giving them more money after how shabbily they have handled the communication from Launch of Shadowlands to now has been. My Bank Account is not a Piggy Bank they get to dip into every month, and they have not justified a reason I should change that stance.
Seriously, are Act-Blizz really in a bad spot economy-wise, or just greedy? We see the company rising prices, doing kinda less content (for what some say, by a having a low budget), firing entire dev teams and etc…
Is this only a greedy move, or the company is really struggling economically? And If they are really in a bad spot economically, how did they get in this situation? i thought they were making tons of money with their products, like Hearthstone, CoD, WoW and stuff.
A price increase would not create any additional content.
If subscription prices increased, I would stop playing WoW. I’m not paying $20-$30 a month for WoW. I’m already conflicted about giving money to Blizzard as it is, if they started demanding more from me, I’d just say forget about it and leave.
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They would charge more and release less if they could.
Sad part is they probably can.
Is Bobby Kotick’s 200 million bonus suddenly not enough?
We already pay…blizzard aren’t struggling like people make it out to be.
They are just lazy
Funny tho,All these previous MMO’s that all were the “wow killer” ironic that the company itself may be the wow killer huh…
The sub price has no effect on the things you’re mentioning. Zero. Nada. Alliance players who like Garrosh. Male Blood Elves. Zilch.
Much of what you’re complaining about is by design, and is what players wanted.
You don’t want grind systems, but you’ll complain about having nothing to do after a few weeks.
You want more dungeons/raids, when many people haven’t completed the raid we have on Heroic.
You want bigger areas/zones, and yet when everyone was going to Icecrown before the SL release, everyone was complaining about how large a zone it was.
You want new talents, but many people are just buying into the cookie cutter established patterns anyway.
You say you want more PvP BGs and Arena, which is not something I’ve heard mentioned. If you want to talk about balance, well, PvP has never been balanced. But you can start by nerfing Rogues if you do.
You say you want more patches, but more patches to do what?
In the classic Monkey Paw style, Blizzard has given players what they want. And, if you don’t think they’re not looking at what other games do successfully, and try to implement them within the WoW framework, you need to think more about what it means to run a large company (or even a small indie one).
Anyway, raising the subscription price won’t help the issues you have, and will likely drive players from the game. The current price is very nicely balanced, and there’s a reason they haven’t raised it since day 1.
More money doesnt mean quality content.
I don’t want more garbage systems disguised as “quality content” in fact remove all systems, borrowed power and take a look to what make old expansions decent/good/great.
As they increase the prices for their “products” around the world more people will wake up and realize that the game isnt worth the amount they are asking because of the content they created.
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They’ve let us down before.
So no. Can’t say I’d trust them to follow through on retail now.
Not unless Ion gets the sack and devs get more resources.
Increase it to $100 per month.
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Do you really think that after the last few trash expansions, that anyone would be willing to pay more? It doesn’t matter if they make better content. They will hemorrhage subs because people will believe that they intentionally made bad expansions just to increase prices.
Activision-Blizzard makes billions in net profit every year. It’s not financial constraints that is causing them not to spend several million dollars more to get out more/faster content, if they really wanted to.
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