I remember, I did it because they gave me something I WANTED in return. If they offered me fairy jammies I’d have declined.
No, you could pay month by month as one of the sub plans and cancel the sub each month if you wanted to feel in control. As long as you restarted it and it billed each month you were fine. Kind of a finicky way to handle it, but you could.
You can pay for the WoW Annual Pass on a monthly basis at $14.99 per month or according to the billing plan of your choice. To participate, you must be 18 or older, have a valid credit card, and have registered a full version of World of Warcraft on or before October 18, 2011.
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Right, two people spend money so that means that the person who doesn’t spend a single penny still gets the same rewards? Makes sense
People will find a reason to hate everything.
It’s kind of what we do.
A yearly subscription would be nice. 6 months recurring saves you some money if you intend on still playing.
If I could just drop 130-150 bucks at the start of the year and save some money and not need to worry about paying it for a year - that’d be kind of nice, regardless of any “perks”.
Also the cheat code if you hate Blizzard but still want to play their game without lending more to their profits is the 6 month sub. They actively kneecap future quarters by trying to promote the 6 month subscription all the time in spite of it costing much less, and the buy-in lasting 2 quarters.
No. One person spends the money on two items (subscription and token) so that they can receive the gold acquired by the second-hand token buyer.
As said by an SFA explaining this very topic:
The one that buys the token with gold has to spend time acquiring that gold, which increases their playtime on the game. The player with money to spare gets a barrel of gold, the player with time to spare can use that time to basically work in the game and get more time, and Blizzard profits from the increased token subscription price. The system is a win-win-win.
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The harder thing to understand (not addressing you directly, just a segue off the conversation), really, is why people pay $20 when they could just pay $15, or less on a 3-month or 6-month subscription.
Boggles the ol’ noggin.
I understand how the system works. What I was arguing about with Virus is that you should not be entitled to rewards that people are getting from paying their sub when you only pay your sub in gold.
If you understood how the system worked, you wouldn’t be advocating for people to be treated differently depending on how they pay for their subscription.
I understand how the system works. But it doesn’t matter that they’re still getting money. YOU aren’t paying a subscription so YOU shouldn’t receive items that are given to people that PAY a sub.
Not a hard concept. You don’t pay money you don’t get item. That’s it
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When this discussion started you said that Blizzard doesn’t make money if i pay my sub with gold lol
They don’t want something for nothing. People aren’t buying tokens out of the goodness of their hearts, they’re buying them to exchange for gold. That gold isn’t provided by Blizzard, it’s provided by players. Blizzard is simply the middleman in the cash to gold transaction; without the player-provided goods, Blizzard isn’t selling any tokens.
They’re paying with their time, which they used to provide the gold which Blizzard is selling for that token fee. This is like arguing that the manufacturer doesn’t deserve payment because the cash transaction happens at the store counter.
What? You can’t “pay” with time. They’re playing the game just like everyone else.
No matter which way you try to spin this it doesn’t justify people that don’t pay a sub getting free store rewards.
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Yeah they don’t make money FROM YOU.
It’s irrelevant if they’re making money or not. If you aren’t paying a sub with money then you shouldn’t get the rewards attached to paying a sub with money.
For some reason you seem to think you’re entitled to those things because “Blizzard gets their money anyway”. Whatever that means
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If they gave us these items and didn’t make them available in the shop which you can also purchase with blizz balance just like your sub, I could see you having a reason to complain. You’re not being treated like a second rate sub, you’re being treated like a normal sub. The people who are being rewarded are the ones paying 80 bucks at a time in cash.
Gold farmers use their time to produce the goods in which to give to real-money token-buyers in exchange for the in-game gold cost of said token. We all play the game, but the people making the gold are allocating time specifically to producing in-game income. Not everybody does that. I spend hours on this game everyday but it isn’t farming gold. I run keystones or sit in Durotar with friends while watching youtube and designing games. Other people spend their time doing PvP or raids. Others are out leveling up their professions and gathering resources to sell for gold, which they can use to buy tokens if they obtain enough.
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What does that have to do with people wanting the items for free that others have to pay actual money for?
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They make an extra $5 if a person uses a token to pay for a months time.
Game time =$15 and store cost of a token is $20
Amazing deal? LMAO sooo many people felt they got ripped off because they realized that was one of the worst years in WoW as there was no new content. Blizz used that to keep people who would’ve quite subbed.
they make money from tokens, but they don’t count it, because they already made that money. they want new money, that’s why it is subscription only.
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