They could also go free to play, or completely alter their business model. But they are more than happy where they are now. No other MMORPG with a sub comes close to WoW (despite Square-Enix’s insistence, they aren’t even close).
The issue is that Blizzard doesn’t want their income to drop. So for every dollar you lower the sub, the more people they need to sub to make up for that lost revenue.
Add to this that Classic cannot have a different sub than Retail. What Blizzard cannot afford is to have a chunk of their core audience jump to a lower price point. While you can say “but Retail players will only play Retail, so your point is wrong!” You will not convince me that there aren’t people who would be willing to pay less to play Classic (as there are MANY here who want a lower sub cost for Classic).
The whole idea of a combined sub is to hook as many people as possible into playing “World of Warcraft” - not just Retail, not just Classic, because that looks better to the corporate overlords and investors. MAUs are the benchmark they’re looking at.
And Kalgan!
I’m reading old blue posts on MMO CHAMPION and you can pinpoint the day wow died.
2009/06/06
Tigole did switch over to help in the development of the unannounced MMO. Kalgan is still around, but is very busy these days and doesn’t have as much time to post on the forums. He’s a very valuable asset to us for insight and information and has a great team of people working with him to really bring some great things to World of Warcraft in the coming months/years.
TLDR.
Only a few want it completely free. I am not one of those. I just see the irony of those claiming dev, servers and maintenence are such a large expenditure for an mmo, yet happily enjoy getting it for not a cent more than they were already subbing a different game.
You can absolutely treat it as a free pet battles dlc for when existing subs get bored, while at the same time charging $15 month to those who want to come back for it and it alone. Cannot escape the irony however.
Your bad analogy fails here. What we’ve got here is an antique shop you can’t even enter without walking through the modern furniture store. When you ask the proprietor how much that amazing piece is, they say you just have to buy that outrageously ugly object you don’t want and they’ll throw it in “for free”. When you complain that you don’t want that ugly object, several other customers in the modern furniture store scornfully tell you that you don’t HAVE to display it in your home, but you’re getting a great bargain because you’re getting it for free.
They were unable to let me do it without subbing, and unlike some other people they didn’t give me a single day play time to log in - this was my only remedy.
I have a level 80 rogue (Banja), and Druid (BJizzle) on Dunemaul.
There are players in Current who won’t touch Classic, and would no doubt like the option to pay for Current only. If there’s a Classic-only sub, why shouldn’t there be a Current-only sub?
And your bad analogy fails here. At no point do you have to set foot in the modern store. Ever. They are two completely different stores that you can choose to gain access to. You can choose to go in one, both or neither.
You find that not professional? Not sure what you think Blizzard should do in cases where banned people are making a mess. The post that was made in no way was unprofessional.
Going on record with their reason for the ban is pretty straight forward.
Some people aren’t able to for a variety of reasons. Some have lost the ability to post on their mains. Some can’t post on their well-known forum characters because they haven’t logged into them for so long.
Then again, your attitude that a poster’s validity is measured by the posting character rather than their words … I don’t share.
LOL. The entrance, the storefront, is the Launcher. I have to open the Blizzard Launcher and go to the WOW game listing - entering through the modern furniture store. When I go to pay game time, I’ll have to pick the Retail WOW account to apply that to - buy the ugly modern furniture I don’t want.
And thank you for demonstrating this portion near perfectly.
That was a fairly clever attempt to move the goal posts but…no, that’s not how analogizing works in the real world. The analogy you were replying to is a bad one but yours is equally as bad. Neither of you are on the mark.
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