Oddly enough when the suggestion of a modest box price for classic is brought up, several keyboard warriors begin using words like “segregation, elitism and inclusive not exclusive”
If only they just accepted that not everyone should play classic.
At first that was the belief. Now it appears it is merely a tool to stop the gushing exodus of retail players. Would you honestly deny the M O has changed drastically?
Again, contrary to Blizzard’s business philosophy. And there’s nothing that suggests that Blizzard believes otherwise.
Then it wouldn’t be a shared subscription with retail.
Shared and using the same 7.3.5 base makes the ongoing costs minimal. And it is a new revenue stream because lots will be coming back to only play classic and will pay $15/month. That is new money coming in. Current subscribers get classic for free.
Shared also makes DAU/MAU look good if they just report combined numbers as “world of warcraft”.
And none of that means that mtx are going to Classic, there’s always a possibility, and if it does happen, then the game is going in a different direction, and then you wind up with a version of Retail all over again.
The MO hasn’t changed.
Some folks deluded themselves into believing blizz was doing this for them specifically.
Blizz’s target has never changed.
Gamers. That is their target.
Specifically paying gamers. That has been their target since their very first game.
You can keep driving this post count all you want.
It’s not going to change.
A for effort though BW.
The game has already gone in a different direction.
Sharding/loot trading and running on 7.3.5
And that is what we know now.
I’m sure this has already been said, but what a remarkably unprofessional response.
We also know that there is a definitive separation from the Classic Economy from the Retail economy.
The “promise” is that we get the Classic experience, and that does not include microtransactions. The moment that microtransactions.
The changes you see are made for technological reasons. Microtransactions are not a technology change, they are a business change.
The number of people in here with 0 sense of business accounting is just…staggering.
In the developer interview they also mentioned the possibility of realm transfers but only classic to classic transfers.
Actually it was a great response to slap the poster down like they should have been.
It was glorious.
A possibility. I’ve never seen this as being much different than the realm migrations in Vanilla. Today’s technology has reduced this need for realm migrations, but there certainly are concerns regarding a paid server transfer.
It’s good to be cynical about business practices.
It’s appropriate, as Blizzard themselves have been saying they know where people play since 2005.
Internally they always know. But publicly what will they report ?
DAU/MAU for “world of warcraft” that includes the sum of both games ?
Time will tell.
Congratulations for comparing apples to pineapples and thinking they’re the same thing. I’m pleased that you understand the basics of the transaction, but World of Warcraft is not an automobile. It’s more akin to say, a subscription to a whiskey tasting service. You pay them, and they send you new and exciting whiskey to try. You don’t need a degree to understand that the money you put in isn’t a direct conversion to whiskey received, obviously there are other administrative, legal, transportation, and related costs.
But if you put that money in for whiskey, and they spend all of that money on their rum subscription service, you lose. The payment model for MMORPGs has a long history of expectation. The expectation is that, at the very least, there is value added to your product. If they intend to just send you Jack Daniels, forever, you might see the issue.
Already stated that I don’t care, I will pay and I understand the payment model, but people want to know what they get out of it for the product. Given the MMO established payment model.
You are making a distinction where there really isn’t one.
You have no say in how the money is spent whether it is a single transaction or a subscription. You either decide that the product/service is worth your money or it’s not.
Not purchasing the product is having a say in how the money is spent.
You’ve read teh Diablo forums right? RIGHT?
Constant talk of stocks…The product isn’t even out and supposedly people have been jumping ship. It’s up to the team to decide whether or not the product or service is worth their money or not.
They didn’t even release the World of Warcraft DAU/MAU in the last quarterly report.
It’s simply the “Blizzard MAU” that includes all their games.
They certainly dont tell us the customers. We learn through the stock report for investors. And, yes, reported MAUs are almost certain to be combined.
Sabetha’s post is spot on. Blizzard MAU’s are company wide with no game breakdown at all.
I checked a few of the quarterly report. Games are called out only if they did well in sales/increased MAU