Very good points. I wanted to spitball the idea and see what the general reactions are.
I agree, such an option could create a long-term impression of the game dying and may not be the public image they want to portray.
I would be interested in seeing a 1 year subscription option though, that could be interesting and a lot of services and product do offer 1 year subscriptions.
Well, if you are eligible for Make-a-Wish foundation, maybe you could get a lifetime subscription.
For this to make any sort of business sense for blizzard, theyâd need to make it something silly, like 1800 to account for someone who might actually play for ten years straight.
I just donât see them ever doing this.
Recurrent subscriptions trumps one time payment. That is why Blizzard conveniently gives âfor freeâ TBC Classic and WoW classic as long as you subscribe to the game.
Itâs not my opinion it is a fact. FACT.
Jan 2005 - present: average ~$15 per month ⊠I havent consistently subbed but I have been subbed way more months than I havent⊠lets say some where around $1500-2000$ spend on wow subs.
Why do you think blizzard hates money? The only logical business sense would be a âlifetime wow subâ for $500, then to release WOW2 (on a different sub) a couple years later⊠and that would REALLY (&$#@( the playerbase.
I am happy to pay for wow if it meets certain quality thresholds (content release on a reasonable cycle being one and NOT grindly bland time gated content like the Maw).
Warcraft is populated by addicts. $15/month will make more money.
The only fact is that its your opinion
No, its one of those âAlternate factsâ I have heard about lately. You know, those facts you make up to support your position.
âAlternate Factsâ
Okay, then logically original TBC was terrible because it also contained a boost, a far more pervasive and abuseable boost. So then this should be less terrible at the very worst.
A couple years from now we will be into LK on Classic side. Assuming Classic+ isnât a major endeavor and the next retail expansion is about the same as the last 2 then it would be time for Blizz to offer lifetime subscriptions. When its more likely that even the more hardcore players wonât sub for 3+ years in the future, that is the time to sell lifetime subâs.
People saying Blizz would have lost money if they offered a lifetime sub in the past are right, but missing the point. A company is only going to offer this when they are small, poor, and just starting out, or have an aging mmo that isnât going to have the subscriber level over the next 3-4 years that it had during the last decade.
Yeah, the 2 months of recruit a friend at the very end of tbc led to whole raids conquering Sunwell and many gladiator titles being won by fotm classes boosted at warp speed through speed leveling finetuned by over a decade plus of studying the game. Very comparable.
That entire post made zero logical sense.
Is it not a boost system that existed in both TBC and later Wrath (which we will most assuredly be getting in 1-2 years)?
RAF happened on patch 2.4.3⊠which is the patch we are playing on. So itâs a system that existed in the version of TBC they are pushing. So itâs time to play the lesser of two evils game. Do you want RAF, or a singular boost?
(I mean to be technical it was 2.4.2, but itâs all under the 2.4 umbrella, and it was ~7 months of RAF until Wrath launch.)
Your claim greatly exaggerates the role raf played in tbc. It barely existed and had no impact on that expansion.
As someone who has multi-boxed wow since the very early days, the minute this was announce it was a catalyst for multi-boxing. Now we had a Blizzard approved system that seemed almost custom tailored to what we were doing.
I remember going to strat for like the 2nd time with a holy paladin that boosted (illegally) back in wrath when I was like level 59 or something. This dude had no idea what to do or play the class. We said âyou boosted your character didnât youâ. We kicked him from the group and he was forever blacklisted. Those were the days.
Just as most folks here greatly exaggerate the impact a one time boost will have on TBC Classic. It cuts both ways. The only difference is, I have the evidence and first hand experience to speak to what RAF did to TBC, where as you can merely speculate on what you think will happen.
If you want to speculate, likely the far larger impact is going to be the current market, and how efficient more players are at manipulating it, as well as the (proportionately) much higher rate of 60âs that will be plowing through TBC content in Full T3 BIS.
What raf did to tbc ⊠in the 2 months it was available? No difference at all compared to having a boost to 58 available from the beginning which requires nothing but a credit card and a couple clicks. Totally the same thing!
** and is only available once **
Where as RAF was available for ~6 months, and was unlimited, and gave vanity perks + free game time to the host account, though it doesnât matter when it came out in TBC really. It came out in the same patch we are getting at launch. So the state of boosts in the original 2.4.3 was far worse than what weâll see.