As the title states, subscription costs are too high, regardless of which (or both) wow you play.
You either need to improve customer experience SIGNIFICANTLY or lower/remove the cost of subscription. WoW is just not worth paying for monthly in it’s current state.
I feel as if those who steer Warcraft overall fail to realize that they shouldn’t be continuing to charge the “ferrarri” price when they haven’t made anything better than a hyundai in the last decade. they have numerous competitors that have set a bar far higher that they hit, for typically less and the playerbase is becoming increasingly aware.
As it is Shadowlands/TBC is only worth the box price, nothing else. Yet you charge $264cdn annually for a sub plus 80$ every 2 years for a new expansion.
Now I get it, people who sub annually “only” have to pay $196cdn per year, so it’s a far better deal to only have to pay $472 every 2 years to play ONE video game. Right, but the problem is that in no way shape or form is your product worth that much money. Especially not compared to the what else is out there.
I quite enjoy your product despite all the crap I may be giving you… but in absolutely NO world is your product worth that much money.
Blizzard, as a company you owe it to your customers to lower or entirely remove the cost of subscription until you can release a product worthy of one.
This is better of in general or ingame suggestion feature ur suggestions arent gona be seen by anyone that makes these decisions. TBh i think im getting my moneys worth ive enjoyed every expansion except for cataclsym and satisfied paying every ammount and i pay with time cards from eb games.
Against a minimum wage of $10 an hour, it’s like paying someone for three minutes of work each day.
It’s a very nominal fee and why I am against this game going F2P because if you think it is bad now then all of it, every aspect, will only get worse if it goes F2P and will probably be the point when you see most of the player base leave.
should actually be grateful that for 17 years, the sub has remained $14.99 USD
now according to your canadian dollar, its lesser value and thats literally not Blizzards fault you’re paying more, your country needs to fix their own self first before your CAD is equal to the USD like it was once before
blizzard only adjusts price as what $15 USD is worth to other countries
It’s such a bargain it’s absolutely hilarious to me.
Also you don’t even have to keep a sub going you can sub for a month and do everything and unsub. To say WoW doesn’t justify 15 usd for a few months a year is beyond my comprehension.
WoW is more than just SL and BC. You have all content across the entirety of WoW to do whatever you want in. And free access to Classic games too. Paying the sub is just for access to the servers. Liking or disliking the content is subjective, that’s more of a you thing.
$15 is very fair and almost robbery considering how large WoW is and how much long term entertainment it provides. It’s a standard most all sub-based MMOs stick to.
Removing it would destroy the game. Going free to play is considered the death of MMOs. Blizz needs the sub income to keep the lights on and content moving, while avoiding the shady F2P tactics no one likes.
I don’t think it costs too much yet I also think they should put out a little more than they do because it is a subscription game. Most games I subscribe too give something special or make something new available to be obtained every month or so at least.
I gotta admit, the overall value has gone down quite severely over the past years.
Given the millions they make, the content they push out, lack of listening to feedback, lack of proper QA and general poor state of the game, I am still shocked the prices are still $15/month.
And I get it, $15 for me is not the same as $15 for you, or anyone else.
But that’s not a fair statement, as there are folks who work those $10/h jobs and have 2 kids to support, pay for healthcare, childcare etc etc etc etc. To you it may not seem like a lot, but to someone else it’s a difference between a few meals or no meals for 2-3 days.
Just saying. Everyone is different. And you can’t say “just don’t play then”, as, again, it is different for everyone. And I know of people who struggle financially, but having access to WoW is one of the few things that keeps their “humanity” without losing their minds.
You… realize one of the reason i picked back WoW is because i went back to school and i’m too broke to afford most of my other hobbies?
Yeah, if you’re basically homeless WoW is expensive, so is virtually every other form of entertainement ever, but sad to say but maybe you have other things to worry about at that point. I don’t say that to be heartless, i’ve been grinding my way up from the bottom my entire adult life, i could always afford basic necessities and cheap entertainment like WoW just by working.
By my statement I am not discounting people in this situation.
From when I was 8-19 years old this was literally me and my sister. Mom didn’t work, dad had lost his job. We used to leech off wifi download game demos and play them on my dads work laptop.
I kid you not, we spent 2 and 1/2 years absolutely mastering the Age of Wonders 2 demo. Yaka the aspiring Firelord doesn’t stand a chance against us.
I only started playing WoW 3 years into working when I am at a point that I have all those immediate needs met and accounted for. Even if I was struggling financially WoW would probably be one of the cheapest forms of entertainment because I can finish up everything I enjoy on netflix but I can make my own journey here.
While I am not one to oppose subscriptions if they provide proper upkeep, I have consistently observed over the years it has always felt like WoW to some extent was a derivative of funds to other projects. There would be no way outside of leaks to verify any of these thoughts or speculations however.
In regards to almost any form of development there are always hitches, and regardless of model (waterfall etc) sometimes the end product is not ideal due to unseen circumstances. In comparison to previous quality of it’s own (Blizzard) and other games that come to fruition, I would still agree with the sentiment that the subscription is overvalued, though with the decline of subscribers, cost of maintenance will not change.
The biggest issue I have, and have had since it’s conception was the addition of excessive micro-transactions (Sever transfers, race changes, mounts, pets, etc). While none are necessary, they alone could probably create the content we see being dealt. So while you aren’t going to please everyone, it doesn’t help to create content without engaging the consumer.
While obsolete, I did enjoy some things that Rift offered, I.E free realm transfers.
Small things like race change credits, server transfer credits, etc added to subscriptions would greatly assist in making it feel more worthy. That or making more compelling content or freebies. I am not one to complain of lack of content, but a big promise of more customization seems to have fallen flat.