I subscribed to the game on January 31st, and my time is set to expire on February 28th.
Does this mean that I’m paying the same price for less than 30 days of game time? This is really suspicious.
A sub is month to month, some months have more days. Alternatively you could get a 60 day game time prepaid, but ironically enough you won’t get 365 days with 6 of those. Oddly enough we usually do this math quiz every February that is not a leap year.
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nope, it’s always been this way here at least. and as mentioned, someone brings this up every february. subscription gives you 1 month, you buy 12 months you get 365 days. game time gives you increments of 30 days, you buy 12 of them you get 360 days.
if they changed it so a subscription gave you 30 days instead of a month, you’d be losing money, in those games you’re paying for 12 months and getting 5 less days than you get with warcraft, so i’m not sure why you find warcraft scummy.
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From another person’s post, from a ticket submitted and responded to by a GM:
While it may seem confusing at first, what you’re seeing is intended as a subscription will apply the full calendar month worth of play time to the account. This means on some months 31 days is applied but like you saw in February 28 days (or 29, since it’s a leap year) are added from a one month subscription. If you’d prefer to have a consistent amount of play time be added you can buy 30, 90, or 180 days of play time through the Shop ( https://shop.battle.net/product/world-of-warcraft-game-time ) though you do lose out on five days throughout the year once all is said and done. As this is intended the Support team is unable to provide compensation for this, and since the game time was used throughout the month we are unable to refund that time.
Even if you feel shorted by the one month, if you’re paying a regular subscription? There are seven months with 31 days, versus the four months with only 30 days and February, depending on it being a leap year or not. You’re not paying any extra for those “extra” days with months having 31 days, just like you’re not paying any different for February being short a couple of days. With a subscription in place, throughout the year those “missing” days are gained back and then some due to the months with 31 days.
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Lots of companies do time like this. My cell phone bill for example is the same. It bills on the 15th of each month. Sometimes that’s only 28-30 days, sometimes it’s 31. In the end it all kinda washes out really.
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