It’s just rage bait trolling.
From the same people that make other engagement threads.
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Same as it ever was.
Same as it
ever was.
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troll post 5/7
Good job blizzard employee.
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This post is dumb and the OP is a troll
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Microsoft/Activision/Blizzard pays people very good money to decide what the game can and cannot survive on.
People saying that the game would improve if we simply paid them more are coping.
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I’m starting to see a higher frequency of these threads. I’m just going to assume these are employee accounts trying to test waters/plant seeds.
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Considering most other games I know about with a sub price have increased to about 15$ from long ago, if anything I’d say WoW prices have become a standard for what other games could get away with.
It shouldn’t increase, and they sure as heck aren’t going to decrease it, so there should be no change.
At the very least, I expect a bump up in quality and them hiring more folks if the sub prices go up.
If not, well… not gonna be happy about a price increase with no returns.
A big reason I play in the first place, is because of how relatively cheap WoW is, over buying new standalone titles.
I can buy a $30 indie game, but WoW will give me two months of time for that. If I get two months of play/enjoyment out of that indie game, it’s worth it.
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Just another nonsense troll post that really is not original and just (if I can be frank) stupid. 
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If you’re like me and you didn’t even start playing this xpac until all of the gatekeeping was removed, it is absolutely hilarious how little content you actually get for the price.
It’s crazy to me that they are so successful at making players think they’re getting new content every week just because they hard cap your progress.
The sub fee isnt justified. My sub runs out in a couple weeks. Took like a week and a half to do just about everything available, and it’s still way to hard to even do the content i want to do. Quit preventing players from doing the mythic raid and maybe i’d stay subbed.
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I think the opposite is true.
The game is very old so the subscription price should drop. It’s just not shiney and new anymore with a lot of aging engine based limitations. It also sells a ton of services, in game gold and has a robust cash shop.
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The old adage holds true:
The price is what the market will bear.
And as of right now, Blizz apparently makes more money off of microtransactions than they do subscriptions. Hell, they give out large discounts for extending the renewal cycle from one month to several, in addition to including an extra mount every few months to sweeten that deal. The game could arguably go free-to-play at this stage and still make a tidy profit.
But it won’t, because players are still willing to pay for a subscription. Going free-to-play likely would upset a lot of long-time players - including those who drop large sums into microtransactions - and destabilize their revenue. Likewise, increasing the subscription price would drive out many other players who are on the fence about staying or leaving; price changes are pretty much guaranteed to make players reconsider if they want to continue or not, and Blizz does not want players to be rethinking their subscription.
It’s all a business calculation to them. What brings in the most, and the most reliable, revenue.
It’s coming, too many idiots posting about it, AI will pick it up and report to Blizz HQ that we are now ready for a price hike.
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Nothing like this, subscription fees, ever go down in price, right?
THey could honestly drop the sub fee and it wouldn’t make much of a difference, MTX in WoW alone make up more of their revenue than the few million folks they have still playing and paying, not to mention the transactions from far more successful Blizzard IPs, subs really are their weakest profit point, it’s why they don’t care what kind of service they provide with it.
Marketing also released a house and two mount bundle last month that cost more than an expansion, so why are we paying them for triple what we should?
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I cringe at the thought of going free. I know “free” is an awesome 4-letter word in today’s market, but I can’t imagine what they’d do in return. I can see each time you level/rank up, getting a popup that says “You leveled/ranked! You earned X reward. To claim it, please purchase our battle pass now!” click no “Are you sure?? You’ll also get…” click no “You’re going to make this peon sad” click no “An error occurred, please try again”
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I think the current problem is they treat WoW as BOTH free to play, and as a subscription model, they nickel and dime us as if we AREN’T already paying double for an expansion every two years and a sub every month-1 year. THEN they add on the transactions which are now more than the two aforementioned sources of revenue. One of the three has to go, and the weakest is the sub, at the same time the sub is what I can actively justify because 1 year is cheaper than any other expense I have besides maybe my anime streaming service (seriously, $30 for a whole year of anime and cartoons? that’s like 1/4th the WoW cost which is already a bargain).
They need to either: 1. circle back around to making more people WANT to buy expansions and sub for them, or 2. Go all in on transactions and expansion cost and drop the sub (not a good idea).
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I can’t think of any product that has kept the same price over the last two decades. Some have gone up, some down, but flat? Kind of crazy.
My opinion is pretty straightforward. Some of Blizzards costs have gone down, others up. If Blizzard were providing consistent high quality content and support as it did earlier - not perfect but better than now by far - then I’d understand an increase having occurred during the last 20 years. I’d probably suggest not bonusing folks like Bobby quite so much, but whatever.
And if - again under the prior circumstances - they decided since they hadn’t had an increase in 20 years (especially in light of recent stubborn inflation) that they needed $5/mo more, and would phase it in over a few years in $1 increments (or whatever) then I would understand. I’d probably suggest they move from CA and embrace remote work, but again, whatever.
However, content quality has decreased, support is non existent, and they’ve added other cash grab avenues (especially the ridiculous hearthsteel stuff). Asking for more money in light of that? Heck they should be comping us game time for some of this garbage they’ve put out.
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Exactly, they’re extorting us for an increasingly worsening product, and it’s not like they need the extra money, they’re making record profits according to their own quarterlies and yearly dockets.
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The Costco hot dog!
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