Very simple solution - Unsubscribe (They won’t listen to players crying but they will listen when they lose there revenue from us)
This is just to compensate cause they lost multiboxers now
Very simple solution - Unsubscribe (They won’t listen to players crying but they will listen when they lose there revenue from us)
This is just to compensate cause they lost multiboxers now
no we have been paying roughly $16 actually.
No you have been paying average 10 bucks a month for roughly 8 years in usd
He is sober
I’m from New Zealand, our money is worth eveb less than Australia’s lol. But I just took the L for this man. It is what it is shrugs It’s a few more dollars than it used to be, but if it really bothered me then I would just buy subs with a wow token
And yes, they are definitely laughing lol.
your not affected.
always the humans , come to the horde side dwarf , we offer fair prices
Your countries currency has become weaker in relation to others as I understand it.
As such i would recommend you take it up with the people in your government that have undertaken the economic policies that led to this. I have no idea if it was caused by strategic weakness, economic happenstance, or dreadful mismanagement but am confident any amount of information on it is out there.
Please bear in mind that I am not fully conversant with the drivers and forces on the Australian Dollar. This is my understanding of why these types of changes generally get made.
This in no way reduces how much it sucks for those it directly affects and you have my deepest sympathies.
Financial conversion is financial conversion…
Many, many other games do the same. I’m sorry Aus. dollar is not equal to the US dollar, hopefully it will improve.
When I buy something from the UK, their money is worth more than US money at the moment I think, at least it was for a while (when I bought a book and the CD I just purchased was more than what I would pay had it been US,) so I have to pay more for it, as they want X amount of money for the product. Such is life.
Sometimes it bites, but that’s life. Each Country has it’s own economy.
For the game I work on, our 1 month subs are $5.00 USD. I think England pays $4.50 right now. For a while they only paid $2.75 or something like that. They were lucky! lol
It comes and goes, bounces around…
I would give a link to a good currency converter but I can’t do links. Sorry
If thats the case why is NZ excluded from the price hike? There dollar is worse. By your logic when our dollar was strong and we were effectively paying MORE every month our sub price should have gone down.
The EU play less per month when you factor in conversion rates… why isnt their sub being adjusted to reflect this?
Theyve ignored the difference for 16 years and this comes hot on the heels of ActiBlizz announcing their most profitable year ever.
I would LOVE to see how US players would react if their sub price was suddenly increased by $15.
They may up NZ prices as well, just haven’t done so yet.
Or, it may be they have a “deal” with NZ… And Aus won’t do that… It’s not specifically something we have knowledge of.
It basically is caused by our current government. They paint themselves as “good economic managers” but the facts say differently. Unfortunately their boss (Rupert Murdoch) has a near monopoly on the media in Australia. Also doesn’t help that one of our biggest free to air stations is owned by a prior Liberal MP (who was Treasurer during the Howard years).
So gullible people buy into the lie that the LNP coalition are “good economic managers” even though facts say otherwise.
During the GFC and for a few years afterwards (2008 - 2013), Australia had one of the strongest economics in the world (thanks to Labor). We are now one of the lowest preforming economics in the world and in the OECD.
Honestly how people can still believe that the LNP are “good economic managers” is beyond me.
Maybe we were always ripped off then.
and they are already paying more than us . Read the whole article as well , we have come off better in the battlenet balance . we are now getting $3 more for each token we buy off of the AH . We are also paying $2 more for token we want to sell for gold .
We also hit a low of 61 US cents per AU dollar for quite a while last year so we were getting a really great deal then . Adjustments are made , get over it
And that’s why Australians don’t go to American anymore for holidays. Btw I blame our government for this Bob Hawke and Paul keating when they floated our dollar and made millions of it first.
Join the rest of the commonwealth in getting extorted by the USD. Canadian players pay out the rear, too.
Posted this on the other thread. The Oz dollar has not gone down. It is stronger now than it was 6 months ago. However, it is likely to go down because the Au Reserve bank is engaging in quantative easing. We are getting less for more and have been for some time. The Treasure Goblin will keep screwing you while you accept the terms of reference. Hence, unsub.
We aren’t affected because we have already been paying exorbitant subscription fees.
Once our dollar was making more then the US dollar hence people going to America for holidays the exchange rate was up above there dollar not like now. Who would visit a country losing money on the exchange rate?
That was a few years ago mate . It is actually up nearly 10 cents from last year . Our dollar crashed big time from when it was at parity