Other games: here’s a 40% to 50% discount, if we have a microtransaction store, we’ll throw in some extra’s throughout your subscription that you can lay claim on, here’s a bonus to your battle pass, monthly free microtransactions you missed out on from the past, extra benefits on our microtransaction store.
World of Warcraft: best I can do is 15% discount and 2 freebies every 6 months
Lol
Thanks. I’ll take that over more micro-transactions and battlepass nonsense
Did you read what I said, that MTX nonsense is combined with a 40% to 50% discount in most cases.
You’d rather have 15% over that?
Depends whether if the MTX “50%” discount + subscription edges you over to having spent more to achieve the same, or what you consider is the same anyway.
Checking FFXIV Online briefly, they give you 4 attires over the span of 330 days and if you sub for 180 days they give you the same discounted rate as WoW.
Runescape Premier is the most interesting if you sub for one year you pay 6 months essentially half the price, but has a big game shop. Though optional in my opinion that includes daily login rewards, keys and so on.
I believe the “OSRS” mode is friendlier without the shop mode.
Fortnite has the battlepass, free track and the premium one. If you buy it you gain a XP boost modifier and an additional flat boost to the track. You also get currency that you can use to buy the next pass with eventually.
There were some other MMO’s in the past that offered a F2P with premium track model where you can buy to unlock specific gameplay, toon slots, bag slots, AH, etc etc but, imo, that is entirely covered by one subscription payment at WoW atm anyway. Trust me: You’ll pay the grand jackpot at such pay to unlock models.
Just a grab of the various offers out there^
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Yeah it’s not great but that’s how it is. Everyone is at it.
At least they aren’t increasing the sub price by 30% every year. Or splitting the sub into 2 million different subs, all of which we need.
180 days is understandable, that’s only half a year. That’s a 30% discount over a year, which is far more reasonable.
nvm i’m bad at math lol
Never really looked into it since for me it’s wasted money unless I play every month, and I only pay a month at a time before cancelling. But if the discount is that small it seems even more pointless. I can see why you’re annoyed when making the comparison to other games.
You haven’t really given anything that back up the claims, so I couldn’t really engage
People did complain about it before, the only “reasonable” argument I saw was that you pay for the microtransactions you receive during the year. But in my eyes that’s BS.
I’d gladly pay sub every year without any form of MTX, I don’t even like MTX so I don’t see the appeal of getting a 15% discount on a year. That’s laughably bad.
i just pay monthly .the discount is not that bigger for me to consider buying a 6 month or 12 month subscription .another advantage for me is i can leave or take break whenever i like .instead of just forcing myself to play a game just because i paid for 6 months or so .
My god. Whatever will we do when a cheap product wont give us a discount.
Its 12E a month. The price of 1 bear, or maybe 2 depending on where you live.
Cry me a river. 
12eur for a whole bear? thats a great deal!
Joke aside, i agree, i will never understand the people who complain about WoWs subscription fee, Its really cheap for what you get, assuming you actually care to play the game, and if you dont, why buy the sub anyway.
My only problem is that the annual subscription is not lowering the monthly price for another € to make it 9,99€/Month and so enabling us to save 36€ per year.
It has not to be the half or something but just giving us more FOMO mounts for annual subscription without additional price reduction feels bad.
hey, I’ll take that 24 bucks if you don’t want it…
You know, if you’re not happy with it, you don’t have to buy it.
A WHOLE BEAR???
I think I prefer beer ngl …
Trolling aside, yea… people can whine about everything.
I’m all for gatekeeping through a subscription fee.
but I also don’t really buy anything from the store ever.
I’m fine without any discounts as long as actual P2W stuff stays out of the store. I always save money whenever I play WoW, just because it eats up most of my free time, so I don’t buy a ton of other games that I then end up not playing.
A few years ago I started to track my gaming expenses in a spreadsheet, and one of the findings was that I waste the most money by trying to save it (buying games on sale that I then never really play).
WoW is actually a reasonable hobby price wise these days.
Not many hobbies have a €40 barrier to entry (the expac cost) and then cost only €10 a month.
Another of my hobbies is warhammer 40,000 which can costs 1000s just to get a reasonable army on the table, and another is collecting vinyl ,which costs upwards of €30 per record, and the audio gear can run into thousands.
In comparison paying €10 or so a month to have unlimited game play isn’t that bad. Especially considering you actually get 3 games in that subscription (Retail, vanilla, and wrath classic)
Remember once upon a time, you had to buy all the expansions, and it still wasn’t as expensive as many other hobbies.
I think I mostly agree, but then again, there are many hobbies that little.
You could play chess or Go, and you’d never have to spend anything. You’d not even need a gaming computer (if you largely only play WoW and don’t need a beefy computer for work, that is an expense that needs to be taken into account). You could also draw (paper, pencil and ink are relatively cheap), play guitar or banjo or any other somewhat affordable instrument (strings are €8 every few months, and you can go longer - and while instruments can be very expensive, nobody actually needs a €2000+ guitar just like few people need a €2000 GPU just to play games).
Lots of physical activities are more or less free. Not golf and such, but you can run, walk, do body weight exercises, and so on for little to no money. Bicycles have an upfront cost, but are nearly free to maintain. You could read books as a hobby and pay very little if you have access to a library.
There are also plenty of genuinely F2P games that you won’t need to spend any money on. Most of them are competitive, though, like Dota, League, Path of Exile, etc. Then we now have buffet services like GamePass and PS+ Extra/Premium that cost about as much as the WoW subscription, but give you access to 100s of games where you get a ton of value.
But I agree insofar that WoW is inexpensive because the monthly fee is very affordable and the game eats up all your time, so you don’t have much time left to play anything else! Although from a different perspective, that is a bad thing. I increasingly care more about HOW I spend my time, not so much what I pay for it. Plunderstorm reminded me of that. Time is a pretty limited commodity.
Yeah, because the other games are crap that you play for couple of months and forget… we have people here who have been playing this game for 20 years… they started as teenagers and now are grandads…