Yes I honestly didn’t realize how bad Blizz became until I came to the forums. It makes you sad to see them willingly destroy the community of their own game for money. To continue giving money to someone who continually abuses you for more money, no matter what the service, is beneath my dignity.
But luckily I heard of Ashes of Creation, which seems to have the same visions as Blizz originally had. So I guess I will put my money where my mouth is and buy alpha key for that game instead. Good luck with TBC
If people use it they must like it, so why fix it? The beauty of MMO’s is the content created by players outside of the original scope of it’s creators.
You do realize that a single Blizzard Cloud Server is estimated to cost them 5 million usd a month right?
Riiiiight?
Blizzard hasn’t made a dime off subscriptions for years… You want to play your video game, they need to make money. If they don’t make money, you won’t be able to play your video game.
Simple as that. You think it’s hypocrisy? I’d like to see you work for free and see how well you fare.
If Blizz choose such an expensive structure to host their game that the only way to keep it running is by continually making the game experience worse, then it’s a bad structure.
I don’t care if Blizz makes money and I don’t know why you want me to, they obviously don’t care about our game experience. They haven’t even responded to the fresh server idea.
But in Ashes of Creation they have transparent development, the team answers almost every thread and they are the only MMORPG I know who publicly announced no P2W services.
So stop defending a company who would rip you in two to make more money
Apparently someone is a tad clueless how expensive it is to host a video game server that can supports hundreds of thousands of players, have maintenance teams and whatnot associated with it.
If you don’t care if Blizzard makes money, then you won’t be getting any more games, ever. They don’t make games for your blue eyes sake, they make them to earn money. Just like the grocery stores don’t sell you groceries to feed you, but to make money and so on and so forth.
I remember another game that promised no P2W services. ArcheAge. Can you guess what they introduced anyway? Shouldn’t be too hard.
Again, I’d like to see you work for free. Apparently it’s normal.
You are the one who is clueless, top guy at Blizz recently took 20 mil as a bonus to his salary, I don’t want my money to go corrupt suits who milk their players and ruin their game.
Blizz used to make games for gamers by gamers, and then I would have given them my money, and I did. But a company who doesn’t even respond to ideas that thousands of their players are behind… Well let’s just say I won’t be surprised that people doesn’t trust Blizz.
That is why I am gonna give my money to Ashes of Creation, since they have company policies that are in line with my values. And they can host their game without ruining the very purpose for why it was created.
Edit: Oh wait it was 200 mill dollar bonus. So according to you the CEO took enough money to host the cloud server for 40 months. Great company hope you keep giving them your money!
Here’s a quick lesson in economics as to why Blizzard like Micro transactions.
Sub revenue for the quarter ending September 2020 was $265.2m for WoW alone (down
Between July and September of that year the Activision’s total revenue was $1.95 billion, of which $1.2 billion came from MTX.
Why don’t I see any threads saying we would pay more per month to play without MTX? but with 2/3rds of revenue coming from microtransactions expect a much larger monthly fee.
Microtransactions doesn’t have to be P2W, if they kept it to cosmetic and to retail it would be no problem.
The over-arching problem is Blizz is now a fully corrupt company. The stocks got a lot higher due to pandemic and increased gaming because of it. Then the CEO takes 200 million dollar bonus while at the very same time fire a lot of people with really bad severance packages, as the money is only blizz-store credits.
I would describe the company structure as evil right now. I want nothing to do with it anymore.
So now you’re saying you think blizzard should host servers where there is a lower Average Revenue Per User, were there’s no ability for them to drive up additional revenues?
Why should retail players fund our game? why stop there? why don’t we say that because they make so much money from CoD they don’t need to charge us at all?
Why should retail players fund our game? why stop there?
Because adding it to Classic defeats the very purpose of Classic, splits the community and make people, including myself, hate and quit all blizzard games.
So hang on, because you and some others don’t want something, Blizzard should offset some of its profits, from a separate game to fund lower revenue classic servers? despite the fact that TBC had thinly veiled microtransactions originally? Think Lurky the pet for Digital Deluxe of think Spectral Tiger. Did you spit your dummy out over these originally?
The Specral Tiger isn’t a microtransaction, it’s TCG, and in my opinion the best way to make RMT mount transactions.
Look it’s not that complicated but I will give my last response to you now.
I don’t want to play classic anymore because I think Blizz doesn’t care about it and is purposefully ruining the gameplay experience to make money. I don’t want them to have my money anymore. It’s that simple.
If they make more money or less money will depend on how many people are willing to put up with them trashing their own game to make more money.
But I don’t play games to support blizz, I play them because I enjoy the game. And Blizz is taking out the enjoyement from their games with P2W services, it’s that easy.
If you don’t understand that then I can’t help you. Have a nice day.
The Spectral Tiger was a loot box, the worst kind of microtransaction. Appearing an average of 1 in 484 packs its worse by far than any microtransaction Blizzard sell today, by a country mile.
In the same way that you don’t play games to support blizz, they don’t create, host and support them for you to pay significantly under the current market rate.
If you don’t understand that, I fear you’re in for a rough time in this world. Have a good one, sir.
Ashes of Creation owner spent 40 mill dollar to private own his company with the pure reason of making a good game. So why would I ever support blizz instead of him? When you just said blizz don’t create the games for me.
I know, funny what you can do when you’re independently wealthy and not beholden to shareholders whom you have a legal obligation to ensure maximum ROI.
I’ll see you in the Alpha, when it’s ready. It’s just been put back. I would however have thought you’d hate their business model with Alpha 2 access costing $250 dollars and giving you items you can’t achieve in game and allowing you the cool benefit of purchasing more microtransaction stuff.
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in addition to the cosmetic items granted with the Voyager Pre-Order Pack at the time of purchase, you will also be entitled to purchase future monthly cosmetics as add-ons for the Voyager Level Pre-Order Pack and below. Pre-Order Pack cosmetics are only available during the month they are featured, and will never be available again for purchase.
In order to own a Pre-Order Pack’s cosmetics, you must either purchase the Pre-Order Pack during the month that the cosmetic is featured or have purchased that level pack or higher in a previous month in order to buy the > Blockquotecosmetic as an add-on. Kickstarter and Summer Backers will always be able to purchase Pre-Order Pack cosmetics as add-ons.
Seems like this should be against everything you apparently stand for.
Seems like this should be against everything you apparently stand for.
I dont care about cosmetics as I have said, I care about P2W. If there is some cosmetics and NO P2W, transparent development, etc. That is more than fine with me.
Why do you think I wouldn’t pay 250 dollar for alpha? I would pay 10k dollar to play an authentic WoW game. You don’t know me at all so don’t presume to know my values.
Because one of the bonuses is in-game marketplace credits, you’ve just bought gold bro, no worries so have all of us that’s bought it. See you in Alpha 2.