Im not really speaking strictly just about WoW, but gaming in general. Having a fun game to play or having microtransaction filled trashcan can be quite a big difference in enjoyment. Also, having more accessible, cheaper game is always more beneficial to user, than opposite. And yes, there is always something on market… for now. Will see what future holds.
Couldnt agree more with that point.
I never was one for major addiction or understood something for your enjoyment could be so important to some extent.
Its nice gaming can help people overcome reallife issues tho.
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They don’t need to fool anyone, even the investors know for a fact , as Blizzard do themselves they will increase Profits from this change
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But you still get 30 days free game time when you buy the game so completely new players don’t have this issue and everyone else should know better.
While I am of course sorry to hear about that and sympathetic towards what you have gone through in real life.
Yet Video gaming is not life sustaining medicine as in a sense. That if you remove it, then its like shutting down life support for a critically ill patient who can’t breath on his own.
I can agree that video games can help coup with real life stresses but we are not physiologically dependent on them that our hearts will stop and our kidneys will cease functioning if we don’t play 8 hours a day or something.
Which we return back to the square 1 pretty much. WoW is a commercial product. And the company wants to make profit. WoW is not a medical drug. Say some serious heart condition drug and the company can’t make a “half-dose” masked as full dose drug for the same price to save costs. Fully knowing that the patient might actually die due to ineffective treatment.
Its a non essential(as in biological life sustaining) product which they can do what they please. If they lose customers…hey. Their loss. The customers will simply go to a video game which has what they want.
2nd. You are not taking into account what the people on the “other side” see.
Say if I open a coffee shop. I start selling just black coffee. I get 20 people in my village who are black coffee fans. I do a survey and I find that IF I serve coffee with milk and sugar as well I might attract 100 more people. Sweet! But wait. The 20 current people are die hard black coffee fans. They refuse to even be in my shop if coffee with milk is served. So 20 vs 100 people? Well you dont have to have a degree in business management to see that gaining 100 peps are worth losing 20 cause you can’t please them all.
Same with micro transactions. There will be people who use them. People who dont care and people who are zealously against it. If losing the zealous peps against it gains more revenue than keeping them. Then which business will no do that? Like I said. Its a profit making company. The end-game will always be to make the most profit possible not get the most costumers possible. 500 people who give 5M revenue is a lot more worth than 5000 who give 500,000 revenue. Like it or not. Its the hard truth…
The worst thing about this is you wont be able to gift friends and family 1 month game time anymore for birthdays or to help them when times are hard but not one person mentioned it yet sadge.
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But what about players who don’t have a credit card for one reason or another like previously mentioned and also Players in country’s that don’t have available the “accepted” Blizzard payment methods, which there are many, they buy game time card from 3rd party suppliers, which 100’s if not 1000’s do, after the suppliers stock dries up they will HAVE to purchase 60 days, which back to my whole point Blizz wins from this change, that’s why they did it…it’s profit
Thing is, there are lot of people who love to be part of games, learn lore, discuss, give ideas how to make the game better and so on. Heck, look at the forums, reddit, and other fansites, all the people complaining about things and giving suggestions, or countless videos on youtube, when they could, according you, just leave and go play something else instead. People arent apathetic like you are, they actually care about games and love games.
There are devs who dont see games as some commercial product, but instead as a piece of art to share with other people. Unfortunately higher-ups dont care about any of this and just want to get, as you say, most money possible, even if it was perfectly sustainable with lower amount.
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Paypal is available in most countries
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If you can sub with a debit card it is ok but if you can only use credit …there is a problem. I still remember once when I wanted to buy gt with a debit card and I was not able even if I had money on my debit card. Some banks in some countries have banned that option for some sites with debit cards. Strange sounds but it is like that.
World of Warcraft Subscriptions
World of Warcraft recurring subscriptions can be paid with:
- Credit Card
- Debit Card
- PayPal
Additional payment methods are accepted in some countries:
- Direct Debit (only in Austria, Germany, Netherlands, and Spain)
- Virtual Visa (only in Rouble currency)
Blizzard Balance cannot be used to set up recurring subscriptions. If you want to use Balance, you can buy Game Time.
“Most” in eastern Europe its far from the most common payment method used
This is a very greedy move, I guess they need to collect 20M for CEO again
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Holy shifting goalposts Batman. This is about the removal of the 30 day gametime option from the shop for which you need to have a credit card or other payment method. It isn’t as if 60 days gametime is massively more than 2 x 30 days after all.
The post I replied to was about new players who just wanted to try out the game for which my response is perfectly valid.
Im from Easter Eu also and my bank banned me to pay blizzard gt with my debit card. I even conntact staff about it they told me it is my bank and not them.
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Point is, all these different audiences and discussion show that people care for the game and interact with it. Its not about Blizzard trying to win everyone over, that is impossible, but its about people caring about the game and not just abandoning it, moving onto next as it was some simple product.
If you put a suggestion like “add mythic gear to in game store”, then maybe, just maybe you are actually wrong and thats not good idea. Still, if you give suggestion that benefits atleast half playerbase then its fine to share it.
I’m not in Eastern Europe but I like Paypal especially for use online, I don’t have to give my bank details out to sites and it all works through Paypal itself for free.
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One more thing I want to say… This not affect now maybe on tokens in game but… Who will guaranteed me that they will not make changes about it to… For example: Removing convert to credit or when you buy token you need to to turn in gt that moment when you buy it. Or simply remove token and you can buy in shop gold for real money.
It was mostly like this in WoD, you buy token, then use it for 1 month game time only and you could buy 36 tokens in 24 months, and have maximum of 10 on account at same time. There is a reason token was dirt cheap back then.
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@Chintara, Gerikee: Having read quite a few of the quarterly reports over the years… I do not think this will be even mentioned in the Q1, 2021 report.