subs are not scam but when the say you pay sub each month and the next month u paid for 2 without knowing that’s scam
Nobody is holding a gun to your face and making you use those products. Its your free choice to use them. If I go to the bar but find the bartender rude and the music awful there…then I just…uhm…go to a different establishment? Nobody dragged me in chains to that bar in the first place…
But subs are not affected… its clearly in the post.
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One-time purchases don’t.
Let’s take this slowly.
If you buy 6 tokens with gold, and put them into game time, you spend 6 tokens per 6 months.
BUT
If you turn 5 tokens into battle.net balance, you get 65€ balance, which was enough to buy a single 6-month game time. So you could play for 6 months with 5 tokens.
So there is a change - this trick is no longer possible.
It has no impact on me - the last time I played for 6 months in a row was in Legion - but there obviously are people who did this. For them, it’s 20% more gold per year of game time.
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Except this game involves kids, and kids with parents as well and you sure are not bound by subscription to bars? You really need a better example. Even with a gun you’re technically not ‘forced’ to do anything as there is the choice, even if you don’t like the other option. If you want to play 'Well ACTHUALLY"
You don’t actually, I recently got a 30 day free trial and cancelled it 4 days before the date was up and still got prime video until the last day. What they do, however, is a bit more seedy. They basically word that cancellation guffins in a way that makes you think that if you cancel the sub you lose all those lovely extras so you don’t cancel and they hope you miss your chance to and pay for another month.
You might not see the “big deal” here but plenty of people choose that 30 days game time option for a number of reason, its far more convenient for some than a rolling sub or larger amounts of game time and now they are facing having to sub, buy 2 months at a time or just walking away from wow because it simply is not worth it.
This is an even bigger kick in the teeth that they are doing this 12 months into a global pandemic that has left many people out of work.
It would have maybe been better to raise the price of game time over a sub if Jito is correct but they chose an option that stinks.
No, what a weird thing to say. A subscription to a game is hardly anything like that.
There are alternative ways to pay for game time, via gold farming or buying game time. You don’t have to sub if you don’t want to.
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Then its the parents job to ensure that the game or website or whatever is entertainment avenue is suited for their children. Its the same story about +18 websites. Sure all of them have “Are you +18?” question at starting screen but c’moon…do you think somebody who is not of the age will be…“honest” in his answer? 
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How?
If Blizzard says that tokens arent affected nor are the subscription plans?
It only applies if you buy gametime once. And dont automatically refresh it.
So if my sub runs out on the 6 months plan in November, and i wouldnt renew it, i have to pay for 2 months at a time.
Until i reactivate a subscription again for any time i want.
Well then surely its down to the parents to decide to continue and if the parents can’t get their heads around such a simple change then??
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Just subscribe for 1 month and cancel it straight away then lol
2 months are 26e, so 6 months will be 78e. Previously 6 months were 66e. This is 12e increase, got it?
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They confuse them into thinking that 2 months is the minimum they can buy.
One will end up getting 2 months sub while thinking this is the minimum game time he can get
Call me a devil’s advocate if you want. But doesn’t Blizzard have the right to do with their prices as they please? At least so far, we are in a free economy more or less and the government doesn’t say “you can sell eggs for EXACTLY 1 eur. Not more, not less”.
All of which now cost more and push you to subscribe instead? You don’t have to do anything, including breathe if you don’t want to. The argument of ‘well you don’t have to’ isn’t a point, or at any way relevant in this conversation.
We had the option to buy game time in 30 days, 90, 120, etc days. We also had the option to do that via gifting, which you no longer can do. Parents, also cannot just outright buy their kid a game card for each month to avoid a card being attached to the account especially for how many parents, or grandparents are still not so great with computers and websites.
Not sure what your point is here at all, to be honest. Try again, I guess.
Okay then, dude that supports extortion and shady practices I guess.
This was the conversation:-
That was the conversation. You claimed that this would affect farming gold for tokens in game, it does not.
The subscription prices ARENT affected. The blue post clearly states that.
And yes, it says: at this moment this isnt affected and they can change it if they want to.
Subscriptions wont change.
They will stay as is right now.
The change is only based on buying gametime without a subscription.
Which part of this:
you don’t understand?
You needed only 10 tokens to buy 12 months of game time, if you converted tokens to balance and then bought 6-month GAME TIME. GAME TIME, not subscription. Now you need 12 tokens to buy 12 months of game time.
Yes, but you could’d buy 6-month GAME TIME for the same price as 6-month SUB. Now, 6-month GAME TIME (78€) costs MORE than 6-month SUB (66€)
The point being. Blizzard just offers a product. If you got a kid playing it. its the PARENTS job making sure that the product suits him/her.
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It’s because people use a loophole with the WoW Token where they convert it to bnet balance first and then use a stockpile of bnet balance to buy 6 months WoW access, as opposed to just redeeming a single WoW Token, one at a time, for 30 days WoW access.
That loophole was likely not intended in the first place, so I’m not sure if it’s something be super upset about. Blizzard were always going to close it eventually. I’d say be happy that it worked for as long as it did.
You can still use the WoW Token as per usual and as it is intended and in the way it is described.