Cool, can’t wait for Tokens to go up to even more unreasonable amounts until only the worst market controllers and cancel scan botters can afford them. Because secretly, everyone wants all this nonsense and will absolutely buy it. But no one will sell Tokens because SL’s sorry state has already caused a mass exodus.
I just won’t be able to afford to keep playing SL then, but maybe it’s for the best. Fine, bring on the 400k Token prices because people sitting at Darnassus who don’t even play SL want to buy a mount for TBC Classic that was never available in the original. What with all this constant controversy and drama going on, all the tone deafness… it gets tiring.
Or maybe just… stop. Stop making Current WoW the thing that pays people’s Activision lootboxes, battlepasses, cosmetics and so on. It started out as a way to sub to WoW, only to become nothing but a workaround for the ridiculous cash shop pricing across all ActiBlizzard games.
Might as well remove the option to pay your WoW sub with Tokens, since that’s clearly not what it’s meant for anymore.
P.S. Also dear Blizzard, please stop calling it “Retail WoW”. That name is ridiculous and I think you know it is. It implies Classic servers aren’t paid for, but they absolutely are. They are a retail transaction just like SL. If you do not pay money, you don’t get access to Classic. It’s 10£/month, whether you play SL or not is irrelevant. There is no need to imply Classic is somehow “free” when it isn’t.
If I never bought any expansions but wanted to play Classic or TBC, I would still have to keep making a retail transaction of 10£/month.
Any and all servers are “retail” servers. They are a product and a service, that we pay for. Implying otherwise is misleading and dubious.
I doubt you understand the meaning of the word, that describes wanting capitalist corporations, but then expecting to tell them precisely when they are, or are not, allowed to make profits and how much profit, you personally find acceptable at any given time, for any given service/product.
Good job at not getting it, at all. Please continue defending pure greed though.
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It’s thanks to people like you why this game is in the state it is for quite some time, you should be proud.
Imagine not understanding the difference between them making a profit or adding stuff to an expansion for money which didn’t have these things when it was released. This is pure greed, plain and simple. But hey, you do you.
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The system you vote for, is working as intended… so stop whining… particularly when you do not have to buy the cosmetics, or the boost, or the clone.
“but it’s optional” 
you clearly don’t get it, do you. Anyway, tired of reading your nonsense, welcome to the ignore.
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When did we vote for MTX in this? lol???
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I was actually excited about the deluxe edition, but the way they present it - not worth my hard earned money.
Retail gets way too less for the money.
And the pricetag itself is ridiculous. Maybe, if 10 bucks less…
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Welcome to WOTLK classic experience.
Get your rank 1 titles and gladiator tabards for only 99.99$
We are also happy to present ICC heroic gear,ONLY for 89.99$ per item.
But don’t worry,we keep it # nochanges
And ye…we wipe characters and all of your gold every 3 months,but worry NOT,we also oppened third party site,where you can buy our gold,but no one knows its us,and we blame it on gold sellers and bots.
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Increasing monetization of a game which already has a MONTHLY SUB and EXPANSION BOXES is completely disgusting.
The reason they are doing this is simple. They are too lazy and incapable to grow the subs the normal way. SL is trash. In the time it takes them to release 9.1, we’d previously have had both 9.1 and 9.2. That with 9.1 containing nothing except the bare bones traditional things. Their “innovation” now consists of them tinkering with rewards for conquest and valor, and copying a third-party addon. Unsurprisingly, they are losing players. All these paid extras are coming from that. They cannot make money the normal way so they are trying to make them by milking whoever is still stupid enough to buy their useless virtual fomo stuff.
I am immediately crossing out everything that is a paid extra out of my collection lists. It might as well not exist. This is the only way.
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Says the one defending this practice in the first place what a
Retail, what we are paying a subscription for is retail. You get classic and, soon, TBC for free. If you don’t like retail you’re paying alot of money for a game you don’t like but you are still paying for that game.
I haven’t made my mind up as to whether this offer is worth it or not but I know that should I not want to throw any money at TBC I will still be able to play it should I so desire to put myself through the orture of HFP again.
That’s not free. If you stop being interested in SL and stop your sub, you won’t be able to play either Classic or TBC. That’s not free.
What do you think funded the development of Classic and TBC to begin with? Our subs. We all paid for Classic and TBC. Even if someone didn’t play a single second of it, like myself, they still paid.
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There aren’t any words left in the dictionary to describe the utter shamelessness and greed of this.
Is Gallywix a metaphor for what’s going on here? Are we at the “burn the papers and money trail” stage of this highway robbery scheme yet?
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If I do decide to play BC I’ve resigned myself to picking a realm (hopefully Blizzard have learned from the realm option fiasco at the start of classic) and starting from scratch rather than indulge further monetary rinsing. I played Classic for best part of a year and it quickly became a bot, multiboxer and booster frenzy and for me just stopped being fun to play. I know that’s largely a community issue rather than a Blizzard issue but they did little to prevent it.
I loved BC the first time round but I can’t see that being the same with this version. No doubt those running around on their shiny purchased mount will get abuse from many as they’ll certainly stand out from those with the standard available mounts. It’ll be interesting to see if this is indeed the start of a slippery slope to adding more purchasable items that didn’t exist in original BC. If it is, then it entirely misses the point of why so many wanted to step away from current retail in the first place. As with the Ion interview, tone deaf does appear to now be the norm.
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Another shameless money grab from Blizzard. They have come a long way from the original release of TBC in 2007 when they seemed like they cared less about just wringing money out of their player base and more about creating a great game that would attract additional subscribers.
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Blizz use to work their azz off for expansions and the customers… of anyone has played wow from release knows this and how things have changed… all they care about is money.
You get far less for your money than ever before… 25% price hike for the expansion to fund classic and tbc crap that half their playerbase didnt want… only private server and streamers want this to cash in on the hype or play the boring crap again from 2007… no one who actually played tbc wants to do it again… it was a grind fest then and its a grindfest now… we want retail content… but no blizzard understands that selling old crap costs them for less and makes them more money… its not logical to improve the main game when you make more money selling old tat
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