The monthly sub is nothing but buying the right to use their IP. Don’t confuse a subscription with a service. And expansion boxes, does Classic even have that?
I’m not interested in Classic nor Classic TBC, but it surely is entertaining to read all these comments. Especially the “can’t believe they defend a company like this …” ones. What can we say, we always read that line when one is lacking decent points.
Thanks all, it was a joy to read.
Oh and…then simply don’t buy those packs? What do you expect? The company who’s behind Retail which many Classic fans seem to hate so much is also behind Classic, ofc they will bend towards the same systems to make an extra buck. And…you all supported that Company.
In the end we’re all defending Blizzard, we all here have an active sub.
There’s always that one guy who wants to sound smart explaining a business. Wow, great for you for seeing it buddy… doesn’t mean you have to be okay with it though.
This is moronic. The customer pays a sub in order to play the game and have new content developed for it. It does not matter one bit what Blizzard decide to say about it. They can go with their bla bla bla it’s access to the servers bla bla bla, but the reality is: people pay a sub in order to play the game and have new content. Stop having new content developed, no pay. Refuse access to the game, no pay. End of.
That Classic does not have boxes does not matter. Classic has a sub. Yes, really. The one shared with retail.
But I was talking about monetizing retail. Retail has both a sub and expansion boxes. Increasing - and plain having - monetization on top of that is disgusting. Again, end of.
Frankly, your takes have been very weird lately. “it surely is entertaining to read all these comments”, etc, it’s as if you post in order to say “look at how cool I am, not like you, morons”. I doubt you will get far with this.
The (new) content you pay for by buying the expansions, even though they stretch out the release of it. The sub doesn’t do anything in that way, you just get the right to play. But you don’t agree, so be it.
But not disgusting enough to sack the company behind it? Ok.
There’s nothing cool about it. Just love reading these comments. What you read in it is on you, can’t prevent others from making assumptions.
The customer is the only one who determines what the money is for, de-facto. The producer puts out his product, puts a price, then the customer decides what the product is for. If you produce clothing and people buy it in order to wipe floors with it, you are in the wiping floors business. No matter how many times you say it is haute couture. It’s basic stuff.
I repeat, people pay for a sub to play the game and have new content developed for it. Period.
I started playing WoW with Classic, loved it and also played retail for a while, got hyped about Shadowlands and got it at launch. I wanted to get a character boost in TBC, so I could also play with a friend who’s been playing horde on a different server. Wanted to take time off work so I could delve into TBC and have fun. Was looking forward to levelling a draenei shammy alt with friends.
I’m quite dissapointed. These services for TBC are price gouged, so I won’t be getting any, and probably won’t have time to juggle my alliance main and alts with levelling a horde to hang out with my friend. The time between pre-patch and launch is tiny, so I probably can’t take time off with such short notice, and likely won’t have levelled a shammy to max. Shadowlands is dry of content for the foreseeable future as well.
Don’t see any logic in many of these steps. If Blizzard hadn’t price gouged these services, I’m sure a lot more people would buy them like me, and they’d be making overall more profit. If the pre-patch and launch announcements were done earlier, I’m sure more people would take time off work and even get a subscription to jump in. This doesn’t make sense from a profit standpoint nor from a game developing standpoint.
In the end, Blizzard needs to realize that they need to care about the game and the people who play it, otherwise they’ll just continue on a downwards spiral of loss of players and profits.
I started playing WoW w Classic, loved it and also played retail for a while, got hyped about Shadowlands and got it at launch. I wanted to get a character boost in TBC, so I could also play with a friend who’s been playing horde on a different server. Wanted to take time off work so I could delve into TBC and have fun. Was looking forward to levelling a draenei shammy alt with friends.
I’m quite dissapointed. These services for TBC are price gouged, so I won’t be getting any, and probably won’t have time to juggle my alliance main and alts with levelling a horde to hang out with my friend. The time between pre-patch and launch is tiny, so I probably can’t take time off with such short notice, and likely won’t have levelled a shammy to max. Shadowlands is dry of content for the foreseeable future as well.
Don’t see any logic in many of these steps. If Blizzard hadn’t price gouged these services, I’m sure a lot more people would buy them like me, and they’d be making overall more profit. If the pre-patch and launch announcements were done earlier, I’m sure more people would take time off work and even get a subscription to jump in. This doesn’t make sense from a profit standpoint nor from a game developing standpoint.
In the end, Blizzard needs to realize that they need to care about the game and the people who play it, otherwise they’ll just continue on a downwards spiral of loss of players and profits.
I just want to say people who are defending this don’t actually think it, they are here just to disagree with people, they don’t even care what the topic is about.
They just want to be different and “smarter” than other people.
I have been on these forums long enough to see it happening over and over again.
Some ripoffs will try sell at £50 but key sites will always be cheaper…
Wow this year sold at £50… i dont even think you could get keys via keysites unlike bfa so direct from blizzard £50… a 25% price hike over bfa direct from blizzard.
Now lets break bfa down to compare the value. £40 was maybe worth all the content bfa had… noway was it worth £280 over the 2 years with sub costs… think about it. £280 for bfa and its content? Total rip off!!! Worst value you could ever get!
On release bfa had server issues… massive lag fest. Our sub is supposed to cover this as well as content… we got neither.
Now look at SL. It starts 25% more than bfa. The initial content is actually way less than bfa and its taken 8 months to move to the next tier??? So £130 if you played from release of SL!
Do you honestly think its been worth £130 so far??? This is a complete joke! You can get ms gamepass for a year for cheaper!
Epic games give away free games for christ sake… and then you have blizzard milking their playerbase dry.
The game shouldn’t even have a sub cost with the content they are offering… noway did current SL take 2 years to develop… they are developing the game right now…
Diablo 4 will cost £50 for the standard edition but it will be a full game with zero sub cost and i bet it has more content than the £130~ weve paid so far
Wow is a joke! Were all suckers paying to play it per month.
Sub price did not increase when they started work on classic so you did not pay specifically for classic development you were paying that sub either way whether they did classic or not.
