Greetings Blizzard,
I want to start off my proposition that I’m an old Warcraft player that is trying to get in the WoW universe for the first time. I would like to ask you if you can change some inconveniences regarding subscription system of World of Warcraft. I live in Turkey, Europe. This brings me to my situation: with the fact that my account is in European region (yet not being part of the European Union) I have no choice on the matter but to pay for my subscription in Euro as currency, according to you that is. Even though you clearly state that I should pay with my account’s signed up country currency… This is where things get interesting, you see, my national currency is Turkish Liras not Euros. And recently, my currency has lost it’s value so much that the current pricings regarding 3 to 6 months of prepaid gametime you are asking from us Turkish players should last other European country players or an American player easily a year worth of prepaid game time, if not 2 years. I love this community and I love this game. I grew up playing Warcraft series and Diablo. I would like to play and support World of Warcraft for years to come I cannot explain to you the joy I get from this game and community however I find it a little confusing to accept these terms for subscription. You are missing on a great playerbase that will support this community. I humbly ask of you to reconsider payment methods and possible currency options. As it stands, I can barely play this game for a month of subscription time. If I start to make savings, barely 3 months of ingame time per year, probably. Your prices are fair and square for many countries and I admire your clarity however that does not translate well over to countries with struggling economies one such as mine. I wanted to wait and see how you would act on the matter yet all these years I haven’t seen a single effort from your end so I took it upon myself to inform you as not a huge fan of your game but as a huge fan of your lore and art. Please cosider my suggestion, because you literally are standing in my way of playing this game with the people I like to play with. The pricings could be acceptable for 10 years ago but they are outdated in 2020, for my region and country and I assume there may be other players having the same problem with me, from different regions and countries. I’m not expecting to revolutionise your business policies overnight with this message but I at least would like you to provide me some sort of information, a solution. Perhaps, an answer. I have levelled up this account just to contact you on this forum. I would like to share you this link so you can understand what I’m trying to explain here:
1- For Turkish players, you ask 66Euroes per 6 months for subscription. This is what it translates to in my own currency: 6 months of sub in turkish liras for EU server
2- For Turkish players, you ask 36Euroes per 3 months for subscription. This is what it translates to in my own currency: 3 months of sub in turkish liras for EU server
3- For Turkish players, you ask 13Euroes per a month worth of subscription. This is what it translates to in my own currency is 121,37TRY (I’m sorry I can only send 2 links due to my account being new)
**My point is; the base sub tier as of now, compared to 10 years ago, is already 6 times more expensive which happened to be around 20 turkish liras. It is now more than 120try, on this exact day. Expansions are also only getting more expensive each time. I am very concerned by this. One of the reaons why I’m concerned is you actually are taking action on platforms like XBOX with Diablo or Overwatch sales (also supporting TRY as a payment method currency). I’m not sure if a veteran WoW player since Vanilla pays 6x more today than what he paid 10 years ago. I’m not even sure if anyone would agree to that for any kind of game.
Thanks in advance, looking forward to hear from you.