Forced Class Changes

[Crow-907273 (Crow)]

Think all the class changes to deter or stop in game money transfers, boosting and Bots would all be negated by just employing in game active GMs.

Multi million dollar company I’m sure is able to afford it. If not I’d be happy to pay a few pence more on my subscription to fund a proper in game service rather than everyone’s gameplay be affected by the actions of a minority group.

Just my two pence

[Meadow-10054 (Meadow)]

@Jynks-silvermoon

to deter or stop in game money transfers, boosting and Bots would all be negated by just employing in game active GMs.

This is a rather old post on the costs per employee but in your suggestion multiply that per employee:

@Breakbeat-kilrogg

Hmm… just for kicks and giggles, let’s do NA. Let’s assume one person can handle monitoring one dungeon on one realm all on their own.

• 1 worker hour = 1 hour monitored / 1 instance.
• There are 118 dungeons in WoW (rough count)
• That’s 2,800 work hours to monitor all instances on one server for 24 hours.
• That’s 680,000 work hours to monitor all instances on all servers for 24 hours.

So…

• Hire minimum wage workers to do this job, obviously. ($12/hr in CA)
• BASE cost on wages alone is now $8.2 million dollars per day.

(Cough… let me check my math… that seems like a lot…)

Nope, I’m right. That’s $8.2 million per day, at minimum wage, to monitor every instance 24/7/365. We aren’t even talking any other expense incurred when you employ people. The cost including insurance subsidies and any other employee benefits or employer costs would easily push it over $10 million a day.

Is 1 person to 1 instance is undercutting a bit? Maybe. If the person were able to effectively monitor ten instances on their own, it’d still be nearly $1 million a day in wages. Over a million with added expenses.

Not to mention that the $12 an hour is just a joke, really. I seriously doubt the people sitting at consoles monitoring player behavior and implementing bans and enforcing rules are going to make $12 an hour.

@Jynks-silvermoon

If not I’d be happy to pay a few pence more on my subscription

No you wouldn’t. See: Recent price changes on subscription. Tho, it wouldn’t hurt for Blizzard to have more devs, QA and other support staff with the reduced quality and buggy stuff lately sigh.

[Crow-907273 (Crow)]

Think your looking too deeply into it.

How many subscribers are there.

How many more would you have if you didn’t have that element with a rampant disregard for the rules.

The day you start cheepskating with real staff is the day your standards drop.

[Murzac-905251 (Murzac)]

Blizzard’s net income is something like 1.5 billion dollars per year which amounts to about 4 million per day. And that is for the whole company across all of their IPs. There is no world where Blizzard sacrifices a quarter of that towards a single version of a single IP. It’s just money thrown into the void.