the argument here is live service game cost but it’s completely irrelevant for people that just log once or twice a week and do the most casual content, many can not imagine but those people exist as seen here.
Those people have close to 0 incentive to pay a sub or stay up2date but rather just quit entirely over paying yet another sub they barely use.
people like this do not need anything of the " muh live service game " agenda, they want to buy a game and play, … idk, 2 times a weeks 2-3h tops in an evening.
This concept seems so disconnect from blizzard and most active players/active forum bros that they don’t get the point even if it’s perfectly described in the original post.
Yet sadly this Idea of " bought game let me play once or twice a week " will never be reality because blizzard would rather say goodbye to those potential players that sub for 3 or 6 months to play live service content - or as very nicely described ’ ranked mode ’ - than trying something new and potentially gaining a completely new revenue stream of costumers.
The only ray of hope is literally microsoft cleaning house so far that this game becomes more friendly towards new players and stuff like this is a thing of the past.
e: and yes, there is the argument of " then people will just not sub anymore and still play "
well looks like it’s up to blizzard to figure out how much to gate the sub content… it’s their job after all