Hello,
I wanna leave feedback to blizzard officials about the game time price for Turkish players.
Since 5 to 6 years TRY is constantly going down and it’s becoming harder and harder for Turkish players to pay for game time in WoW, I think you should get your finance team to prepare a graph of revenue growth speed rate from Turkish players since 2010 and you will see it’s bad business for you to keep charging the same amount for Turkish players, because no one but rich people can afford it anymore. Every other big gaming companies adopted the region locked price adjustment method, why don’t you? 13 Euros per month has become too high of a percentage of avarage salary in Turkey for a video game.
I hope you consider this, you’re missing a big MMORPG market.
Thank you.
Blizzard have the same price for all of the EU, just because your national wage is lower than most and your inflation is out of control does not mean the price should be changed for one country only.
They do region lock the price.
Well,
It may not mean that to you,
But I just provided arguments why I think the prices should be adjusted for countries with lower international purchasing power, Turkey is one of them with a decent population.
I think you’re making the mistake of thinking Turkey falls into EU countries category, that’s not the case. Turkey’s economic situation is very different than EU’s. You don’t have to guess that, like I said if they compare revenue growth speed from Turkish players in the last decade compared to EU and Americas they would see what is going on.
That’s just my opinion, I’m not here to complain because it’s not like I’m dying to play WoW, just would like to play for a reasonable price. And if that’s not an option, oh well good-bye WoW it is.
Edit : I can’t reply here after the topic have been moved to general discussion from customer support, because I don’t have an active subscription.
Turkey is not a big market : It’s a giant market, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Turkish purchasing power similar to eastern Europe : Turkey’s purchasing power in Western market is not at all similiar to Eastern Europe. Turkey’s nominal GDP is 3 times lower than it’s GDP PPP. So Turkish minimum wage is 350 Euros, only Bulgaria comes lower with 260 Euros in Europe. Not to mention current 20% inflation 25% unemployment aged between 18-26, Turkish Lira is the third most weakened currency in the world since 2018 after Iranian rial and Venezuelan Bolivar.
Server cost:
That’s around 1% of the actual cost Blizzard is charging you. 99% goes to salaries and profits.
I’m not gonna give attention to other kindergarden level arguments.
Lastly let’s compare Russia with Turkey;
Russia : %5 Inflation, %15 Youth Unemployment, %5 Overall unemployment 270$ minimum wage.
Turkey: 20% Inflation, %25 Youth Unemployment (Thanks to Syrian refugees EU barely took any), 13% Overall unemployment, 392$ minimum wage.
Russia gets price adjustment but Turkey doesn’t, that doesn’t sound right.
I smell Turcophobia from Blizzard policy makers. We all know there’s no way Blizzard can’t adjust their prices for Turkey, because if that method was unprofitable, no other gaming company could’ve done it. Currently, blizzard is the only company which did not adjust their prices for Turkey.
It’s okay blizzard, we’re not dying to play your games.
Many countries pricing has been different for many years including russia. We paid less money to blizzard.
The question at hand here is,how unstable the currencie is-was for the past 5 years?How many yearly up/down’s it has,and what affects the economy the most?To cause those ups/downs.
It would be something they need to adjust the price of subsription at least 2x a year.
But not only that,i really dont like the idea it should be only done for Turkey cause there is alot of Turkish players.It should be done with the whole of EU.
But then you end up with a lot of work,and having to implement a system that will adjust the prices accroding to the Euro for every contries currencie yearly.Witch is alot of work,and you would have at least 5 guys monitoring and implementing it.
I think the best way is when you should just cut your losses and just stop and find something diffreint.Its something you do at your free time in the end.
I know it doesn’t solve tout issue but for the time being how about using the WoW token to pay your sub ?
It’s quite easy. If the price for Turkey gets adjusted but you’re still EU region, everyone can go buy Turkish gamecards
It will be like back then exploiting cheaper gametime with russian bnet links
Doesn’t work that way. Its based on Currency. The Euro currencies is for all the people that use it. The European union currency doesn’t change based on the country it is in.
That’s like changing the US dollar sub based on what state you are in. I’m sorry but 13 euros based on average of 30 days is 43 cents a day approx. If oyu cant afford that then you shouldn’t be playing WoW.
You don’t even need to be outside EU. Just look at the poorer EU countries(Eastern Europe for example).
13 euros? For a westerner. Thats probably coffee+peanut money. For an easterner: You can eat for 3-4 days if you are not too picky.
If Blizz started to adjust the prices for every country’s purchasing power than we would 1 big of a mess+ the usual “Why does my country A have to pay more than the neighboring country B! They are the same when it comes to wealth!” complaints…
If you start treating people differently based on where they live you open up a can of PR worms you wish you’d never opened.
Blizzard has always charged 15 USD or equivalent a month for the sub, and they will continue to do so until support is cut for the game.
How would the world look if every company caved into the effects of global politics? Prices would just spike right and left on everything, one day your milk costs 2€ and the next day it costs 15€ because putin said something about germanys overseas policies. Now that would just be stupid.
Eastern European here. 13 euro is completely acceptable price even for people with minimal wage around here.
The guy has a point:
June 22 2013: EUR 1 = TRY 25227
June 22 2019: EUR 1 = TRY 63438
That’s an incredible difference!
If Turkish wages haven’t changed as much for the better (if at all) then they are in a bad position.
At some point we all need to be accounted for personal responsibility.If it’s to expensive you stop and do something else,its something you spend your free time.I use wow as a cheap way to entertain my self while save money to buy a new car.
But if people are struggeling to get by with a video game,the problem is not with the game.You dont see people telling ferrari to make mid size family cars,or reduce prices.
It’s very easy to change countries to turkey and buy cheaper subscription from there.
In my country the minimum wage is about 200-250 euros so wow is about 5% of the income.
How much do you consider to be to much? I’m pretty sure wow is less % in turkey than in my country and still only your country and it’s people seems to be complaining about this on the forums, it’s getting annoying at some point especially because it’s spam at this point.
Even within what are considered to be wealthier countries there are people on low incomes. I don’t really know where they would draw the line.
A friend from Eastern Europe used to pay for his sub with gold to get round the costs.
https://en_wikipedia_org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_minimum_wage
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Every half a year or so, we get a new thread about Turkish players “needing” a cheaper subscription. They always point out how weak their currency is compared to the widely used euro and so WoW is simply unaffordable.
Every half a year or so I check the net minimum wage per country throughout Europe. Turkey consistently lands in the same category as the poorer parts of Eastern Europe. At the absolute minimum 13 strictly European countries and 5 Eurasian countries have a lower net minimum wage than Turkey. Most of them significantly lower.
Again, this is just our continent. We haven’t even taken into consideration the staggering number of extremely poor countries in Africa and Asia. It’s almost as if the Turkish playerbase isn’t so poverty stricken as they like to claim.
Nope. Pay the sub price or don’t play. Its as simple as that. Activision-Blizzard are there to make money, they wont decrease prices as it hurts their turnover.
You cant ask for a price decrease because your country has devalued its own currency due to political/economic miss management. If a price decrease was given can i have a decrease in cost because of the UK political status at the moment (with brexit and all) and the decreased value of the £? No.
And whose fault is this? Not blizzards.