I thought it’d be interesting to see how much money you guys would be willing spend on the cash shop.
Starting with me:
Realm change + Faction change combined: 5€ per character, 25€ for a full-realm bundle.
Those two should be merged into a single service because most realms have 90% of their players belonging to the same faction.
Max level boost: 30€.
This service should also boost your characters to the current expansion’s max level, as long as you have 1 max level character that has completed the current expansion’s campaign.
Name change: Shouldn’t be a service. You should get a free name change every 3 months or so for just being subbed.
Transmogs: 10€ sounds reasonable, although my real answer would be 0€ because I find it outrageous that these aren’t rewards for playing this already expensive game.
Mounts: 10€. I still wouldn’t buy a single one though.
Pets: 0€. Who even throws away real life money for WoW pets of all things?
I’m already paying for the game. These micro transactions / additional services / cosmetics from the store don’t mean anything to me so I couldn’t care less.
Realm change: Should not exist, instead Blizzard should offer realm transfers to lower population server from higher population ones.
Faction change: should be redundant I feel with cross faction grouping, and leveling is super fast anyway.
Race change: With how fast leveling is I feel this can be removed as well.
Name change: It should be a free feature with a cooldown.
Character boost: should be exclusive to expansion sales, redundant otherwise as leveling is super fast right now.
Transmogs/mounts/pets: Should be earnable in game, if not then I would say maybe 10 euros/pounds is the highest I am willing to go for it. I never buy them without a discount.
Not much tbh.
I’ve never bought anything on the shop. I don’t mind there being some stuff in a shop but it should be kept to a reasonable level and be cosmetic only.
The 6-month sub rewards are quite good. It rewards players for sticking around but gives players a way to get them if they were away for some reason or are new to the game.
I can that there needs to be some limits on services like name changes or realm transfers or it would be madness and folk swapping and changing all the time.
But the current prices seem quite high, beyond what I’d expect for a simple thing like a name change.
I always begrudge the race change and server moving costs, I know they are priced to deter people from using them but they just feel very automated and not worthy of the pricetag.
I would rather see them remove the barriers that exist between realms (for example why not have cross realm guilds) and then they can just remove the realm transfer entirely.
Paid subscription time should add service credits. Let’s assume one credit is worth maybe 10 euros/pounds/dollars, you get one for every month you have been subbed by payment.
It is outrageous. When store transmog is just conspicuously better made than the mythic raiding sets, the game has a problem. Same can be said for the mounts; there are some very pretty store mounts that can’t be obtained in-game.
Swiping your card should never result in a more dazzling character than beating the game’s hardest difficulties or reaching the highest PvP bracket.
I don’t necessarily mind the existence of cosmetics in the shop, I just don’t like that those are clearly the ones that got the most love and time.
I bought the anniversary edition just for the Rag statue, I bought a version of Diablo 4 that did not have the game included, I have the Orc Rider statue to celebrate 10 years with an unbroken sub.
I’m a tight , regarding spending more money, than the subscription in WoW.
I would rather create a new character, on the faction, I want and the server, I’ve chosen.
I would rather level up, manually.
This is why I take time to chose the character name.
Also this is why I play 25 characters now
I didn’t want to pay to change, the name/race of this character, so I decided to make a new one.
Same case for all other characters.
I don’t care about them.
If people are willing to pay for them, more power to them.
It’s their money
Subscriptions have lost their point for me. Subscription games tend to be better than F2P, but it’s still paying a fee for a “slightly less scummy” version of a F2P game.
F2P games do tend to have a limit in that they need free players to give the whales people to play with and compare to, and they need free players to be having enough fun to stick around.
Over time, the lines have become so blurred that basically everything except buying player power directly is fair game in a subscription game. Even roundabout ways like buying a token, selling it for gold and then buying boosts and BoE’s are fair game.
I would rather pay double the sub fee for a high quality MMO with zero microtransactions, rather than the current standard sub for poor quality “but hey, you can’t buy mythic raid gear… sort of!” games riddled with microtransactions like we have now.
, regarding spending more money, than the subscription in WoW.