i could be totally wrong here, but from my experience i am not.
how long have £40 time cards been on sale? because i have NEVER seen them on sale before.
however, when i tried to get game time over the weekend, the £19.98 timecards were nowhere on sale in my town. i tried all the shops that may have them, including GAME.
the only cards on sale were £15 & £40 timecards.
£15 timecards are now useless because blizz wont let you buy 30 days of time anymore, which means you are forced to buy £40 timecards.
all this seems to have become a thing around the recent changes in the amount of time you can buy without having a reoccuring sub.
has anyone else experienced this?
the £19.98 timecards are removed?
how long have £40 timecards been around?
EDIT: when i say timecards, i mean physical cards with a code bought in a shop/amazon. £19.98 cards are specifically for 2 months of WoW time. £15 & £40 cards are for battlenet balance.
60 days game time costs £19.99 anyway so a £19.98 game time card would be useless.
To be honest, I’ve not bought them for years and can’t remember the last time I saw one in a shop. Was probably towards the end of wod last time I got one. I used to get them in Asda or Sainsbury’s though so maybe give them a try?
ok, its only a penny, but putting aside the fact that if there are 5 million players, thats £600,000 every year they’ve just given themselves, what about people who buy a £19.98 card? they wont even be able to play now! and timecards are non-refundable.
it was £19.98, because it was 2 months at £9.99.
i tried GAME, WHSmiths, HMV and another little store that does these voucher/timecard things.
i’ve looked in Tesco, Sainsbury’s & Asda in the past, and while Asda did have them about a year ago, they didn’t the last 2 times ive gone looking.
are blizzard actively trying to stop timecards? because they’ve not said this anywhere. if so that would end my subscription cause timecards are the only way i can play.
what denominations do they offer you? and how does that relate to how much it costs for 2 months game time in belgium?
they started offering £15 battlenet balance cards probably around WoD in the UK, but i had never seen £40 until this weekend.
Dunno. On the one hand, revenue from people like you who only pay that way, is revenue they don’t want to lose. On the other hand, other games have gone away from cards with no issue. TOR springs to mind, but TOR has a lot more income from in-game transactions, so that probably covers it, and WoW isn’t at that point (yet).
i always try to avoid sounding like a tinfoil hat, but one cant help but think you are right and this is the way they are heading.
i haven’t played SWTOR in a long time. i played on release, and think i had time come with the purchase. also think that i bought a card or 2 at the start because they would have been on sale a lot on release. however, towards the middle of the Dragon Soul patch i stopped playing SWTOR and came back to WoW. that SWTOR went free to play at some point after means cards for that never were an issue again.
i honestly wonder how many people use timecards, cause i thought they were a large amount of the playerbase. but maybe again im in the minority but lose me they will. i wont be paying £40 again, and may give the other £20 to a friend if i can gift 2 months. not sure yet. but nah, i do NOT like this move from blizzard
Sadly, I don’t believe you can gift game time any more either. That was another move they made when they removed the 30, 90 and 180 days game time and replaced them with the 60 days back in December for GBP. Unless it’s changed again since.
and this is why i will never buy another £40 card. now im tied in for 4 months.
and people wonder why players have so much hate for blizzard. the GAME staff member i was talking to said he had recently quit all activision games due to the way Vicarious Visions (?) staff were treated. the ones who worked on Tony Hawk and Crash Bandicoot.
they are digging their grave among so many players.
I couldn’t begin to guess. I’ve used them sparingly myself, as I’ve always been fine with subscription, until an incident where they overcharged by a lot and I haven’t trusted them since, relying on 30 days game time chunks. Since they removed that, I’m using the subscribe-and-immediately-cancel model. Which is annoying.
Not everyone wants a credit card because they are just a pointless debt and a lot of debit cards aren’t accepted as payment types by blizzard so game time cards where convenient.
Some people also don’t like to tie themselves to auto renewal subscriptions for all sorts of reasons that doesn’t mean they don’t have a job.
What a stupid and judgemental thing to come out with.
So why make a point of mentioning “because you’ve got a job” if not insinuating that people who buy game time or game cards instead of auto renewal subs don’t?
but lose me they will. i wont be paying £40 again, and may give the other £20 to a friend if i can gift 2 months. not sure yet. but nah, i do NOT like this move from blizzard 