Blizzard now’s like lordaeron in retail.
My issue with this offer is not the money or the mount, but it is the fact that they have announced this promotion without first giving us a road map for the next 6 months.
The last 6 months I paid for, went down the drain because we bararely had any content at all.
I am not about to sign up for something just to potentialy get one mount in return.
I think we should be treated with a little more respect as paying customers and not just be milked every 6 months with an enticing carrot (mount).
Respect players time (and money).
Doesn’t really make sense to count for 18 months of sub as half of that 3rd 6 months sub should actually cover 9.2. (Esport events will start mid March, the patch has to be released by then)
That’s perhaps how you justify it for yourself but the playerbase definitely would, the amount of content has nothing to do with the complains about the shop & mounts.
Case in point : The same arguments were re-hashed during legion despite it having the fastest content release schedule we ever had in WoW.
Game launched 14 months ago and its still time gate Beta version. 9.2 is not changing anything for the better. Huge pass. So glad Siege of the Atlas is just around the corner. Can play 100% solo and be the best and the strongest.
They don’t care about giving you content as longests people keep either renewing their sub, buying store mounts or 6 month sub.
All your feedback is worthless, if you want them to make a roadmap before making store mount inclusion number zeeeeeen. Vote with your wallet instead of your mouth every time.
I would agree that for most people it isn’t the price of games that’s the problem but rather the amount of time they have to play games.
But it is expensive. It’s a little bit more expensive than XBox GamePass Ultimate - a service that includes over 100 games, many of them multiplayer.
WoW is very, very expensive for a video game.
While it’s true that people come and go as patches release, what you’re essentially saying by saying that is that, a lot of the time, WoW isn’t worth paying for, which is my point.
We live in the moment.
As of right now 18 months of sub for 9.0 and 9.1 is what it feels like. That’s just the reality of the situation - I know 9.2 is coming soon but 9.2 is not here and it definitely should have been a long time ago.
I’m not justifying anything, I’m simply stating that people don’t seem to mind mounts and pets for money so long as it isn’t the value proposition itself but is rather a bonus. A bonus for buying the collector’s edition where of course the bonus is physical collector’s items, art books, etc., a bonus for subscribing, a bonus for attending BlizzCon, whatever it may be. But a mount or pet, as a value proposition in and of itself, is not good, and it feels like Blizzard would rather release something cheap to make and expedient for a lot of money rather than justifying the subscription fee, and that’s not OK. Now, obviously it’s more complicated than that in terms of inner processes, but the reality is that customers just don’t care about that, nor should they.
- You don’t HAVE to eat the carrot.
- You can wait for several months and see what happens and then still get the mount by subbing.
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The Game Pass price varies from country to country, ‘wealthier’ countries subsidise the ‘poorer’ countries. It’s not a fixed price. The WoW subscription is a fixed price per region (more or less), so all countries are equal.
Game Pass Ultimate is more expensive for me than my WoW sub. I am hoping that Warcraft will not be one of the games they want to move to their pass system but we will see what happens. I know they intend to move the catalog of Acti Blizz games over to the game pass where possible.
Except China of course. China is never equal. 
That is a different Region. The prices are set by Region.
In EU you could argue Russia have their own pricing. That is the only exception.
I live in one of the richest countries per capita on the planet and for me GamePass is less expensive than WoW, so that’s rather odd I’d say.
WoW is 112DKK/mo., GamePass is 79DKK/mo.
Of course that’s assuming you take the monthly deal, if you sub 6 months at a time WoW is 82DKK/mo., which is still more expensive than GamePass, but is less expensive than GamePass Ultimate, which is 99DKK/mo.
Is it?
Do people in Japan (for instance) pay the same as the people in China?
Somehow I doubt that. Or is China ‘its own region’, which is just more proof of ‘not being equal’.
Oh please don’t get me started on that… Russia should NOT be in the EU region unless their game uses the same client with ‘our’ alphabet.
Like I said, it varies by country, I live in the UK and it’s £10.99 a month. That is more than I pay to play WoW.
Never pay for things in advance without knowing the results. It’s basic courtesy of any serious professional.
Avoiding the mundane cosmetic mounts is a good price to pay to avoid the abuse of basic courtesy.
That’s the same situation as me. It’s slightly more expensive for Ultimate but this is only relevant if you use an Xbox and a PC on the regular.
If you’re a PC gamer you just need XBox GamePass PC, which is £7.99.
Either way, the prices are roughly comparable and given that I think it’s quite extraordinary that with WoW you probably won’t even get a single patch, whereas with GamePass you get like 4-5 brand new game releases. It’s honestly crazy.
I can’t see WoW being compatible with the Game Pass, we have tokens, play for free, store stuff, sub bonuses etc
So I’m not worried but it’s a long way off yet.
Microsoft has store stuff, too. You can upgrade the games to collector’s editions and stuff. There are no tokens though, but I’d rather Blizzard get rid of those anyway.
But that doesn’t even matter. What matters is if WoW is a good value proposition, and it just isn’t. It doesn’t really matter what Blizzard does - if they can’t give us that 4th design pillar, which is a steady stream of content, the game just will not succeed. Just compare Classic vanilla from before tBC released to after - that is the original vanilla realms. They’re all dead, and they’re all dead because everybody knows for a fact that new content will never come. WoW lives or dies on content. The only reason retail is still alive given the situation we’re in is basically “Well there’ll be one at some point so yea” aka copium.
You can just unsub and play something else when there is a content drought. There is no reason to pay if you don’t find it fun to play.
The Classic realms were always going to be a standalone expansions which is what the players wanted. NO CHANGES etc.
As for Retail, I think things were very slow under the covid epidemic and then under the scandal. A better pace would be nicer but within reason. Having said that I don’t want to see things pushed out early when it’s not ready because they have to meet some arbritrary deadline. I’d rather just take a break for a while and wait.
As for the Microsoft store stuff, we currently enjoy a system where you can grind gold in game and buy store stuff, pay for services, or even your sub itself. So like I said, I don’t think WoW is suitable to the game pass.
However time will tell what they intend.
I KNOW
I’m not saying it because I can’t physically leave. I’m posting it for the same reason people post other negative things on the forums, which is a reason I know you know, so quit trying to agitate me.
Very few people actually do this. The gold that people “grind” is just getting paid to do boosts, which then of course gets turned around in that boostees buy the tokens and so carries on the circle of life.
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the next patch is like 2-3 weeks away , take a chill pill
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