I agree, but for some people it is not that simple. Many people are attached to their characters for various reasons, and simply making another is not as easy as it would be to someone who lacks that sort of attachment. For instance, I have almost every reputation in the game at exalted on Kotur, as well as every single achievement. Not to mention the MoP/WoD teleports and about a dozen other teleport items and toys, all of which are not account-wide. It is not easy to give up in all of that and start anew at this point.
I know this is a personal choice, but still, this is why many people still use these services, and Blizzard is well aware of that, hence why it is predatory.
Indeed, or simply by being on the underpopulated faction or simply wanting to join your friends on the other faction/server.
Yes, I am personally indifferent towards them, because they are cosmetics and thus do not impact me at all. The character services however cannot justify their price at the moment, and in my opinion should be halved at the very least.
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If you want to go to the extreme, then you can say that paid character transfer can be ignored. Just level another character!
But Blizzard obviously assumes - correctly - that lots of players will eventually find themselves in a position where it is preferable to make use of the paid service.
And so they will.
You can ignore the Online Shop just as you can ignore the candy shelves in the supermarket.
But every once in a while someone is going to impulsively buy something, just because.
Likewise, Blizzard puts the store front and center and makes it easy to quickly buy something, just in case someone feels the impulse.
These are exploitative and predatory ways to push additional costs into consumers.
They appear optional, but theyâre not. The psychology is very much accounted for. Again, Blizzard are shoveling money to the bank because of WoW, so what theyâre doing obviously gets people to pay moreâŚwithout really getting more in return.
I donât like it and Iâm still bewildered that you defend it given that you are a consumer like the rest of us and not a Blizzard representative. The lack of empathy is astounding.
Nobody defends it. My position is that from a practical standpoint the only thing I can do in order to change this is to stop playing.
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Right, sure. But I donât think it demands a call to action. I think itâs fair enough to simply have the opinion and express the criticism.
Like the product, dislike the price.
Fair stance to adopt.
Iâd be more ok with the sub, should they remove the cosmetic store. Having a relatively expensive subscription along with the mounts and pets they continuingly add to the store is quite shameless, as I think having either should disclude the other.
It also seems to only get worse and worse with them adding these at an increasingly faster rate, along with all other âspecial dealâ-mounts etc, as the playerbase is diminishing.
Yuck!
F2p! is the only viable option for a game this old. with no heart behind it anymore.
Every single game that went F2P started paying more for cash shop stuff than actual content.
a lot of it was optional though ⌠perhaps not in the early days ofc ⌠but now f2p isnât so bad if you practise a bit of self control.
ofc there will always be roadbumps⌠f2p by nature needs to make someone pay something ⌠or what the point of it lol.
It looks like optional, but just as an example SWTOR went 2 whole expansion without a single raid, the whole development went into cash shop cosmetics.
you need to consider SWTOR âconvenientlyâ went f2p at the peak of F2p popularity
i donât think it is that surprising that they would try to cash in heavily on it while the money was hot.
its more ⌠more fool the people who spent small fortunes on that cash shop at that time to make them focus so heavily on it.
f2p is nothing without the customers
I agree, but the main motivation of a f2p game is to make you spend $ in cash shop. Making additional content is just a side effect that promotes that urge.
true i agree⌠only make new content when the sales on the shop drop⌠i guess that is why SWTOR never got very many expansionsâŚ
i know gw2 is B2p⌠but they sale the actually missions on the cash shop lol ⌠that is a whole other level of scummy if you ask me.
Well I donât know what your definition of âvery manyâ is, but most MMORPGs donât, true. But 5 so far is a respectable number Iâd say. How many expansions would you say a MMORPG needs in order to be considered successful and how many is many?
wait they have had 5 expansions ???
i guess they were just extremely poorly advertised as i only thought they had 2 at the very most ⌠and iâm someone which watches mmorpgs lolâŚ
ah wait they only have had 3 expansions ⌠and there was a massive gap between 2 and 3
Rise of the Hutt Cartel, Shadow of Revan, Knights of the Fallen Empire, Knights of the Eternal Throne and Onslaught not long ago. Some might also claim Galactic Stronghold and Galactic Starfighter, but I personally donât count those as they donât add to the story line, level cap or core mechanics.
And yes, Bioware is atrocious at marketing it, mostly using twitter as their tool for official communication >.<
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shame maybe if i heard about them more i would of tried themâŚ
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customers should welcome lowering price of the game,
we donât know business model practiced by company,
they might prefer unsub than lowering price,
dear god, like talking to the wall.
what business customer has in arguing keeping price of game high ?
also take notice that some countries have way higher wages than othersâŚ
dear god
In fact, the gameâs price is constantly going down. $15 in 2014 is not equal to $15 today. Itâs equal to ~$22 today.
If the game is boring, simply unsub, my dude. WoW is the cheapest MMO out there. Not even FFXIV compares to how cheap WoW is. You can bring up some free game as an argument and I used to play those, I know what Iâm talking about. Every single f2p MMO requires you to spend around ~$30 a month just to be on the level of equal comfort WoW provides. Maybe your mounts will go hungry, maybe youâll be resource starved, maybe your stamina wonât recover as quick. Thereâs so many things.
And maybe the game lets you farm for itâs real currency. But maybe youâre better off working a job and blasting your wage at the game. At which point, youâre better off not playing the game. There is no cheaper MMO than WoW and thereâs few that match the amount of content WoW gets.
no, game is overpriced in 2021, especially with amount of work put into it,
technologies are getting cheaper due to progress in this area,
inflation is based on whole economy
technology is getting cheaper and better
dear god
also come live in country with lower wages
dear god people get out of your bubbles