A friend who lives in Eastern Europe found the sub too expensive so he dedicated time to farm gold monthly for his token. At least there is that option.
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Because citizens of neighboring countries are fluent in Russian and they have that EuroAsian free trade thing, so it’s huge market and make sense to have dedicated servers with different price for them.
He’d better get a better job instead of grind daily and nightly for gold, wasting his only one life time.
Exactly. There by are alternatives.
I am from Eastern Europe as well and sometimes I had to resort to that.
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You know what is unfair? 2 people do the exact same job and put the exact same work hours, but is rewarded with much much less salary than the other because it happened to have born in different Country.
Basic Salary in Greece is 500 euro… and still you are lucky if you even have a job for 500 euro…
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Greece is part of EU, so there’s always an option to go work in Germany/France/Netherlands/Sweden/etc.
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Unfair is to live at others’ expense, to take loans to buy luxury stuff, then refuse to pay back. I heard working day is Greece is 4 hours, is that true? How about you work 8 hours like the rest of us?
You only work 8? I demand you work 9 like me. 
wish I was in the EU with your comfortable 40h weeks
There’s a difference between not enough work available to work more than half a day, and not wanting to work more than half a day.
8 hrs/day by default, but working time can be extended as needed, but is also limited by laws.
Edit: I’m not in EU btw, and my country of origin isnt part of EU either.
Hello I am Egzolinas, one of the content creators for Turkish WoW community who is living in Sweden. This is an ongoing and concerning issue among Turkish community for a really long time. So I wanted to give my opinion on this.
I have read all the comments and I am really sorry for those people who tries to rationalize their thoughts on Turkey’s bad economy or price inequality or justice among the other nations etc. It has nothing to do with it.
This is a normal/applicable business administration Blizzard does time to time. So there is nothing wrong for Turkish community to request a local currency update for the Blizzard Services. It is up to Blizzard to decide if this business change is worth or not. All the other comments that you try to justify yourself against this request, is simply nonsense. So please take time and read this news approximately 3 years ago from Blizzard’s own site and try to apply with Turkish community’s request.
Blizzard has changed the local currency update for Canada, Japan and New Zealand. These countries have much more stronger economical structure and productivity if you compare to Turkey’s. Neither Blizzard is doing this for only the sake of the gamers in these countries nor the gamers in these countries are desperately in need of these local currency updates, this is a way of increasing profit or way of doing the business to earn more money.
In the FAQ section of the news it is clearly stated that
Why did you decide to switch from USD to local currency in my region?
This is an important step for growing our service globally, making it easier for our players around the world to shop and manage their accounts with us. Some of our customers will be able to avoid paying unnecessary transaction fees charged by banks and financial institutions We’re also able to accommodate more payment methods, adding ones we previously couldn’t offer because they have restrictions on transacting in USD.
So why not include more currencies like Turkish Lira? Right now Euro is not only the supported currency for Blizzard Services.
What currencies does Blizzard Battle.net support?
Currently, Blizzard Battle.net supports the following currencies: USD, EUR, GBP, RUB, CNY, KRW, TWD, ARS, CLP, BRL, MXN, AUD. We will soon introduce support for JPY, CAD, and NZD.
So all the other criticizing comments in this thread does not have a basis with the behavior Blizzard has done previously.
When Blizzard stated to change local currencies for some countries in their services, no other country has rioted for the same demand or felt behaved injustice with the decisions Blizzard made.
Also Blizzard had not come up with these decisions if it is the players’ fault that they have an unstable economy or the country that the player is living in is not well directed by the government financially.
If this is a concern for Blizzard to change to a currency that is no stable enough against euro just change the currency and raise the local prices up more to a level that is secure for Blizzard’s income. (not 12 euro → 12 lira but maybe 12 euro → 50 lira)
TLDR; it is so natural for a community to request to pay these services with their own local currency since this is the way off working. Blizzard is doing this thing over the years. It is even more natural for the community to request it if it becomes a struggle to continue to play the game because not only Blizzard values their passion over its products, Turkish players also share this passion too. It is not up to you guys to say if you can’t afford it then don’t play it. No one has the right to say it. And it is just Blizzard’s decision to take this business step with analyzing the marketing data to increase the profit. Every other comment you try to justify here does not make sense.
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The lira has a yearly inflation of about 10-15%, I wouldn’t bother with changing if I was blizz.
You know what’s unfair that my country is one of the smallest in Europe yet the residents are forced to pay a good portion of tax money to finance other countries with broken economies and broken policies. A mess we did not make but have to contribute to patch it up (temporarily).
My country has 17 million residents and it’s #5 on total contribution to the EU and #1 total contribution per capita. EVERY taxpayer in this country, pays €284,- anually to contribute to the EU.
Every Greek citizen in the EU costs €446,- anually.
You can say that’s not a lot of money and that we can miss it, but in my opinion it’s ridiculous that we have zero influence on (economic) policies in other countries but when it turns to crap we have to storm in and fix the problems they created.
Like how Greece decided to buy Submarines and other military stuff when it was already heavily in debt, totally collapsing their economy. Guess who had to swoop in to fix their self-made mess?
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Selfish…insensible…for what? That some people have issues affording a video game? Really? We are not kicking a beggar on the street while he is begging for food or telling him to “get a job” or something.
If you can’t afford a specific video game, then try cheaper alternatives or a different leisure venue in general. Why do some people believe that playing WoW is just as a “vital need” as food or shelter?
Sorry but you are wrong, if an issue is brought to the forums then it is open for all to comment, whether you like the views or not. On the flip side of this, if you don’t want people to ‘have the right to say something’ then we could argue this issue should not be posted on the forums.
Posting on the forums does not automatically mean that all will agree with your post.
This ofc is the truth.
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Does changing the currency you pay in, actually mean you pay less though. I see taking more currencies as a means to make payment easier. Not as a means to lower the price for people.
From that info it seems the saving lies in not having to convert to a foreign currency. Not that they have a reduced sub.
Unless I’ve missed something.
Do you wanna talk to the manager?
@Egzolight, he typed a loong reply I’ll make it TL;DR ; It is okay to ask for it, the company already wants to know about such demands but they won’t do such a thing unless it is profitable.
How can it be profitable? If let’s say there are 100 turkish players on WoW, when they halve the price that move must bring at least 250-300 more players so that they will have more potential customers for other games as well considering battlenet system and they’ll profit off of it despite the reduced price. As a bonus more interaction on social media, more mentions, blaa and blaa.
To sum up, they are not a charity company even if they try to pretend sometimes 
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This! And this!
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Not always. For instance when steam decided to “let people pay in euros” they also just copy-pasted all their prices and changed the $ symbol to €. So a 30$ game cost 30€.
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I would just presume that they’d charge the equivalent Euros price in local currencies. It’s not really saving anything.
Please don’t do this. Your country supports certain groups and individuals which led to this. I remember your prime minister/ president/ turd saying that allah has your back. Well, good luck having allah help you out in a credit crisis. Buhbai from The Netherlands, one of the countries that supported you for many years but gladfully: stopped doing so.
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