Make them have a dynamic price based on token price or something … I don’t want to use the shop (never did) and would like to get some of the items with gold instead.
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You know you can buy WoW tokens and turn them into Blizzard Balance, right? That way, you can use gold to buy everything in the shop.
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I know but it should be the other way around. People with not enough gold should be buying token gold and then using the gold to buy shop items. The default should be the game currency. If you wanna use real life money then do so but you go ruin your immersion not me. I wanna pay for in game items with in game currency.
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But, turning in game gold into Blizzard Balance IS using game currency, since the “balance” came from in-game means…
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You do not make the real life money that people are using in the shop, it is their choice on how they want to spend their money on, as it is your choice to only want to use gold in the shop.
I personally do not have an issue with using real life cash to buy items from the shop and I prefer this method.
Yeah but why do they have the priority when it comes to convenience? They should be doing the round about not me. This is a game, so it’s expected to have priority for in game currency not real life money.
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It’s just how micro-transactions work, and have worked for a long time. That’s what the shop is considered to be, micro-transactions. If they changed it so it was all brought by gold, they might as well add a vendor in game with all the items on, rather than have a “shop”.
Shop can still be used for things like faction change or race change or server change and what not. If you can sell something in game, you should sell it in game. I would even spread them around multiple vendors for better immersion.
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Are you for real?
Do you think Blizz pay their employees and suppliers with gold or real life money?
Following on from this, in their situation, what would you prioritize?
Put yourself on the other side when you think of things.
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What is this? They’re gonna get the money either ways don’t be such a pathetic arguer. In game items would better be sold for in game gold for immersion.
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Microtransaction in sub-based game wtf
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And there are around 400 mounts and 1200 pets within the game that you can get without spending any money (except for the subscription).
Sadly, Blizzard doesn’t make the shop for “immersion” purposes. If you’re gonna go for immersion, then the mount you get once you unlock the Allied Races is what that is, plus there are plenty of void pets you can get. That’s immersive.
Agreed, the shop is a stupid addition to WoW, which is why I barely ever buy things from there. Only time I ever had is when I’ve used in game gold to buy the things (though, they still make money off of me doing this).
I agree. Blizzard makes so much money with subs alone, there is no reason for this real currency shop to exist at all.
I seriously doubt this was the case, as subs are down and no where near where they once were. I would say they make their money off services and token sales. The in game shop probably sees spikes when they have a new mount or other item for sale in it.
i am not sure if this is true or not, but some posters elsewhere in forums are claiming that the last quarterly report showed that blizz are making more money from the in game shop now (including tokens) than they do from subs. which if that is true, must mean subs are WAY down, or there are a LOT of whales out there!
i am a little confused by your request. since a couple of months ago, or whenever they changed token to add to your blizz balance rather than flat out be game time, so anything in the shop can be bought with gold. for the few seconds you need to be in shop, go there before or after you play the game so your immersion is not broken, as its the same as having to log onto your battlenet page!
the one thing i do take issue with though, is the wildly fluctuating exchange rates with the token. someone back in early 2016 could have bought a store mount for about 60K gold through tokens (if it could have been done like that back then), but the SAME person 2 years later in early 2018 would have had to pay 800K for just 1 mount too! and now, its 360K for that mount right now. the items in the shop have a base cost and the token itself have a base cost, so why the gold value is allowed to be so variable is a bit mad. people who got 30K gold for their token are probably looking at people who got 400k for their token very angrily, and then you take people in us, china, taiwan, korea or eu looking at each other and feeling hard done by one way or the other people wanting to buy tokens for balance look at the US and wish they could buy them that cheap. people wanting to get gold for their token look to korea and wish they got that much too.
imo, its a stupid and cheap tatic allowing the gold-blizz balance exchange being allowed to fluctuate to these extremes.
I’ve heard customer supports get 14k gold per hour.
Hang on!! You talk about immersion, then want to ride around on a mount that isn’t gained in the game, or Armour that wasn’t gained in the game??
And you talk about Immersion??
Cash shop is one of the major source of revenue.
If anything gone bad, they introduce a new mount to increase their sale.
They fought for a very long time to introduce it, they will never scrap it.
The difference is that someone has to buy the token with real money in order for you to be able to purchase it with gold and then convert it to Battlenet Balance. Thus while you don’t pay anything, Blizzard still gets their money as someone else is basically paying for you in return for your gold.
If the items could be bought directly with gold, there would be no need for you to go buy a token, i.e. you could purchase the item without anyone paying for it.
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I still sort of laught at the term: “micro transaction” in relation to the blizzard store thou. Buying most services cost about the same as a retail game price(even activision/blizzard titles) so I’d say it sounds more like “major-scam transaction” or at the very least it whould be considered a “donation”.
I think they whould earn more from the services and cosmetic stuff if they cut the prices in half. Sure people do buy these services for the current prices, but i think a lowered price whould net them more sales in the long run. It whould probably both increase revenue and it whould look less of a scam.
The argument about the prices being high due to work-/serverload ain’t really ringing true anymore. Considering how streamlined these services have become.