They are as good as your comprehension skills, I never say completely free, I say free with the subscription. As in you do not pay extra.
I believe the actual phrase is Value added items.
Edit: It’s like those Vacuums you see on JML, you buy the vacuum and they send you the tools for free, they won’t just send you the tools alone for nothing, you need to buy the vacuum.
This was asked for before classic was released for a multitude of reasons.
It, for example, would allow for classic to have a budget for itself that is payed for by its customers. Instead of players like you and me paying for the next store mount on retail.
But Blizzard doesnt want it that way. They never saw classic as anything else but a nostalgia quick money grab. They invested in how to transfer the most people off of classic towards retail, as they can monetize it way…waaaay better.
All we can do is to never even install the retail client an hope that it gets tracked by some statistics.
A classic only sub is and was the best decision for classic all along.
Give up? LOL. By charging separately they’d be getting more money. Sub from retail and sub from classic. Hell, they’d even make a combined subscription which would cost more than the current one.
If Classic was to “hold its own”, as in not being produced by the money Blizzard get from expansion-sales, retail subs and the in-game store, Classic would have ended a long time ago.
I dont know what dream world people are living in, we are playing a game full of glitches and buggs that were reported this summer and here people claim “Classic needs no work”. If anything Id pay MORE (if it exclusively went to Classic) to get a better product, as clearly it DOES need work.
People must have forgotten how barren Classic was after last years summer.
Exactly this, this would allow more transparency. We have 0 idea of how much of our Sub money actually goes to classic. But honestly i think this will never happen.
You are again forgetting the money that blizzard is making trough the boosts and transfers. Which is most certainly much more than it was back then.
I’m pretty sure many people would pay for both.
This happens, and its very common. Not with books since they don’t loose value and they have a cost to manufacture. But all digital games, music, multimedia overall gets way cheaper the older it gets. You might have one exclusion, which is Nintendo stuff as they keep the same value for years and years. But besides from that, just go check Steam for old but awesome games, and compare their prices on release, to current prices. I keep buying awesome games at Discounted prices just because they are 2-3 years old.