Subscription Fee is a joke now

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it’s only very good value if you play it a lot which isn’t a terribly good thing to be doing, i much prefer ESO’s business model which gives you the freedom of choice, pay the sub and get all the DLC and a ton of goodies or just pay for the bits you want…:slight_smile:

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So you’d rather I’d be free and the game be absolutely hindered with rewards and a online store like ESO, BDO and other MMO? I think that would be a nice idea tbh.

BUT, it would also be hard, in games like ESO and BDO they give you items for daily login that are really good, I can’t think of anything in WoW that would be worth logging in for material wise.

Professions are literally useless.

I’d like to hear some idea on this actually! This could be a good conversation.

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It is €10, would you even bend down to pick it up off the street these days. FTP is a total disaster.

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Its not £40

its £40 + £240 and your left with nothing if you stop paying.

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You don’t get excellent value for your money. You’re getting a single premium AAA game experience with Blizzard for your $10 a month. That is all you’re getting. Objectively speaking.

Take Humble Bundle again. The subscription is $12 per month. In October you got 8 games. One of those games was Overwatch. Blizzard will charge you $20 for Overwatch. Humble Bundle charged $12 for it – and you got 7 more games on top of that, for a total value of $141.

Blizzard are without doubt one of the most expensive gaming companies on the market, from a consumer perspective.

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Just the same as the Xbox example then

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no it isnt…playing ESO on freeplay takes NOTHING away from the experience and the company is doing pretty well for it too…
and if you are happy to throw away £10 a month then throw it at me…it isn’t just £10 you know, it’s £10 on top of evrything else…:stuck_out_tongue:

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I would rather that the new expansions are included in the subscription fee. I fail to understand why I have to pay $45 for a new expansion if I already pay a subscription. Surely the expansion should be included in the subscription, because without the expansion the value of the subscription isn’t worth much.

It’s a bit greedy that Blizzard charges people twice for access to one game.

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no if i buy a game on Xbox its mine to play for ever.

The Subcription gives me access to play 100s of game including brand new releases.

Theres a huge difference there.

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Not if you leave your Xbox sub drop, or sell your Xbox as they are all digital in your example

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Oh 100% agree with you! I always thought we was paying for servers but then it dawned on me… no other MMO offers mandatory subs anymore and do fine :slight_smile:

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You should thank God that world of Warcraft is still alive and they have still kept the subscription fee per month same as game launch . Or else the subscription fees would had gone up .
Other games in genre are introducing so called season pass and loot boxes .
I still prefer wow over these games .

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Doubt that.

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How can people compare a singleplayer game to an MMO lmao what

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Netflix has increased subscription fees and is still doing it .I can speak ton on that issue but that will take it offtopic .

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Not true games you buy are linked to your account all my old 360 purchaces were active on my Xbox one X

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16€ to watch on 4 devices at the same time on the highest quality.

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But like the poster said other games manage without a sub fee…

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Other games manage fine with cosmetic items and xp potions…

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Yes and if you read the 2nd comment I said that lol