Why are there no 1 month gametime options anymore

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I came back for the new expansion and to see a little bit of the prepatch. I had put enough money on my account some weeks ago for gametime but hadnt gotten to actually playing yet. But now i suddenly notice there are no 1 month gametime options anymore for paying with blizz balance. So i am basicly forced to spent more money. Either by paying for an active subscription without blizz balance or having to put more money on my account for the 2 months.

This is absurd, does anyone know why 1 month gametime options have been removed?

(also a bit of topic but how is shadowlands flying unlocked again? i havent gotten to it since it wasnt out yet when i played SL. But i cant seem to find the pathfinder achievement. I want to take care of this in case some future questline sents me back to this hellhole)

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So they can get more money from you. /End thread

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Because they make more money this way. Simple.

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That’s the reason right there.

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Your not forced to do anything.

If you don’t want pay don’t play. Vote with your money.

But you won’t, therefore they can.

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They changed that some time ago.
Pre paid cards are also only available in two months now.

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Yeah thats pretty much what i feared it was all about. If i had known they removed the option i would have just bought a subscription and instantly canceled it to get my one month gametime. Last time i played 1 month options were still there so them sneakily removing it kind of forced me to pay more this time as i wanted to use my blizz balance wich i still had

yeah but still over the course of the SL expansion right? because i could have sworn the 1 month options still were there at the start of the expansion.

Also do wow tokens still give 1 month game time, or did they change that as well? I got to know this since the start of the expansion is a wonderful time to make alot of gold to buy wow tokens for future gametime or balance

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Yeah, i believe it was sometime during 9.0.5.
I don’t remember the reason

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Short version: Money
Long version: More money

Greedy company spiralling down, slowly but surely. I’d probably do the same thing if it was my company.

Good luck though :vulcan_salute:

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Sub for a month then unsub :slight_smile:

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It’s not terribly surprising unfortunately. A lot of subscription-based services get a big chunk of their income from people who tries it for a free month and then forgets to unsubscribe. Same thing here, they’re counting on people who still want the 1 month a time alternative who are now forced into subscribing forgetting or not bothering to cancel in time.

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That.

And also the game time buyers are somewhat now forced to pay for 2 months in a row, instead of 1.

Blizzard have made all the calculations. They would only do this change if they would make money out of it.

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Wait this doesn’t seem right, I am currently on a 1 month sub plan. Why is everyone says there’s no one month sub option ?

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1 month subscription is still a thing, 1 month gametime as in you just buy 30/60/90 days is no longer an option with 30 days. So if you just want 30 days, you have to subscribe and then (immediately) unsubscribe.

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i can still can buy 1 month sub.
so i dont understand what they talk about…
maybe it depends on country?

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1 month game time is not the same thing as 1 month sub :smiley:

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ah… now i understand!! thx

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Because Blizzard just wants money no matter how much inconvenient it is to players.

I used to gift friends a game card with one month sub, I was fine with spending 13 euros for a friend, but now they are forcing me to spend 26 euros which is a lot. It really sucks.

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To subscribe on a recurring monthly basis is the only way to get that option.

Buying game time is at least a block of two months.

Some sub then cancel it from recurring.

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Yep this is what i would have done if i knew there were no more 1 month gametime options. Since they still were there last time i played i just put some blizz balance on there because i still had some left wich i otherwise would not be using

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