Easiest solution is to just make the gold on retail, obviously not ideal if you want to play classic but making 300k gold a month on retail can be done very quickly & reliably with cooking and mission table
Yep. Actually there isn’t a need for “adding wow token to classic” since you have to pay sub once for all WoW versions altogether. The entire post is irrelevant.
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In actual time spent maybe an hour to an hour and a half a week. It takes me about 20 minutes from start to finish cooking which I do twice a week and then the rest is just 1-3 minutes refreshing my mission table.
Though that’s assuming your mission table is already up to speed which isn’t the case for everyone.
How about if the person does not want to play retail as it cuts into the classic time making your point moot.
it has €23K per capita average GDP.
The average salary in Bulgaria is $18,987.68 (33,747 BGN)/year, $1,582.17 (2,812 BGN)/month or $9 (16 BGN)/hour as of 2019. Wages are highest in cities of Sofia and Plovdiv at an annual average of $22,161.58 (39,388 BGN) and $21,376.12 (37,992 BGN) respectively.
WoW Classic is not running away from the OP. In 2 Years they will still be able to play it. The servers are not “moving forward” as they do with Retail WoW. They were made specifically for that reason. Just saying.
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Nothing to do with that at all how about limited time per week “just sayin”
Look i understand you are arrogant and do not like to be wrong and its okay to feel upset and annoyed but fact of the matter is nobody is perfect and right all of the time like you think you are.
If someone has limited time per week for their own free time, that person should think very carefully what they do with that time.
Aha, having an opinion and simply disagreeing with someone counts now as “arrogant”. Interesting. This forum surprises me every day more.
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It is like a stuck record with you all you have said is “rethink this rethink that”
You do not though, you try to double down on people and think only your view is right you lack empathy or understanding.
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To make it more clear to you . You want to force them to play retail to fund classic they should not have to . The post has been about you and just your surroundings you have no clue about the OP you just assume nothing else .
Some came back to blizzard games just for classic they hate retail DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT its not all about you.
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In the words of a wise cat from a russian toon: " TO SELL STUFF YOU DON’T NEED, YOU NEED TO OWN STUFF YOU DON’T NEED! AND WE HAVE NOTHING!!! ".
In all fairness, Blizzard did make their sub cost more AND effectively removed a direct way to buy time for gold for users, so I completely understand OP here.
In Russia, an average monthly salary is 15k rubles. Deduct taxes and such and you get 12-13k rubles, deduct rent, house expenses and other stuff like that you have (if lucky) about 5k rubles to live for A MONTH. A monthly sub in russia is 650 rubles, 6 months cost 2700 rubles and nobody buys the 3 month sub (and if you do - what are you doing?). For comparison, 650 rubles can get you 2-3 decent games on Steam, maybe 4 if there’s a sale going around. Something to consider, you can literally play 2 MMORPGS for a month on 650 rubles, FF14 and SWTOR as SWTOR is 350 rubles a month and FF14 is (get ready…) 280 rubles a month! There are people jumping ship in various countries plainly due to price policies of companies and Blizzard is no exception. I don’t even play 14, i bought Valheim and have been stuck there on a server with my guild buddies for like 4 months straight. I don’t even log in WoW unless I feel like turning my brain off and pushing buttons to level a new char.
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Just wait somebody will reply to you and tell you that you must “rethink” your life goals … 
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This method is only easy if you have like 15 alts on a server frantically running mission table EVERY DAY on a server with high enough population that cooking would be relevant for high end players (which is like 2-3 servers per country, 1-2 per faction).
That means, spend 2-3 days (or more) leveling per character (I am accounting for working days and evening playtime hours), spend money to upgrade your professions on alts, spend more time prepping mission tables, spend time gathering resources for the said cooking, spend even MORE time hounding AH to make sure your food is actually, y’know, sold because there are hundreds (if not thousands) of AH sharks undercutting regular players by selling incredibly high emounts for cheap.
Pardon me, but that seems to me like a solid month of hard labour just to get STARTED. I come to the game to play, not make it a second job, ffs.
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You are correct it took me 19 alt in SL to make 5million this expac with lots of planning and work upfront and logging on twice per day afterwords to get that gold coming in . I could have made more but i just needed X amount for the vendor mounts i wanted in the end it drove me insane and made me a little ill as was not resting.
I mean my salary is about 100k rubles being a lecturer in a university, so this isn’t as much a problem to me. It is a lot more of a problem to my students, whose conversations I constantly overhear. Combining that with common sense just tells you that there’s really not much you can do unless you are willing to risk it all and bend over backwards just for a slight chance for a somewhat reasonable salary of whopping 30k rubles per month (golly, what an absolute joy, isn’t it?). However, even with this salary, finding money for you games is tough (had it all, personal experience).
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Dude, nice job comparing an average salary to minimal salary. There are currently 58% of global population working minmal payed jobs according to some studies. Your point makes as much sense as Blizzard counting monthly active users by just summing up players across all games instead of active accounts.
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If you just want to be able to buy a token a month you don’t even really need the mission table, it’s just an easy supplement if you have the time to set it up.
That hasn’t really been an issue for me, peak hours on kazzak things usually move so fast that your stuff sells anyway but of course some prep and knowledge and work is still required if you want to play the auction house.
My point is that if you want to play the game for “free” then it’ll never be easier to get a token from playing classic than retail unless maybe you’re a gdkp regular.
Someone must earn a lot then.
To have 300€ of minimum wage.
There is or at least was a high degree of corruption in Bulgaria, I know of a lot of Irish investors who got badly burned on property deals there that prices looked too good to be true. And they proved to be as well when they found out that local mafias control everything on the ground.
Bulgaria really is a major outlier in the EU for this.
If they cleaned up the corruption the economy there would flourish through their EU membership just like Ireland did, it went from being the next thing to a third world country in the 1950s to being one of the leading economies in the world today and home to most of the EU headquarters of the worlds largest tech companies. We had net emigration and now have net immigration and are still growing.
Then it is on your national bank and Government to work on making Rubles more worth . If what you say is correct, then 650 Rubles are nothing more than maybe 7,50€ which is like 3x less than the average salary/h in germany across my country, and also in the same time half the price I have to pay in germany for a 3 month sub, which is 13,99€ (1223,96 Rubles)
Edit: And just to prove this wrong. According to google the average Salary per Month in Russia is 51.1k Ruble.
And in regards off…
If the economy of Germany would be like Russia’s named above, german citizens would immediatly overthrow our Government and fall into Anarchy.
Specifically for you Daestra, just to be clear. For Гинир the costs of a game are so astronomical because Russia has one of the worst-performing currencies in the World. Their export economy is mostly depending on Oil exports (at least that’s what I could find as a problematic reason online). Playing Videogames with Sub-Costs is basically a “Luxury Good” in their country. For comparison, that is, financially feeling, like paying 160€ for Bungee Jumping in germany, 2 times a month.
My country would also be like that, if we would still stick to our Agriculture like we did during WW1.
To put it for you into perspective of Blizzard for you:
→ Russia is a low-profit market due to the Value Ruble has worldwide.
→ To make profit as a company, they have to raise the prices to prevent revenue drops.
→ Blizzard has no influence on the Value of Ruble in Russia and International Economy, that is something the global market and the banks regulate.
By asking “lower the sub costs in Russia” you are asking Blizzard basically to “make less income so you can play” which is something a company will not do for a minority in most cases. By asking to “add WoW Tokens to Classic” you are basically asking for a feature, that is “kind-off” already ingame. As people pointed out, you can pay Gold from Retail to add 30 days game time to your account for both Retail and Classic.
You get (rougly) 15€ for selling the WoW token for Battle.net currency. 3 Months cost 41€. So if you put real effort into your gold making, you make 100-250k Gold a day (at least that’s what this guide says).
https://www.nerdmuch.com/wow-gold-farming/
That means, you can technically make 1 month sub time in 1,4 days, depending on the current course (which is rn 288,184 Gold in EU), if you know HOW to make that much Gold.
https://wowtokenprices.com/
So, if you have game time in Retail and know how to make 100-250k Gold a day, you can get enough Gold together in 1 week of grinding so that you can pay for 3 entire months in a single week.
For a working person, that might be split across the entire month, instead of a few days. But it is possible. The other question is, if that is your time worth to work 1 full month to have 1,5 months time to do whatever you like to do in WoW as a Russian Player.
And as final statement: Yes, I know that for some countries the economy is very bad. And I know that it is a very awful experience for the players in that country. But it is neither Blizzards responsibility to price their product in a way that players have to pay the least nor is it necessary. They have ways implemented for players to make enough Gold for Game Time ingame. Barely any MMO game developers would allow players to get Sub Time for ingame gold, so you should be happy that this exists in the first place. Additionally, you should look at the mindset of players living in such bad-economy countries. They are asking a company to make less money or even losses, just so that ca. ±150k players (state 2011, add some thousands to that number perhaps) on Russian servers can play the game, out of (roughly) 5,8 Million monthly players worldwide January 2022.
That’s an incredible minority in player count. I know it BS for the consumer. But that is how economy and capitalism works. I wish it would be fairer, but it is neither in your nor my nor any players power to make Blizzard reduce the costs for a single/a few countries. If they would start that, players worldwide would demand to have also lower costs for their subs in their rich countries because “equality and such”.
I may be wrong about that so feel free to correct me later on, but I tell you to 100% Blizzard will not change the sub costs for those countries down, since they are by default only a small base amount of their global playerbase.
And as a fly in the ointment, WoW is not the only game out there those people in poor countries can play. There are many other games that are F2P or don’t need a Subscription in the first place to be played. SWTOR is named above and that game can be played for free. There are still many solid choices on the gaming market that can entertain without monthly costs. The people in those bad-economy countries just have to accept the fact that “right now it is not a good time for wanting to play WoW”.
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