Completed Loremaster and story completion coming in the shop. Mark my words.
Microsoft has 67.5 BILLION dollars to get back.
Opponents to the merger voiced fears and concerns. Some of which are now true. Laying staff off, raising prices or reducing benefits of previous items in the game passes.
The new one that really ticks me off is the selling of actual advantages in the form of early access.
69,99⏠at release for base edition, please.
The D4 store is way more extensive with itâs platinum currency based model for cosmetics.
The charter services in WoW are not uses nearly as much compared to people buying cosmetics and the premium battle pass.
The subscription can not be removed without bloating the shop, it just does not work out.
You can try and âcalculateâ back and forth as much as you want, you are mixing stuff into your calculation that can not be mixed.
Just as an example:
WoW in GENERAL can not be accessed wihtout subspriction, D4 CAN be without paying for battle pass.
No. âŹ49.99.
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Platinum currency is just a conversion model for money, so that prices are shown in Platinum instead of euros, which is a psychological trick, as people are less aware of the cost of something being 2700 Platinum versus being âŹ25.
A lot of games do this these days.
Regardless, for all its flaws, then Diablo IV has stuck to simply selling cosmetics for now. Mounts and transmogs, thatâs it. Thatâs less than what WoW sells, and itâs less intrusive to the game as well.
The point is still that youâre paying a subscription in WoW that doesnât cover anything. It doesnât cover character transfers. Why not? It doesnât cover name changes. Why not?
It only covers access to the game -the game youâve already paid for!
Itâs pretty absurd.
Thatâs a false premise.
As a company, Blizzard definitely desires as high an operating profit as possible. 30% is better than 20%. So theyâll of course try to get the most amount of money from their customers whilst devoting the least possible resources to keep those customers and get their money. Thatâs what every business ultimately tries.
Thatâs why we donât get anything extra for our subscription money. Because Blizzard have no reason to give us more than the least possible to keep us playing. You donât get a horn of plenty because you pay a subscription. That would be lost profit for Blizzard, so weâll never get that.
But itâs not some God-given right that Blizzard should always have an operating profit for WoW of, letâs say 25%. Thatâs something they can earn by being successful. If they are not successful, then their operating income will drop to, letâs say 20%. That doesnât mean the product is going to get worse or that customers have to pay more. That just means Blizzard is subject to market forces like every other company and has to invest to grow that operating profit, or even maintain what they have.
Ultimately itâs not the players that are behest to Blizzardâs wants. Itâs Blizzard that are behest to the playersâ wants.
You think too much and try too hard to find excuses for Blizzard.
Oh, of course! Why bother thinking about things when we can just ignore everything.
At end of a day he will swipe that credit card even harder to feel better.
That was a really long winded post youâve aimed at me that didnât cover anything I said in my post. What was the point in this reply? Word salad that said nothing.
This doesnât have anything to do with what I said but Iâll address it. The 3 (4) day âgrace periodâ was just farming fomo for more money and killed the launch hype, it also did impact users because levelling was substantially easier/faster during the period, and players could get a huge head start on renown/profession material farming.
With some players having outgeared HC dungeons before HC dungeons released, it completely muted the HC dungeon release and split the playerbase.
This hasnât been a real concern for multiple expansions, they didnât do this to address server load, they did it to increase profits.
People donât just drink 2 cups of coffee though do they? They have bills, food, mortgages, internet, electricity, gas - it all adds up. If thatâs your answer to justify the subscription i.e. itâs cheap, then offer to pay for the guyâs sub for him, as itâs only 2 cups of coffee.
Lol really? 9 buys me a coffee and sandwhich
And imagine those 2 coffees you drink are just taken out by waiter because you was in restaurant to new day wich is unfortunatly day of new month and you dont deserver it and need pay new even those cups are still full.
no. that small amount of money you pay each month, less than what you earn in an hour, single-handedly keeps at bay hundreds of thousands if not millions of the worst people on the planet.
the most recent example of this still being true is of course Overwatch 1 vs Overwatch 2.
you should never, ever want a game to go F2P unless the only other option is shutting the game down.
Not a concern for multiple expansions? It was a concern in Legion, in BFA, in Shadowlands, and Dragonflight had its own launch issues tooâwhat are you even talking about? And calling it FOMO is a stretch; thereâs nothing to miss out on that actually affects gameplayâno power boosts, no exclusive rewards. Letâs not blow this out of proportion. Itâs just a fast pass.
I played on Tarren Mill for all those expansions and had a seemless launch experience in all of them, barring maybe a couple minutes of lag here and there, youâre talking nonsense.
No itâs not, the whole discussion about the game in the lead up to launch and the players who reluctantly paid up were all pure evidence of FOMO in work. Youâre just in denial here, playing the shill.
Meanwhile people power levelling alts from 70-80 in 1 hour flat, using lvl70âs to boost, and then they increase mob difficulty by upwards of 130% after early access. But yeah nothing that affects gameplay, lmao.
Itâs just a milking operation, lets not blow this out of proportion. And then the next time they push the boat forward again and again, you will be saying the same thing, shilling.
If people think a product is expensive, the answer is not to buy it. Rather than suggesting strangers pay it for youâŚ
For me, for the reasons I have given, I can justify the sub fee. If you canât, stop paying it.
Iâm not wasting time on essays. If you canât make your point in 280 characters, itâs not worth my attention.
You definitely read it, you wouldnât have replied otherwise. Itâs rich from you too, after the completely unwarranted essay you wrote above that had nothing to do with the post you quoted, just randomly bashed out an essay and posted it as a response to nothing.
No, I dismissed it because I got a notification, but I didnât read it and Iâm not going to. If you donât like that, tough luck.
You keep responding to me, but you know you just got demolished on every point so youâre pretending youâre not reading it. Youâve conceided while trying to hold on to a scrap of face. Coward, stand by and defend your words or admit when youâre wrong.
Yes, Iâm utterly devastated and feel like my life is in ruins. Iâve been banished to the shadow realm, never to recover. If you donât want a response, stop cluttering my feed
I want a response, you gave up when you lost on every point because you agree with me.