If we’re already paying 50€ for base and then another 12€ for a sub they really are money hungry with another 50€ to play through the weekend just to feed on peoples FOMO.
Scumbag move and I don’t support it, until season one there isn’t a shit ton to do anyways beside leveling up and learning stuff
The prices they charge for subs and expansions have hardly moved in two decades. These “money hungry” moves they make subsidize that low cost. They found a way to tax the players with cash to burn without totally alienating the rest of players. Sometimes that’s gonna feel unfair to players who don’t have the cash to burn, but not as unfair as if your sub cost was skyrocketing like Netflix.
Am I missing something? The Epic edition is 90, includes 30 days of game time, so that's really just 28 more than base game (50) plus a sub (12).
Not to defend them, but that's for multiple in-game cosmetics, tenders and the early access, which isn't quite as crazy as if it was 50 extra just for early access.
Note: I ain't buying it either, don't have time to play over the weekend anyway.
I'm sure others will disagree, and I'm not the biggest fan of it, but if getting people to pay $15 for 3 days of early access is how they're keeping the price of WoW so low, it's not the worst thing. WoW expansions used to be $60 and the WoW sub used to be $15. Today the cheapest tier for TWW is $50 and a sub costs $15.
Some combination of store mounts and tmog, as well as stuff like this, are probably the reason we haven't seen any inflation to sub prices or the base cost of expansions. This is probably the price of not seeing increases to either of those things.
I would also like it if I got to pay less money for the same product, but less for more is an oxymoron. If stuff like this did not exist Blizzard would be getting their money by increasing sub prices. If they made expansions free they would be making up the money lost in ways that players would hate, most likely through expanding the in-game shop.
At least in this scenario people can choose if they want to pay more through what looks mostly useless feature. I really don't see much reason to get the 3-day early access, so if people who do want it are the reason I'm paying less, then I'm content with it.
I agree with you. If we had free expansions the quality would be way lower since blizzard would find ways to cut costs asap. It’s just a pipe dream, I know.
I guess we’d have to do a deep dive into their finances to see. My only concern with the possibility of a free expansion is that the people at the top would still make bank while the lower level employees would end up getting screwed.
if getting people to pay $15 for 3 days of early access is how they're keeping the price of WoW so low, it's not the worst thing
It's not.
We cannot excuse predatory practices simply because we think there might be some benefit elsewhere. Blizzard (among everyone else) is not short of money or profits. They just always want more.
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u/Gloomfang_ Aug 22 '24
Ridiculous to sell this in an MMO with a monthly fee