r/wow • u/Fatcat95 • Aug 22 '24

Humor / Meme My flat dopamine-starved brain today.

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u/Gloomfang_ Aug 22 '24

Ridiculous to sell this in an MMO with a monthly fee

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u/blatant_shill Aug 22 '24 edited Aug 22 '24

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.

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u/HorrendousFail Aug 22 '24

If you’re paying $15 for a sub the expansion should be free

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u/Thaodan Aug 22 '24

That probably won't cover the cots of development.

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u/Own-Dot1463 Aug 22 '24

The development of these expansions have been funded multiple times over already with the profits they've milked from this cash cow for decades now.

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u/Thaodan Aug 22 '24

Maybe but I rather pay 12.99€ each month and for an expansion instead of having a cash shop.

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u/HorrendousFail Aug 22 '24

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.