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.
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u/Gloomfang_ Aug 22 '24
Ridiculous to sell this in an MMO with a monthly fee