No. Blizzard are a business not a charity. As such, in the current financial climate they would be worse off making the expansion free. As for the prolonged development cycle on their expansions, this is simply because they want to release a finished product and not a half-baked game to appease the masses.
So they do not make enough from their monthly charges to fund such a project?
Greedy company, they'll pull your last golden tooth out if they can. Not even contemplating 1 free character transfer for 4 year old customers, and not willing to enforce any rule on their servers (aren't we paying for that too???), eternal gold spamming and brats talking rubbish for months on trade channel, sex stuff, insults, without never ever a GM intervening. Yeah fanbois keep wasting your money on this dumb shit, at least i won't see you in my other games.
Goldtooth is in the mines close to goldshire.. wait what are we talking about?
The fact is, Blizzard is making HUGE amount of money with only the montly fee. And, the free content is pretty low if you compare to some other Mmo, and since they say they want to be the best, and I'm not saying they are or not, only that they want to. They should give WAY MORE free content. I don't see a full expansion, but they should double or tripple their free content, and, if that's mean in the end a free expansion, then I'm up for it.
Want some exemple about what I've just said,
Mithic gave 1 free expansion on 2. Turbine gave as enought free content as the base game before doing an expansion, and event, DDO doesn't got it's expansion soo far. Both these two company doesn't have half the players base that wow has ...
Blizzard's total net income (after all expenes and taxes) is 344 million dollars. That is the amount of cash the folks that run the game can throw into a pile and roll around in. They will probably see another 200-400 million (in net profit), when WotLK is released
Yeah, they make enough mony that they could well afford to give away the expansion, but why give away what all their players would gladly pay for? Wow players are addicts, they will pay anything just to get the Blizzard fix (I was addicted too, before "The Burning Crusade" cured me). Blizzard is a large corporation, large corporations have no heart, no soul, no loyalty, they only exist to make profit, no matter what.
I was just reading the MSN front page and watching the Stock Market crash again. I think Blizzard should offer the new expansion as free content and here is why.1st and foremost I think Blizzard should reward its fathful playerbase with something huge like this as a way to say thank you for making their game tthe huge success it is.Second,with the financial markets in turmoil alot of players may be hesitant on purchasing this expansion,and possibly some of the vets who do not want to invest in what most feel will be more of the same rehashed.Finally,I think since Blizzard has been so slow at adding expansions the playerbase deserves something awesome like having an expansion such as this to be offered free,Its not like Blizzard cannot afford to reward their customers in this way. I would like to open this topic up for discussion as to why or why not offer this expansion free of charge discuss:)
Free? Are you kidding me? Look bud, here's a heads up for you, even if Blizzard had made $1,000,000,000.00 from WoW they shoudl still charge for WotLK.
See, it's this thing called "capitalism" and while I know the country looks like it's ready to elect a socialst who promises to give you everything for free... companies aren't in business to "make just enough" they are in business to make a profit, and KEEP making a profit.
It utterly amazed me when people pop off stupidity like "This company has made enough off us, they should give us something back!"
THEY DO! It's called they make a product, and in exchange for said product you give them money.
Should Coke give away soda's for free? After all they've made billions, how about Ford? Free CARS!!!
Please, get a clue, get a job, and take a course in economics.
I was just reading the MSN front page and watching the Stock Market crash again. I think Blizzard should offer the new expansion as free content and here is why.1st and foremost I think Blizzard should reward its fathful playerbase with something huge like this as a way to say thank you for making their game tthe huge success it is.Second,with the financial markets in turmoil alot of players may be hesitant on purchasing this expansion,and possibly some of the vets who do not want to invest in what most feel will be more of the same rehashed.Finally,I think since Blizzard has been so slow at adding expansions the playerbase deserves something awesome like having an expansion such as this to be offered free,Its not like Blizzard cannot afford to reward their customers in this way. I would like to open this topic up for discussion as to why or why not offer this expansion free of charge discuss:)
Free? Are you kidding me? Look bud, here's a heads up for you, even if Blizzard had made $1,000,000,000.00 from WoW they shoudl still charge for WotLK.
See, it's this thing called "capitalism" and while I know the country looks like it's ready to elect a socialst who promises to give you everything for free... companies aren't in business to "make just enough" they are in business to make a profit, and KEEP making a profit.
It utterly amazed me when people pop off stupidity like "This company has made enough off us, they should give us something back!"
THEY DO! It's called they make a product, and in exchange for said product you give them money.
Should Coke give away soda's for free? After all they've made billions, how about Ford? Free CARS!!!
Please, get a clue, get a job, and take a course in economics.
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So they do not make enough from their monthly charges to fund such a project?
Greedy company, they'll pull your last golden tooth out if they can. Not even contemplating 1 free character transfer for 4 year old customers, and not willing to enforce any rule on their servers (aren't we paying for that too???), eternal gold spamming and brats talking rubbish for months on trade channel, sex stuff, insults, without never ever a GM intervening. Yeah fanbois keep wasting your money on this dumb shit, at least i won't see you in my other games.
Goldtooth is in the mines close to goldshire.. wait what are we talking about?
The fact is, Blizzard is making HUGE amount of money with only the montly fee. And, the free content is pretty low if you compare to some other Mmo, and since they say they want to be the best, and I'm not saying they are or not, only that they want to. They should give WAY MORE free content. I don't see a full expansion, but they should double or tripple their free content, and, if that's mean in the end a free expansion, then I'm up for it.
Want some exemple about what I've just said,
Mithic gave 1 free expansion on 2. Turbine gave as enought free content as the base game before doing an expansion, and event, DDO doesn't got it's expansion soo far. Both these two company doesn't have half the players base that wow has ...
Blizzard's total net income (after all expenes and taxes) is 344 million dollars. That is the amount of cash the folks that run the game can throw into a pile and roll around in. They will probably see another 200-400 million (in net profit), when WotLK is released
http://www.hoovers.com/activision/--ID__42465,period__A--/free-co-fin-income.xhtml
Yeah, they make enough mony that they could well afford to give away the expansion, but why give away what all their players would gladly pay for? Wow players are addicts, they will pay anything just to get the Blizzard fix (I was addicted too, before "The Burning Crusade" cured me). Blizzard is a large corporation, large corporations have no heart, no soul, no loyalty, they only exist to make profit, no matter what.
Free? Are you kidding me? Look bud, here's a heads up for you, even if Blizzard had made $1,000,000,000.00 from WoW they shoudl still charge for WotLK.
See, it's this thing called "capitalism" and while I know the country looks like it's ready to elect a socialst who promises to give you everything for free... companies aren't in business to "make just enough" they are in business to make a profit, and KEEP making a profit.
It utterly amazed me when people pop off stupidity like "This company has made enough off us, they should give us something back!"
THEY DO! It's called they make a product, and in exchange for said product you give them money.
Should Coke give away soda's for free? After all they've made billions, how about Ford? Free CARS!!!
Please, get a clue, get a job, and take a course in economics.
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Free? Are you kidding me? Look bud, here's a heads up for you, even if Blizzard had made $1,000,000,000.00 from WoW they shoudl still charge for WotLK.
See, it's this thing called "capitalism" and while I know the country looks like it's ready to elect a socialst who promises to give you everything for free... companies aren't in business to "make just enough" they are in business to make a profit, and KEEP making a profit.
It utterly amazed me when people pop off stupidity like "This company has made enough off us, they should give us something back!"
THEY DO! It's called they make a product, and in exchange for said product you give them money.
Should Coke give away soda's for free? After all they've made billions, how about Ford? Free CARS!!!
Please, get a clue, get a job, and take a course in economics.
100% agree. Nice post!
Yes dfinitely should be free or blizzard actually should pay people to play it.