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Ivan Kuzkin is one of the more prolific and talented World of Warcraft machinima content creators. In a newly published video called Extinction, he shows Silithus in the moments just before the Sword of Sargeras plunged into Azeroth and the repercussions of its impact afterwards.
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I think $15/month is too much for a game which updates once in two years.
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Looks like a lot of work went into it.
They'll never live that down. Though it's good that people won't let them.
Which gets an *expansion* once in two years. And regular updates (expanding the expansion further) once every two or three months during the first year of the expansion.
Some believe it's for the content updates, some believe it's to cover the costs of running the servers, some believe it's for other infrastructure costs...
However, if it cost more to do stuff today than it did in 2004, then how come the subscription fee has never changed? The cost of the expansions have been going up but not the subscriptions. The total subscriber base month to month is far lower than it has been in years, and yet the subscription remains the same. Then you have all their other games that share the same infrastructure that have no subscription fee associated with them.
Their expansions don't cost less than other game expansions, so you are not saving money by having a subscription tacked onto it. You have other games that don't have subscriptions which run their servers and have support staff. How is it that WoW requires a subscription to do the same? If it is indeed for content updates, then if you add in that cost to the expansion cost (that claimed to include all those said content updates when you bought it), it is clearly a far far more expensive expansion than you initially realized. Is it really cheaper than DLCs? Or are you really paying more because whether or not there is any new content, you have to pay to play?
Blizzard charges you for the game, charges you to play the game, and has a cash shop on top of all that. One has to wonder just what the subscription fee is really being used for, because it clearly can't be what we suspect it's used for because the fee has never gone up. It may be nothing but pure profit. That the game doesn't require a subscription at all, that the money made off sales and cash shop cover their costs in it's entirety... like with other games.
The game is essentially free if you play it somewhat consistently. I wouldn't even bother to farm&stuff and when I left the game I was able to "fill" a bnet account (like 300EU or so) from the gold I had. That gold also purchased me Destiny 2+season pass (would have really had buyer remorse if I spent real money), Diablo 3, some HotS currency and I believe that is it.
But if you really have to pay 15USD/month for whatever reason, I agree it's too costly. People have gave Blizzard staggering amounts of money since 2005, sub, expansions, pets, makes me somewhat sick thinking I gave them money too until they introduced the token. Without the token though, I'm almost sure they would lose half the population, so many of the people I knew were playing just because it was free.
It's a company that aims to make a profit so why not? They get away with it since its basicly the biggest and (one of) the oldest themeparks with a huge fanbase.
Add in the fact that the sub price hasn't gone up in a decade? Maybe more? Honestly, you just have to be kidding. That's not even counting, of course, the fact that you can earn enough gold in game to NEVER have to pay a sub again. It doesn't take long to make a couple hundred thousand in WoW these days and it's all done just by playing, not farming.
I don't find the 2 years for an expansion outrageous either. When I get tired of it, I drop my sub and wait until it's interesting again.
Honestly...just no words. Nothing in life is free, folks, except going outside and enjoying the view from your front ya...oh wait...still have to pay for the house, the lawn guy, the water to keep the lawn green and and and and and....see what I mean?
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"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
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Lol for some reason what you said and this video just reminded me of my first times playing WoW during Cata. I was just running around in the barrens on my orc killing wolves and stuff then Deathwing randomly attacked and one shotted everyone with his breath. Fun times. Blizzard needs more stuff like that.
If $15 a month means I will not be running into you in game. Well, money well spent.
If people complain of paying monthly in games (but spend 100s/1000s on cash shops or jpeg images), they'll definitely complain about blizzard charging for classic wow and instead play on free servers lol
DOWN WITH THE MAN
My Skyrim, Fallout 4, Starbound and WoW + other game mods at MODDB:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/skyrim-anime-overhaul
FF14 is a lot more expensive then WoW with a cash shop but nobody talks about it. Eso is literally a p2p game in b2p disguise with one of the worst cash shops out there and again nobody cares. But when Blizzard sells a couple of reskinned mounts and pets in the shop people in this forum go nuts.
Suzy I don't know how did you manage it but I never ever saw another mmorpg forum with this much WoW/Blizzard hate even in mmorpg sub reddit which is supposed to be a very toxic place. It is sad really...
Honestly, you don't like the sub price, you should neither play nor kvetch about sub prices for a game you're obviously NOT playing while in a thread that has ZERO to do with sub prices because it's about a fan-made video. * eye roll *
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"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
A sub fee feels up front to the customer. It's no frills, no hidden fees, no surprises. You pay $15, you know exactly what you get in return: the full game experience, with the possibility to partake fully in every gameplay system in the game.
There's something to be said about that kind of direct offer. Customers hate hidden fees and surprise costs.