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Do we get our money's worth from WoW?
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Hyperspacerebel
TLDR version: You're full of it and have no "research".
Yes, because your reluctance to create a thread is directly proportional to the amount of knowledge I have about a subject.
As I said, we've had several discussions about this on this forum before. Unless you reopen the topic in it's proper place, I've got nothing else to add beyond what I've already said over the last year.
Of course, it's obvious you're not going to start a thread about it because that would make it look like you're showing weakness by caving into to my requirements. So I guess that ends it.
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93865
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Hyperspacerebel
Oh God, did Aestu just call me a liar?! Whatever shall I do? I know, I'll systematically counter every one of his points
QED
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166665
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Post by
Orranis
Blizzard is a monopoly! They're driving other businesses into the ground by making a really cool and entertaining game, and then making me pay a whole goddam 15$ a month for it!
15 dollars a month? Wow, that's gotta be like... 50 cents a day. 50 cents a day? MY GOD, that's enough to play like 10 WHOLE MINUTES of PAC-MAN! Well, no more two hours of WoW a day, plus super long times on weekends, I'm gonna cancel my account and play 10 minutes of Pac-Man.
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Post by
wolfeyoung
@the comment about how wrong it was of Blizzard to move employees from SC2 to work on Cata. What do you think is best? Combining 2 development teams? Or hiring a bunch of new employees to work on Cata for 6 months to a year, just to fire them during Thanksgiving because they were only needed to work out bug some issues and stuff?
And communism in our market. You complain that at $15 a month from 12 mil subscribers should garner us better quality. When has communism ever made a quality product?
If it truly bothers you that Blizzard is giving less then they are getting, then form a group of WoW players and basically lobby Blizzard, requesting a better game. And get LOTS of players and threaten subscription cancellation. Form a coalition and go straight to Blizzard.
Companies make changes more on customer feedback then declining sales. Declining sales means less money, which means less choices the company can make to their product. Customers informing the company of their dissatisfaction, while still buying the product, allows the company the ability to change.
Chances are, there are people at Blizzard that feel the game is cheap and doesn't give as much as it could. Voicing your opinion to THEM will give those people ammunition to request improvements from upper-level management.
Post by
Azazel
In the right corner! Arrogant, ignorant and shockadin hatin', Aestu! In the left corner! Everybody who is not mental.
Post by
wolfeyoung
Just to add something to this.
This is one place your $15 is going
Post by
Tya1
Pretty much this.
HSR likes to make other people mad, without actually becoming mad. He'll work you until you turn red and fume, and he'll be chuckling the entire time.
He's like my role model =P
That's an illusion. People who seek to provoke others for their own gratification are fundamentally angry people.
They are small individuals who feel overwhelmed by life's challenges and their own powerlessness. The world makes them angry and there's nothing they can do about it, so they try to make others angry knowing there's very little
they
can do about it. Misery loves company.
If you want to make your role model someone so insecure that lying on an internet forum makes him feel better about his own level of knowledge and ability, that's entirely your choice.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
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Post by
storyr
Yup, now let's turn this into a platform/console war.
Post by
sutasafaia
Ok, I did not read this whole thing, but the answer is yes. Let us put this very simply.
If you play 1 single hour per week, your only paying $3.75 per hour of entertainment. Already cheaper than going to the movies.
If you pay 1 hour per night, your only paying 54 cents per hour of entertainment (assuming 4 weeks). You will not really find entertainment cheaper than that, and many people play much more than that.
Really, after you purchase the game itself, $15 a month is one of the cheapest things you could possibly do to entertain yourself.
Post by
kaliko
well i read all the pages and besides the fact i think we need a payperview of HSR and aestu in a 1v1, charging idk..15 dollars. but if ya that hard up for 15 dollars, i can fund ya, ya,no?
and i get my monies..moneys..idk i get what i pay for, blizzard uses it profit to pay gms to awnser the tickets about accounts getting hacked,and other bugs and to bring ya a quality game, if its really to much, there is LoTRonline and DNDonline which is free to play, if those are something ya wanna try?
and captcha is bardato jennings...who is this i wonder
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Post by
qwertydood
While I agree that $15 per month is not bad all things considered, for a company that is making such an extreme amount of money from this game, there is a LOT more that they could do, such as:
-Dyed armor. The only reason they've given for not doing this is having to retexture everything. First of all, thats not true, and secondly, you're completely remaking the 1-60 game. Outland armor has enough colours already, so those can be left alone, and there are honestly only like 3 northrend meshes per armor class (if that many).
-Better graphics. I understand that people have crappy laptops that they want to be able to play the game on, but the fact of the matter is, the game's graphics suck. Sure, it may "suit the cartoony look", but that is no excuse for having the exact same environmental textures and miscellaneous objects appearing in every zone, and how poorly these textures are applied.
-More character model variety, and new models for old races. A few races have some unique customizing options (undead especially) but a lot of them either look terrible, or are hardly different from an existing option. The 3 new DK faces for each race was cool, but thats not nearly enough, IMO.
-Balancing the game better. They do an OK job currently, but oftentimes it takes an obscene amount of time for an imbalanced ability or the like to get fixed. IMO, they should be making changes as often as they do in the Beta all the time.
-More minor content updates. Things to keep the game fresh every other week to give players something to do. Repetitive dailies and weekly quests in addition to recycled holiday events gets boring really fast.
That's all I could think of in 5 minutes. Inevitably, someone will come along and rip apart my post, counter-arguing everything I said and explain how its not possible or too difficult, but honestly, I think its perfectly reasonable to ask for a little more effort for the money they rake in. It's pretty obvious that they only make changes when they have to instead of making changes because they care about the game and want to make the gameplay experience as enjoyable as possible.
TL:DR - Blizzard is being pretty lazy with the game for the money they make from it.
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