{"id":4788,"date":"2015-07-27T22:21:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T02:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.beniesbuilds.com\/benie\/games\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2015-09-30T12:54:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T16:54:04","slug":"blizzard-has-found-other-evil-ways-to-get-money-and-its-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2015\/07\/27\/blizzard-has-found-other-evil-ways-to-get-money-and-its-effective\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard has found other, evil ways to get money (and it’s effective)…"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Warning, overuse of the word “sick” detected in this post)<\/strong>
\nOh look, another “WoD sucks” post. Except this one is quite sick for me to write. This is another HeelvsBabyface video, of his “AZ CHATS” thing. It’s titled “Is WoD actually a HUGE success ??”<\/p>\n

So anyway, his discussion was about how some still hate Blizzard and WoD and stuff (and hopefully about how much money they’ve lost from our subscriptions).
\nThe sad part… they are NOT hurting. Not even the fucking slightest. How? Those WoW Tokens. Even though they cost more than a subscription, Blizzard.. being the intelligent bastards they are, have figured out people will break down and buy these game tokens!<\/p>\n

It’s so simple too. Say… John(generic name FTW) was tired of paying for the game, yet he remembers that he has a ton of gold (from soloing dungeons\/raiding\/being successful in the AH, etc…). John ponders and is all “You know, why do I have to pay for a subscription, when I can use the gold I have to pay for it on the Auction House and play for free?!”
\nJohn still needs a subscription, but he has discovered the WoW Token allows him to not have to pay his normal $15\/mo bill. He can literally play for free.<\/p>\n

Yet… why should I care? If people, like John, want to play the game, that keeps the game living longer, right? But what they don’t tell you, someone else<\/em> is paying real money for those WoW Tokens and throwing them on the Auction House. So our friend John, can play for free. Now, do you see why this is evil?
\nAlso, it’s giving Blizzard the green light to continue making sub-standard content. And I personally feel we should never give in to this kind of evil (yet also brilliant at the same time) business practice that they’re doing!<\/p>\n

Granted… I<\/em> almost did. \ud83d\ude1b See, Bellular had this video about the Garrison and the followers, then mentioned how you can get the ‘Stay Awhile and Listen’ achievement on multiple chars to get the Tier 3 Inn.
\nHaving wanted to get that tier for quite sometime, I was REALLY tempted to get a WoW Token. The very thought of playing for free, I really liked. Yet as I said above, it’s only technically free as someone else bought it for you, for more money than a subscription.<\/p>\n

Heelz also said in the video, that the Second Quarter earnings will be coming in a couple of weeks. And from what he found out, they look promising(to Blizzard). He predicts subscriptions are actually going to rise(due to the WoW Token). He also says that Activision-Blizzard is going to be making a shit-ton of money. He mentioned about them getting “bumper profits”. This is above their expectations of around 128.6%.
\nAnd this money isn’t just from WoW, but from their other games (Hearthstone, Heroes of The Storm, Starcraft), and don’t forget Overwatch (the game I never got to test).<\/p>\n

What’s fucking worse, and this makes me the most sick. They.. LOVE soloers. Now how is that “worse”, you ask? It’s the fact how easy it is to make gold from soloing dungeons, raids, and doing soloable content such as sending followers on missions. You can make at least 5-7k a week by doing that. I have proved it could be done. And Blizzard, loves this. Because they know, people are going to use that gold to buy these fucking WoW Tokens on the AH to keep their subscriptions going!
\nThey’re literally using what the #1 thing that I loved doing in WoW(soloing old content), to make a profit<\/strong>… and they’re getting away with it! Fucking EVIL! D:<\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Warning, overuse of the word “sick” detected in this post) Oh look, another “WoD sucks” post. Except this one is quite sick for me to write. This is another HeelvsBabyface video, of his “AZ CHATS” thing. It’s titled “Is WoD … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5417,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions\/5417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}