• eoddc5@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m not defending it, or blizzard, and reading the title sounded yucky

    But my quick understanding:

    Expansion costs $50

    Next level is $70 which comes with digital stuff, mounts, etc

    Top tier expansion is $90, which comes with even more stuff

    So a $40 difference from base or $20 from mid tier

    It also comes with 30 days of game time, so that’s $15

    Now we’re looking at $25 difference between base game. Or $5 difference between mid and top tier.

    So it’s really like $5 for more digital stuff and early access, right?

    It would have been better to just make two tiers. Charge $75 for everything including early access and don’t include game time. Cause subscribers are going to pay for that anyway. I guess because a month of access is hardly worth $15 operationally, it’s a nice way to up charge

    I haven’t bought anything wow related in like 8 years. So I don’t have a horse in this fight. The title is just a little click bait (I don’t think anyone thought it’s $90 for only early access, and assume it’s part of a $90 game cost)

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      1 year ago

      It’s not early access. It’s late access if you don’t pony up the extra.

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        1 year ago

        Release date is whatever. It’s irrelevant what the date is. It’s set by the company.

        If you can play on X date and everyone else on y. Then you’re playing earlier than the rest

        Arguing otherwise is pointless

        Essentially it’s $5 for early access over the mid tier. Or $15 more over the base tier. Plus a ton of other stuff included with that up charge.

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          I think the point they are making is a game like wow, if you start days later then everyone else then you are behind them. It’s not like a single player game, if you’re friends are doing end game and your stuck leveling, it sucks. Therefore everyone feels foreced to get early access.