I have a new segment called the Warcraft Dinner that I am starting now and will be a weekly post on top of other posts. Tune in and please give me feedback on what is not fun to read or is fun to read!
Warcraft Dinner #1
So, this article may be
a bit late coming into the battle of price increase for the new Warcraft
expansion set. Regardless, I felt the need to bring my perspective to the table
so that readers and players of World of Warcraft can have another person’s
opinion to take in to either alleviate or support whatever they felt before
reading this article.
-Note: I will only be talking about the price increase for the basic
WoW expansion but the collector’s edition is also likely to be increased by
$10.00.
Before this price
increase for the Warlords of Draenor expansion set, all the expansions for
World of Warcraft have been at the $39.99 range(excluding collector’s edition,
which I will definitely want to get). It has been at this price for quite a
long time and I feel like it is long overdue for a price increase. Without
paying too much attention to that Activision Blizzard is a company which
focuses on getting the most revenue out of the products they produce. The past
expansions of Warcraft has given us a lot of content for the price of $39.99.
Many people would counter my statement by saying they have us pay an additional
monthly fee on top of the purchase for the expansion. But I believe that is
necessary for the game to run smoothly and have content keep on piling up after
the expansion’s original content has run dry.
I have supported my own
belief regarding this matter just this week. As I am a very big Blizzard games
fan and supporter*, I have played all of their current games and many past
ones. Last week was the release of Diablo 3’s new expansion set - Reaper of
Souls which is a spectacular game* but it also has a cost of $39.99. I have
finished playing through the story content and have tried out the many other
features introduced. Through that, I feel a very satisfied gamer. The price of
Diablo’s expansion seemed very fitting to me. Yet when I compare the Diablo 3
expansion set to World of Warcraft’s expansion set, I cannot fathom that they
are same in price yet differ so much in the content that is offered. Many
players do play Diablo 3 over and over through multiple levels and challenges
but they are still the same content that would go on for months, if not a full
year before another new expansion is introduced. In contrast, World of Warcraft
costed just the same price but it offered more content that kept many of its
player-base happy until a new patch drops with even newer content. Diablo 3 does
not offer that flow of content, neither in gameplay nor story. This can also
apply to many other video games that are released or will be released. Those
games do not offer hundreds upon hundreds of hours of playability nor the
support of the massive content after the game is released.
For Warlords of
Draenor, we expect to have the normal amount of content as expansions before it
and even more with the housing and inclusive level 90 boost.
So now that World of
Warcraft’s expansion price has gone up, I think it is very much justifiable for
Blizzard. But that also means they have to manage and increase the time of
which new patches are released instead of having a constant flow of content
until the last patch hits and it is a full year of the same raid until the new
expansion hits.
So if you still think
about Blizzard’s increase of the new World of Warcraft expansion is not
justified. Go to your local video game shop and look at all the games they
offer and think whether or not you would spend your money on the expansion set
or the game that costs an average of $59.99 which has not as much gameplay time
or all the other perks that come with Warcraft.
For me, I am and always
will be a gamer at heart so I would always look for new and fun games to play
(all within reason and my budget of course) all the while concurrently playing
World of Warcraft.
Game safe and sound
all!
* Full Disclosure: I am a
very big Blizzard game fan(but also a very big gamer in all aspects). I have
not been payed to say anything I post. All games I have reviewed or talked
about are bought by me unless otherwise written or stated.
* Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls
- I will have a review of that game out, hopefully, later this week. Please
look forward to that. Spoiler: Very fun game!
* If any gaming company is
looking or want to have reviews of their games done by me.
Please contact me through
my email: Rasely4@hotmail.com
I am a gamer regardless of the system, as long as games are released I would love to review it.
Keep on gaming!
Avid Vancouverite Gamer
