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World of Warcraft's Subscriber Numbers and Trends From 2016 to 2024 Revealed (www.icy-veins.com)
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[–] filister@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I used to play WoW back in the days and am mildly interested in the game development afterwards, but somewhere I read that currently some players are able to buy in game time with their game money, so I presume not everyone is actually paying this price. And their most dedicated hard-core players are probably not paying it either.

In reality I don't know how easy it is and probably casual players are mostly paying subscribers but even back then the game was plagued by a lot of micro transactions.

Additionally we don't know how much it costs Blizzard to support the servers and run them, as they run a lot of them for sure.

[–] Nighed@sffa.community 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can buy wow tokens with in-game gold, however the tokens are 'created' by someone buying one with real money to sell for in-game gold.

So all the wow subs purchased with gold were actually paid for by someone else.

[–] Zulu@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

And its $20 instead of $15. So its actually MORE money for blizz to buy via in game gold

[–] Breezy@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I haven't really played mmos since around 2010. But as far as i know, there was always pay for gold and items for sell. It was waay more sketchy though. I played wow and a bunch other when i was a teen. I played with my older sister, and she paid for shit in every game we played. Underground selling had been a thing since the beginning of online games. Btw microtransactions have stolen money from farmers and botters that sold items and gold for profit.