WoW Billing?

[VampireHeart]

For world of worcraft its billed per month right? if not how can i get it?

 

[Kimbo]

IT WOULD have been smarter to actually go to the wow site to look. =_=

 

[GST_Nemisis]

you are billed £8.99 a month, but if you are really smart you buy game cards from the internet for like £2.99 one third the price of montly wow

 

[brad.dude03]

If it's in North America then you pay $15 US. It's probably cheaper for you european types.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

well acutally its $18 US from £8.99 because its basically x2 now, but if u buy a game card online thats $6

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Its still retarded to waste money on that shit.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

thats your opinoin, i personally think spending what is basically 10 pence per day for what i think is fantastic game is in no way a waste of money.

 

[brad.dude03]

Nope, in North America, Blizzard states that if you pay by credit card, then you will be charged the equivalent of $14.99 US every month. In Canada it works out to about $18 CAD.

 

[Valcrist]

Its still retarded to waste money on that shit.

Agreed. Why pay to play a game you already bought?

 

[brad.dude03]

Because it costs Blizzard tens of thousands of dollars a month to operate and maintain the many servers you idiots are playing on?

 

[Shados]

Yes, tens of thousands...... not the millions they're getting.

-*meow*

 

[Kimbo]

in aus money.. or..close enough..

15(payment)x12(months/1 year)x8.5 million..=$153,000000.. meaning...153 million a year

i think i got the amount of digits right..either that or im going to fail maths this year.

 

[Katu]

Its still retarded to waste money on that shit.

I'm still retarded to earn money for a computer that can run WoW AND for and ADSL connection AND for WoW monthly paying.

Anyway, I play Diablo2 instead Sometimes

 

[brad.dude03]

It's in US dollars though. Everyine (unless you have EU version that is) pays 15 US dollars a month x 9 million subscribers= 135 million dollars. a month.

In one month that's what they are making. In a year they make 1,620,000,000,000 dollars. That's over 1.5 BILLION dollars in just one year.

Insanity.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

yeh werewulf your maths is all razzamataz, brad has got his calculas on easy mode for slam dunk of right answers.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

It's in US dollars though. Everyine (unless you have EU version that is) pays 15 US dollars a month x 9 million subscribers= 135 million dollars. a month.

In one month that's what they are making. In a year they make 1,620,000,000,000 dollars. That's over 1.5 BILLION dollars in just one year.

Insanity.

Substract the amount of money it takes to pay employees since they,re still developing it (including the big boss) plus the amount of money required to pay the servers.

Probably 1.4 billion a year.
This is the biggest scam ever.

 

[brad.dude03]

yeh werewulf your maths is all razzamataz, brad has got his calculas on easy mode for slam dunk of right answers.

This is very possibly the funniest basketball metaphore ever devised in the history of mankind. /Applaud.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

glad to be of service lol

and yeh it is all a big scam, whats worse is that they refuse to reduce prices but i think if they reduced prices by a third they would get enough new customers to make more then they are right now.

 

[brad.dude03]

Ohhhhh yeah. Think about it. Guild Wars has 2 million subscribers. TWO MILLION. That's huge! Especially for a game that's only been out for like two years.... Now, imagine if WoW was free, it would have tens of millions of subscribers right now.

It's kind of ironic though, the people that developed the ArenaNet technology for the Guild Wars games all used to work for Blizzard, created Battle.Net they did Blizzard's probably kicking themselves wishing they had hung on to those guys, huh?

 

[VampireHeart]

yea probibly...

and damn...that much money. Its a joke, and all the fire fighters and police are not making crap wile risking there lives...but blizzard is making billions of dollars. rediculus

 

[GST_Nemisis]

yeh but they arent really comparible. blizzard is a business and acts as such. not only that but you have to respect blizzard for making a game so immensely popular. whether you like wow or not, 8 million players is impressive.

 

[VampireHeart]

yes very. this reason is it seems to have the best interface and the gameplay is good. Also the staff is always monitering it, if a sever gos down it get back up in almost the 1/2 hour. its very impressive.