So. Blizzard finally woke up to the inevitable reduction in payer count. Good for them. Now let's see how they actually reacted.
Here are some stats for the prices around the net from January 3rd 2011 (source):
Here are the new game priced for June 29th, 2011:
Battle NET does not show full prices for upgrade to Cataclysm if you chose another region, so I can't compare them.
Notice, that buying a physical package is still much cheaper than buying everything online
The prices above are based on the game being bought by a new player for the first time. One month of playtime included. Each successive month costs additionally in accordance with the region.
The prices are a sum of the prices of World Of Warcraft and The Burning Crusade, Wrath of The Lich King and Cataclysm expansion packs.
Here are some stats for the prices around the net from January 3rd 2011 (source):
| Blizzard EU online store | 99.96 EUR | |
| Blizzard EU online store | 79.96 GBP | 93.01 EUR |
| Blizzard US online store | 129.96 USD | 97.81 EUR |
| Amazon UK(physical copy) | 56.41 GBP | 65.93 EUR |
| Amazon US(physical copy) | 108.23 USD | 81.46 EUR |
| Amazon DE(physical copy) | 76.58 EUR | |
| Amazon FR(physical copy) | 71.13 EUR |
Here are the new game priced for June 29th, 2011:
| Blizzard EU online store | 74.48 EUR | |
| Amazon UK(physical copy) | 44.50 GBP | 49.56 EUR |
| Amazon US (physical copy) | 84.41 USD | 58.50 EUR |
| Amazon DE (physical copy) | 67.83 EUR | |
| Amazon FR (physical copy) | 54.99 EUR |
Battle NET does not show full prices for upgrade to Cataclysm if you chose another region, so I can't compare them.
Notice, that buying a physical package is still much cheaper than buying everything online
The prices above are based on the game being bought by a new player for the first time. One month of playtime included. Each successive month costs additionally in accordance with the region.
The prices are a sum of the prices of World Of Warcraft and The Burning Crusade, Wrath of The Lich King and Cataclysm expansion packs.
