wow Did Blizzard Remove the 30-Day Game Time Option to Fight Botting?

[Stan 5,240]

A while ago, Blizzard got rid of the 30-day Game Time option, but what's the true rationale behind the change?

Blizzard recently removed the 30 and 120 Game Time options, leaving us with just the 60-day Game Time option. While the change does not affect subscriptions, many started wondering why it was necessary in the first place.

Reddit user LullabyGaming came forward with a smart theory and thinks Blizzard removed it to fight botting in the game. The new system forces bots to buy 60 days of Game Time instead of 30, meaning they have to pay for 2 months instead of just 1.

Once the botter gets banned, they will have paid twice as much for the subscription, which renders them less effective at generating gold.

If the change will result in less botting in the game remains to be seen.

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While this theory is plausible, it doesn't explain why Blizzard also removed the 90 and 120-day Game Time options. 

[Grumar 188]

if blizzard were trying to fight bots, they wouldn't be putting a boost into classic that stream lines bots right to level 58 allowing them to bypass the entire leveling process and destroy the economy quicker and more efficiently 

[SherylB 0]

1 hour ago, Grumar said:

if blizzard were trying to fight bots, they wouldn't be putting a boost into classic that stream lines bots right to level 58 allowing them to bypass the entire leveling process and destroy the economy quicker and more efficiently 

But the boost has to be paid for, so it is just more money out of their pockets.

[ResoWho 68]

as someone in that reddit post allrdy mentioned you can buy virtual credit cards (pay sub with it and cancle it) like you can buy a code for battle.net currency so not really a difference thought

Edited April 7, 2021 by ResoWho

[Elfomal 55]

Nope. Most likely because its a end of quarter and they wanna to sell more to show off 'oh hey,look at how much we sold this quarter!'

Would not be surprised if they revert after their quarter release get on.

 

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Also, please, start making some ff14 guides!!!!

They are really hard to find in the quality as icy-veins!

Edited April 7, 2021 by Elfomal

[Sabejnos 10]

First note - most of use are not using our own cards to buy gametime from Blizzard. There are quite cheap services to get a virtual one-time debit card which can be used to buy subs (my bank even allows me to create unlimited amount of these cards).

Second note - some of us got really huge list of gametime coupons which were purchased before this happened. They are simple CD-keys which are being added to b.net accounts as before. These codes werent removed from the database and still can be used. And guess what... we've been buying them via in-game functionality. 

[Grumar 188]

3 hours ago, SherylB said:

But the boost has to be paid for, so it is just more money out of their pockets.

They would make more than enough money that eating the cost will be a drop in a bucket

[Sojourna 2]

An intriguing theory, but I doubt it'll amount to anything.

[Steveson 193]

If Activision really wanted to fight botting they would've implemented better security measures. This right there is just to push people to subscription. And unlike buying game time many tend to forget to unsub and just let their money flow right into company's bank account.

[Yridaa 490]

On 4/7/2021 at 9:37 PM, Elfomal said:

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Also, please, start making some ff14 guides!!!!

They are really hard to find in the quality as icy-veins!

But then where would they keep their inactive Borderlands and Overwatch 2 icons in their banner?