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If you can’t afford subscriptions like those, then you should probably have other priorities to really worry about.

If you did a simple search for poverty and How much people struggled back in 2004 when World of Warcraft released versus now, you would see that families are having a lot harder time than ever before. It has not improved at all for most people. Wealth inequality has grown massively in the past 20 years that World of Warcraft has been around. So yeah a lot of people do have different priorities, And now, the price of playing a live service game that required a subscription can definitely impact you. The same thing can be said though with other subscriptions like Netflix and Hulu. It really fucking destroys your monthly income. Alone they don’t, but added up they definitely do

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catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
A World of Warcraft subscription is not a human right. Everyone makes a cost-benefit decision about whether they can afford it.

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PunchingWood@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
And again, like I said, if you can’t afford it then you should rethink your priorities. It’s a luxury product, not a basic needs product.

And like I also said, these game subscriptions have barely changed in price compared to many other things in the past 20 years. They’re not that expensive.

Considering you’re talking about multiple game subscriptions and streaming subscriptions in your post, I don’t think you have it that bad anyway. You’d also require a console or gaming PC or both, a lot of people don’t have all that. Subscriptions are easily the cheapest part of the hobby.

You’re just bad with organising your subscriptions and should change how to get the most out of it.

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