World Of Warcraft: Still quite Expensive PC Game to Play (Updated pricing)

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):

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.