[Stormblood Budget] Where all the money's gone ?

[Duelle]

Therein lies the problem, you can't buy something to 'test' it, that's not how the industry works. If you give them money, you are telling them what they've done is acceptable and successful

The thing is that unlike another big MMO that uses their beta tests as way to generate hype and interest in an expansion (read: WoW with Warlords of Draenor and Legion), we have no idea of what is coming with Stormblood. Like at all.

At least by the time WoD and Legion launched I had an idea of what Blizzard had done with the classes, the very basics of changes to existing systems, and yes, what the first 15 minutes of one of the new zones looked like. So you can't even make a call based on what you see, because there's nothing to see aside from what SE decides to show, and the only way you'll know whether you got a dud or not is by buying the expansion. So players are stuck in a situation where they have to fork over money to see whether the game is going in a direction they like before deciding to continue their sub or moving on. Simply put, players who are skeptical are in a somewhat shitty situation.