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The original was posted on /r/wow by /u/gelagua1 on 2026-07-21 06:42:06+00:00.

As another reddit user pointed out in another post (r/Fun_Fortune2687), I would like to reignite the debate about the outrageous sub price increase in Brazil as it being completely out of touch with the country’s reality vs the passion brazillian people have about mostly anything they really engage with.

I’ve been playing the game on and off since I was 16 years old (I’m now 34), starting with private servers because even at that time I couldn’t afford the entry price for the official servers. As I grew into adulthood and started getting (badly) paid, I migrated to WoW’s official servers and never once considered going back to private server simply because I felt Blizzard valued my presence as a customer. This has long changed, especially during the pandemic. However, this is less about me and my personal problems about how I cannot afford the game even before the price spike, but I love WoW from the bottom of my heart and recently getting a late autism diagnostic, I can better understand why I’m so attached to the game, it’s lore and the “vibe” of it, it just feels like home for me, a safe place I can be something more than just my troubled self.

To raise the points of the mentioned earlier redditor:

"I’ve been playing the game since 2013, and unfortunately, over the years, the situation for Brazilian players has only gotten worse.

1. No local servers / high latency

There are no servers actually hosted in Brazil. Realms like Azralon are physically located in the United States, which means we constantly deal with 150ms+ latency.

To try to get a playable experience, many Brazilian players end up paying extra for third-party routing services just to reduce ping — something that players in other regions don’t have to worry about.

2. Subscription and expansion prices

The monthly subscription is increasing from R$39.90 to R$54.90 — that’s over a 35% increase. For Brazil, this is extremely expensive.

On top of that, expansions often cost over R$200, which adds even more to the total cost of playing the game.

To put this into perspective for US players: imagine paying $55 per month or $200 for each expansion. Many people simply wouldn’t continue playing under those conditions.

3. Poor customer support

In the past, when Blizzard had a stronger presence in Brazil, support was fast and efficient — often resolving issues within an hour.

Today, it can take 2–3 business days just to get a reply, and often the responses feel generic and don’t solve the problem. I’ve personally had to open the same ticket multiple times because the issue wasn’t properly addressed.

4. Regional reality matters

Brazil has a much weaker currency compared to the US dollar, and the average income is significantly lower. Price increases like this hit much harder here than in North America or Europe."

When I had a steady job, was making a living for myself, I struggled with the aggressive business model from Blizzard and, again, on and off, I closed my eyes to my core beliefs and immersed myself in Azeroth to feel free, to feel myself and flee from the life-turning event that was my late autism diagnostic.

Besides reposting another’s person old discussion, I think I’ve been rambling long enough about myself and I hope I can reignite with this post a healthy debate about a passionate community that is the LATAM players. especially brazillian, Yes, we have a lot of shit people here, toxic players, people that often I despised playing with and even felt ashamed for being part of LATAM/brazillian players.

I love World of Warcraft, as many do in Brazil, and I plea to Blizzard to reconsider their course of action to not make gaming a more elitist hobby than it already is in my country. I’m sure there are a lot of very fortunate brazillian players with healthy incomes to be able to play the game, but my plea is for the invisible players, the ones that struggle to make to the end of the month, that has to juggle between their responsibilities and their leisure time. Reconsider this course of action, Blizzard, I know there’s a lot of pressure from the suits above most of the decisions you have to push down to us, but Brazil loves World of Warcraft and many brazillians find solace and peace in Azeroth to just be ripped out and discarded as unwanted by corporate greed.

Thank you for reading, I’m sorry for reposting something that was debated before, but I really felt like I needed to take this outta my chest.