As I sit running siege of Org to try for the mount I find myself getting more and more irritated by the hard nerf to vendor prices for drops, in the process I am considering the reasons for this and I’m 100% the public reason is bogus. Take what is happening and as happened.
- Trade Services in chat channel are now allowed and the usual currency to buy dungeon runs is likely to be Gold.
- Hard nerf to legacy raids and instance vendor prices reducing amount of gold being banked.
- DF launches with new crafted items either by direct sale or consignment , main currency is likely to be gold.
I expect that we will see a similar nerf incoming to money drops off killed mobs with 6 months of DF launching.
In the meantime if Blizzard are starting to place controls on how much gold can be ‘farmed’ the answer to question will be WoW tokens, i.e. buy a token for $$ sell for gold, this will serve to drive gold prices in the already overpriced AH up but means that you pay for that elite weapon using gold obtained via WoW tokens then you are paying to win.
Yes WoW tokens have been around a while , but I personally suspect Blizzard have been planning for DF to drive up sales of tokens all the long and these steps are but a few small ones to drive up revenue to make up for the loss in subscriptions that Blizzards own make.
Sadly, I don’t think this will be the end of things, should Blizzard see an uptick on token sales, then the next move logically would be special weapons and Armor for real money (whether this would bind on purchase or use i wouldn’t even care to guess) , but if the objective is to push token sales, then I’d say bind on use so items can be listed on the AH.
Tbh Blizzard have lost any goodwill from me and I really don’t believe the reason they gave for the vendor pricing adjustment since they did not need to be adjusted unless there is an ulterior motive at work.
I’d really like to be wrong, but at this point I don’t believe the decision makers in Blizzard have any Credibility or Desire to have happy players, as long as they keep paying, they’ll just go on.
Me, my subscription expires early Feb and it won’t be renewing, i may have been interested in Diablo IV but given what a total cash grab Diablo Immoral is and the way it exploits the game systems to force people to spend money they haven’t got or have acquired through less legal means ill be giving it a miss thank you. Immoral does not have and checks or balances to prevent overspend if you have the money available then you can spend spend spend and sadly because people do drop so much money on that game i can foresee similar mechanisms coming to WoW and D4 in the near future.
Yes companies need to make money to cover costs, but after the how much is a reasonable profit, without being accused of gouging customers , I’ll admit I don’t know, but i suspect Diablo Immoral is past the point of being fair pricing.
Whatever is the case I won’t be around to see it happen, at this point in time anything from Activision/Blizzard is on my no buy list.
And here ends my final post, I’m not paying to play a game where it feels like the Developer is working against me and definitely not paying to play a game that irritates the hell out of me when i run instances knowing the vendor price nerf was not required whatsoever.
