I guess it depends on where they’re getting the gold from. If someone is buying tokens with gold they’ve obtained from 3rd party resellers, then it does. But if they’re not, then it doesn’t. It all depends on where the gold they’re using comes from.
I am printing it 
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You don’t have to buy all the tabs. I’ve got 50+ million gold, have multiple toons across multiple servers and I’m only planning on buying one or two tabs. That many isn’t really necessary.
Same, I’m sitting on 16 million without ever spending more than 5 consecutive minutes sitting at the AH. It gets a lot easier to accumulate gold by not buying every dumb shiny thing dangled in front of me like the brutosaur.
I’m not being ‘denied the game’ by not buying the brutosaur. I’ll prob buy the third WB bank tab because I’ve got alts split across a few servers, but only after checking if that’s actually NEEDED to store everything.
Not gonna lose any sleep over skipping tabs 4&5, I’ll simply not dump my personal gbank’s page of weird unobtainable collectables and 96 Imperial Silkworms in it.
Remember, they still have to farm it themselves, or buy it from someone else who did. No one is creating gold out of nothing. It has to originate from mobs, chests, mission tables, etc.
you say that as if you’ve never heard about illicit gold making operations.
I’m not sure why you think mission table gold or grinding mobs gold isn’t created from nothing. They’re literally giving you gold from nothing.
Mobs literally create gold out of thin air. They aren’t part of the existing economy at all. There isn’t some mob somewhere else that has their gold deducted just cause some other mob gave out gold. There is no zero sum equation here. It’s literally gold created out of nothing and added to the economy. Why do you think the mission tables from wod completely destroyed the wow economy with rampant inflation? Inflation occurs when central banks pump too much money into the economy by literally printing more.
It doesn’t matter how much gold you have, I still find it absurd that people are defending 3M gold for a stash tab. As if the D4 stash tabs weren’t controversial enough.
Not defending it, just pointing out that the last tab CAN BE IGNORED!
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I mean, this is literally why you see Moonkins nuking an area 24/7, right? Collecting gold from activities is what the game is based on. It’s where the gold comes from. No one is able to produce gold directly in their currency tab while, to quote the Winter Veil pets, “mouthbreathing, or whatever it is you do at the AH.”
It literally has to come from an activity, or from another player who performed an activity. Is this the detail we’re disputing these days?
Inherently it means the economy was based on nothing.
Gold is infinite in WoW. As a currency that’s a not so great thing for an economy.
That we’ve always had a fairly big rise in the amount of gold given over time only multiplied the inflation issue.
Gold Sinks have always been laughably useless in controlling that economy of nothing becoming something.
I don’t know who here is suggesting that anyone is creating gold from their currency tab lol. What we’re discussing is gold being added to the economy from sources that do in fact, create gold from nothing. A mobs loot table is literally generated by the game from nothing for example. So gold sources from mob grinding is gold added to the economy.
I have posted several times, here and on other games with game economy issues, regarding Gold Sinks. For a gold sink to be effective, it has to target the people with the most money, while not alienating the people who don’t have that much. The Love Is In The Air donation was this, for me. It took money from people who had too much, and wanted to flaunt an “I’m Rich” title, while us poor people watched them waste their money.
We agree on this. I think, what we disagree on, is that this is not what I consider from thin air, since someone has to work at it. Granted, they might not have to work hard, in the case of Garrison tables, or overfarming an area.
Yeeeaaahhh, I guess I’ll take my ~200k across my entire account and go cry in the corner.
Hopefully that price is just for the Alpha/Beta since there’s an unlimited amount of gold there.
3mil for bank slots is absolutely stupid.
Blizzard isn’t really doing much for that in a way that will realistically change much. Especially if they raise the gold cap.
I’m not saying gold sinks can’t work, I’m saying blizzards are laughable.
Blizzards really won’t do anything to the economy of those with the most money, and this particular feature, a main feature of the expansion, seems a poor place to try this.
(mind I just think the last 2-3 tabs should be reduced in price not free.)
I mean, the game economy only reacts to products and gold volume. Again, it’s the same reason why gold inflation became so rampant in wod. It became too easy to generate gold out of nothing (mission tables). Thus flooding the economy with gold, sending prices skyrocketing.
I think you’re getting too hung up on how hard or easy it is to generate gold. That’s an issue to be sure but it wasn’t what I was talking about. I was talking about the concept of gold being added to the game economy in the first place. Gold that literally didn’t exist previously. Such gold is added to the economy. Versus gold taken from other players via trades or the wow token which doesn’t add gold to the economy.
only… it doesn’t.
when you’ve got a plethora of bots running 24/7, the only “player” needed, is someone to make sure that the characters remain connected to the server.
surely you’re not attempting to pretend botting isn’t a thing?
Account banks have been done better in other games.
Throw in reagent deposit without being at a bank and you’ll be getting warmer.
For sure there are people who are going to look at the pricing structure and ignore the whole thing.