A WoW "Free Trade" server, would you play it?

[Alastrace-proudmoore]

That sounds pretty awful

[Chroesire-bleeding-hollow (Chroesire)]

Wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole. It’d be packed to the brim with cash whales.

[Uglúk-area-52]

I’d love to be able to farm mounts and sell them! They should be cagable just like battle pets.

[Kittsuera-lothar (Kittsuera)]

i would not want to play on that. its a good way for someone to run off with all your stuff.

and odds are it would end up on a CSI episode sooner or later (because it did for a game with a similar loot concept. dont know if the game was real or just a prop game)

[Reull-arugal]

Ah yes, the gold sellers would love that. No token, so you want gold to buy all that gear lootz - go to a gold seller site. Man, would we see a lot of hacked accounts.

[Reull-arugal]

I dont understand your response. What has murder and the law got to do with gold buying?

The point is this, in case it did a whoosh over your head. Tokens were introduced by Blizzard not only to make money, but to provide a safe method of obtaining gold. If you stopped tokens being available then ‘some’ people would go outside the game to buy gold from gold sellers. And thats dangerous for them because it puts not just their game account but their bank accounts at risk. And sure people doing it can be reported, anyone doing anything against the game’s rules can be reported. Gold sellers are quite sneaky at disguising their transactions.

[Debbyfrowner-thrall]

It’d be awful

[Reull-arugal]

Thats nonsense. I cant even begin to understand what you are talking about since you are making zero sense.

@Stelio-turalyon

ntroducing something like a wow token to a server, that allows you to sell your gear in its entirety

What has the wow token got to do with 'sell your gear in its entirety"? You purchase a token for cash which is put on the AH, and someone buys it for gold to use in the game for whatever purposes they wish. I use it to cover my subscription as I am on a pension with limited money. So are you saying I am somehow wrong because I enjoy playing the game, earning gold in the game and using that gold to buy a token off the AH and put it towards my subscription?

If so, I say ptoeey to you!

I said, and Ill say it for the last time but perhaps in another way - buying a token from WoW is safe for players so they can legitimately use that extra gold for whatever purposes they want. Equating it somehow to gold sellers = legalized murder is so off-the-planet weird I am actually impressed by your twisty sense of logic.

@Stelio-turalyon

as far as bots and gold sellers

Gold sellers act primarily outside the game through websites and throwaway email accounts. Blizzard doesn’t own the internet, it doesnt own Discord, it cant stop every single goldseller. They have said this with regard to bots:

Thank You For Your Reports

Over the last few months, we’ve been accelerating our efforts to deal with certain kinds of cheating that players often call “bots” – the use of automation to play the game in exploitative ways. As you know, bots are often operated by people who exploit the game in order to make money selling in-game resources and leveling services to other players. Botting is explicitly against the Blizzard End User License Agreement, and we take strong actions against those who cheat in World of Warcraft. We’…

Saying Blizzard should do this and should do that assumes that they could ever stop bots and gold sellers. If people only purchased their gold from the Token then gold sellers would rapidly go out of business.

[Maddof-area-52]

Would be nice if everything in our bags was sellable.

[Akadruid-barthilas]

It’s also the same idea as POE, sell your old unwanted items to someone. But for it to work here Blizzard need to place caps on items otherwise people will offload things that are just way too expensive and it really will become pay to win.