Blizzard, please fix instance farming tactics that screw the economy

[Discodeeps-malganis (Discodeeps)]

I agree. Too much do-gooder meddling will lead to a boring version of the game that we’ve all come to know and forget about.

The path to BfA is littered with good intentions.

^ This. Keep vanilla vanilla.

[Fesz-cenarius]

I can promise that some “tourists” will stay and become real players. Maybe not huge numbers, but some.

Coming clean here: on my main, years ago, I was anti-legacy server and used to join in the hate. I may have even posted the notorious Wall of No once, and for that, I am deeply ashamed.

When Nostalrius was released, though, I began to have second thoughts after seeing a couple of their amazing cinematics. So, at the point in time in that server’s history about a month before BWL opened, I went full tourist mode and joined in. The end result was that after a couple of hours of playing, I was no longer anti-legacy server. I was both amazed and terribly saddened that Blizzard had indiscriminately thrown away this incredible, beautiful world that they’d created.

So IMO, tourists are necessary and not even a “necessary evil”. Their presence should be cultivated. They are the source for potential new blood. And yes, most will leave. It’s the ones who stay that we should think about.

I partially agree.

I think tourists can be a good thing. IMO, cultivating their presence is ok, until that cultivation starts to be at the expense of those who desire a truer experience.

IMO, those desiring a truer classic experience and who, have for ever a decade, been requesting that truer Classic experience should always be Blizzard’s focus target for Classic.

[Johnnyderp-arthas (Johnnyderp)]

Part of what made classic better was all of the things you can do, not can’t.

We’d be doing some of those things today if there was any value at all in pre-current-expansion profession mats. Today, you’re funneled into raiding. That’s it. That’s all you can do. You sit until your DPS queue pops and some expansions have a random chance that you can find something worth a million gold.

I honestly don’t even know why they don’t just delete all old-world areas in each expansion, as they continuously go through great pains to make them all 100% useless.

“No you can’t just farm mithril. It’s rubidium! Rubidium is the answer! If you farm mithril, you’re wasting your time!.. Wait we changed our mind. It’s not hiphoppidium. If you farm rubidium, you’re wasting your time! No we can’t just make any less powerful metals in the next expansion. That just doesn’t make sense! It’s science! Every time you find a new land, you find more powerful metals just like IRL!”

[Mogar-stormrage (Mogar)]

Very much so. There’s so much value in doing things that the devs never intended or thought players would or could do. There was the freedom to figure out little tricks in Vanilla. Over the years Blizzard has clamped down on these things, and it’s lead to a bland and boring experience where you do what you’re told…or else.

So to address this thread, there’s nothing to fix. Relax, it’s just a game. Let people have fun. Let people do some unorthodox things.

[Tankshow-whisperwind (Tankshow)]

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