To you, it isn’t a necessary aspect of the game. To me, it also wouldn’t be a necessary aspect of the game. For another group of players, gold is the entirety of the game. They play the Market. They don’t PvP, They don’t raid, and their end game is the auction house.
Those would be stripped out in the hypothetical non-gold wow.
No Durability on gear, Food and Drink just picked up from the Inn, Flying likely learn from some quest, Flight Paths free of charge, and well the auction house being removed.
It was an interesting concept of how the game would cope. As those who player the market might turn into resource barons instead of simply cutting their fun from the game.
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So they can RMT? I’m sorry to the small, minescule fraction of people who just enjoy day trading and hording wow gold, but the reality is the damage inflicted to the game through Bots/RMT/GDKP’s/AH inflation has a far greater impact and the game would be far better off without it.
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Remove the costs. Don’t need the AH if you just grab what you want from an NPC.
Think of it as a salary cap. Like the NFL.
Think people will go play some netherlands ran WoW instead if they try that
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Because people love farming gold? As opposed to leveling alts, doing battlegrounds, multiple raids a week, heroics etc? They’d rather spend their time grinding gold? Really?
When you remove value from things, it removes reasons to obtain it.
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And? Unless you’re one of those awesome GDKP guys, why do you love gold so much?
Who logs on at night at thinks to themselves “Man, i can’t wait to grind primals so I can pay for my consumes this week”. Yeah, that’s pretty fun.
Travelers Tundra Mammoth, Grand Ice Mammoth, Ice Mammoth, the motorcycle mount?
There is status with wealth.
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I guess if you think the Mammoth is a status thing there’s no point in trying to change your mind. Got news for you man, that mammoth’s going to be as common as a Carola.
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Thats an opinion
Not everyone is going to spend 60k on mounts to obtain 100 mounts.
inflation has no impact on the game. It is such a fallacy that it does, it is ridiculous.
As for RMT it would happen regardless of whether gold exists or not. There will always be something people are willing to purchase. Right now you claim they buy gold so they could buy gear in GDKP. Instead, they would just buy raid runs like they do in retail. It literally changes nothing and kicks the bucket down the road. So arguments of “We need to do this because of RMT” is just showing lack of knowledge on the issue as a whole.
The only way to fix this is for Blizzard to put more money by hiring people to actively deal with the problem, and not let their automatic system accumulate large portions of botting accounts so that they can ban them all at once every 6 months for some good PR.
You may now claim that “Bots will be gone because they have nothing to sell at least”. That is just wrong because even if you strip out gold and professions as a whole so they have nothing to sell to another player for real money. They would just sell bot leveling and rep grinding services. Even if you stripped the game down so that it was just a lobby game. Dungeons, Raids, BG, and Arena. Bots would still exist… so they can sell accounts with full pvp or raid gear. They would likely program the damn bots to do raids. So you aren’t going to get rid of bots at any level, by changing the game.
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You do know things that are in the beta will not be in the live version right? This is just the beta and you’re freaking out over things that probably won’t even be in live?
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You do know there is a long history of issues with betas making it to live, its called…
ready?
Feedback, User acceptance Testing, Complaints and Discussions, Reccomendations.
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They have already stated many things in beta will not make it to live. Even then you’re freaking out over things we don’t even know yet. It’s not live. We don’t know if its made it. Keep losing your mind over it… Ya know what. Now I hope it stays.
I’ve tested every single Diablo(minus 1) and World of Warcraft game, I can tell you for a fact.
They would keep things in if we did not complain.
Look at BFA, Shadowlands, Mists of Pandaria, Legion.
Feedback was actively ignored infact.
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They said similar things for the last three retail expansions. They made it to live… and they didn’t fix them until the end of the expansion… despite having been told the issue in beta.
Don’t believe everything you are told.
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The idea that RMT would be as prevalent as current GDKPs are is completely wrong. You don’t need an infrastructure to farm gold and sell it. Selling raid gear requires a raid that can actually do it, and then disseminate the funds to participants. That is completely different and would not happen on anywhere near the scale.
Also, bot leveling services would also not be anywhere near as prevalent as you think they would be. People are not so quick to risk throwing their account away.
So yes, it would drastically reduce the number of bots as they would serve almost no purpose.