Ya’ll are constantly complaining for a fresh server without bots, gdkps, and classic+ features. You aren’t getting one from blizzard. Just look elsewhere.
private servers are full of stand up guys, no transactions there.
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They don’t want to release a fresh vanilla server because it took them years to divert classic players back into a monetized version of WoW with tokens (WOTLK), and that hard work might be undone.
2 weeks in and gold sellers and gdkp guilds will be forming up and inflation will take over once again. fresh is band aid on a mortal wound. society is the problem not the game.
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It almost like you could perma ban gold sellers and buyers and it would stop. You could also ban gdkps.
Bad actors aren’t new. Blizzard just turns a blind eye.
where there is a will, there is a way. if they are gonna ban every person that trades gold to another, that will hurt friends who play together. gdkp isn’t technical against TOS. enforcing new rules is a slippery slope and can lead to places you dont want to be.
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Exactly where there is a will there is a way. They could easily differentiate between friends trading gold and not.
Enforcing new ToS isn’t a slippery slope, they literally just changed the ToS 2 years ago.
You are just a blizz sympathizer.
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Tell us you missed the point without actually telling us…
I didn’t miss the point. I’m just playing 3D chess and you are stuck on checkers my guy.
I understand what he is trying to say. Where there is a will there is a way for buyers and sellers. However, blizzard has far more resources and would easily win a battle of wills against gold sellers.
Tell us more about how the participation trophies made you special. Talk to us about how you are aware that Blizz was selling gold by this point in og wrath. ( raf )
I wouldn’t want to brag about my trophies to little fella like you. Later nerd.
Excuse me, I think you dropped this tinfoil hat.
Have a great day son. Thanks for trying!
He’s correct blizzard could easily ban gold sellers and buyers, they simply don’t want to because they calculate that they make more from the subs than they lose through loss of players. That’s probably true in the short-term, but it also destroys the integrity of the game which is a major reason the overall population of the game declined in a huge way long-term. But they’re seemingly focused on quarterly metrics and don’t want to risk taking a short-term financial hit hiring GMs to ban bots/gold sellers which also reduces their sub count, on the assumption that this will bring back subs. They’d have to go through a period of “pain” to potentially fix the problem without a guarantee it will increase their sales.
Of course, companies with integrity don’t care about this and will spend the money to keep the product and brand intact even if they lose money short-term, because they think that keeping the brand value high is more important long-term. But since Activision bought them it’s all short-term quarterly thinking. To be fair, that’s how most publicly traded companies operate, it’s usually privately-held companies that can take the long view. Being a subsidiary of Microsoft they might also be able to take a longer view again, since Blizzard’s development costs are inconsequential to a company the size of Microsoft, but it depends on whether the executives at Microsoft see any value in building up the Blizzard brand again.
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