I have seen a few places talking about this recently. They essentially want to trade Classic Gold for Retail Gold between players. Basically how the idea functions is a player on your given Classic Server will offer you gold in exchange for you to trade them gold in Retail. The intentions with Retail could be for some purpose within Retail or more likely to pay for free sub time with Classic.
The way this is done is the player will mention a server for you to make a lvl 1 character in Retail. You use that character to buy a wow token to sell for gold. Upon obtaining the gold, you trade it to the other person and vice versa should occur in Classic.
Now there are some major problems with this. The first which people are probably already thinking is that this is basically a form of gold selling even though Blizzard are the only ones that profit from it. There are obvious risks where you follow through on your part and the other doesn’t which turns this into a scam. It is just as plausible that websites could get set up where people can offer different amounts of gold trades which can be based on given servers cost in WoW tokens which also brings up the potential risk of hacker sites too.
I am imploring Blizz to act on this before it is an actual thing in Classic. It is not even a difficult thing to do. You just have to set a level cap in Retail to be able to purchase a WoW token. I would recommend lvl 60 personally, but you are the business in this. It will also be plausible that people can realm transfer max lvl characters to proceed with these types of transactions. So something else will have to be figured out for this.
I wonder if any of the several identical threads made in the last 24 hours have any insights on this “problem?”
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Mind linking me to one? I was honestly unaware.
its not a problem… like at all…
it will not change how much gold gets created in the economy
you are not an economists so dont try to be one.
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Yeah… Cause people have never traded anything outside of the game for something inside it right? MANY people traded WoW gold for currency in other games and vice versa over the years. Not to mention trading away irl items for gaming currency.
Just be honest and admit you don’t want some rich guy in Retail getting an advantage over you in Classic. Unlucky for you, it’s unavoidable. Just like people with disposable income will purchase gold and/or accounts and have an advantage over you.
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Hey OP, I’m going to trade my vast sums of retail gold for classic gold, and there nothing you can do to stop me.
Who cares? Stop trying to police every aspect of the game
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It’s not an issue of it creating gold. It’s an issue of it encouraging buying gold for real money, and facilitating the concentration of gold. Classic should not be pay2win, and when someone can whip out their credit card and buy enough gold to pay for raid carries, that’s exactly what it becomes.
Yes, I know there were chinese gold farmers in vanilla, but those were at least a black market, you could, and many did, get banned for it. That kept it rarer than it otherwise would have been.
Cross server trading, (thanks to the bogeyman of shared sub), makes it possible for someone to buy 5,000g on classic with real money, and pay a guild for a run through MC.
Video games used to be escapism. For the generation that played vanilla, we might have been poor college students, or stuck in terrible retail jobs, but when we logged into the game we finally found an even playing field. Unlike reality, you didn’t get better treatment, or better things, or a better experience if you were born into wealth. Your character’s gear and appearance were your prestige. They were a measure of your accomplishments as a character. If you saw someone walking around in full raid gear in vanilla, you were impressed by his accomplishments or with his guild. You didn’t think, “I wonder if he earned that, or if he dropped 10 grand on gold?”
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It’s going to happen regardless. Even if they put a level cap on buying a token it will happen. Even if they somehow completely remove this there will still be rmt for gold.
You need to understand there is nothing blizzard can do to completely stop people buying gold for money.
I don’t see them giving this a green light but rather see them not helping anyone who gets scammed doing this. Which will be quite common at first I’d imagine.
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Lol yeah classic never had raid clears for money… it was unheard of.
The same thing with buying gold, blizzard made sure Vanilla wasnt pay to win and so did the community with the infamous blacklisting.
People actually believe this?
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I know most people reading this subforum don’t want to hear this, but the actual fix to this problem is to add the WoW Token to Classic, with the price fixed based on the Classic economy instead of the retail one.
Even the OP’s proposal simply doesn’t work. I have a max level character on Mal’Ganis. I would have zero problem finding a buyer there for a gold trade, if I wanted to do it.
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The thing is… there isnt an issue. Everyone making these threads is absolutely over blowing the number of times people are going to trade BFA gold for Classic gold
Depends on how the trade off is. A good farmer in classic may earn more tokens farming there than farming in retail while its hot.
Only time will tell but there will most certainly be a market.
People are lazy and will pay for shortcuts. There is absolutely no way to get around this.
This will definitely happen and it will most likely have 0 impact on you or anyone else. Tell me when was the last time you were actually impacted by RMT for gold?
Hey buying that mount totally destroys the community dont you know?
You should be forced to take vacation to earn it.
Lets see take a day off work to farm…loses several hundred dollars. Trade a 20 dollar token and buy a mount, seems I am coming out way ahead on this one.
/trade token for gold.
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Yea but you don’t put in restrictions to cater to the small amount of people skirting the system. If it was totally endemic then I could see the need for a solution.
It’s a non issue. No gold is created in Classic, it just changes hands. It’s no different than someone buying an epic drop from some dude in trade.