Sure… but theres opportunity cost and ROI. I think pretty much all of us could buy a million gold, just like I could buy a million gum balls… but why tho. There are so many other things Id rather spend the money on than something that has no resell and will be worthless anyway in a few months…
And probably 99% of people would think the same way, but anyone who does GDKP knows that 99% of people won’t be buying an item for 300k+. Its that weird 1% that either is so wealthy it means absolutely nothing to them or they are so addicted to the game they have nowhere else to throw their money and will happily throw it at WoW.
This is why I would be more likely to believe the specific instance here is a swiper rather than someone with legit gold because those rare whales are still far more common than people who have grinded (and hoarded) so much gold they can just drop 370k on a single item that normally sells for a fraction of that price.
I disagree. I think its far more likely people are addicted enough to the game to grind 400k gold than that theyre willing to part with ~2k USD for an item in a 15 year old game that will be obsolete in like 2 months…
And anyone who does GDKP’s knows that the vast majority of items do not go for 300k+ and that that is actually an extreme edge case usually just done for memes by a streamer.
Most I’ve ever seen was like 75k for one of the Billadong weapons
Yeah steam sale is here till the 23rd.
Trails in the sky 1 is $10
That seems absolutely absurd to me. Either you are underestimating the amount of time it takes to amass 400k or overestimating how much value $800 is to people (its not $2k for 400k gold).
If you got 15k pots from 3 different alts per week starting from when Ulduar released you would barely be breaking 400k right now. Anyone who is paying 300k+ for a flare is probably also going to be dropping more than that for the rest of their gearset as well. Its an obscene amount of gold to farm through normal means and to drop it on a single trinket is even more absurd.
Cool? You literally quoted where I said 99% of people won’t be buying for those amounts. My whole point is it makes more sense to assume such unreasonable outliers are the result of whales than they are people using legit gold simply because of how absurd they are compared to anything normal.
Speaking of, is there any proof of this 370k flare? Sounds like something from a jokerd stream
Why just from when ulduar released? People have been gdkping in classic since vanilla. How much gold would someone have over the course of 3+ years?
Someone gaming the auction house could get that gold in half the time that a gdkper would
So you’re talking 2 months of effort, thats nothing… I’ve been next up on items in guild raids for twice that without ever even seeing it drop, we’re talking hours upon hours of effort…
400k gold is a days work for me in RL terms, but I’m still not going to drop it on a video game item that’s gonna be worthless in 2 months…
Almost assuredly JokerD. I was in a couple of his runs back on Faerlina, he’s actively pushing people to bid for mentions on his stream etc… And if people are willing to pay $10 to have a chatbot read off their message on stream it’s no surprise people are also willing to overpay on items for “e-clout”
One of the worst things to happen in classic vanilla was that dude hitting world first 60, hed never be able to post the clickbaits if that didnt happen
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He’s a pretty terrible person all around lol. Even aside from the ninja-looting scandal, he’s just sleazy. Plus he’s got this whole east-european adidas-jumpsuit wearing fake-machismo attitude going which I just absolutely can’t stand… I had to mute him in raids because he was just always talking a mile a minute and it was all nonsense.
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Because classic and tbc gold values were far from what they currently are and the likelihood of someone who raids that much not spending that gold liberally in those past GDKPs for the current gear so they can save for a trinket multiple expansions down the line is quite unlikely. It was also used simply as an example of the time and effort it would take to amass that much gold, not as an example of how it is impossible to achieve.
Plenty of people would though. There are tons of gamers who have tons of money to spare and nothing to spend it on outside of games. Why does it make sense to farm for months and hoard without spending gold for an item that is “worthless in 2 months” but it doesn’t make sense to pull a sum of money out that you wouldn’t even notice for the same thing?
I believe it lol
There was a whole reddit thread recently on one of the programmer subs about how “fursuits” (if you don’t know, be thankful) are so expensive primarily because most of their demographic is single people in the IT world with little to spend their relatively large incomes on. So I get your point, I just don’t think it’s THAT widespread.
Our MT in Classic ended up selling his full BIS TF tank account for close to 2k a few months before classic ended… So people do spend money on crazy things in-game, I just believe it’s like 1% of 1% and not near the scale people would have you believe.
What’s the full name again? Is it the Legend of Heroes series? I did a search for “trails” and like 20 of them came up lol
And which one do I start on? Does it matter? There’s so many, lol!
And I totally agree that it isn’t widespread. Its very rare just like these absurd outlier items (do we even have proof that this 370k thing is real?). I just find it silly that people would rather argue about how its theoretically possible for it to be legit instead of just admitting that its likely the rare dumb whale that got by because Blizzard sucks at policing their game.
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Exactly this.
Making gold in this game is not difficult.
If it were harder, bots wouldn’t be such a problem.
They literally run on a single line of script in some cases.
It might be but I’m pretty skeptical it went that high.
80k is pushing it.
Keep telling yourself that.
Bring on the tokens!