LOL yeah this is absurdly untrue, I literally listed a bot too that was doing this. They were in pandaria doing some LFR scenario and vendoring the items they got, not to mention when rouge bots were pick pocketing that one part of BRF.
There are bots that exist for the purpose of generating gold, similar to how there are bots that are dedicated to cancel scanning the AH. Both exist, and both need to be dealt with honestly, but it definitely doesn’t help that these bots are generating so much gold in the economy.
I remember it was a classic dungeon that had an arena that rogues would lockpick. Run out, reset and then rinse and repeat. It got to be such a problem that blizzard added a thief debuff to kill their ability to pickpocket endlessly, and you do realize that in my pandaria example again. Where the instance NPC’s are there was a vendor too, that they were selling all the stuff they got, to generate their gold.
If only you had any idea how accurate that statement is for me.
I’ve been playing since beta. I think I’ve spent about 100k in the AH that entire time, and 99k of that was in DF because of how broken the profession system is now.
But nothing about self control affects the fact that it SUCKS and the game would be better with systems in place to prevent it.
The solutions to these problems have been known for a very long time. Right now I would say there is 18 long term stable MMO economies running more than 10 years. Blizzard knows about them, know exactly how they work, know exactly why they work. Blizzard doesn’t design around a functional economy. It is trivial to bot proof MMO economies, and bots have very little to do with WoW’s economic “problems”. Blizzard purposefully designs a degenerative economy because it serves a specific internal end.
I’ve spent hundreds of thousands in the AH for various things. I’ve also made hundreds of thousands off of professions and buying and selling off the AH. I’m sorry you’re a weak competitor. That doesn’t mean the developer should be making the game specifically to benefit only you.
You don’t want people to be able to compete with you for resources on the AH, and you want to punish the entire player base in the process. You’ve already insulted every body with your demand that the government kills competition.
I absolutely hate bots and I think they ruin the game… but, I have absolutely no idea what to do about them. I’m assuming if Blizzard used to go on ban waves, that they have methods of detecting them… but where are those ban waves? They might still happen, but the bots just keep showing right back up.
Same post, new year. I just came back about 6 weeks ago after being away since when Mists came out and its the same complaint asking for the same thing. Punish all players with being able to make less so gold farmers cant farm.
Still waiting on threads with people finally asking to just make gold USELESS as that is the one and only way to end farming.
You can cut gold production to 1/10,000th what it is and removing 99% of the gold currently in players hands and farming will still be the best way to make gold because the focus will be to…make gold if players need it.
I’m trying to think of a way for you to NOT understand the topic more than you’ve proven you already don’t. But … whew that’s hard.
I DO want people to compete. Everyone (but you, it seems) grasps that most basic chart that shows, with more competition, price goes down. Yep… that’s how it SHOULD work.
Instead, and what I posted is that, one dillhole comes in, buys everything up… and relists it at falsely inflated prices. There ISN’T competition to allow prices to fluctuate naturally, because ONE PERSON can control entire markets.
Being able to freely trade > hurting ah flippers. This is a video game, not a stocks sim, its ok if its a little borked if the alternative is making the same mistakes runescape already did and had to undo.
I asked in the OP as a serious question: how often do you buy stuff… that’s NOT for you???
Would it SERIOUSLY affect the overall game experience to have that removed??
It’s a question. I’m allowing it’s possible. I’m ASKING, not TELLING. But from my own experience, having played the ENTIRELY of WoW since it’s been out and having been a “casual” user of the AH (which I define as someone that dabbles, but without addons) … is that yes, people do it, but the number is ALMOST zero+.
+: disclaimer: on non-RP servers. I’ll allow that it COULD be more common to buy things you then give to other people on RP, but … maybe it isn’t. One thing’s for sure, almost no one does it on non-RP servers.
I certainly don’t want to negatively affect anyone’s game experience, but … sorry to say, sometimes there is a “making things slightly inconvenient for the greater good” moment when things are off the rails.
It’s a shame nobody can list things for a price lower than what that person listed everything at and are all forced to list their items for that price.