It’s a matter of it’s against the rules, not the matter of being unable to do it.
Like most hardcore PC gamers, I have a $4000 computer. $200 is less than a days wage for me.
Possible yes. Uncommon though until later in the game that is. Unless you grind relentlessly or buy that is.
The stress test had a lot of gold that live won’t have. Quests at level cap give money instead of gold. Think the rate was for 60’s too. I did a couple at cap and had like 3 or 4 gold. Lol.
OP was talking 1000g, not 50g…
I don’t think you understand how rare it would be, for someone to have 1000g traded to them in Classic.
Above all, the big influx of gold ultimately kills the economy.
There’s no “big influx of gold”. No one is talking about bringing gold from Retail into Classic.
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This would probably be against ToS, but yeah…they probably should clarify because how would they know, right? And it might be technically okay currently, idk…
I am glad this got as much traction as it has. I would really like an answer before Monday.
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No, the OP was talking about the idea of gold trading. The numbers are immaterial, subjective, largely irrelevant. The question and whole concept is gold trading of any amount a ToS violation.
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What we need is a few crash test dummies to try this out, trade it back and forth a couple of hundred times and get back to us with the details after your ban.
Yep, strange how so many people get caught up on the numbers. Like somehow I have assigned a value system to trading. Not my intention at all. Same questions applies if someone wants to trade 1g for 1g using the same methods. The number or quantity of gold I could care less about, its the idea of trading itself that I have a question about.
The 1000g will still be created naturally on the classic realm… If you want to farm up all that gold and then trade it for BfA gold that seems fine. Won’t happen that often. Is it really any different than the big streamers whose followers send them gold and mats for no reason?
It astounds me how mad people get about this based on extremely false beliefs.
Gold trading does not ruin the economy. It does not inject gold or remove it from circulation. The reason a currency goes down the toilet is because a country puts more fiat in circulation which makes it less scarce, or people lose faith in the fiat backer. If your lunch buddy Alex sends you 1,000 gold because he’s you’re best friend, your transaction didn’t ruin the economy.
Large amounts of trading are indicative of a robust market based economy. It generally means that the people who are buying and selling will get an optimal price for both parties, and that gold has real value. If people aren’t buying and selling than gold has no real value. Gold that is sitting around not being distributed means that sellers can’t find buyers (demand reduction) which dilutes the value of gold.
Inflation is probably impossible to avoid in Classic Even amateur economists know that you look at an economy over the long term and short term, and that institutions like countries have to be thought of as essentially immortal entities. In the case of Classic, if we think about a game that is always at Vanilla forever with a fixed demand, the amount of gold being generated and circulated will eventually grow out of proportion with how much it’s being spent, as there are not enough outlets for it. You can think of this in terms of fixed cost - most players have a fixed overheard that will be amortized; a mount, gear, etc. But at some point they will have everything worth spending money on.
So basically, gold selling is a good thing with no downsides. It does not hurt the economy, but it does remove the desire for a gold selling market. When an economy has a set of buyers who can’t get their needs met because of regulation, black markets happen. Chinese Gold farmers, shady trades - it’s the fault of the people doing the regulating. The buyer is just a force of nature.
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It astounds me that any "NO CHANGES: Classic purist™ who wants to play Classic in the first place, doesn’t want to honestly earn their gold IN CLASSIC, from scratch, from the beginning.
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I want to play Vanilla WoW, knowing that people are buying gold would only make it more authentic TBH.
Blizz use to suspend people many many years ago who would use the joint AH in Tanaris to gold trade between factions. Like having a friend on horde sell a low priced item Your alliance toon pays a huge amount for it, then your friend gives your horde toon the profit. They considered it bypassing the system and exploiting.
Could you provide some sort of source for this? Because virtually everyone I’ve ever known has done that and none of them have ever gotten suspended.
Sorry can’t look up a 13 year old forum posting for ya.
You’re in luck, this was answered some 13 years ago or so back in Vanilla?
Gold trading across other games is nothing new. It doesn’t really matter if the external game happens to be a different version of WoW. I’m sure their stance on this matter was answered long ago if you just dig it up.
It is against their policy. The general rule is if you can’t open a trade window in the game to do it, then its not good. That said, they can’t exactly track this sort of thing. If large amounts of gold are shuffled around freely it may raise a flag for them to investigate but otherwise they wouldn’t be able to tell if you were trading gold in this way to a friend or to a stranger.
So you can do it but if you get scammed not only can Blizzard not help you as they can’t track a transaction that doesn’t occur within their game, but its also probably not smart to admit to Blizzard you’ve been up to no good in the first place. Don’t do it unless you trust/are friends with someone.
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I don’t think Blizzard WANTS to give OP a clear answer to OP’s questions.
OP intends to hack the system, and is asking “tell me exactly what I can get away with safely”.
Blizzard does not want to encourage hacking the system. So Blizzard is better off not answering OP.
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Plenty of people have millions of BFA gold and are just curious if they can trade it to other players for Classic gold.
This thread itself shows why I clear answer would be nice. Its full of people making strong statements based off something they read somewhere 10 years ago.