It’s not that they “want” you to, it’s just that it’ll be your only option, because they aren’t putting tokens in here. Players will trade regardless, tokens or not, and no amount of needless forum suspensions on messengers is going to change that, either.
(DISCLAIMER: THIS USER HAS NOT TOLD YOU TO TRADE GOLD IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM.)
You under estimate the tenacity of sponsored players and gold sellers. You are correct in thinking a 1 player for 1 player trade has little effect. But when you have 1 player make 50 or 100 such trades, they soak up the economy. THAT is damaging, and when you have major corporations (Red Bull) that are sponsoring players, they WILL be that guy making 50-100 such trades, to give their player the advantage.
If gold trading is allowed, then being a well known trader will be a very profitable enterprise.
People are worried about scams, but if a Twitch streamer with a long reputation is doing it, you won’t have to worry.
OK this is the second thread i have Ever mentioned this in but…
if gold selling and trading is a thing you might as well just open the entire AH system to RMT.
Maybe they want you to play the game to earn your gold and not exchange it at all. I know that sounds naive, but the language seemed pretty unambiguous to me.
Anyone who disagrees is of course free to try the retail/Classic method, it’s not like any of you need the permission of another player here to go ahead with it.
That is no different than 1 player cornering the market on a specific recipe or item and making thousands of gold off of it. There is still nothing created, only several other player’s wealth being gathered by one individual. There is no outside influence and no change in the amount of gold in the economy, simply an exchange of who has that gold.
It does not matter if someone in retail has 10billion gold, it does not convert to anything in classic. That gold still has to be farmed/created by other means in classic.
It was a $1 to 1 g ratio … actually higher at one point $20 USD for 25g was what people paid around the start of vanilla launch , my dumb friends included. Just like people paid 5k and 6k for accounts and $2k for ZG tigers but I guess that’s crazy to believe too. That is why eBay banned those listings because people was getting stupid money scamming virtual items to idiots that paid dumb prices. Go message the top sites and ask they will tell you. Maybe at the end before BC and maybe after server gold inflation you’d find $15 for 100 from a Chinese farmer. Its launching even higher on Monday …so yeah. You can google what its gonna be on Monday and facepalm and log off because its starting even higher on Monday. They are buying wool cloth right now for $20 x200 and higher for others. Haha, I started day one and remember the gold rush well.
I think it goes under the “not supported” but not against the rules. each game is self contained ad as such you would be freely giving gold away. the other party could end trade with out upholding their end.
there would be no recourse action that would be taken.
if it became a problem it might have an updated ToS. but idk. a solid vague answer would be useful.
I mean I played then too, you are wrong. You can use wayback machine, and google searches for forum posts on fansites from 2005-2006 and see the prices I’m talking about. Just type a gold-selling website on wayback machine and look at the prices in 2005 - I’m actually seeing them for lower than I remembered, even $9/100 gold.
You are very much mis-remembering. The proof is laid out in the history of the web, check for yourself.
I don’t understand why you’ve asked such a dumb question. As long as “real world” money isn’t changing hand (which is what they’re terms of service is obviously talking about). If you give someone a ton of gold which is perfectly legal to do in the game, and then they turn around in the same game (even if it’s a different account) and give you gold (which is perfectly legal to do), they aren’t going to care. No real world money is changing hands. When they say you can’t buy gold from a “3rd party” they are talking about companies in the real world that farm gold and then you pay them for it (hoping they’re honest enough to come through with it). But as mentioned before, you take the risk of the person you’re dumb enough to give 1 mil gold to in BFA in hopes that they will be honest enough to give you 1k gold in Classic. I’m sorry I’m being so snarky, but that really was a VERY stupid question.
This makes no sense. They have been pretty solid on the “token will not by in classic”. By your logic you can buy token, convert to gold in retail, and then flip it to classic.
I would highly recommend not doing this.
I got an answer from a GM on this.
It is not supported by blizzard and its a trade at your own risk.
Its not a tos violation and you can do it byt if you get scammed, blizzard will not help you.
So thru bnet you could trade classic gold for retail gold.