I heard a rumor about tokens

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I read it too!
I heard a rumor about tokens

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let me ask you this though; knowing that tokens never existed back then, only buying gold online and was a bannable offence- how do you see them handling this situation and dealing with the slippery slope it will cause with everything else? like being able to transfer anything else.

what argument will they have then about NOT allowing other things to transfer between classic and retail?
you cant transfer anything for transgmog but you can gold? how does that not open the flood gates exactly?

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Two of the huge issues they had with gold selling were A) that it often came from and lead to account compromises, bad for business B) they couldn’t take their cut of it like they can with bnet cash, also bad for business.

Another thing is they did always support selling ingame items for gold long before bnet and bnet cash became a thing(collectible cards) so there is that precedent.

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No I just mean you come here asking for evidence on everything… go to google, type in classic WoW QA and listen to the video.

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I heard a rumor that spreading rumors is a bad idea. Wait, that’s not a rumor, that’s true. There won’t be tokens, period. Now go away.

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Well that’s not nice :stuck_out_tongue:

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It wouldn’t even realistically work until an economy is established. What, are you going to blow $20 and post your token so that you can make 85 silver off it in the first week the servers go live?

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It’s not the end of the world to me.

I am genuinely curious why people actually care? There was gold selling in classic wow, and there will be gold selling now…

If they can cut down on the spam by having tokens… I am fine with that.

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I don’t think most people would risk their account being banned from buying gold from other sources. Maybe the very small minority will but that’s their loss if they get banned. If they would’ve put in tokens the gold selling would skyrocket simply because you can without getting banned.

I only bought gold from the chinese ONE time, and that was all the way back in 2009, in case if anyone’s asking.

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I disagree… gold buying was and is currently extremely popular in EVERY MMO that has ever existed… unless the mmo had some sort of internal system that managed demand(Like tokens).

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Someone already mentioned the fact that there won’t be an in-game shop, but there’s another reason the token would not even work right in WOW Classic - the AH system.

Retail AH is linked - every realm in a region, both factions, see the same token and price.

WOW Classic AH is unlinked - the degree dependent on the patch. With 1.12 as the reference, the only people who would see a specific token would be on a single faction on a single realm, or if Blizzard decided to use the neutral AH instead it would be all players on a single realm. (Early vanilla had a point where there was only one AH per faction, one neutral AH, and a later point where each capital city had an AH that wasn’t linked to any of the others.)

The whole system of supply and demand determining the price of a token is built around the demand audience being an entire region (well over a million players) - not a realm with less than ten thousand.

WOW Classic was built around the idea that each realm was mostly isolated and insulated from others. On top of no AH linking, when they did add realm transfers near the end of vanilla, they had gold limits on the transfer.

So it’s really not even a feasible option in WOW Classic without more changes that they’ve indicated they’re not considering.

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