This is assuming these people left because of the wow token and not for other reasons. With I heavily doubt.
They got his email via a yahoo mail hack and then were able to hack his account (they had his email login). Thy had access to all his characters, could make new ones and proceeded to plunder his account (and make dozens of little level 1 toons to spam on or deliver gold on and of course all his gold was gone).
I noticed he was online for hours, wasnât responding to my whispers and spent the entire time in Hellfire Ramparts. I called him told him to call customer service.
This was incredibly costly for Blizzard to deal with. It would only be worse now.
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That will happen anyway. If they donât have the token, theyâll create a more extensive store. They are gonna make their money regardless. And if the game stops being profitable, theyâll put it in maintenance mode. There is never gonna be a situation where they take a pay cut, but give you better content. Content costs money. The upper echelon wants their money. They need investors to be happy. That comes from making more money. They make an extra $5 for each token sold.
To add on to this, while it may feel good to ban a bunch of gold-selling accounts, gold-sellers expect to be banned. Their accounts are designed to be disposable. Banning them doesnât disrupt their market strategy, such as it is. The thing that DOES disrupt their market strategy is when Blizz themselves step in as essentially a competitor.
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Nope.
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This would drive more people away. The wow token is a good thing.
I like being able to buy mats as I donât have the time to grind them. I want my play time to be about dungeons not picking flowers.
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I feel sorry for him but that is something blizzard can easily address if he provides them proof that he owns the account and i doubt a company like blizzard with a customer service division thinks a hacking report is eating into their costs they have people hired for all sort of different things
they made their job harder now, harder to spot gold sellers harder to spot hackers and they get away with it and make profits
Yeah. I donât see the subset of leavers who would come back if only there were no more WoW tokens being very large. Of the hot button leave issues WoW has I donât see the WoW token being the make or break issue for a lot of people.
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No. They donât. Not on the scale they used to. You werenât around, you donât even understand, you donât see the difference and it seems you refuse to.
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i was not around but i can see blizzard have made their own job harder now that theyâve given gold sellers a way to exploit the system
Laughs in BC player
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sorry i dont understand
WoW token has to be. There is a big issue with 3rd party gold sellers. People donât really understand how grimy the underbelly is. The main purpose of the gold selling companies isnât to sell you gold, it is to get you to give them too much information. They build profiles on their customers to use to hijack their accounts. One good score can supply the site for 8 different games. They want to know your name, email addresses, phone number, how you pay for things, the psychology of how you build passwords and security. They donât just use the information itself, they use it to try and match you to other leaked databases of information. If they can match you to the equifax leak, they can go as far as sim swaps or taking out credit cards in your name. Itâs dirty stuff, WoW token is good.
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Canât put the genie back in the bottle on this one.
I think it would hurt the game far more than help it at this point.
RMT and gold buying is still pretty popular because you can get more gold for less from 3rd party sellers. Remove the token and more players would be pushed towards those 3rd party sites.
Classic and TBCC are perfect examples of this. Gold buying is/was rampant in both of them because many players would rather spend cash to save time.
Also, as someone who has only been on the buying tokens off the AH for gametime/balance I would hate to see it gone. I have a truckload of gold and spending actual money on WoW is a hard sell for me these days. Without the token I donât think I would have player BFA or SL.
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Imagine wanting third-party gold sellers back, spamming trade chat all day with phishing scams.
The token is a necessary evil. WoWâs in-game shop isnât even that bad, and thereâs no objective argument that the introduction of a token has had any effect on the quality of content, besides fearmongering by deluded Classic players.
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No they didnât. They made their job EASIER on many accounts. Which has been explained and you keep ignoring.
Of course you donât. Now please refrain from commenting on things you donât know about. Thanks.
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Anyone that quit over the token is someone that really didnât want to play in the first place.
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do you work at blizzard? neither you nor me can prove anything except for the fact that gold sellers are now able to hide behind wow tokens which is why blizzard is angry and are slowly trying to stop organized boosting because it makes it easier
you are a weirdo i was responding to evilmuffin and you feel like i responded to you, i will respond to whatever i want
you are not my boss
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no token, I would quit. This game barely interests me enough to spend gold sure wouldnât pay real money for it.
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Itâs going to cause a more people to quit playing then come back since a large portion of the community pays for their sub with gold now
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