We’re gonna run out of fabric with these blanket assumptions! I’m not making one of my own on how much of the playerbase doesn’t mog, but it’s definitely an amount I’ve seen across pve and pvp. You know, some roleplayers will collect items they don’t or can’t transmog to swap into. Which is why,
I don’t believe this even matters or does upchuck all. Someone could decide tomorrow they want to get to gold cap and spend time getting to gold cap, tmog fees are not slowing them down. I’ve sat on 1-3mil gold passively at any given time over the past six years, even my amount of tmogging is not making a dent in that pile. It’s just annoying and outdated.
One down, then, which one is next? The one that is the new cheap expense? Where would it stop? Mogging is 100% optional, pocket change and is purely vanity driven. You turn one legitimate expense into a free handout then where does it stop?
Exactly. They already made the entire barbershop free. And look at what people want next— free transmog. I mean whatever… I don’t REALLY care in the grand scheme of everything, but I do think gold sinks serve an important purpose.
I really want addons like Trade Skill Master banned from the game which is a totally other topic. Things like that automate and trivialize the market in the game. I digress.
Why not make it something everyone uses then if transmogging isn’t something that everyone does. Make there be a fee to swap from static flying to dragon flying. Make it cost gold alongside whatever currency they’re using to upgrade armor this expansion. They’re all about “letting players express themselves” but then charging a decent fee to let them swap clothes that they already have. Some of them are cosmetic so you literally can’t even use them unless you pay for it by transmogging.
A reduced fee would be nice, but I do think it should be free outside of limited time events.
I love how this person is in here talking about gold sinks like they’re an active designer at Blizzard right now, it’s just laughable, it’s the most arbitrary puppy guarding I’ve ever seen, like Teacher’s Pet, but for Blizzard.
“Why does the cost matter, you can just do 5000000 dumb things on a random alt you never want to do or you buy 2 tokens”
“Gold sinks matter in this game bro!!! We need them… What, you asked why? Um because reasons!!! I’m a game dev!!!”
How are these 2 things existing at the same time, makes no sense and this thread is for clowns.
All these people defending gold sinks, nah man we have enough of them.
As a Hunter main I have to spend 25 gold every time I walk away from a target dummy, I literally have to pay a tax just to use my abilities.
It’s not about the size of the fee, it’s that it shouldn’t exist to begin with. If free Xmogs are working fine in remix there’s no reason it can’t on retail.
People dooming about a fake economy because we want tmog fees gone is one of the funniest hills I think I’ve ever seen crop up. Some of them genuinely believe we were negatively impacted by barber fees going away and the logic behind that is silly. Barber probably gets used way more than before, both because the fee is gone and because they added lock demon revamps and balance form revamps to it. Why would they not tax that half if they know people are going to start using it more. Same thing with talent rework not needing tomes to swap things outside of rested areas, same thing with mount riding, the list goes on.
Pretty much this. Blizzard has removed nearly every gold sink in the game anyway. Dual spec cost, respec cost, barbershop costs. Hell, they even made flying free on level up just recently.
I suppose it could be a situation where the richest of the rich in WoW don’t care either way about gold sinks, but the poorer players care much more about spending fees. So, who’s really being punished here, right (the poor).
I assume they’re moving to control the economy through cosmetics with high price tags more so than necessities (though cosmetic transmogging and barbershop technically aren’t necessities anyway) like mounts, toys, etc.
All that doesn’t matter if they can’t get to the root of the real issues in WoW’s economy like botters and Trade Skill Master lords who flip for a living all day with their “do it for me” TSM modules. Would love to see more of a crackdown on cheating but here we are.
This is why the argument of tmog as a gold sink literally does not matter from players, I can drain gold all day long tmogging on my main and alts for the next year. It’s not doing anything to combat the regular 2x4 group of bots that grind hyper spawns for raw gold and mats that drive down regional AH prices.
It’s a fruitless notion that I or anyone else should believe otherwise on pushing for it’s removal, and most of these arguments can’t figure out if tmog fees are a handwave cost or so widely used that they do something because there’s no reliable metric to track it or point at.
