Kaivax, we need a clear answer on the WoW Token

[Falut-yojamba]

“Most” of the items are not valuable or desired, that’s why they are cheap.
Are you forgetting the WoW token will decrease running costs of botters, because they will be able to pay for their subscriptions with the gold they farm? With a 58 boost + token, I would expect an increase in botting.

[Ederick-ashkandi]

Except when I try to explain something you accuse me of writing a novel that you can’t be bothered to read.

And no, you haven’t explained how that would do anything. I’ve already pointed out that an offender can simply open another account and get back into the game, so what does it solve?

[Sambooki-proudmoore]

Alright. Explaining this to you like I would to a small child, then I’m done responding to you.

Blizzard bans gold buyers

Potential gold buyers don’t buy gold

Because

Blizzard bans gold buyers.

Not impossible to ban gold buyers

Because

Has happened before.

The end. Good bye. You are attempting to split hairs and present me with “GOTCHA!” and it honestly looks like an attempt to reassure yourself that you personally won’t be banned for buying gold.

[Coacholsson-bigglesworth]

its a shame you couldnt use smaller words, he’ll only understand half of that

[Ederick-ashkandi]

Running away because you can’t answer my question? We both know you will read my reply.

Blizzard bans gold buyer
Gold buyer makes a new account and continues to buy gold.
The end.

Impossible to ban gold buyers to an acceptable degree of accuracy

Because

Blizzard has tried it before, and banned many legitimate accounts in the process

[Nelystra-bloodsail-buccaneers]

@Astandrelyne-trollbane

People like you just don’t seem to understand. We have two options here.

1. Black markets operating in the background. Which are very successful by the way.
2. OR wow tokens.

Which do you think is better for the game? I’ll give you a hint. It’s not number one.

Trying to pretend there is a third option is ridiculous because blizzard stands to make too much money by doing anything else.

The WoW token doesn’t remove the bots. It just shifts who’s using them. Instead of the RMT sellers botting gold to sell, it’s the lazy players botting to ‘earn a free sub’ via buying tokens.
Not to mention, in some of the countries of origin of the RMT botters, the significantly reduced price because of the token is still… well… free money that’s considerable in comparison to wages otherwise. Since they’re botting it anyway. They already have the software, so that cost is moot.

[Thereza-netherwind]

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[Awesinine-fairbanks]

@Astandrelyne-trollbane

• Black markets operating in the background. Which are very successful by the way.
• OR wow tokens.

This is a false dichotomy. They could appropriately staff their live service game with enough of the right people to support the product such that black markets aren’t ruining the game experience. It’s true you can’t catch everything but that was never the point anyhow.

@Astandrelyne-trollbane

Trying to pretend there is a third option is ridiculous because blizzard stands to make too much money by doing anything else.

They could raise the sub price to cover a slightly higher return than the wow token profit + new staff and then staff the game correctly. Call me crazy but wouldn’t that meet your imaginary criteria for a number 3 and keep the integrity of the game?