Look at the real world. Sure, figuratively anyone can become a billionaire like Jeff Bezos, but how many people who really want to get rich ever get up to that level. There may be people who are decent at making money, but the real kings will continue to sit on top of the castle.
You can have a bunch of goblins running around making some decent money, but the elites will be up at the top making extra to adjust for inflation.
It’s not even a little bit like that. Someone posting their spending habits on a public forum for public comment is not even remotely the same as someone minding their own business at home or walking along privately and being spied on.
This wouldn’t be an issue if blizz didn’t arbitrarily decide to time limit an already hard to achieve mount at the last patch of a game.
Hell we wouldn’t know about it now if it wasn’t datamined.
Seems a lot of folks had spam sammiches for lunch today with all these dinosaur threads lol.
Well that wouldn’t be their goal, It would be nice for those that don’t want the mount. All something like that would do is require you to buy even more tokens to make up for the cost dropping.
And that would be the main thing Blizzard would be hoping for. The desperate people will buy them at any gold return to reach that number and Blizz will make an absolute killing.
It would absolutely crash the market. What makes an item valuable? 2 things, it is in demand, and scarcity. So lets use an item that will become valuable in the future as an example. So lets use the Small Egg. Why? It’ll be in-demand due to an upcoming holiday, and people will pay higher prices to not have to farm it themselves. So what would happen if say… half the player base (which I don’t expect to happen) decided to farm a lot of these eggs in the hopes of making a pretty penny? Well, the supply would far exceed the demand since a person only needs a few of these items for the quest. If half the playerbase farmed these eggs for the express purpose of selling them for the holiday event, prices would massively drop on them because there is so much extra supply, probably to the point you would make more money just vendoring the darn things as everyone competes to make their eggs more attractive to buyers.
With a ton of AH Goblins, this process would repeat over and over for different items, to the point that all in-demand items would have their prices pushed so far down, that ain’t nobody getting rich. “Everyone becoming a Goblin” would mean nobody would earn much. Hence the crash.
It’s a consequence of poor design choices not lack of content. The way they do things now makes very little sense. The pacing of the game is either 1h max or 6 months of working towards a single goal. Rarely if ever is there any 1-2 week goal in mind.
The really throwaway itemization model is a good example of what I mean. Instead of goals around weekly lockouts its a loot bonanza to get rewarded every half hour with the goal in mind being to eventually gamble BIS which most people don’t care about.
You’re implying that all goblins are also farmers which isn’t true. There will always be the elite that can think outside of the box and use moneymaking methods that others didn’t think of. Why do you think the 1% stays the 1%?
Yeah, it was easy in Legion. I bought everything else I’d never bought, instead of the real expensive mounts like the Brutosaur/spider. I just assumed it would stay that way.
Instead, it is harder for me to make gold in BFA (from herbing and mining) and we don’t have the uber gold missions on the mission board.
I guess I’ll wait to see what the shadowlands AH mount is like, before I also can’t afford that one! (You know there has to be one, or why remove this one?)
because the only reason this one is here is because BfA faction hubs have no AH
if shadowlands hubs have an AH there is no need for an AH mount
Providing one example using a farming method doesn’t mean I’m implying the only method of making money is via farming. I used it as an easy to understand example since you said yourself you farmed for all your stuff and wondered why people have problems making gold.
That said, no I’m not going to list examples of other methods, mostly because I keep those tightly to my chest for obvious reasons. The longer they stay not public, the better.
This.
This change is completely unnecessary.
That still doesn’t mean that Blizz is making them do it. I’ve been on the fence about the mount, I can see the draw of it. But them removing it isn’t making me want it more, it’s just an “Oh well, guess I’m not gonna ever get it.” and I’ll move on 
Rare is the person that doesn’t suffer from loss aversion. Good on you.
For some individuals it is less of a time investment to just buy it vs farming it. If I actually wanted the mount I’d prob just buy it vs farming it for free. I use the term free loosely as my time is worth more than farming for months on end vs just taking 10-12 hours of salary to buy it.
Either way; I won’t be buying the mount. It’s ugly af.
I love you Hagustus.
Where have you been?
Bad wording I guess, I grinded for my gold.
Your example holds true if everyone made their gold from farming, but hey let’s look at a different example.
TSM has a feature that allows you to see newly posted auctions that were posted at a low price. A lot of people when they’re bored will use this and try to grab some steals. Player X learns about this feature and is giddy with anticipation about all the gold he’s going to make. However, player Y has spent significantly more time researching what sells, what doesn’t sell, how to sell, etc. Player Y knows that Player X is now using the sniper feature because there has been an influx of goldmakers added to the game, so he decides to start posting items that cost mere copper to make, but due to them not being very common have an insane price. He then posts these to the AH for a really low price, maybe 1k, so he’s looking at an over 1000% profit point. Player X sees this item come up and decides to jump on the chance to pickup this item that supposedly sells for 100k but is only posted at 1k. He does and realizes that it’s useless, won’t sell, and player Y is now 1000 gold richer.
It’s a lot like big business, the smart will always encumber the opposition.
Wow is a multifaceted game in which there are almost an unlimited way of making gold. Smart people will always be able to think outside of the box and come up with a new way of making money that nobody thought of before. Not everybody has the ability to think outside the box.
you have to have it, in order to lose it, in order for it to be loss aversion
its more like, understanding that its unimportant in the grand scheme and not caring that you can’t get it anymore … whatever that would be called
equally rare though, it seems
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grumbles Well hopefully this thread dies and I don’t need to switch soon.
I have no idea… I just call it loss aversion for lack of better title, as a concept it’s pretty darn close. ha