I haven’t ignored it at all. In fact one of my earlier responses in this thread was pointing out the fact you can have multiple WoW accounts on one Bnet account and if you really want extra characters for legitimate reasons, the option is available if you’re willing to purchase the game again and sub multiple accounts.
But again, I can see why those who want extra character slots on a single account precisely for the reason of gold farming wouldn’t want to go through such avenues, as it definitely makes it a hassle to maintain their gold farming exploits keeping multiple accounts up to date and subscribed.
It’s possible. It’s why I wish they’d spend the time to look into to see if it viable for those reasons. If people aren’t buying more than 4 licenses, then it wouldn’t be an issue to do it that way. If they are, then they’d have to determine if it’s even relevant to limit the number of characters.
They have the information to see how people play and the numbers they use. But they haven’t spent the time to do it, because when it’s brought up in interviews, it’s just outright dismissed.
If they did spend the time to go through the data and then determined it couldn’t be done for X, Y, Z then that would mean they at least tried.
So proving your argument doesn’t work.
And you still have zero proof and ignored this:
But since you’re devolving into ad hominem attacks, I’m not even engaging with you anymore.
Now, let’s take a look at the whole post, and I’ll break it down for you Barney style. (Though I imagine it’s more for the audience since you’re just determined to reach for offense at the cost of credibility.)
It’s the same effect as picking and choosing parts of their post in order to change what they’re saying.
So at least you recognize what that’s like.
I’m not sorry if one is so fragile that questioning their priorities in game/life (especially in such an extreme case) is damaging.
There’s a reason society has developed standards.
Yeah, it’s an opinion you’re not happy with. Find an overpass and get over it, but stop trying to change or recontextualize what someone says to fit some victim narrative you’d like to virtue signal with.
If there is some sort of technical limitation on Blizzard’s end, I think adding it as a premium service that you have to pay for is a good enough motivator for them to do it.
So what kind of issues we are talking about here? You clearly said you weren’t talking about issues related to the mind of a person, so, again, what issues are we talking about?
Just because they dismissed it does not mean they have not looked at the data points. Blizzard and companies in general are always looking for a way to make that extra dime. The data could point to there just not being enough people with 50 to justify making those changes. What I have noticed is that people mainly want the realm cap increased, not the total number of characters increased.
You are asking them to doing extra work with no sign of there being a big benefit to the majority of players. With no sign of them making money, an increase in cap may happen if people are willing to pay that premium for it.
I’ve read your posts, you’ve never defined what those issues are, and im pretty much not a “Virtue Signaler” just check my posts history, I just disagree with you.
Especially not since Blizz is the ones that causes this problem by having lockouts on legacy content If they want to put a dent in people asking for this then they should remove instance lockouts from any content flagged as legacy. That won’t be a solution for everyone but for anyone that has a ton of alts because they are doing 50 ICC clears a week for invincible or 50 love rocket dungeons a day or 50 mims head clears they will certainly rejoice.
Don’t get the wrong impression that I’m calling you out on anything - because I’m not, but I’ve seen “Gold Farming” thrown around a few times and your post was the first one that showed up on search, but I have to ask:
Is Gold Farming still a thing? Gold basically rains from the sky when you log in now. Does anyone even pay physical money for a subscription anymore? I thought that we all used tokens by now.
I did happen to search for and then look on a gold selling website - a major one - and doing quick math you get way more gold buying tokens rather than using a gold selling site. So, I have a hard time believing that gold farming still exists as a lucrative business model for any of these paid service sites. I could maybe believe that if their rates were considerably cheaper than just buying a token, but they just aren’t. Why spend more money with serious risk?
Indeed. If there are issues with it once they go through the data to determine that, then that’s okay, too. My issue has always been the outright dismissal of it by them.
If they had, they would have said as much to shut us all up, though.
The benefit is the ability to buy more character slots. That’s for everyone, not just a few. And if we’re going to go with “but I think it’s only a minority,” then why does Blizzard continue with pet battles, RP requests and the like? Those are minorities within the game, as well. Yet they’ve made changes and updates for them.
Different people play differently and looking into things that benefit everyone even if not everyone utilizes it, isn’t a bad thing.
I don’t get the wrong impression at all and it’s definitely a good thing that it’s cheaper to get gold through tokens now, though I definitely disagree with some of the methods targeted and the reasoning, but if the results are showing it’s working that’s good then.
As I said in another post though, if you go through the various threads asking how to make gold in Shadowlands since all of the old methods were nerfed, the majority response is always “Level up alts and do your daily callings”. Now, through deductive reasoning, if maintaining a sub is possible through daily callings on multiple characters on a single account, it makes sense that those who are now losing profits from gold farming would want to make this even easier and more accessible so they can drop their prices in order to compete with what those who’d buy gold can get through purchasing tokens with real money.
If they want to put a dent in people asking for this then they should remove instance lockouts from any content flagged as legacy. That won’t be a solution for everyone but for anyone that has a ton of alts because they are doing 50 ICC clears a week for invincible or 50 love rocket dungeons a day or 50 mims head clears they will certainly rejoice.