Dont worry guys im sure blizzard will reply any minute.
Yeah and now the prices on all the stuff those bots were farming have quadrupled. So good luck at 60, you filthy casual.
Allowing and tolerating something is not the same as approving and supporting that thing. I doubt very much that when they make changes that they stop and think *
“now, things like Multiboxing, boosting, Jed fishing, and accumulating a gushing torrent of gold in a very regular and easy manner, all might be hampered by this change. Those are valuable and are totally how we intended players to play this game that took years to develop. We should probably not make this change that helps stem the ruination of the in game economies, because of the value those activities have”
Or do you think that MAYBE those “playstyles” are merely tolerated, but not directly supported, such that making changes to the game that may hamper them, would not be all that big of a concern.
Again, many players have a tendency to abuse and stretch to the reasonable limits, as much in game as possible. You should be thankful that blizzard has tolerated such things and have not directly put a stop to them completely.
You signed the end user agreement when you began play, and blizzard does not have to justify a single change they make to you personally, or ask for your permission.
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*Based on what?
It very much matters. There is an obscene amount of gold being pumped into the game from the practice with virtually no sinks. It effects every single player in the game.
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Casuals are quite capable of obtaining orbs on their own. Stop pretending you are doing what you are doing for the benefit of others, just knock it off. It is absurd. There is a jam packed world of content out there and not everything needs to be accessible via the AH. I know it is a whacky concept, but players can actually *gasp* leave the confines of the major cities, and find things through normal gameplay.
It is even more absurd when players start defending botting behavior because of the wonderful supply of things on AH they provide. Things have gotten priced into the stratosphere because of the stupid levels of disposable gold that are being accumulated.
Respecs is the only real valid gold sink you’ve listed.
- Flasks? Not a sink
- Consumes? Not a sink
- Respecs? Yeah, an optional thing that barely makes a dent in light of the stupid levels of gold in game currently
- Gear upgrades? Not a sink
- Reputations? what is this even?
- Profession changes? Serious stretch.
- Alts? WHAT?
To be fair getting a righteous orb at 10g is much cheaper and more efficient than running strat and hoping you can win a roll on one.
Here i fixed it.
Actiblizzard managed to introduce time-gating (retail trash mechanic) into Classic 
Amazing…
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How does one track the 30 dungeons? How do I know if I am close if you are adding this feature in. I don’t want to download a third party program to fix your change.
Increase drop rates, add more nodes and faster respawn rate. Reduce exp required to level as a trade off for this implementation then.
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Okay but what defines ‘complete’? Because like if you think I can’t ‘complete’ a dungeon 30 times a day, you’re way way off.
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And there were massive sweeping changes made during vanilla on a regular basis to combat abusive/exploitative tendencies. Changes to combat exploits/abuse in Classic would be vanilla-like “experience”.
There were thinking before making any change
What “detail” has to be gone into? The frequency of the things are clearly the exploitation/abuse. If you want to handwave that and demand that it needs more “detail”, sorry. I am not going to entertain your nitpicking.
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I think you would be hard pressed to complete a level appropriate dungeon in appropriate gear, so say UBRS/LBRS/Strat/Scholo/BRD/DM in greens/blues at level 60 30 times in 24 hours.
I’m not wrong about the excess of supply from botting. Whether it’s a positive or not is up to the person. Personally I think it’s a negative since it devalues the time I spend farming a consumable if I have to compete against a bunch of bots. However, you can argue that it’s a positive for someone who doesn’t want to spend the time farming Strat live for a chance at an orb. Whether or not casuals can obtain the orbs on their own doesn’t take away from how this instance lockout change will negatively impact their ability to farm/buy it. It’s also one example compared to dozens of high value mats that can be farmed in dungeons
And while there is a huge amount of gold on Classic servers this instance lockout change, again, doesn’t address or fix that issue so I’m not sure why you’re even bringing it up
And I question why you think those are not gold sinks. Just because you personally do not buy a flask, consumes, respec for every raid doesn’t mean it’s not a gold sink for someone else. Just because you decide not to buy gear upgrades for your character, your alts or even get that other racial mount from buying runecloth doesn’t mean others can’t choose to do so
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Just so we’re clear:
There have always been limits but players had a lot of freedom to operate inside those limitations.
Players abuse freedoms for bad reasons to the detriment of their server communities and gameplay - offer them a finger and they’ll take the whole arm. Idiot cheaters fund bot and other cheat services to the point that they always have the money to keep operating and the incentive to do so. All of them get a free pass - very convenient.
Blame Blizzard for finally reaching a breaking point and implementing a greater good type change which is always going to be controversial no matter how necessary it is and in spite of the evidence thats right in front of everyone’s face - as all hope, goodwill and integrity crumble around them.
Wouldnt it just be easier to say youre super entitied? Would save a lot of time.
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This is a terrible change.
You should not be limiting what players can do. I’ve already had guild mates that hit the 30 instance cap and weren’t able to do a for-fun ZG.
This isn’t in the spirit of Classic-wow, and it isn’t a change I’m willing to deal with long term. Find another solution. Give the players the game back.
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Well, another day, another lockout. Please Blizz LET ME PLAY MY GAME I PAY FOR
#Icantinstance
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hey blizzard, this change is still complete flaming garbage.
revert it.