Gold will always remain the standard in Warcraft, changing 1000 gold = 1 platinum for example, or something similar, would just result in even higher Auction House prices for silly things.
Guilds in ESO often charge members weekly fees to remain in the guild. “Pay your dues to retain access to the guild features”
This is commonplace, and the point behind it is only guilds can run Stores. And stores are bid-on starting at extortionate prices of millions. which you compete with other guilds for. So big merchant-marketing guilds obviously get the best spots as their members all have crazy income they can pool to outbid for the best spots.
IDK how well this would fly in wow, as people are pretty tight with their money. But it’d be interesting. Guilds kind of died out after the cross realm stuff in MoP.
It’s usually something miniscule. Like 1-5k. Which is something you can earn mindlessly by not paying attention in a week. There’s daily events that reward over 1k, and most items sell for that much. Really easy to make money. So i’d say its the equivalent of charging the similar amount in gold on WoW.
scratches head
Sounds… ambitious? I don’t know that I’m against such a system but it sounds like we’re talking about way more interactive economy than WoW’s quest-for-gold-then-spend-it-on-vendor-stuff thing.
Yeah It’s interesting. Like I said guilds are the only source of Auctions, I meant to say auctions anyway. So it’s out of necessity. and ofc there are free-to-play guilds that have less convenient auction locations. It’s just the ones in capital cities that usually make you pay if you want to sell your stuff in a high traffic area.
I wonder what a tax in wow would look like though.
Would it just be a higher emphasis, and cost, on regular every day services? 1k gold repair bill?
You mean like in Age of Conan? They also have tin coins below copper, so the money is spread across 5 different coins! Yay!
There’s actually no gold or silver. They’re all copper and the UI just show it gold if it go over 10k copper.
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What’s your deal with platinum? Did you just discover the word or something?
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Or they could start using exponents.
Why stop there? We need full scale socialism in WoW!
Viva La Revolution! No longer will the Gold Farmers bleed the average player dry! We must redistribute the wealth of the top earning plays and give it to the low income player! Its only fair!
Plat is more an EQ thing.
/shudder
Oh noes! Someone has 1,000,000 gold! I’m so scared of it. And then I have to level a GIANT 120 levels???!!! That is crazy!!!
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How about once people have more than 1,000,000 gold, they get taxed gold every week and that gold is distributed to anyone with less than 100g.
That way we don’t have to worry about Platinum Coins, they can stop introducing gold sinks, and people without gold don’t have to worry about being poor.
Boom.
This request is posted at least once per year, on the forums.
Because, unlike EQ, coins have no weight. So there is no point in having a platinum coin.
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Hey. They squished our ilvl. Musta thought it was worth it for that…
I say they just convert it to all copper coins. Instead of 100 gold for a world quest, you’d get 1 million copper!
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Ion said they’re already overhauling the AH code, which is personally responsible for limiting server size.
I vote for plastic… just put everything on credit and allow characters to file for bankruptcy.
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I forgot about the coin weight thing. That coupled with memories of being chased all the way across a zone yelling incoming train made me almost throw up.
The game actually tracks things with copper and the UI translates that to gold and silver. Due to this, you can probably create an addon that handles platinum coins for you.
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They did a way with that years ago in case you didn’t know. I found that out after I returned a while back.