I’m pretty sure most people feel like this, Classic WoW gold is half the gameplay. At least it was for me.
They shoved it into Wotlk with dirty tactics, not banning bots, adding those packages to ruin professions, and then shoving in WoW token. That’s last I played Wrath classic, and in Wrath classic gold matters less than in vanilla classic.
Hiw does the patch equate to Blizzard implementing the token?
that is why people were buying gold throughout classic.
That is why people were able to pay absurd amount of gold for those items even at the very end of Classic and imminent release of TBC.
And to think that people thought I was a gold buyer because I was able to gather roughly 30k before TBC came out.
Without bots and a reset economy things tend to get interesting.
I got about that much too farming Arcane crystals and Black lotuses, it was probably most fun I had in Classic. Hence why adding tokens would kill my interest, as you could buy anything with real money.
I’m aware people bought gold illegally, but it wasn’t all that many people as it’s risky.
Being real I’ve looked the other way a lot and I’ve done so for much more than this.
Gold buying is very accepted. People just don’t talk about it in the game or on the forums. For a lot of obvious reasons.
As much as I’d love to take a stand on things, would it be right for me to kick a player who has been a perfect raider with amazing attendance and who meshes with the raid group because he admits to buying gold for consumes so he can raid? The answer for me is no.
If someone shared something criminal with me I would report it to Blizzard. Other stuff I left slide.
When I ran my original guild in 2009 I was really strict with things and may have taken a different stance, but buying gold is the culture now so take it or find like-minded people to play with who agree with you but that does mean restricting yourself.
Plus how am I posting here now? Well had gold on Wrath and used that out for tokens so now I can post here and play a little for free.
And?
You specifically said problems - plural.
Are you a shopaholic? No shame. We’re all friends here.
I feel it got to be the culture because people were accepting of breaking the rules. For whatever reason - fear of missing out on something.
Sad but it is what it is because we the playerbase looked the other way.
My favorite part about farming black lotuses was the wpvp, it’s a rush.
I did, yes.
What other problems besides the one you’ve already mentioned? Cmon don’t be coy. I’m honestly interested.
One problem is that Activision stock is only up 19% year to date. An unacceptable low return for shareholder investment. We need to dramatically pump that number up and Aggrend needs to get focused.
The most important problem it addresses is that Blizzard no longer needs to punish their customers for buying ingame currency, removing the stench of hypocrisy in that particular area, since Blizzard profits from the RMT and pretends to have the moral high ground in spite of the fact that they’ve been selling the WoW token for better than a decade and profiting off botting/etc. for far longer.
There are others, including account theft.
Thats putting it mildly. They randomly and without warning came down like the fist of an angry god on hundreds of thousands of accounts every couple months. And the suspensions they issued werr LONG. None of this “boo hoo 3 days and you keep the gold.” Im talking you lost 2 weeks minimum and every item you purchased from the moment you got the gold PLUS the gold was stripped from you. And thats if you were a first time offender.
Now they turn a blind eye because bots bring up the MAU.
1000 USD worth of gold every week? seriously 
Yup. that’s how much money irl these naxx/ax items are becoming every week. And it is only gonna go up
classic era is serious business
You’re very, very confused. Good luck!
I agree. Classic doesn’t warrant tokens, and I don’t think they will add it.
Use your words, aren’t you a rational being? 
This is another thing that I’ve ignored while playing this go around.
I’ve known multiple people who made a part-time job money on the side - and not from streaming.
I also had someone dish out a ton about the creative ways he and some friends were making money. That was after he thought I ranked my characters to sell and not because I am a crazy person who just liked to do it even under the old system.
I’ve never done RMT myself outside the tokens, but nobody at this point should deny it.
Speak for yourself.
I always laugh at people like you who think people don’t have principles. I will 100% cancel over a token in Era. I can only assume you’re here to troll. We get it. You’re a shill. The rest of us aren’t.