Q&A Compilation -- WoW Classic Development Team AMA

Can we get a specific answer about trading retail for classic gold through trade chat? For example will WTB TOKEN 100g, Or WTT 130k retail g for 100g be allowed.

I can see where friends/guilds/3rd parties could trade outside of the game and that is harder to enforce. It is also a risk that blizzard cant intervene on any scams.

Thanks for answering the AMA questions! They provided some clarity the community has been looking for!

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Natural reader saved me from having to read all that myself, phew.

Im happy layering wont last longer than phase 1, also pls dont bring it back for AQ event :pray:

Man, I got eaten alive by people who told me I was remembering this wrong, it didn’t happen in Vanilla, etc. I wonder how many of them will apologize? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Layer answer is perfect no more complaining about layer. Thanks guys.

cool, now how about them login ques?

Its answered. Gold trading between players is subject to blizzards TOS.

Answered. Go to a low pop realm or expect up a few hour que.

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cant do that if no servers available

Very disappointed to see that you’re taking an illogical stance against gold trading. You’re just flushing revenue away to third party scalpers. This lesson was already learned in the past and is why tokens now exist. Players are going to trade one way or the other, you’re just letting someone else take your revenue off the transactions. If you actually suspend or ban users, as you’ve foolishly threatened in this QA, you’re literally flushing away paying subscribers for no good reason. Keep in mind that you’re allowing all multiboxers, even if they use third party programs. They are literally cheating at the game. So on one hand you’re allowing people to cheat because you want their money, but on the other hand are not allowing people to legitimately trade, because you don’t want their money? You should pick 1 side, and stick with it.

Folks never admit they were wrong. The people who claimed Warlock pets didn’t disappear when a new one was summoned months ago still haven’t owned up to it. They just move on to complain about the next thing once proven wrong.

Thank you for compiling this all for us, it is greatly appreciated. Also want to say that you guys deserve more praise for bringing classic back and looking so far in to creating a completely authentic vanilla experience. So thank you!

Also going to break out old episodes of The Instance on launch day to further increase my hype. Gotta get my tips from the OG, Mr. Deluxe

It’s not wrong it’s 100% true in fact, and your memory is terrible. You clearly don’t know your vanilla.

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You did it at innkeepers. Like I said, it wasn’t a very good one, but it existed. I even remember using it a few times.

I’m sorry your memory isn’t good enough to remember (if you even did play vanilla lolfraud).

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“Blizzard does not recognize any purported transfers of virtual property executed outside of the Game, or the purported sale, gift or trade in the “real world” of anything that appears or originates in the Game. Accordingly, you may not sell in-game items or currency for “real” money, or exchange those items or currency for value outside of the Game” Is a blue post, So is trading retail gold/token for classic gold considered outside the game or not?

From what I gather, it is a meeting stone for a particular dungeon. Yes an innkeeper had lore of the dungeon. So it is more of a Dungeon finder than a lfg really. You had to be able to be of level to complete the dungeon. In 2.01 they made the LFG option.

Whatever, I know when and how long I played and could care less if a loser like you believe it lol

Yes, your right but the other dude calling this a LFG , was a joke, he apparently thinks that Blizz should water down true classic and give us LFG / LFR lol

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well you are correct, because lfg came in in 2.01. Thats after vanilla. Thats TBC. :slight_smile:
Meeting Stones , also known as Summoning Stones , are very large thumb-shaped stones with a mystical, glowing symbol that appear next to dungeons. Originally,they were for filling in partial (or just-starting) [parties]whose members met the required level range by auto-inviting suitable candidates.

In [Patch 2.0.1, Meeting Stones were reworked with the implementation of the new [LFG system]. They now are used to summon party members to the stone near an instance. One player targets a faraway player and clicks the Meeting Stone, creating a portal. When a second player clicks the portal, the targeted player is given a summoning dialogue very similar to the warlock’s !

My understanding is there is no connection between players on retail and players in classic so trading of anything between them is impossible.

The innkeeper group finder would literally auto-group people together.

Although it was prehistoric in design compared to the eventual dungeon finder, or even the version we got in TBC which was a lot more advanced, there literally was an automatic grouping tool in vanilla.

I’m not saying I want LFD in vanilla. I’m just saying, that a roughly similar thing was actually available in vanilla, it’s just nobody really used it because it was sorta trash.

I’m personally a #nochanges person.

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I feel like this AMA was staged, with questions either totally made up (with employees adding said questions themselves) or handpicked. It is just too… specific. I would much rather have them video themselves scrolling through and answering each question as they come across it.

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