Bots can make money from real money trading. This does nothing. I’m very curious what’s the real goal from this.
Just seems to piss off people that managed to make a lot of gold ingame since 2017.
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On the Whole I don’t see issues with this. If it counters botters (I highly doubt this.) or any other form of exploitation players found (Also doubt this) then it might slow them down but not prevent them entirely. For the regular playerbase it might seem to be a blatant grab at more money but if you are a regular paid subscriber before or after this change occured then you need not worry.
I understand not everyone can go month to month soley on real money and reading this may impact them heavily and I feel you. I have had multiple moments in almost 11 years of not being able to afford to play for months at a time due to outside financial issues or for health reasons that came up my way. All I can stress is to be patient put aside all that you can that wont affect your living budget etc and once you are able to get this new restriction wall knocked down farming that amount of gold again in game will be more of a thrill than a chore seeing how WoW token prices have dropped quite substantially.
I hope once the dust of this issue settles and more people know about it I hope this message finds you along with everyone else’s advice to guide you through.
They want to counter bots by having them pay upfront with a valid payment method. And if found to be botting they flag that card holder and thus can prevent that card/holder (which will obviously be a stolen/fake account) in the future.
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seems to be adding an upfront solid monetary cost. Alot of bot users tend to use stolen credit cards so at least it makes the fraud more easily traceable?
Because wow had no botting before the wowtoken was a thing? do people really think this will work in any way?
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Over/under how much more centralized and monitored do you think financial systems are now vs a decade ago?
For it to be greed, it’d have to be a sizable amount of money.
This would impact a minority of players, and only for a single month for who knows how long.
It’s obviously some kind of weird stop gap.
My reaction is, we need a Q&A post on this.
This seems to be entirely targeted at brand new accounts used for botting. Also for the 2017 date that might be as far back as they have transactions in their database (so those who have been paying their sub since WoD/Legion your screwed but maybe make a ticket).
This also seems to be a way to cancel accounts faster if they use a stolen/fake credit/debit card.
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How much more developped is AI?
no i didn’t think this. i’ve been around the block and i know bots are a thing since like…2005 when i was playing runescape.
The same LLMs that have their companies pulling up the ladder recently and begging to be regulated?
You build higher walls people will build higher ladders.
As long as wow gold has real money value people will do it and people will keep botting.
Most companies, especially corporations, design products and services with one thing in mind, maximizing profits. Most companies set their price at the maximum point on the revenue curve. Any less they are giving it away, any more and people won’t buy it.
So is that greed?
They still get paid with the token, that was always the concept. If they were losing money they wouldn’t have done it.
They even make a markup when selling a token.
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It’s cute they believe this game still has any integrity left.
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So how is that different from what any company does? If they mark it up too much, sales will go down faster than revenue from the higher price goes up. Set your sales point at the maximum point on the revenue curve, that’s what everyone does.
Is that greed?
They make more money from not having this policy. So the argument that you make more by doing so doesn’t make sense.
Are you sure? Then now is the policy greed if they are making less money?
It’s not greed. It’s just a very useless thing to do.
The fact they took time to do this and think this will have any effect is laughable.
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Anyhow, as long we folks have an active monthly sub; this new ruling should not affect us too hard.
But there might be technical issues that causes the system to ‘flag’ us by accident, they just need to be sure to look at everyone’s subscription time history.