Because cutting revenue is what makes the game… great? O.o
No thank you.
Nothing on there you need to do well in the game. Even gold is easy enough to come by. This weird paranoia about p2w needs to end.
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Interestingly enough, it occurred to me today that, despite Blizzard banning real money purchases of carries and so on, they actually do this themselves.
If I buy a token from them for $X (whatever it is in local currency) I pay for that with real world money. I then put it on the AH and it sells for X amount of gold. I can then use that gold to buy a carry. Voila, Blizzard supports real money carries.
Which is rather disturbing, if you think about it.
Dont get me wrong, I love that Tokens allow me to pay for my sub but I agree, I would prefer it if the game was set up to skip the token part of the process and just let me transfer my gold onto my subscription. Then I would never buy another token.
So – if they came up with a way to allow players to directly deposit their ingame gold onto their account balance, I would be all in favour of seeing tokens taken out of the game. However, their response would be that the primary purpose of introducing it at the time was to give players an alternative to buying gold from gold sellers and getting ripped off, hacked, etc. So all notions of profit aside, I doubt they would remove Tokens from the shop for that reason alone.
But I still want to be able to just use my gold directly.
what does wow tokens have to do with boosting. There are sites I ran across that are selling boosts on their websites for wow for real money. Removing boosting only created these new websites. I buy tokens and have never boosted. The tokens help those without jobs to be able to play using game gold and allows me to play my way without all the additional grinding for gold.
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also give us free tgc mounts , toys and maybe an apology video for not doing this earlier ktxbye
I dont think even Blizzard knew the full implications that adding the WoW token would have on the game. It makes them money but it is creating a certain game culture that maybe they didn’t intend.
If they aren’t going to remove the WoW token( understandably) than what they could do is change how the game functions so that people aren’t using WoW tokens on carries and boosts.
They could start by making the game more alt friendly and the game more friendly to people who have a limited amount of time to play in a week
Just mail out all the max level gear, mounts, and achievements at patch launch?
Boosting was around before the WoW token and if the token was removed then boosting would still be around. You can argue that the token made things easier but removing it wouldn’t change anything about modern boosting because of how easy gold is to get in Modern WoW anyway.
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These are in conflict with each other.
With the communities banned, competition decreases, which will increase boosting prices, which increases token sales.
I don’t see how it make sense for blizzard to make a change that will increase revenue and then remove the mechanism to collect that revenue.
Hell classic WoW proved that for those who only started playing post wow token introduction.
I’m not 100% sure you get exactly how the wow token works…
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That’s a big extreme! No doubt that people are going to still buy boosts no matter what but if the gap in item level between mythic raiding and normal raiding wasn’t as big, maybe people wouldn’t feel like it was worth it to spend money on tokens. Just my 2 cents
Remove jealousy.
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If we’re not eliminating them completely, why mess with something that’s fine for so many people? As long as it’s not something you have to do to succeed, let people have their fun.
I’m not jealous of people that spend thousands of dollars on WoW tokens
I am though.
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Removing tokens doesn’t fix the game’s design flaws, but WoW tokens and the boosting community that has exploded seems to have really ruined the perception of how the game works for new players.
Banning boosting communities is a step in the right direction, I still don’t think tokens are good for the game, but if boosting’s presence can actually get downplayed severely it’ll be a big win for perception of how the game works for new blood. I’m just not sure how well they can actually downplay boosting with the token in the game.
At this point from a game experience standpoint I’d rather have the token gone and people buying it illegally because at least people buying it illegally aren’t going able to buy it at such a large scale to fund their boosting experience, and those that do try to do that run a serious risk of an account ban.
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Boosting existed just the same without the token and with the addition of gold seller scams in chat everywhere. So the situation was actually worse before the token.
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I wonder if WoD had more to do with boosting becoming more popular than the token. In WoD gold was raining from the skies, even in the short time I played the garrison game I was able to make enough gold to still have a bit left now. I in no way even maximized the garrisons because I did not have the mobile app at the time. When I think about the people that did with far more alts then I have then WoW has a casual base with massive amounts of gold and not much to spend it on. So they boost to get the things they cannot get on their own.
It is easy to just look at tokens but here are other factors too.
Spoken like someone who has no idea what boosting was like prior to tokens.