That was a joke. But I really don’t have much respect for the meta crowd at the moment.
keep this thread up guys blizzard thinks we dont know
You know.
They know.
Now, they know you know.
Who knew?
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they should know.
Well with things like adamantite and khorium being reduced 55% soon as well as across the board 40% reduction in number of herb spawns to combat botting it may help save the economy.
But yes these bots are a problem.
I mean he just mentioned variables but didn’t do the actual math. If you want actual math. There are 76 servers between US and EU for Classic WoW. There are also 168 hours in a week which if you just left 8 of those hours uncovered you could have 4 people rotating shifts to cover the monitoring per server (if it was indeed a 1 person job per server)
California Minnimum Wage is $14/hour. So that’s $29,120 per person each year not including any benefits or PTO they may give these employees. 304 employees would need to be employed to cover all the server monitoring shifts as well as probably a few people to serve as supervisors (although existing people could potentially cover this)
304 x $29,120 = $8,852,480 a year in expenses for blizzard
Currently WoW Classic has a player population ~357,000 players x $15 a month x 12 months a year = $64,260,000 in Revenue from these players subscriptions
Not sure how much money it costs them to run these servers but they could still technically be making profit even with this bot enforcement group on each server.
I honestly think for many of the smaller servers you wouldn’t need a dedicated GM per server so you could cut costs considerably.
As soon as players stop buying gold, the bots won’t have anyone to sell to.
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It’s always easy to justify any solution with “money isn’t something I care about”
bump so that blizzard sees
no lol
Classic has way, way more than that.
Bots are awesome, they keep the forums active 
And care why?
Just what I found when I searched online and it was what it said in an article.
Link the article.
Did they do the analysis of a sizeable chunk of wow players leaving for FF14? Yeah they totally make all the correct decisions.
I’m sure they’re analyzing their subscription base regularly. Streamers whining on YouYube and a few people crying on the forums probably don’t mean nearly as much as you think.
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Yeah the biggest streamer on twitch getting 200k + views when switching from wow to ff14 is completely meaningless hurr durr
We get it, you’re edgy and hate streamers.
Views = subs? Huh. That’s some pretty sharp thinkin’!
You’re 100% delusional if you think wow (mostly retail) isn’t bleeding subs right now.
I wonder if it’s experimental. The whole clickbait culture thing has always got me suspecting that every video or stream or script these people produce is made with some kind of economic purpose behind it. Like some corporate people are sending these people messages that say, “Talk about X.”
And so the streamer talks about X. And so the YouTuber makes a video about X. They read a prepared script, and the audience eats it all up because that’s what consumers do.
Then come views, likes, dislikes, subscriptions, etc. And that’s all data. That data is then used in the process of making future decisions by whatever company has that data.
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