Blizzard allows the ability to easily transfer gold from one server to another. The result is high population realm players are making tons of money and transferring it to low pop realms to farm low cost items.
This is EXTREMELY UNFAIR to the low pop realm players.
Login to any high pop server and look at trade. It’s FILLED with people and you can easily make tons of gold.
Login to any low pop server and its the exact opposite. Impossible to make as much money.
The BM/AH prices are meant to reflect that servers internal competition but players are making level 1s or boosts and bidding insane amounts that they’ve transferred onto the server.
Can Blizzard please look into this or at least offer some sort of resolution? The BMAH auctions specifically dump gold from existence so in no way does it benefit the low pop realm. The low pop realm players cannot compete with the prices so its just a lose lose.
Honestly - the people that do this may be selling accounts too. So it’s worth a look.
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No that is how it works. You just factor in if the gold you save is cheaper then the token cost to transfer. People don’t do it for transmog I don’t think but tgc items and mounts are fair game for this practice.
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Making tons of gold?
Don’t you know how fierce competition on high pop server? Some of us even sell for loss. How about if you transfer to high pop and see how much you can make so you are not judging high pop players making easy gold.
High pop -> fierce competition
Low pop -> less competition
I think you just try to find justification and hope no one bidding BMAH except yourself.
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You posted this on an aptly named toon, just saying.
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They have been doing this since the BMAH started and people have been complaining about this since then as well. Not likely to change since blizzard is getting their $$$ for the transfers.
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You forget a bit of the equation there - the demand aspect.
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Paying for realm transfers, choosing what realm to roll on, or what to bid your gold on really seem to fall under the category of “player choice,” which Blizzard have on multiple occasions reinforced the fact they won’t step in to do anything about.
If you’ve some legit evidence of someone selling accounts or abusing systems, then a ticket is the right way to report it. Complaining on the forums that people are spending hundreds of thousands of gold on the AH for rare cosmetic items, whether or not they’re simply transferring low-level bank characters to lower-population realms, grinding gold from Legion dungeons or anything else isn’t going to accomplish anything.
I’ve honestly been considering this to finish out my T3 Dreadnaught. Only a few pieces left. I’m not interested in competing in another market at the moment, though. I do have some extremely coveted transmog items, such as Cloudkeeper Legplates, sitting unbinded in my bank.
Creative use of in game mechanics or market manipulation? You decide! On next week’s episode of tin foil hat theories!
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So I have one gold goblin on a horder server group called ‘high’ pop. The current cloth sells there for around 7-8G a piece, and last night there were less than 10,000 cloth all total on offer on the AH at any price. Made some gold making darkmoon cards on that server making cloth bracers for my inscriptor to scrap for expulsom and making mass
… and that was a 7.2 earthquake about 20 miles from here.
Phew. TBC.
People below you acknowledge it happens.
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Absolutely my darling dove; just as many people below me acknowledge that it doesn’t exist. You don’t really want to play the She Said, She Said game do you? I don’t think you have the stamina to keep up with me, I’m afraid.
/tentacleflip
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100% this happens. Like if people say it doesnt - and people say it does. Then it does! That’s how logic works.
Its about supply and demand. You can easily turn 50k into 500k on a high pop server by flipping the AH. You cannot easily do that on a low pop. I have characters that I actively play on on both servers.
Also to all you tinfoil hat people - is that like the comment of the month? You can transfer gold to servers to farm BMAH super easily. Just login to any low pop BMAH at the end of the day and you’ll see prior to the cut off time - level 110s and level 1s are bidding.
Ultimately this is the only reason I play WoW at this point - farming the AH and farming the BMAH on my servers. But low pop players cannot compete and its bs - our economies are MUCH smaller and we have a significantly smaller demand pool. So if this isn’t addressed at some level then I’ll just unsub again i guess.
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Well then Adieu, my crazed coconut. Supply & Demand, Economics, these are not things under the purview of Blizzard; you have only the player base to blame and resent. I wish you fond travels and erotic adventures elsewhere my love, though I must warn you that you’ll find the same kind of behaviour in any other MMORPG you visit.
/tentacleflip
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Do you work for blizzard?
Do other mmo’s have black market auction houses? I’ve played pretty much all but the obscure mmos and ive not seen it. So do tell.
How? I don’t believe this is true. So the rest of what you say does not make sense.
“Easily”?
You can transfer a character to another realm for $25 or it’s equivalent in gamegold (220,000g, roughly).
You can TRY to sell pets on another realm. I’ve tried a few times, and they sat for weeks, never selling. That’s not easy.
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I wish, there would be so many more pieces of revealing clothing and leashes if I did.
/tentacleflip
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This actually happens a lot.
Back on my old, dead realm people would often send over an alt along with that alts guild and just camp the bmah. I don’t blame them for going there because you could purchase things like the plagued proto drake and heavenly onyx cloud serpent for 300k instead of the 2 million or more the same items cost on the more populated servers.
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So flipping the AH is all you do? Around 0.05% of all players do that. The number is so low that Blizzard isn’t going to bother helping you. They have too many problems to fix that affect 15% or 40% of players.
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Yes, they are called different names depending on where you go. Most are simply run by the player community, who monopolize the market in order to corner a select few items. Do try and keep up, your stamina is leaving me desiring so much more out of our relationship.
/tentacleflip
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