No, its not. You don’t understand my point.
Yeah, I mean the last time I did a WoW token it took like 7 hours to sell on the AH. I might be wrong, its been a long while.
For all the people who think I actually want WoW tokens…
I don’t even like WoW Tokens. I was using it as a point of whats the difference…
I’m sorry guys, Blizzard does not enforce it, There will be gold buying and selling and bans won’t happen…Not when BlizzBots and BlizzKnights defend them whenever pointed out…
yeah, y’all have fun. the new season for D3 is about to start in an hour. =]
If WoW tokens were in Classic I probably wouldn’t play it more than 2-3 months. Please do not feed the trolls in these topics and let them die so Blizzard don’t even see them.
i miss being able to ignore posters
WoW Tokens in Classic would be the end of life as we know it.
If there were WoW tokens in classic, I wouldn’t bother even playing it.
Hyperbole and melodrama . the defining feature of wow forums
I mean… his name is Edgeboi after all.
WoW Tokens exist BECAUSE 3rd party sites were selling gold.
Blizzard implemented it so people could buy gold through a more trusted and secure method AND allowed you to buy game time with just in game gold.
Blizzard also made gold practically worthless in game in Modern WoW, and it pretty much functions as an alternative to paying cash for game time now.
In Classic, gold is needed for a ton of stuff and is much harder to accumulate. People will buy gold through 3rd party sites. Not much you can do about it except WoW Tokens to keep it safer and more secure for players.
You can buy tokens with real money. OP mentioned trading tokens for gold in game.
Visit the shop. They are 20 bucks.
You can buy tokens with real money. OP mentioned trading tokens for gold in game.
Visit the shop. They are 20 bucks.
How are we gonna prevent Susan express? I feel it’s an unwinnable battle.
The gold is not instantly given to people who buy WoW Tokens on the shop.
Players in game have to farm the gold themselves and then exchange them for the Time Tokens over the auction house.
The person who buys a Time Token on the website is not guaranteed to get any gold for them.
me again; back for a minute, haha.
as long as there’s lazy people playing an involved game, there will always be someone trying to profit off them.
You’re missing the point. Both parties have to perform actions in the game to be beneficial for the economy.
Buying a token and selling it to make gold adds nothing of value to the economy unlike farming reagents to sell which has a tangible benefit of someone being able to use those reagents.
Someone has to make the gold either way, but on the token transaction value is lost.
I understand. But, So long as an Auction House and trading exists in WoW, gold will have real world value as well as in game value.
Blizz would have to nuke the economy in the game to get rid of gold buying and selling. Gold would have to become bound to the players individually. You’d lose a major aspect of the game.
You can’t, i think, otherwise people would not continue to sell gold for money as they still do today. Just search for sites doing that.
The big difference is that now it is much harder for them to hack people’s account and steal gold. Instead you now see a lot of farmers on trial characters farming herbs and ore. I saw a lot of them in Pandaria and Hyjal while i was farming there recently.
Wow tokens=the devil
Third party gold sites=fair play?
They’re the exact same thing, Except one won’t tank your account. People bought gold in vanilla, they will find a way to do the same in classic.
Wouldn’t shock me if they incorporated a gold-for-bitcoin system. lol
Mine coins with your launcher while you play. Could you imagine? lol
Risking an account ban for gold farmers vs Blizzard sanctioned tokens.
Which do you think would get used more than the other and have a greater impact on the economy?
This isn’t hard.
wowtokens in classic would impact AH,economy, gameplay(buying gear,spells,professsions by buying materials or already made items),people would buy raids and its gear (via loot trade way more often),plus it would promote laziness thus people that would buy gold thru wowtokens could become sort of casuals cause they would be skipping all or most of the things ive mentioned )