Hey everyone! I need a little help better understanding why there is resistance against placing items on the Shop.
While I understand these cosmetics and services can be purchased with cash, I wonder if people are forgetting that these things can also be purchased with in-game gold.
You can purchase a WoW token off the Auction House and convert that token into $15 Battle.net balance. You can do this as often as you’d like, up to a maximum of $350 if you have an Authenticator & SMS Protect on your account.
You can then use this Battle.net balance to purchase whatever you’d like off of the Shop. Cosmetics, services, other Blizzard games, etc.
There is a clear path to earning Shop items from just playing the game. There is no requirement to use your own cash for this.
Given what I’ve stated and how Shop items can be acquired from in-game means, can someone please identify the actual problem with the Shop? I’m just not seeing it.
Im not outraged or anything. Ive not actually even voiced my opinion yet.
However i do fear that blizzard could end up amending how much each item on the trading post goes for so that there is stronger incentive to buy tender.
For example if one month there was 2 mounts on there, each for 1500 tender.
Even the most frugal of people would struggle to find the tender without forking over their cash.
This is the reason I don’t like the idea of tenders being on the cash shop. All it will do is make the prices go up and eventually if you want to buy anything you will have to buy tenders first. It’s cash grab 101.
I’m not outraged because I said this is exactly what they would do the moment they first announced the free version of the battle pass, anyone who though otherwise is delusional.
I didn’t say that at all. I don’t know how you came up with that strawman. I stated the maximum Battle.net balance cap. I’m not advocating people spending $350 on the shop with in-game gold, although that is their prerogative if they choose.
I can understand this concern. I’m not convinced this is an issue considering Blizzard has been actively making Shop items available free of charge, such as through Twitch drops and the recent Treasure Goblin drops.
yeah this is my concern. i normally dont care about microtransactions, i’m more of a “if i dont want i just won’t buy it” type of person. but i have a feeling being able to buy tender will eventually directly affect the rest of us not padding our virtual wallets by spending money. i dont like it. the trading post started out as a great idea, this would sour it
Hmm, another strawman. No, I said there are in-game means to do so. I didn’t state the difficulty. I only stated that you can in fact obtain Shop items through in-game means.
A small number of “people” make that claim, hardly a consensus as you are suggesting. There’s that one guy who keeps posting that the average casual makes 300k gold a week. Did you notice how many posters disagree with him, while nobody agrees? Is that your alt?
