The wow token is a necessity. It cut into gold selling before which was a big issue and also backed the in game gold with the USD which really did help curb the massive inflation issues the game was having. Cash shop is fine if its all purely cosmetic but when it becomes ptw it becomes an issue. Boosters or $90 advantage mounts are 100% a problem.
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and my guess is that if one IS a 1% sort that theyâll do anything required to do it and not be in here whining about it.
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Not by a long shot.
You either didnât play back during Wrath, or your rose-tinted goggles are on WAY too tight.
Chinese gold farmers werenât just a meme, they were a fact of life.
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iâd rather blizz throw a stupid expensive shiny to the ravenous whales than them consider raising the sub price, its already enough that we have to pay 50 bucks every 2 years ontop of the 15 a month
Theyâre both ripoffs as they could easily fix the problems of gold being necessary to play by making content drop meaningful amount of gold or add back garrison gold. Doing rmt yourself to beat rmt for me is ironic, if the point is that rmt is bad hence why you originally banned it then doing it yourself is not a fix.
They could also have easily sold the mount for gold in-game and let people buy with the reverse conversion in token which would have been better for the in-game economy as it would have burned a decent amount of gold but they didnât because of greed.
Itâs a company itâs fine that their decision is motivated by money, but it doesnât make them better for me.
As far as cash shop go, I donât mind cosmetic shops. I donât mind higher expansion price or higher subs if it means better quality⌠This expansion has been a bit ridiculous toward that. If paying 5$ a month more means that Iâll have less server lag and that massive pvp fights can happen then Iâm all up for it personally.
I canât believe anyone actually believed Blizzâ statements on the reason for tokens. This is absolute 100% garbage - a lie. Blizz could have eliminated gold selling in WoW if they wanted to do so, but since it would have cost dev hours, and some of the player base due to bans, they decided to join the gold sellers. Stating that poor little indy dev Blizz couldnât stop the gold sellers was just the lie they chose to justify their scummy business decision. Saying that âit was REALLY bad before the tokenâ is utter nonsense. Are you saying that gold selling was worse when it was third party sites instead of Blizz? I donât see the difference. The token did nothing other than put more money in Blizzâ pocket - google for WoW gold sellers if you truly believe it changed anything else.
WoW Token & Cash Shop:
- Necessary: No
- Ripoff: No
- Optional: Yes
We played before they existed, no need to acknowledge their existence now. However, as another poster mentioned, the Tokenâs cut into the gold spammers was a nice impact - easier to read trade chat and your ignore list doesnât fill up in 24 hours.
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To be frank, part of the logic was to remove the issues associated with gold-selling - illegal sites, compromised accounts, and so on. There was probably an intent to take out the middle man and make it less of an issue on that front. The internal logic makes sense, assuming that there would always be a few people willing to take the RMT shortcut; so it made sense that it should come from the official source. There was definitely some level of greed there, but it at least made some sense to eliminate the illegal activity that couldnât otherwise be stopped.
⌠but then it ended up being TOO successful.
The game hasnât quite been the same since, things have drastically changed since the token took off. While it may have been introduced earlier (WoD?), I think it was some time between Legion and BfA that it started to become a notable feature of how the game worked.
Selling runs and carries were always around⌠but it suddenly became the NORM, the expected way of doing things. It arguably was the simplest and easiest, as trying to play the game normally became rather impractical.
Itâs more capitalizing on the unexpected success than diabolical pre-planning. Doesnât make it much better, but Blizz isnât THAT good at setting up schemes in advance. The mount-that-shall-not-be-named is probably more them seeing how far they can push their luck more than anything else.
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The original Asian Gold Sellers, sold in-game gold and hard to get in-game items to the Wow players for real world cash. This created a problem not only a financial one but a game-play one. Blizzard said âThis cannot continue, this is destabilizing the game.â Blizzard then Started doing the same thing; selling gold and items in the Wow cash shop for real world money. Just like the Asian gold farmers were doing. How does this help the players?
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Blizzard created the Wow token to generate revenue for the company. Itâs a cash cow for them.
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Something akin to a liar when being a whale is an actual defined thing.
Yep. Most gamers will not purchase DLC or loot boxes or cash shop items. No matter how attractive it is. However, there is a small percentage that will get so immersed in the game, that they will be willing to spend large sums of money for in-game currency, either to splurge on cosmetics or to gain perks that put them at a competitive advantage.
Buying cosmetics/token is always gonna feel hollow, over earning them through gameplay and working towards it.
Thatâs why I personally donât buy anything myself.
I came from a time before when games had in-store shops, and I intend to keep it that way lol.
Iâm 30 right now, and I remember when no games have shops.
I actively avoid games where itâs unavoidable.
WoW is one of the only exceptions, and because theyâre not selling power⌠yet. Itâs just convenience thus far.
Imo, itâs a ripoff and always has been.
It makes the company happier because itâs another avenue for them to profit off of, but does it make the game itself better?
No, itâs usually the opposite. They usually double-down on whales because itâs easier to sell mounts than working on coding and stuff like that lol.
Working on games is hard, recoloring mounts to sell is easy.
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Anything can be defined, doesnât make the definition accurate.
Kinda like calling people liars for seeing the world as it is?
The world isnât cynical, those people are just being disingenuous and trying to call others something negative to place them above others for their own self-esteem.
These things are not the same.
Exactly.
Nothing on the store is needed for the game.
We know what weâre purchasing and the priceâŚNO ONE is being ripped off.
Totally a choiceâŚwhich makes the raging about it even more laughable.
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Nice sheltered life you got going on there.
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Yeah but I got to practice my foreign languages!
What happens when they start selling equal powered gear for say, the first raid of the season but before said season ends?
Its still optional, as you can obtain equal amounts using time and effort.
Which one do you think people would choose?