The Wow Token and Cash Shop: Necessary or Ripoff?

The WoW Token is not there because Blizz wanted more cash, does it make them money, oh for sure, would you rather that money go elsewhere?

It’s there to put the kibosh on gold farmers/account theft etc and give those otherwise shady players a chance to buy legit gold via Blizz.

Does it stop gold farmers? Nope but it helps, also gives players on a budget a chance to buy game time.

You don’t want a game where the economy is dictated by a foreign gold farming company.

Cash shop, use it or don’t, no biggy.

That is so incredibly inaccurate. Example - Monster Hunter the DLC’s are for a room you never go into but those DLC’s sell like hotcakes.

That quip isn’t the W you think it is, in fact by resulting to that you’ve basically just told me very plainly by attempting to either assume or attack my lifestyle that you’ve resorted to attempting to invalidate my words by attacking something entirely irrelevant to this conversation.

Thank you for your cooperation in being so transparent with your facade.

A lot of words for saying nothing of substance.

Typical of the sheltered

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By all means, please continue to self report yourself for everyone else to see.

Kinda like what you said first.

Having lots of money and spending it in a game is never a problem

When they make things expensive soley to gain as much as they can from people who dont even have to care to control themselves with thier own finances it puts out the fact that they are tone deaf.

Elitists are not appreciated, as they add nothing of value, they only espouse their own viability.

Dumb people spending dumb cash for dumb things leads down bad roads.

If you ever had any real life experience you would know that giving an inch can lose you a mile or more.

Sweet. Summer. Child.

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They made it expensive because if they didn’t the original Bruto owners would have thrown an absolute fit and it would be an even bigger PR perception problem than it is now.
Is the 90 dollar mount expensive? Sure.
Is it ludicrously and offensively expensive? Not really.

Personally, I feel the Gilded Brutosaur should’ve been for charity. People get what they want, while also supporting a noble cause.

But yeah, go ahead and keep trying to invalidate my words by calling me inexperienced or a Blizzard shill or whatever it is people try to claw in the dirt for these days once they’ve run out of anything meaningful to say.

Anyone who believes that 90 usd is not expensive for recoloured pixels has zero real world experience.

I dont care if you keep saying “go ahead and mock me” because block head ideas get met head on.

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So I guess even though you quoted me you didn’t actually bother reading anything, take a deep breath and try reading that again and then looking at what you replied with.

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It is neither necessary or a ripoff… It is an option for people to use if they wish. Nothing is forcing you to take advantage of it.

With the token system, everything you want off the cash shop is obtainable by playing the game. Optionally, buy tokens with gold and then use that balance to buy what you want.

I feel this is the best monetization model I’ve seen for a game in years tbh.

This should be so obvious but seemingly for most in these forums it is not.

This is really the best possible business model.

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for me? Nothing. It doesnt affect my game because I dont do much outside of farming solo and doing a leveling dungeon here and there or when TWing is up.

Neither…obviously, for reasons stated.

I’ll run follower dungeons and delves solo to get 99% of my ‘group’ content.

I dont run M+ or raid. I dont need…or care about…end game gear.
Nor do I care if they sell it on the store, personally…as I said, it doesnt affect my game.

But I can see how it might be taken poorly by those who do.

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lmao…do you react to everything in life thats OPTIONAL with the same juvenile name calling?

Its 90 bucks. We blow way more than that on a list of other NEEDLESS hobbies, loll
NO one asked for your first born friend…as someone else said…‘calm down’
a few hours OT will easily pay for the mount if you need it that badly. :+1:

its either something you need/want…or it isnt
Its either worth 90 bucks to you…or it isnt.

its that simple

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Some people are addicts when it comes to WoW, ergo, Micro-Blizz is profiting off of that fact. Need I remind you someone died playing wow nonstop?

ok…but someone died in a car…should the rest of us do without cars because of it?

Someone died drinking beer…should we have to do without because of it?

Someone drank too much water and died…?

There was a woman who ended up in a coma over eating Bok choY by the pounds every day…should I not be allowed to buy something I enjoy over her behavior and diet?

Ths isnt an argument against the store…

Frankly this whole thing sounds like some who say that video games CAUSE people to become violent.

No.
The reality is that some people who either have, or will develop violent tendancies, are playing video games.

The game ISNT the cause…the persons behavior was very likely developing long before they ever picked up a controller/keyboard.

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People are addicted to a lot of things… People die due to those addictions. Should people get help before death occurs? Of course.

It doesn’t change the fact that the Token and Cash shop is neither necessary or a ripoff.

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I did, you for some odd reason think 100 usd is worth the repainted pixels it took 18 dollars (the hourly wage of that one guy that redid the skin) to produce.

Sorry you cant see genuine ripoffs in your face.

We did, you cant drink until your usually old enough to make better decisions in life and you are required to test and license yourself in order to be a driver.

Thanks for proving to me you have selective reading.

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it’s optional and that’s all that matters

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