It’ll incentivize many to just raid log. Since they won’t need to farm anymore or play game to get resources, when 20 usd gets you few month worth of consumes.
This can potentially be very bad blizzard.
#nochanges
#youpromised
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How is this any different from botting, again?
And why do you care, it’s only on the Chinese servers?
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I am concerned about it coming to us servers.
Even if it did, how is it different from gold farming/botting their consumables?
Because they are playing when they are farming. They aren’t bottling.
Botting is the hunter lvl 60, 40 mount, no English, plays at night only.
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The player base I have already ruined the game, Blizzard is just the scapegoat because players didn’t want Classic WoW, they wanted Classic retail.
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“Botting is the hunter lvl 60…40 mount, plays at night only” lol you just described me on my alt fishing and farming herbs XD now I’m gonna have to get a NOT A BOT macro XD
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Probably wise not to assume that because they do something in China they will do it here. There have been any number of things made available for WoW in China that were not released to the rest of the game. I can understand being nervous about it, but I think I’d wait a bit before getting my boxers in a twist about it.
And you have to consider this:
How many people playing Classic have enough spare gold stashed away to buy a token on the AH?
Who would even do that when all you can do with it is buy yourself game time? I note if someone is desperate enough to need game time, they can always go onto retail and farm for a few hours to easily make enough for a month’s sub. I suppose they could theoretically set up a Blizzard balance so you could use it for character transfer, but thats a huge amount of farming you’d need to do to earn enough for that.
So if you, say, buy this token from the game shop for $X and put it on the AH, you will probably be waiting a fair while to sell it. You could probably go make a fair amount of gold in the time you wait for it to sell.
I think people are getting worked up over the proverbial storm in a tea cup.
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Honestly, I feel like a lot of people have the right of getting worked up over it. I haven’t played classic since around a month after it came out however, I don’t see wow tokens being a good thing. I mean, it kind of starts with them trying to push little things at a time to eventually a larger change causing more people to be upset.
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Has there been any official reports that the token system ruined or even negatively affected the China realms in any way?
I know for a fact a lot of players buy gold already as it is, I’ve heard people plainly brag about it in game. If players weren’t already buying gold from botters then why are all the low level zone flooded with botters?
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In this instance I don’t agree. I mean, Blizzard is turning me into a bit of a pessimist, but you have to consider how stupid a move it would be and how it would turn so many people off the game. Why do something that would be so destructive to a part of WoW that has proven to be so financial beneficial?
If it were a stand-alone game and tokens were seen as the only real way to weaken the use of gold sellers, I’d understand it. But things are a bit different in Classic to what they were in retail. The amount of gold available in the game at the time tokens were made available was huge - I had over 500,000g at that time and with tokens costing about 35k, I paid for my sub for like 4 years just from my stored gold, even as the token prices rose. But having 500,000g in retail is a bit different from a game where, if you are 100g spare, you feel rich as. And everything in Classic costs - gaining spells, levels of spells, professions, mounts, the list goes on. Leveling up a character in retail is virtually free, about the only things you spend gold on are mats and bling. Leveling one in Classic sucks up your gold so spare currency is not common.
I guess what I’m saying is - in retail I could easily afford to buy one off the AH. In Classic its a whole different story, and the uses it can be put to just don’t warrant the expenditure imo. So even if you go out and spend the $$ to buy one in the hopes of making gold, you would be hoping there was someone there with that spare gold and reason to buy it.
Now I am in no way advocating for WoW tokens in classic, but it wont impact the market the way a lot of people think. The market is based on a few things, availability, price, and population currency. Adding WoW tokens to the pool will increase the price of every item on the AH. You observed this phenomenon during the WoW classic launch. BoE’s and materials went for fractions of what they normally sell for because people simply didnt have the gold to pay the stabilized price. So I dont think it will cause people to raid log. What will end up causing people to raid log or quit is their personal belief that WoW tokens dont belong in the game.
I feel like this statement depends on the realm you are on. It won’t really sell on a low pop or possibly medium pop server but, a full or high most likely will sell. I’m sure there are plenty of people in classic who will be able to buy wow tokens with gold. Maybe not as many in retail but classic will have some.
But I still don’t get what purpose buying them serves. Regardless of whether or not people have the gold to buy them. Buy them for what?
While I wouldn’t put it past Bobby moneyhunger to put tokens in, wow in china is controlled by a different company due to how China’s laws work so they can implement their own changes when they want.
Basically outright buy everything. So for example, someone could outright just buy their way to their epic mount, buy all the flasks, pots, food etc. for raid. Or essentially could pay to be carried although I don’t really see that as a thing. In a way it devalues gold and the effort of getting it. And to put it simply, someone who buys tokens and gets the gold, will likely be ahead of the person who doesn’t.
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Like the Coronavirus?
Well I’m pretty sure there are still some “Vanilla” private servers around. If they push too hard people will just go back there.
You think one token is going to buy you months of consumables? That is 100% hilarious
No, you are misunderstanding me. I’m talking about buying the tokens off the AH. Not buying them from the shop to put into the AH.
Certainly once it sells you can use the gold to buy things. But what reason does a person standing at the Auction House and seeing the token for sale have to spend their gold to buy it?
Game time? The amount of time it would take to earn enough gold to buy that token is game time used. It seems counterintuitive. Why spend money earned playing to buy a token to get more game time? You may as well just play and earn the gold. And if a person is short of the ready and can handle playing retail for a while, you can go there and earn enough for a month’s sub in a relatively short period of time. They can think of it as an unpleasant duty if they hate retail - many of us have jobs we don’t care for but do to earn a necessary living.