At a conversion rate of 1:1000 gold i decided to not trade any. 100k retail gold for a measly 100 classic gold just didnt feel worthy imo.
If say the person trading it was giving me 1k classic gold, id actually consider it.
Your solution to fix gold and economy is to add a feature designed to remove gold from the WoW economy by driving the value into nothing and normalizing the real money purchase of gold. Tokens āfixā gold farming/selling by nuking the value of gold so harshly that nobody can effectively farm a meaningful amount of it. Itās why tokens arenāt sold at a market value but rather at a fixed value. It creates a gold economy wherein Blizzard is the only entity that can provide a significant sum of gold for a playerās money.
If you want to fix botting, then you need to ask for spawn rates to be 3x if not 4x higher on high pop servers. Bots will continue to farm, but if players can go out into the world and gather a meaningful amount of mats for their time, then they wonāt resort to farming/buying gold.
The pipe dream is banning multiboxing to remove the insane multibox farming that takes place inside and outside of dungeons. Blizzard has already proven that theyāre too adjective to address it. What absolutely needs to happen is eākos being changed from a group lootable item to a solo loot only item. A multiboxer earns eākos at a higher rate equal to their toon count. Thereās a 10 box mage on my server that earns over 200g/h killing frost giants in winterspring for eākos, because every time an eāko drops, he loots 10 eākos. Mutliboxing undermines the genre at best and breaks the game at worst.
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I remember at one time when they just simply ācut-offā players that were connecting from overseas cut down on some of the gold farmers. But the current mages that are boosting are not all āGold Sellersā some of them are players that have figured out that it is a faster way to farm their raid consumable gold. Course it takes them time and many mess ups to learn the pulls and how to do it properly. I myself stopped trying to learn to do the AoE method on my mage and went back to what i knew i could do to earn money. Dungeon spam and world farming
But they will only drop about 5 per kill to be looted. Me and 9 guildmates were out farming them and noticed that after 5 sometimes 6 ekos no more could be looted. more people will make it go faster but the most we got from one kill was 6.
The gold farming is much more efficient, but itās a 2 fold problem of extreme over population making it more time efficient to farm gold in instanced content to buy consumes/mats than it is to farm mats in the open world.
This should be seen as broken and needing to be fixed. Gathering professions are becoming an obsolete way to obtain materials. Thatās really bad.
We pay to subscribe. Time is money my friend.
No thanks. I donāt want to be forced to buy gold.
Thanks for the ideas. Itās nice to read peopleās ideas, instead of ranting or complaining. I suspect that Blizzard likes good feedback like this too.
A perfect solution that I have posted before, is rather than banning bots, make them attack-able by both factions, and make them drop all their gear and gold upon death.
Yeah, it is sad when a MMO has folks in charge that value $ over their gameās integrity.
Iāve played WoW since 2004, and Iāve never bought gold. Certainly no-one has ever āforced meā to do that, and they never will.
I donāt believe any player āneedsā anything in a game. Some players WANT a thing and will buy gold to get it. That is a WANT, not a NEED.
Itās not my place to judge those players. But I wonāt do it. For me itās the same as in real life ā if I donāt have the money, I donāt buy it.
Gold-making is part of my game. I use gold to keep score. So naturally I canāt purchase gold. How can you keep score if you buy points? I might as well ride around on my epic mount with LOSER on my forehead.
If time is money, then why your playing WoW exactly?
Does not. Itās a good way to destroy any sense of community you currently possesses. Retail is the best example of it.
Lol imagine paying $15 a month for a game to spend even more money to not play it.
Farming gold is the true end game content, buying gold is like only eating dessert.
Theres no good reason why you canāt farm the gold yourself, Blizzard needs to take a harder stance on gold buyers.