you can trade gold and use that gold to buy the token.
sorry, i guess i worded that weirdly. they distribute the gold.
Blizzard CS on Twitter said that will never happen.
A 2 week ban is a pathetic deterrence for those who violate the TOS and buy gold. RMT should warrant a permanent ban. Blizzard is so greedy to keep subs, they haven’t and will never do what’s necessary to fix the root cause.
Buying gold or buying leveling services (not boosting) used to be a permanent account ban. Did Blizzard ever give any justification as to why they dramatically reduced the severity of punishment?
It’s because of supply shortages.
It’s the exact same reason new GPUs cost 2X MSRP at launch.
If you actually paid for your own things and didn’t live off your mom’s credit card in her basement you’d understand how supply and demand works.
You forgot to say
Gdkpers have been used to receiving rmt gold, now that source has gone they are forced to go direct to the sellers.
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Blizz will never do anything about botters because:
-they pay subs and increase MAU metrics
-nobody is quitting over bots
it’s that simple
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If 100% of RMT was eliminated by blizzard, people would still want to GDKP. I would rather earn gold from raiding with others than farming nodes and herbs. Farming is boring. Raiding is fun. Calling for bans on gdkp, boosting, etc is selfishly trying to force players to play your way instead of how they enjoy to and blaming other things like rmt to prop up your argument.
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The problem with this entire section is that it would cause them to lose money.
You don’t become a 3 trillion dollar company by making less money.
You become a 3 trillion dollar company that’s just crappy enough and important enough to keep people addicted… without actually putting in any measures to improve their experience.
Sorry bud.
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Retail sounds like a better fit for you. Classic is classic for a reason
The reasons are plainly obvious.
- In later versions of the game making enough gold to raid, respec, and do normal things is easy to come by thanks to dailies, loot drops and other systems.
- Later versions of the game replace gear quickly, so there is no/limited market for very expensive BOE crafted items and world drops after the initial phase.
- Later versions of the game have an easy to obtain set of gear through doing dungeons, heroic dungeons and battlegrounds that serve as your “pre-BiS”.
- Changes to world buffs and positive auras that your character can benefit from greatly cut down on the number of things you need to bring to raid. You can show up with a handful of cheap and easy to obtain consumables in most versions of the game.
World of Warcraft Classic (“Vanilla”) is the most expensive version of the game that ever existed - if you want to take advantage of everything available to you.
Contrary to what some would say, the raids from BWL onwards aren’t super duper easy if you are playing with casuals who aren’t world buffed and have full consumables. Those things trivialize the encounters, which is why they are not possible in later versions of the game.
If you have been around the game for any length of time you have heard what people will spend on an iconic drop from Naxx or AQ40. They didn’t get that kind of cash farming elementals or mining/herbing.
I hate to say it but you add it up and realize the number of hours you would have to play per week to afford every advantage available - and it starts to make sense. Not to mention if you wanted to optimize gold and are a Warrior main that basically means leveling a Mage/Warlock or Hunter.
I think they would do better to combat the problem with some kind dailies system and vendors than the approach they have been taking.
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you want gdkp because you dont want to actually play the game. you want to log in once a week and never step foot out of org/sw while taking all of the end game benefits.
people like you who dont enjoy playing the game dont deserve to have an opinion on how people should enjoy wow.
i dont need to blame anything to prop my argument.
gdkp, boosting, etc is the absolute worst thing that has happened to wow and its caused by people like YOU.
honestly, you dont even deserve to enjoy the game at all with those opinions. keep seething.
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RMT, GDKP, Minus 50 DKP, lol
All sounds very foreign and made up.
Almost like its robotic.
Derp
Yeah I too would prefer to spend hours farming gold and still have more expensive consumes as someone who also doesn’t play anniversary and only active on various discussion forums advocating for changes that slowly bleed the player base as consume requirements become more intense.
It’s not about keeping subs lol, the game would be dead if they perma banned everyone that bought gold.
This is not at all true.
The problem with this is there are legit people who have alts they funnel things to and then transfer to their mains, so what actually needs to happen is monitoring of NEWLY created chars that just happen to receive then send alot of gold then are deleted right after.
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Whats GDKP
Some made up thing to exploit people.
Buy raid drops with gold. Items get bid up, and at the end the pot is split between the 20/40 players, with bonus % to host, mt, top heal/DPS, and maybe other things
Best way to even out the economy. So gold goes to players and not AH Mafia Bots