It’s not free if you have to spend time to make money to play the game. Game’s are meant to be fun, sure, you can say some people have fun just sitting in the auction house. But if the majority of people found that fun, everyone would have brutosaur mounts. Basic items would cost 500k each.
That’s literally the direction WoW is heading, though. It started with mounts, then pets, then toys, now armor sets…what’s next? It’s just getting out of hand. We’re paying a monthly sub and expansion costs, why are we getting charged for basic content?
I still see them, maybe it lessened for your server but look at illidan and other popular servers. Trade is still spammed with them.
Those problems went away with 2 factor authenticators in my opinion. Ever since I’ve had one, I’ve never been hacked.
Oh I remember that. Flying naked alts. That all stopped before gold tokens were implemented, though, from what I experienced while playing.