Today I am going to bring up a topic that should be discussed because I’m sure it is being actively thought about by many players as well as the Classic team.
The question is: why do you think Classic Tokens are a good/bad idea?
My opinion on the matter:
Classic gold farmers are inevitable. No one can state that classic gold farmers won’t be an issue. We all know that it is going to happen… it’s just a matter of how badly it will get out of hand before something is done about it.
For starters, Blizzard has gotten much better throughout the years at targeting gold farming and putting a stop to it quickly.
On the flip side, they are dealing with much more gold farming than they did back when vanilla was current. People understand that you can make a solid living off selling currency in game if you do it right…
One way that Blizzard has battled the bots through the years is introducing WoW Tokens. WoW Tokens act as a currency both in the game and in real life. You can spend gold on WoW Tokens to give game time and you can purchase the WoW Tokens on the Blizzard site/store for gold in game or additional game time.
WoW Tokens provide the game with a smoother economy by stabilizing the value of in game currency to real life currency.
Blizzard could make 75g in classic worth $15 USD for example. If you can spend gold for play time, think of the opportunity? That is such a gold sink.
One thing to note… players that buy gold, WILL buy gold… This is a way for us to stop the sellers and buyers from ruining the economy. This will not stop gold farming… but it will help significantly.
Gold will be sold from one source or another.
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Or you could keep your wow tokens in retail to pay for your sub and just not have them in classic period. People pay for services even without the token and they do and will get banned in the long run. Tokens will ruin the game.
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absolutely not… and solely for the reason that if they added wow tokens… the entire vanilla economy would then be based around the fluctuating price of the token. In retail you CAN farm 100k gold in a day easily… in vanilla wow gold is scarce, and what gold sinks already exist are punishing enough.
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The answer is to try harder to keep tokens and gold selling out of classic, by separating the sub, or not giving token subs access to classic and coming down hard with the banhammer on people who buy gold or trade gold cross server.
A lot of the hype for classic is people rejecting the pay2win mentality that has infected gaming at every level today and that’s what tokens are.
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Nah, mate. You pay your sub, and if you’re broke, you earn gold in game. That’s the way it needs to be.
Gold sellers need to be walled off with draconian IP rules, that include coming down hard on VPNs. This is basically the only international wall I’m in favor of, lol.
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This is a terrible answer. How would separating the sub be a good idea at all?
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People are just going to buy their mounts then. Stupid idea. Dont put it in. Id rather gold sellers be in classic than the WoW token.At least that way we can ban people who buy their mount.
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We should discourage purchasing gold, not encourage it.
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Nobody is resubbing to play Classic if it has tokens.
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Shaming gold buyers is probably the best tactic we can do as a community to stop it, besides reporting gold buyers.
If people wana buy wow tokens and or use them to bady THEY CAN ON RETAIL because guess what shared sub, everyone wins. Wohooo yay.
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Gold is too valuable in Vanilla content to have people purchasing it, regardless of legitimacy. Tokens are damn near the top of my no list.
Pay real money to skip your 60% mount grind.
Pay real money to skip your 100% mount grind.
Pay real money to fund twinks.
Pay real money to fund end-game gear.
Pay real money to fund raid consumables.
Pay real money to level professions.
Absolutely disgusting. It is my opinion that Blizzard should violently and permanently ban anybody caught buying and selling gold. Violently.
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Not true. I’m right here.
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Im sure OP has considered the fact that the retail economy can be consistently tweaked through the BMAH offerings, introduction of new gold sinks and gold accumulation methods, changes in vendor prices, etc., while the Classic economy is going to have to emulate what was in vanilla. Therefore, if the developers notice an unhealthy increase (or shortage) in the money supply on a retail server, they have multiple tools to try and remedy the situation, and on Classic servers they have none.
This topic has been discussed to death and it’s always the same scenario where the people bringing this up aren’t capable of seeing the difference between live WoW and what Classic will be. Do you think they monitor the money supply on current live servers so they can address potential issues? How do they deal with that in Classic?
Retail is there for you, OP. Embrace it and all of its totally awesome features.
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I just now realized that blizzards way of “combating gold selling” by introducing the wow token was literally them saying “everyone should have the ability to buy gold with ease”
edit…
buying gold used to be a taboo, now it is the norm lmao
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Has nothing to do with “combating gold sellers” and everything to do with wanting a piece of grey-market activity.
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Nope, if I see a wow token I’m gone, that’s not classic wow, the stingy gold and earning your epic mount is part of the classic experience, I would not be happy playing on the same servers as other people who just buy them.
And the wow token has not stopped gold selling, its still happening, all there doing is matching blizzards prices, and the game is now p2w because you can buy gear and raid runs with gold.
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part of their original argument in regard to wanting wow tokens was to combat gold sellers. Blizzard has met with multiple government agencies over the gold selling/human rights issues, its something that they wanted to get rid of and rightly so.
If there’s going to an issue with bots, I think Blizzard could take other measures to counteract it. By having a tight number of servers maybe it would be easier for them to police that?
And gold sellers just sell at a price lower than tokens. Didn’t really do much.
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