Who’s the target of this change supposed to be?
The way I’m reading this, nothing will stop botters from using tokens on real-money accounts to gift 60-day game time to themselves to feed their endless army of new accounts.
So I ask again, who was this change targeted towards? Or is the scenario I just presented an oversight that is going to get clamped down on in some form?
It’s for botters and other forms of exploitation.
If you pay to subscribe to the game it does not affect you. If you have bought WoW payed 0ne or more months then stopped then just farmed gold to pay for a wow token to keep playing then this might affect you I don’t know. Outside of botters etc It will hamper a lot of players who relied on being able to buy the wow token after they farmed enough gold in the first couple of weeks of a month etc. I emphasise with all of you if this is the case since I was this type of player for 3-4 years while I was out of work I would constantly grind and AH all i could to make enough and continue to make enough to play wow monthly with no in game expendeture. Now that I am able to buy these 12 month packages and just a sub in general I and other who also are able to will be fine. I just hope those who are 100% affected by this financially are able to eventually rebound and continue to join us on Azeroth.
This will give blizzard actual information on these botters now that they are actually having to buy a subscription and can permaban them and any other accounts linked to them. Eventaully they will find a method to counter this but it will have to be an even more indepth exploit. I hope you understand that. I have known botters before they adapt to changes like this but it takes time.
Bots, mostly, or at least I would assume. They are making sure that paying customers…well, pay, I guess.
A seed account can buy a sub and start blasting through tokens after 30 days with the hoards of gold made on their minions.
Then they buy the game time and distribute it to other burner accounts.
Once everything gets banned, the process repeats, except they would have had other seed accounts in the works and there is effectivey no 30 days of waiting around.
It took all of 10 seconds to think of this scenario and I fail to see how this will have any meaningful impact on botters.
Does nothing but make blizzard money. The Botters and exploiters just sell their gold for real money and purchase game time. the only thing blizzard gains is a 1 time influx of cash. Very likely they will change this to a year. So you will have to buy atleast 1 month of game time every year with real money to use tokens.
Im impressed with blizzard, this is good business, they are basically saying, we know you sell gold for IRL money but we want a small cut.
When Blizzard said that it is free of Activision, we did not know that the worst things had come from its associate and even though the damage has been done, the worst thing is to retract it and try to eliminate it as simply as that.
But the worst thing is that once again Blizzard comes from the lies and the fine print as always in that it never says how it will really be.
for these questions:
The botters use cash and gold, and we do not know how long they have been in force for 2017, so it will not harm them, those who will harm are the low-paid players, and maintenance to be able to buy the wowtoken in real money , making players less accessible and more selfish who would even be exaggeratedly millionaires, especially if they are from other undeveloped countries.
Anyway, as is point 1, don’t tell me the answers, I’m going to quote this part of my post, because Blizzard does not make clear the fact of canceling the wowtoken in that way, that there is no reason to avoid some things like the botters that have been ruining the game experience, because unfortunately they will be there, doing the same thing, and everything else more for the greed of a AAA company that has not changed anything and harms the accessibility of playing this video game more easily.
Id like to know what the heck as well. Is this a good thijg or a bad thing
Overall a good thing, only people really against it are generally exploiters / botters as most of us have paid for something and it doesn’t effect us at all.
Though there might be a very very small % that it might of been legit, they can juts buy a normal month and then continue using tokens.
Oof, well this makes Playing WoW for “Free” kind of pointless now is it?..
…Seriously, why can’t Blizzard just invest into Bot detection programs instead of doing all these weird measures that is seemingly only inconvenient for normal players since Bots adapt pretty fast?.. Or if they do, why not just… make it powerful somehow? Like do something that bots wouldn’t really try ever thinking about doing. Idk. There has to be better ways here…
It is basically there way of making sure players are paying a subscription fee and not just using in game gold to buy tokens every month. I honestly don’t see the problem with people doing that. After all someone paid $20 for that token and if it is used for someone’s monthly sub, they made $5 more than if the person had just paid their monthly sub in the first place.
I figured it was to collect more up to date location information on customers. Or at least the location of the payment method.
Human and bot alike.
Mantheus did a neat break down that made the most sense for me… simply put, it was to keep the wow token price more in where it should be. With the closure in china for people there not able to play wow. Those players moved to the other regions and started to farm gold, bot etc which let them pay for that account with gold and through time ballooned the price.
This change really was noticeable for me.
That said, I’ll add that when said person does pay with a credit card etc, Blizzard now has the information just in case… and can act quicker and/or more precisely.