There’s not one guy from one department calling all the shots on this. The actual devs arent sitting there asking themselves, “you know what this game needs?” and coming up with Level boosts and the WoW token.
That comes from somewhere and someone else who stares at a spreadsheet all day instead of game code with a few more someones shoved in between.
What I’m getting at here is you can have a “Wrath Classic” with the token and no RDF no matter how contradictory it appears on its face. Ultimately, one doesn’t have anything to do with the other.
But lets be clear about something - the reason why the token exists is because people will use it. The reason why you have level boosts and luxury perk packages and the WoW token is because that’s what your average mass subscriber looks like.
If it looks like an ATM machine and quacks like an ATM machine then take them up on the offer and push their buttons til the money comes out.
Why? Because if Blizz doesn’t do it the players are just gonna take it upon themselves anyway and pay someone else to do it in one form or another. To me the token just proves we hit that wonderful point in an MMO’s lifespan where we can conclude, without a shred of doubt that…nobody cares. The servers will be up but fundamentally its dead and one can make a case its been a rotting corpse since shortly after Era’s launch.
I’ll admit that I could have been more clear that my statement was an “at best” scenario for Blizzard. But this does hurt the gold farmers in WLK like it or not, even though it may be minimal. But never did I claim that they will be fully gone, nor that they are from other variations of WoW.
My entire point is it doesn’t get rid of them. Even at the very best position, it did the most damage possible to them, they could easily just move over to Era. Why? Because Blizzard is too cheap to enforce their regulations for the most part…
You don’t want the token in a world whose technology has evolved, where there are farms to farm gold and that’s a business. Someday you have to stop feigning insanity.
19 years have passed.
You want WoW to bring you back to your adolescence, party lan and sleepless nights playing carefree. Without having to work or worry about tomorrow. Those times will not return no matter how much they took out the token. It’s the past.
Bud i was in stormwind yesterday on sulfuras and we were only 3 people and a rogue getting rekt while trying to gank. Thats sulfuras, dungeon tablet is just empty always, sometimes 1 group show up looking for people. I know sulfuras is Bad in alliance right now, but it was great at Launch and first phase.
I just can’t play there wasting 1h for filling a group for dungeons Even when i’m the tank.
haha right? RMT has been going on since the dawn of this game, but as soon as blizz wants to cash in, people act like it’s some new thing and it’s game over.
As for me, the token is the only way my two sons can afford to play as a family (I certainly cannot afford to pay their subscription). For us, it’s a great deal. The kids farm intensively for about 3 to 5 days for a month of playtime.
Because none of this belongs in an RPG. Both are wrong for the game. It doesn’t matter if you’re buying from Gsellers or Blizz, neither should exist. You guys in here saying the token is no big deal since gold sellers exist are ignoring the core issue. This is an RPG. Advancing your character by paying rather than playing is antithetical to what an RPG is about.
Anything might be happening. I’m happy that I don’t need to block boost and selling spam on this server. Before TBC launch I was using a chat filter, so this is an improvement.