You can get some use of professions especially for friends and guildies without spamming trade chat. I craft all my gear and for a few friends on a number of profession alts.
Some people enjoy flipping and selling things on the AH.
Farming old raids for transmogs.
Farming current raids for BoEs.
Crafting and selling toys and mounts.
Crafting and selling anything professions can sell on the AH.
In Dragonflight I made millions of gold farming crafting recipes from world events and selling them. Crafting recipe farm sucked in TWW though since they were less valuable and the rarest recipes weren’t in high demand.
There’s a battle pet market though not super active. This could have been more active if Blizzard had ever added more to the feature or something like a battle pet app connected to your bnet account.
Housing in the next expansion will likely create another large cosmetic market in addition to the ones that already exist.
I did just say this in my first post you responded to. You literally quoted me saying it and then asked for examples of activities related to the economy.
All of my examples exist… The reason you do them usually is to make more gold outside of making crafted gear for friends.
Also, the people who purchase cosmetic things on the AH whether it’s mogs or mounts or toys or whatever housing items we can make next expansion is because some people find collecting and using those things a fun addition to the game.
People sell things to make gold.
People buy things for practical value or for fun value.
Please remember this is a PC game, which have always been a bit more complex than a console game. The game has be simplified in so many other ways, but removing currency and the ways to make it would be the “wow killer”.
So your business suggestion to Microsoft/Blizzard is to cut off a major source of income and then make a multi-billion dollar investment that’s almost certain to have no meaningful return?
Well you would lose all the bots and rmt so it would definitely have a negative impact.
Not for the same reason as op I would still like to see servers without trading as to promote an environment without bots and less rmt which personally I value more than having an economy. But I get it many people like to be advantaged with gold or money because simply playing the game would be bad.
As far as professions go I dont mind consumables and others and I think it’s time to let them be more account wide. With how much time and work is involved with current profession system it would make more sense if all your charactere had access to the same.
True, that would be one benefit…fewer bots and RMT. I personally wouldn’t mind that much since I don’t gold farm or interact with the AH much…I just think a lot of other people would care.