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Post by
Aldun
I want to buy gold but im afraid blizz will ban my newly bought account, so i think blizz should allow me to buy gold!
I think it could work, what do you think?
No.
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Post by
Aldun
I want to buy gold but im afraid blizz will ban my newly bought account, so i think blizz should allow me to buy gold!
I think it could work, what do you think?
No.
What difference does it make what he does with his own money? Especially when it would
have absolutely no bearing on you what-so-ever?
Quit editing posts, grow up, and learn some facts before you troll.
How does a total ruined economy in favor of the rich kids in real life not affect me?
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Post by
Nitewalkr
God! Can you give it a rest?
I think this thread was already answered. This point has brought up to Activision-Blizzard on several occassions and their answer was "It will be unfair to other players." Practically they are right! If they start this in-game game cards selling; following disadvantages would occur:
-> They will lose 20% of their clients due to the cause of game turning in to a Grind fest. Where their clients would gold farm the hell out of wow just to buy next month's game time cards for unaffordable price. It would also force people to buy gold from gold sellers.
-> The game itself will turn out to be soo easy and the concept of LFW will be lost. Which is a shameful thing because many people love working and making gold that way.
Advantages:
-> Gold sellers will buy game time cards in game and trade them in game at expensive price. This really brings the wow e-business down to lower rate. Consider following example:
--> A person who is selling gold will also be selling a game time card along with other epic (very rare) gear / item / weapons. He will be selling them at a higher price. People would either buy gold and than buy items, or people would farm the gold instead of questing peacefully. (I experienced it from Korean MMORPG called Silkroad, Cabal, Etc)
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Korean MMORPGS do pretty much the same thing you guys are talking about. They sell the game time cards in their virtual shops, many people buy them and sell them in trade channel for unaffordable price, which turns the MMORPG to a grind fest. Many people would buy gold for it...
After joining WOW I realized that this isnt how MMORPG works. =)
So my answer is NO this is a bad idea and it will just kill wow economy.
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Post by
Strandvaskeren
I want to buy gold but im afraid blizz will ban my newly bought account, so i think blizz should allow me to buy gold!
I think it could work, what do you think?
I'm to retarded to consider this idea, so I just altered what you said instead.
Well, please stop that..
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Post by
monopoman
Can't they already sort of do this?
Go buy a Spectral Tiger mount card scratch it off redeem the item put it on the AH for 100k gold or whatever.
Wah lah I just LEGALLY converted my cash into gold.
Seriously this is not a huge deal since if you want you can go on Ebay and buy most CCG loot cards redeem the item then go straight to the AH.
Most Loot cards no longer are BOP when redeemed in game.
Post by
Sildawg
I don't think Blizzard really wants to cut gold farmers out of the loop nearly as bad as they like you to think they do. There are always going to be gold farmers/sellers, and there are always going to be people who want to buy gold.
You think a doctor/lawyer who makes $400 an hour and has limited time to play the game wants to grind for 25 hours to buy epic flying when he could just buy 5000 gold for $25 dollars?
I realize this is an extreme example but there are rich people, celebrities even who play the game. I don't think anyone really considers doing dailies, mining/herbing, or playing the AH to be the "fun" part of the game.
Right now you have rich guys buying gold from gold sellers, people who would neither buy nor sell gold, and players with stockpiles of gold and no reliable means to sell it.
Now if Blizzard made it so the players with stockpiles of gold could legitimately sell to the rich guys who would otherwise buy from the gold sellers, it would take a lot of gold sellers out of the equation.
Why buy gold from some shady guy in China/Korea, when you can buy gold in a Blizzard sanctioned way?
The trouble for Blizzard in this equation is that they just lost the gold farmers/sellers subscription money. Blizzard likes the current situation.
The rich guys pay. The normal guys pay. The guys with too much gold pay. The gold farmer/sellers pay. Blizzard wants their subscriptions.
If the gold farmers/sellers became such a nuisance that they were losing large numbers of subscriptions over it, they might implement something like they have in Eve Online.
If gold DKP runs become a lot more popular it will be a big step in that direction, but it remains to be seen how much of a problem these runs will cause once the majority of the players figure out that everything is for sale, even BOP.
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Post by
ZoraLink
Holy necro batman.
And on topic:
No. No matter how you try to justify it, it would still unbalance the game, both the economy and giving richer people an advantage.
It would be an interesting circular effect, as primarily rich people would have gold, to buy gametime, while also having money to buy gametime with actual currency, to make that gold....
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Post by
conas
You don't understand that gold is VIRTUAL currency with NO INTRINSIC VALUE. .
Just like any other currency on the planet atm ( except those precious metal coins which are not the norm ), feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
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Sildawg
Holy necro batman.
And on topic:
No. No matter how you try to justify it, it would still unbalance the game, both the economy and giving richer people an advantage.
It would be an interesting circular effect, as primarily rich people would have gold, to buy gametime, while also having money to buy gametime with actual currency, to make that gold....
Richer people already buy gold, and have been since the game came out.
Post by
Garenzo
You don't understand that gold is VIRTUAL currency with NO INTRINSIC VALUE. .
Just like any other currency on the planet atm ( except those precious metal coins which are not the norm ), feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
Ingame gold doesn't pay the employees' salaries, unfortunately. I'm pretty sure the biggest income comes from the monthly payments rather than people buying new copies of the game.
Post by
Nipah
I like the idea... if only because I'm good at making gold and would like to play for free ($15 / month isn't a lot, but it adds up... and I could buy some nice stuff with that money!).
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