Reduce the amount of gold you get ingame so people are pushed to buy Token for money if they want to buy boosts or other stuff ingame.Couldn't be more obvious from Blizzards side, Activision is showing strong.
That's typical af, right? Let's all become multiboxers, because at least that isn't illegal although it makes it suck for everyone else!
Serious question regarding multi boxers:How is herbing/mining more efficient multi boxing 10 chars than doing it with just one char? Yes you get 10x the amount of resources but you also have 10x the expense.I could see multi boxers getting more benifits by killing mobs because they have 10x the chance to get BoEs or other rare items but not from gathering. Also if multi boxers gather a ton of herbs/ore and saturate the AH with bulk herbs - that reduces prices, not increases them. If there are more mats to buy and they cost less, that reduces prices of potions and other consumables not increases them. Economics 101.
How is it a good idea for them to keep on sucking gold out of people?
This will likely cause a small amount of deflationAs has been said by others, all gold in the game comes from raw gold makingThat is gold drop's of mobs, vendor trash, anything else with a vendor price that is just vendor'dMost of those won't change only items with an ilvl will have a reduced vendor price everything else will likely stay the same.If the average players raw gold income drops due to this then so will AH prices, if players can't afford consumables or other items of the AH then prices have to drop to the point where they can afford to buy.This is not changed by a few players having millions, they can't sell to players that don't have gold, they can try to push prices up but if no one buys at the price they place then they won't sell either.This kind of thing has happened with most expansions, garrisons and legion order halls got gold making nerfed, quests had gold rewards nerfed.Your raw gold making will likely be not much changed in the current content but your repair costs will be lower.You can still run old raids if the gold return is better than questing, dailies or killing mobs, that is your choiceI have not actively gone out of my way to make gold in this expansion but i have made enough to buy tokens to pay for the expansion a few extra months of game time and have plenty of balance in my blizzard account. I expect this to continue.I have brought lots of vendor mounts, some bmah stuff and odd bits of gear and pets of the AH, not sure this is going to be a problem in SL either.It will likely make very little difference to the average player
Excellent. The fact that these were such huge gold farming methods for so many people only shows that nerfing them will decrease overall gold token costs, as the actual value of gold increases vs USD.
"nooo you cant just go through an old raid and make a heckin whole 2k gold that'll ruin the markets you're crazy! now go be a good gold farmer and pay for 8 accounts so you can multibox farm and ruin the price of everything for everyone else :)))"thanks blizzard real epic