GOOD JOB Blizzard!
What’s wrong with BL costing a lot? Basic economic principles is not something to patch.
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The fact you’re treating BL as some kind of stock market is the problem. Either way, judging from the change and how it was received, both Blizzard and the majority of the playerbase disagree with your approach, so deal with it or quit I guess.
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Stock market? What is that supposed to mean? Supply and demand applies to everything on the AH. I’m not gonna complain to Blizz that Epics are too expensive and that they should cost 20s a pop. Something being expensive is not an issue that Blizz created, nor is it an issue with their game but with the players. Asking Blizzard for handouts is exactly what made retail what it is today, and what classic was supposed to be a break from.
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This is EXACTLY what I said on the forums about 4 months ago although I believe I used 80g as the benchmark. My point was that these flasks were in the game and they should be available for use at a reasonable enough price so that people could enjoy this aspect of raiding.
I asked for them to do something about the supply in regards to servers of higher population than in vanilla and asked them to do something about the level 1s dead botting the spawn points.
Their changes (for my server at least) mean that my time investment is now worth half of what I thought it would be and I wouldn’t have spent so much time and effort running laps to find the rare flower if I had known that before.
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Guys, Focq lotus mafia for sure but are you ready for premade with Flask olol^100
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Yeah, players like you who were hoarding BL not for personal use but to speculate on its price.
If BL was hoarded only by ppl who actually intend to use them instead of selling them at a higher price, prices wouldn’t have hit the heights we have seen in the last few weeks - just look at how many hit the market at once. Those definitely were NOT being saved for use, or they wouldn’t have been sold all at once.
Assuming you were just buying them for personal use, nothing really changes for you - you still have the Lotus you saved. In fact, the change in question allows you to buy even more, possibly being able to start flasking regularly earlier than you had planned to or allowing more of your guildies to flask as much.
This change did NOT hurt the people who were stocking up on Black Lotus for personal use. They only hurt filthy hoarders and speculators.
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Again, why is that an issue? It’s a legitimate way to play the game. If someone wants to do that and the game allows it, then there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it.
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Kronos did similar things - allowing it to spawn on any node in the zone. And on a random timer (+/-15 min from an hour) to prevent timing based camping. Not sure if they ever made them dynamic (no over-population later on).
And the problem was they were camped, herbalists at spawn points. So they de-camped BL and prices went to server average of around 80-90g if I recall correctly (and actually showed on AH in stronger quantities).
Well, considering Blizzard changed that, they seem to disagree with your sentiment. And so does the majority of the playerbase. It’s not up to you to decide what’s a healthy state of the game, or what’s the “legitimate way” of playing the game.
I didn’t determine what a legitimate way of playing the game is or isn’t. The ToS did. If it wasn’t a legitimate way of playing the game, hoarding would be a bannable offence - which it isn’t.
Blizzard did what Blizzard has been doing for years now - caved in to the cries of those who want stuff for free. That’s just who they are as a company these days. What’s the point of releasing a version of the game as it was back in the time, if you’re gonna change it anyway? It beats the whole purpose of classic.
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Nobody ever said what you did was ToS-breaking, but it was still harmful to the game, which is why Blizz fixed it.
BL isn’t “free” now, it still costs 100g a piece on my server.
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After all these years players learned how to exploit the game or just how to do things that were really out of reach back in the day (like mega-realms, patch 1.12 leveling and endgame since launch etc. which is also specific to Classic and not the original).
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I farmed them… Spent hundreds of hours running laps of lotus zones mostly against unfair competition of account shareres and lvl 1 botters.
No need to sell what I farm immediately. That’s what botters and account sellers do.
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Because both bases have a backdoor and you are not reaching a location you are not intended to reach that you can’t reach without jumping.
Again, that was caused by the players. Asking Blizz to fix a player issue is barking up the wrong tree. And I still don’t see how it was harmful to the game.
You know damn well what the poet meant to say.
Agreed. Not quite sure what you meant to say though.
Then congratz, you’re part of the reason why the price of BL was so much through the roof. As a person who mainly stocked them up for personal use, do you expect me to feel bad about you or something? Personally, my gameplay (and a lot other people as well) would be way better off without BL hoarders like you.
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No wonder you don’t see how that was harmful to the game, if you think BL for 100g means “free” lol.
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I don’t think that. You’re misinterpreting what I said.
I dont know… I mean, ok, i guess?
But why? Why you decided to change something that was part of the vanilla experience?
If you do this, why not increasing the chances of Arcane Crystals dropping by 800% aswell? Or maybe reducing the outrageous CD for mooncloth?
While we are at it, why not “fixing” ignite stacks and HS queueing? Why not remaking useless talent trees?
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