True! A bigger population (bigger than the server populations back then, which the world isn’t accommodated for) will lead to more gold buying, especially when there’s a lot of newcomers that feel they’re behind (in professions, gear etc.) so they will be tempted to buy gold when they’ve entered an already damaged economy. Boosters are also more likely to have a higher disposable income and won’t feel as hurt for getting banned when they can just buy a new boost, and buy more gold. Most boosters won’t behave like this ofc, but I still fear the introduction of the boost will have an impact like this on the game. The behavior of the few can have a big impact on the many.
No no most of them want to be scarab lords with lengendaries with -0 effort put in. Why cant we just buy everything, we want to play the game without actualy playing it 
that is how those people sound to me 
and their reasoning is but i have kids and job i cant farm allday and whatever… like then this game aint for you. Well it just shows why they are loosing subs with every expansion. But nope all the devs that worked on the game are gonne and replaced by people who just want money. Cause its hard to payout your self 200milion $ if you have to pay for people to support the game
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Not really, they generate raw gold and only specific farmable by automation resources. Humans can just gather the non-farmed resources and ask for more and more gold for it as inflation progresses - raw gold is useless if you can’t buy the products.
Not really, nowadays everyone is leveling/rushing to 60, gold making isn’t anything magical, you pretty much get epic mount by just finishing quests after hitting 60 and after that it’s just pure income, especially if you profit of the seasonality of fire/nature/frost and alike markets. Like on Naxx progressed realms even fishing alchemy fish will give you a lot of gold because resources are needed while gold is overabundant.
Most guilds either are or can be self sufficient later in Classic. On private servers on Naxx farm state AH could be out of fire protection potions or even nature protection potions with mobs uncontested on top of that yet, guilds that still cleared Naxx every week generated their own consumables/resources needed.
And if you listed something extra on AH it would sell and you would get good value for your work where as in Classic you have to count on prices following the gold inflation which will happen only on non-bottable resources.
And on un-botted private servers pure crafters often were AQ40 or even Naxx geared for just providing resources to raiders. Like it’s not hard to dump unneeded gear on a druid that is just gathering and crafthing week after week 
Over 10 years of trying to cater to everyone but MMO gamers during retail changed the wow populace way too much, and this is the result imo.
3heads that used to only play Need for Speed started playing wow, then they got accustomed to buying everything with money and no effort, they became cash shop slaves that their first reflex to any hardship in a game is to pull their credit cards out of their wallets.
The damage is too deep and it required a very stern standpoint by Blizzard and the demographics need to change back to its original state, which can only happen over time.
But Blizzard is not that company anymore. So its a mutualistic relationship between these credit card heroes and Activision Blizzard, most money greedy MMO game publisher in the world.
I don’t see any hope, history will just repeat itself until it totally falls apart. Good thing is, there are other MMORPGs coming out.
Right now most bots are just pickpocketing rogues in BRD who do nothing but cause inflation.
But I am nitpicking, obviously you are talking about the herbing/mining bots and wondering if we should allow those.
You make some valid points. And you are right- in the past to raid meant to wipe 25+ times in one evening. You would periodically ALL use consumables at an agreeable time, and then for example do 10 more tries without. All in all as a DPS caster you used about 5 elixirs on one raid night, that really was it. Using consumables on content ‘on farm’ was soemthing no one would even consider.
This just to put the main point in perspective. YES consumables are way more used than before and YES the amount of people on some servers is also much higher than before.
This makes herbing a bit more difficult. Every second that a herb is not being farmed after spawn is like a loss to the raiding community.
Only bots can get this ‘every herb get picked’ efficiency in the middle of the night. And only bots can assure that no-herb-gets-wasted in this overactive server, high on consumables raid meta we got.
So I agree with the OP. Even if we do not like farming bots, they are beneficial to the server. But there has to be a balance where you can still farm your herbs during daytime and let the bots take over while you sleep, and still every herb gets picked.
Blizzard shot themselves in the foot the day they basically admitted they’d not go after gold buyers, and that sellers were the target.
Hey ^^ did you left something out there ? i dont get it, yet 
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Thanks, sorry about that, I must have been dragged into something work related lol.
More expensive, more will appreciate. Raids are easy and no need every single buff,potion anyway.
Ban all bots.
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