token just been introduced so i would wait more time but over all would you say token will help or distrupt bots and goldsellers over time on classic? im pretty sure also now with token blizz will be more inclined to do something about botters now to make it more lucrative for classic to grow so i will not be surpriced if we see separate channels for services and bans on promotions just like on retail
Ahahaha! This is the worst joke ever 
Instead of finally taking care of rampant botting, u make this Pay2Win??? 
What a disgrace this company has become…
RIP WoW Classic - I unsubbed the moment i read this.
Goodbye Azeroth
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again another who seems to not understand what token does… you buy token for real money and someone has to BUY IT FROM YOU FOR GOLD… he gains gold you loose gold from the economy so nothing will change… AND as bonus it makes goldsellers and bots dissapear over time and allows people to play for free… its BIG WIN for wotlk but i guess streamers told you how to think and not use your own brain… its sad
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Not even disappointed since had very little faith in Blizzard to begin with, adding character boosts wasnt greedy enough for a company like them.
Already invested with friends I play in with wrath but if blizzard think people are gonna play catac, an already pretty weak expansion which would normally be challenging enough to create similar player engagement for, with the abusement and crap service they’ve been giving the playerbase they’re kidding themselves.
Fun fact is that Blizzard themselves knows this is an abusive, unpopular change otherwise they would advertise the wow token in the battle net launcher. Guess this was the main reason they made classic run on the legion client and run like crap, 15-20 year old game which often drops to 60fps 1440 on a freaking 1080Ti with servers worse than the private ones ran from some russian guy’s basement in his mom’s house.
This is your company running on breastmilk…
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Unsubbed, thx Blizz
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if you cant defeat them, then join them.
People understand that it doesnt generate gold. Thats not the issue since there is already so much gold in the system.
This doesnt even stop botting, since theres still a market for gold on third party websites for retail.
This is blizzard approved p2w, which will never be reverted.
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I have been leveling a rogue a warrior and a warlock for the past 3 weeks and I’ve maybe seen 2 people every hour on a high pop realm. The classic world is practically dead. Outland is a barren wasteland with some people here and there and Northrend is the only place where you could actually find more than one person every hour.
Obviously now with JJ there are more people but this is going to drop REALLY quick once the buff is gone.
By doing Heroic dungeons that you yourself claimed are a waste of time and nobody doesn’t do. Most people won’t take a freshly dinged 80 in greens and blues, not to naxx and not to an H+. I’ve been doing H+ on my main and the lowest-geared player I saw in my group was 3.2k gs.
That the community begged for literal months because the world was empty.
John and Dave decided to play Wotlk classic together. Both have a job around the same hours but they can find a decent amount of free time to play. Dave is of a higher income and can allow himself to spend some extra money on WoW tokens whilst John is of a lower income and would rather just pay for the sub and enjoy the game as is.
Both reach level 80. Dave decided to buy some gold and spend it on AH BOEs and GDKP runs. By week 3 of him being 80 Dave is 4.6k GS has no idea how to play his class but is having the time of his life.
John on the other hand struggles to find Heroic and Heroic+ groups. Eventually gearing up enough for people to want to take him to Naxx pugs. Sometimes he’s lucky, sometimes he isn’t. After 5 weeks John has 4.1k GS. He hopes to perhaps join an Ulduar raid but no one will take him, John tries farming gold for Ulduar BOEs to ever so slightly push his GS a little higher. But ends up quitting. Dave quits later on as well as after his bought all his gear he still sucks at the game and has no reason to keep playing.
The game shouldn’t be designed for one type of players. The working man/woman isn’t the only kind of player that plays this game. Not everyone who plays this game wants or can spend money to feel a sense of progression.
Most guilds are non-casual unfortunately and will almost always require you to have some sort of background. A new player is a blank canvas. Infinite potential but nobody will take him seriously.
Because the token isn’t just buy game time with gold. It’s buy gold with money. If they were to make WoW token buy with gold only nobody wouldn’t care in the slightest. People should be on the same stepping stone when they start playing a game. Their irl wallet should only be used to buy a game, not to buy advantages inside the game.
This notion that “idc what people do with their money” is an ignorant and nihilistic point of view that encourages companies to be malicious. If there’s no retaliation and people just accept it as is it may become even worse as time goes on.
That is not valid reason to kill it even more.
By making the game even worse. and after reading all this.
No, you don’t. What’s left of the integrity of the game is in shambles and the token killed it off. I too am a part of a very welcoming and social guild but this is not about my personal experience or yours. This is about the game as a whole. And these steps into a P2W path only corrupt the game even further. Whether you can sense it now or not eventually Blizzard will feel very confident to introduce something even you will call out. This is just a stepping stone.
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If u really think that this is gonna happen or that’s why they are doing it, then you are delusional. They could have easily fixed botting a long time ago, but they didn’t and won’t because it gives them money. Same with the Token, it’s just another way to milk the playerbase some more… if u choose to believe otherwise and stay in ur fanboy-bubble then go ahead, but don’t tell others to use their brain cuz u are clearly not using yours.
Anyway it doesn’t matter… Classic has died some time ago. This monofaction gdkp-raidlogging simulator has nothing to do with the awesome game it was back in the days or even 2019. So no surprise people still onboard with what the game has become wouldn’t have an issue with more pay2win
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Unsubbed.
Hurry up with the official HC servers so I can actually enjoy what an MMORPG is supposed to be about… assuming you won’t screw it up. lol
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simply not true… it help retail imensly over the years since token was introduced there… what you saying is just blant histeria what streamers repeating
ofc its not the only reason and no was saying it is… you just people ignoring facts and focus on ,possibilities, which were proven wrong since we already have retail for reference over the many years
The token doesn’t make the bots go away, it just means Blizzard can get some of the pie too.
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Hard to tell. Again the Bots presence in Retail is simply much less noticeable due to numerous changes Blizzard introduced over the time which reduced players competition over resources. Considering amount of 3rd party gold still on Market I’d argue that the proceder is as healthy as ever.
Doubt it. Even Aggrend openly admits that in their opinion “you can’t win against RMT/Botting” and Token’s just there to mitigate it. They’re unlikely to take any major actions.
From a logical perspective, it would be financially justifiable now to put more ressources into banning bots. Do you agree?
Also, just logically again, unless you are a gold seller, a gold farmer, or you bought a ton of overpriced gold through illegal means, this doesn’t change anything, does it?
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how do I report a blue post
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The more people buying gold, the more punished you will be for being one of those not doing it.
Lowering the hurdles to buying gold will make more people buy gold.
It’s not a difficult equation.
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It’s also funny how everytime official players are so mad about Blizzard while private players are always okay because they can choose there way to play the game by diferente game design.
Maybe it’s time for Blizzard to make like other game official private server and let us manage some configuration, by ofc paying the serv. At least, the admin of the official private serv will provide what the player wants.
please show me players who pay2win and those who farm gold and buy it on their own… ill wait… you are literally not punished by anything. who cares if someone can go raid first LOL
I cannot believe you guys brought the wow token to Wotlk Classic, instead of tackling actual problems like the rampant bots and showing that you actually give a damn about your loyal customer. I feel like such a fool having had a small glimmer of hope at the start of classic, did I actually believe you guys got back in touch with your playerbase and got things right?? I feel betrayed. You have defiled the last shred of WoW that was actually still worth playing with you cancerous greed for money! Shame on you!
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