You know where im going with this. All im trying to point out is that what they expect people to pay is magnitudes more than the work behind the service. probably an AI doing it too
Why would Blizz want to squander away money? A service is a service at the end of the day.
It’s like transactional fees with a bank, despite it all being instantly done. Hosting services and security and maintenance still costs money.
Er, no… lol
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many would Argue they would make more money if they reduced cost by 70% cuz more players would do it. theres no way 3 hours of work is worth a boost
Probably, but like you said leveling is already fast… so why not take advantage of the impatient? A fool and their money are soon parted, and all that.
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How much a Gucci’s handbag cost to make ,it is not as much as they charge .same is true for apple iphones .businesses exist to make money .they are not there to break even their expenses .
Maybe if you had bothered to use Google search a simple Gemini ai would had answered that for you .
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You know how much a Lambourgini costs in materials and labour? Less than 50k. You know how much they can charge the client for it? More than 300k.
The value of something is given by how much people are willing to pay for it. Simple as that.
Also. AI? Common please.
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Do you know how much it costs to make a Handful of Bismuth Bolts? And yet people charge more than 100g for it.
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Where does the gold come from?
Mostly from completing quests and killing enemies.
Yeah but hundreds of thousands?
I don’t get it. How can anyone afford making purchases?
A bolt cost 100g, and you need 10. That’s a thousand gold. That’s one world event, which takes at least 5 minutes cause you have to go there also.
Idk… Maybe that makes sense but I’m selling these fine leather jackets, ore and herbs, and people buy triple bismuth at 80g. How’s that sustainable? Where the heck do do they get the gold from to do that? 10 bismuth is one world quest. What when you run out of world quests then?
There’s a crazy amount of gold in the system. I can’t see how a normal person can get all this.
No no no, that’s not my point. My point is that the cost of crafting a Bismuth Bolt at 3-rank quality is not actually that much, if of course you are a Miner (I left this out). Just doing my daily chores flying around and landing on any Bismuth nodes I see, I can easily gather 30+ units of rank3 Bismuth ore per day. On my maxxed Engineer that’s easily 20+ rank3 bolts, without use of Concentration. The amount of time lost to land on the nodes is… 10 seconds per node? So less than 5 minutes per day.
Now someone may say that in 5 minutes they could do 2 world quests that reward 2000g together. And I say that one should not compare the payout to those of 1-time events like World Quests, but of repeated killing of enemies. So killing enemies for 5 minutes yields… 100g? 200g? 20 bolts vs 200g means each bolt should be around 10g.
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Let’s also consider that using rank2 Bismuth to craft rank3 Bolts requires around 87 concentration. So every 4 days, if you dump all your Concetration on bolts, it’s another 20ish rank3 bolts, possibly more with Ingineous and Multicrafting procs.
Well, I see.
Can’t really tie this together, making sense.
It works though, apparently.
I just find things a bit suspect, unreal. You too, it seems. Not that you are suspect, I mean you also find things suspect.
I make my money mostly from the Auction House. Ever since I got Mining and started dumping all rank3 materials in the AH, I can get tens of thousands per week. This expansion, I simply sell all rank3 Bismuth at the AH for prices that exceed 50g per piece all year long (sometimes reaching 100g per piece), and using my Engineer and Blacksmith to convert the abundance of rank2 Bismuth into rank3 Bolts and Alloys.
The money comes from all those people who buy stuff without gathering/crafting them on their own. Where they get their money? From weekly quests or WoW token.
They paid for the devlopers who coded the systems, set up the databases and made sure it could be automated. You pay for the benefit of not having to wait 7 days for a manual transfer.
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Weekly quest paying, ok.
WoW Token <---- thats me.
Its the most efficient gold/hour farm out there. By far.
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It’s essentially a “pay2skip” system. I don’t agree with its existence in a subscription-based game, but it is what it is.
Why are people comparing luxury goods to wow services 
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Im not skipping anything. I just have my priorities straight.
To be honest. If blizzard gave the option for everyone to have infinite Gs so farming would have no purpose, then everyone would take that option and nobody would farm.
But as long as farming exists (aka, a “chore” you have to do to finance what you actually want to do) there will be people trying to skip it illegally, or whining in the forums.
Not an AI, this was already coded way before the rise of ChatGPT and all that good stuff.
It’s also a service, not an actual product, so the price is based on the demand and how often it is used.
Believe it or not min-maxers use these a lot and so do people who roleplay, so you can guess it’s used very frequently.