I am quite curios why the subject of ruined economy comes when talking about multiboxers that exclusively farm mats. Not raw gold mats. And then sell them on the auction house.
How are they ruining the economy? For anyone that has ever stop to think about the subject for more then 1 min the multiboxers don’t do anything beside gaining more gold than the average player.
Buying or selling stuff on the AH is an inflation reduction(which is good btw that’s like a straight fact,the reduction comes from the % the ah takes from and it’s just gold that dissapears from the servers).Every time that happens everything that’s not vendor related costs less(by an extremely low margin but you get the point) because the gold within the entire community (all of the playerbase on the realm as a whole) has fallen down.
As a theoratical example. If you had potion of superior strength cost 100 k gold and be considered cheap(because inflation skyrocketed to infinity). And then you would have only ah transactions for a period of time and suddenly the entire wow gold from the community would be cut by -5%(dont remember the exact value of the cut from the ah). Now suddenly that potion costs 95k gold cause the price will adjust ,players will feel that spending 100 k is not worth it since you would lose money etc. As it happens with all products. But ofc this is a really theoretical example since the gold pool of a realm is made of different raw gold income and raw gold cuts just to give some examples :
Gold increases : vendoring items , world quests,daily quests
Gold decreases : Any vendor item(mounts included),BMAH,repairs,transmogs,give money to npc quests
As a rule if an item is easily available it will cost less. The price of an item swings hardly on 3 factors : The IRL time it takes to make that item yourself, the money available to the realm and the demand . While the purchase of the item(the demand) is swayed on another factor : the money available to you.
So if item a is easy to make by yourself and there is alot of gold in the community the item might be priced higher because of the gold availability. At this point if it costs 0.001% of your money bank you will probably buy it ,if it costs 5% and is a consumable you will farm it. If you farm it then the item sells less (cause you arent buying it) hence less demand for it so the item drops in price until the guys that were farming it realise(hopefully) that it’s IRL time more efficient to buy it.
This is pretty much wow economy(how i see it at least,not an irl economist btw)
Now enter the multiboxers. They add alot of items to the AH. This means items are more available so hence people will use the ah to buy them instead of farming them. Doing so reduces inflation. The gold itself goes to the multiboxer ,it doesn’t go to blizzard and it’s transfered from your pocket to the multiboxer(which is just another player).
Now comes the question,why do you think it’s damaging the economy? If there were no multiboxers i would have to pay more for items,the gold would still go to other players but it would just be more spread and it would be more expensive on my part. If you want to make money you should take a good advice and check some markets and plan where to do it.
If there werent any multiboxers but 1 milion people would farm herb (just imitatng multiboxing) farming would be just as dead. Blaming it on multiboxers is a big idiotic thing to do. If an area of gold making is saturated you need to search for another avenue.
For a healthy economy there should be incetives to spend the gold. The reason you might not be making gold is not multiboxers it’s just no incentives to actually spend gold on anything. If gold doesn’t move of course it feels like you can’t make any trying to compete with the guys that have just more production.
This inherintly makes the raw gold farming really bad since you were comparing raw gold farming to only method where you have to compete with multiboxers. There are other avenues of making gold other than selling mats. Boosting is a big one that affected by multiboxers at all. Ah flipping is another one again not affected by multiboxers. Rare items farming is barely affected by multiboxing(it could be affected but multiboxers prefer to farm something that sells steadily for low income and not big rare items like the papal fez that might sell in half a year for a fortune).
At the end of the day the multiboxer doesn’t stop you from earning gold ,it’s just a methdo of them gaining more gold and just making market competition in certain areas harder. Any single person that hoards gold makes it so it’s harder for the others to buy tokens since the gold is not moving back to the comunity.
But then you would have a problem with every goblin player out there and i don’t see the outcry there tbh.
