Imagine a second if we transition to TBC with the current Classic base.
With the amount of gold some players have, I’m worried consumables are gonna cost a fortune on TBC release. Especially with the server populations and limited zones to farm in.
Classic is full of bot and gold sellers/buyers, the standard now is Gold DKP Raid with a clear spectrum :
Chinese/Russian farmer who own bot and gold selling platform, farm material with bot.
Materials are bought by GDKP Leaders and Players to craft consumables.
GDKP Leaders sell items in raids.
GDKP Players buy items in raids
GDKP Leaders redistribute golds equally and take a large cut.
GDKP Leaders sell gold to GDKP Player, to get real money.
GDKP Players buy gold from GDKP Leaders and Chinese/Russian platform, to buy gear and/or consumables for GDKP Raids.
This is your opinion, it is not what everyone wants. Just keep such ideas to yourself maybe, especially when they have been said a million times on this forum already.
This will only hurt the legit players, who spend over a year scrounging up gold.
Botters will still farm and gold prices will sky rocket, making them even more money.
The people who already bought gold, will do it again if all is wiped, not to mention there will potentially be even more who wanna buy gold, becuase Blizzard “took their legit gold away”.
I’ve never understood that, why does more availability of an item make the price rise? Surely the more there are the lower the price should be, it’s the way a market works.
Besides gold buying for real money is against the rules.
Sorry but you cannot take that aways from people you put in the hours and work.
I personally hate the boosting meta though it was on blizzard to do something against it right at the start
Also, like 80% of the player base are currently preparing for TBC, taking that away from the legitimate would just be wrong.
I don’t even understand why people who has no gold are complaining. You gain the most. People will buy cloth/ores/herbs/primal for 500% of what it’s worth, just sell everything while you level and you make 1000s of gold for hardly any work. Then get your own crafting gear some weeks later when prices are dropping.
Edit: and if you have tailoring or alch just sell your transmute CD for 100 gold every time it’s off CD
Supply and demand. If everyone is set back to say, 2000g, botters can make tons of more money on selling gold, then if nobody got reset and they introduce tokens.
Dont for a second think the demand for gold will go down, if the gold supply is almost completely removed.
It might be against the rules, but tons of people are buying gold. Thats farily evident with the amount of botters and gold selling sites and the amount of gold in the game.
If the demand wasnt there, the botters would be far fever.
In order to get 100.000g+ in classic wow, you need to either by gold or spend an incredibly insane amount of time playing the game. Theres no other way, to amass that amount of wealth.
Beside what everybody already said fresh servers aren’t an option either in my opinion because it would completely cripple the influx of players on the already established one’s. Not just new Players would start there because of all the wrong reasons.
On top they would be completely horde dominated. In the end it wouldn’t be better for anybody.
There is no disadvantage for somebody to start on a established server, quite the opposite.
Again, the vast amount of bots, goldseller sites and gold in the game, begs to differ.
Selling gold is a lucrative business and happens on every single server.
I think you misunderstood, I believe Alfredsson is saying that people without gold would be in a more beneficial situation on a server without wiped gold than on one with wipe.
Honestly, this is likely. If the impossible happens and Blizzard wipes my gold, than all bets are off. All trust gone. Might as well go wild and buy gold (there will be gold for sale on day 2 anyway, bots will get ahead of players immediately). I’m glad this is extremely unlikely.
No, I understood it all just fine: using “people without gold” as justification for removing other people’s stuff. I simply skipped all the nonsense and got straight to the point.