While I really dont support such change, on the other hand, you got there bunch of people constantly crying and whining they cant buy more stuff from trading post because its “time gated” beyond tenders cap and you wont explain them it is not supposed to be like that you can buy out every trading post stuff every month.
As I said, buying tenders coin for money is really not good idea, but I would not even be increasing tenders cap neither and I would let it be the way it is, let the whiners cry louder if they want, because as I mentioned the whole trading post is not built upon that you can buyout everything available, that would be just quite embarassing since you can find there some unique/original stuff
if they add tenders to shop they shoul just turn it into a battle pass and make the game f2p, because trading post + cash shop means monthly battle pass , a smaller one but if they’re going this direction they should just make it a whole pass .
They are testing the waters, that’s why they are so radio silent on all of this.
They are checking how many people would either support or not care and if they can get away with it.
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It depends how it’s done.
If players can get the same amount of Tenders by simply buying them rather than doing the Journal tasks then it’s not so bad.
If they can have more Tenders by buying them than players who only do the Journal tasks then it’s very bad indeed.
The reason the Tenders are BNet Wide and not simply Account Wide is to prevent people from buying more Tenders by getting more Account Subs.
Same should apply to ingame store. No advantage should be purchasable.
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Your point is very interesting and something to think about. You could be onto something here. and it wouldn’t surprise me if they gearing up to f2p and adding what seems to be the start of a battle pass. I guess we need to watch this space carefully in the future.
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And it works. I have spend waay too much money in their store.
Getting cool outfits, mounts and stuff.
The only thing i buy in WoW besides my sub, is tokens once in a while.
I really like the idea of the Trading Post - getting rarer stuff by playing the game. It would be very sad if they brought real life money into it.
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I’m not suprised, but I’m not forced to buy anything from the trading post either, so I don’t care.
What everyone likes is how it encourages activities which you otherwise would never think of participating in. Some are challenging, others less so, but all feel equally rewarding in overall player experience.
Everyone benefits as it makes the world feel alive because some tasks require player interactions or travelling to old locations.
Putting the currency on the cash shop is a nail in the coffin and we might as well go back to instanced content, fighting timers and scripted monsters. The result is a dead game world.
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Unless they increase the price of items in the Trading Post, I personally don’t really care. I haven’t spent much of my tendies at all because I’m saving them for TCG and other past promotional cosmetics. So I have plenty.
This in my opinion is a very shortsighted approach. The “it doesnt effect me so I dont care” way of thinking allows big companies to get away with what is essentially theft while the masses passively sit there. Those tenders you have no are going to be worth a whole lot less when they start jacking up the prices of things on there to encourage you to buy more. Not to mention, that they will then have little incentive to put good rewards in the game without trying to monetize them. You already pay a SUB and BOX price for this stuff. Tbh I am getting to the point where I would rather they remove the trading post completley than ruin in by monetising it. Its unbelievable greed and nobody should stand for it.
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You mean the one that a chinese company owns the IP of?
Also. Mobile game. Their sisposed to be scummy and p2w.
I saw this comment in a video and I can see it happening in the future:
“The trading post has me convinced WoW is going free to play. I think that’s the mechanism by which they do it. We’re already being trained more or less to pay $15 a month for trading post access (1000 tokens). Instead of buying game time for gold, we’ll buy tokens for gold.”
The fact Blizz havent came out to address community concerns either way is fairly indictive of whats going to happen… we dont want it blizz
not in the demonisations listed. there’s far too many
they’d be 100, 200, 500,100
not all the little bitty ones
Yeah most games that sell currency has only a handful of sizes of bundles. They usually have 1-2 that “give some but not enough to fully utilize” and then 3-4 that go over “minimal cost” with rapidly increasing increments
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exactly. all these denominations go against the very fibre of virtual currency.
i suspect they’re part of a UI update
The tenders on cash shop is not an issue given the fact you can get max monthly tenders in one short sitting with not much problem.
You know, every month so far are some ridiculously easy points, e.g. 10 work orers (i.e. send 10 serevite bolt orders to your engineer alt), or 15 pet battles (win 15 pet battles one shotting 1 lvl pets in Durotar or Elwynn Forest), etc. etc. It’s INCREDIBLY STUPID to even think of paying real cash for Tenders.
If someone is this stupid and lazy - it’s THEIR problem.
It doesn’t affect the game at all.
Except its your own choice to buy it isnt it? Aslong it is tmogs idc they even can sell some mounts i dont give a damn really.
When does Blizzard ever address community concerns?
Ok, sometimes very rarely in gameplay related topics they do, which is nice, that’s why Dragonflight’s endgame loop and gearing is the best in a long time, but anything that directly affects their monetization policy, or the narrative design or the awful censorship that happened in 9.1.5… these concerns have never been addressed or even acknowledged.