Gift card should to count as real money since you pay for it with real money.
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What if someone who always buys game tokens to pay for game time and adding to bnet balance for future expansions has used said bnet balance to buy for example a 6 month sub? the bnet balance was accrued with tokens but then used to buy game time. Does that count as exemption to the âcan not buy game tokens after 21st rulingâ ?
As someone who has a silly amount of gold. This is a good change. Anything that reduces the gap between the upper rich and a Kay player is good in my books
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It really isnât.
They quite clearly state spend real money on game time.
That is about as clear as it can be. Nothing else counts
And tbh if you have sunk as may hours into wow as you say. Then ide say itâs earnt at least 15 bucks no?
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AH goblins sweating really hard right now.
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No we are not itâs a one off 15 bucks. Not remortgage the house for it
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Sure: WHO LET THIS FIVE YEAR OLD DRINK???
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Tl:Dr
Itâs a binary check.
Have you spent real money on a sub at least once since 2017. If yes then you can buy tokens. If no then you need to spend 15 bucks on a 30 day sub to be able to buy tokens. It really is that simple
No battlet net balance dosent count
No in game mounts and transmogs / services donât count
New exp might count if you bought the edition that has game time but only if you used real money
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This change doesnât affect me much, but sorry for the question because I didnât understand it.
Account recurring is already required for 6 monthly intervals so what is the real difference?
Additionally, they just wonât be able to sell their gold?
How can Blizzard talk about the integrity of the game while selling in-game gold for real-life money?
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I did not have the option to buy time with real money, only to add bnet balance with real money and then buy the game time (which now is 60 days) with bnet balance. So what about this! If you say bnet balance to buy game time does not count, where does that leave people like me (maybe due to where i live) who can only buy bnet balance and then game time bundle with that balance!
Token now 426k gold.
Good one blizz!
You made better market for TSM bots indeed!
Hmm. I can see a lot of people who pay purely with tokens due to irl money issues complaining about this.
Doesnât affect me and I certainly would never be able to get that amount of gold per month to buy game time⌠sounds like a horrible way to play. But you know, inb4.
Itâs a change in terms and conditions, so Blizz are required to properly announce it.
I havenât paid IRL money for the game since early 2020.
This does not affect me.
I enjoy the game I play. If it did affect me, I would have no issue dropping a ÂŁ10 to be able to buy WoWtokens again for the next few years. The game is worth missing a coffee and a sandwich at Costa.
This change has been made to target botters and exploiters. If an account it banned due to an exploit or botting, a new account wonât immediately be able to be started up using Gold to buy Time and the most recent expansion. They will need to use IRL money to do so.
The negative is that you canât gift your friend a months game time with your gold stash to try out the game. But then again, is it better for the game integrity if we donât give new players the impression that itâs a free game.
Ultimately the Pros of this change far outweigh the negative affect.
This was my favorite part of the blue post xd The what of the game? I had to check the calendar if itâs april 1st yet.
Thereâs nothing to preserve about it, the best they could do is removing the token completely. Then they should have the right to say: we restored some of the integrity this game once had.
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This is not going to stop bots at all. Do they realise that people that operate botting they do it to sell the gold for real money so they can as well just buy a sub with that money.
If they wanted to combat bots they should have made phone number verification mandatory and 1 per game account so if they run 10 bots they would need 10 numbers which would slow them down.
Spike is expected as bots are dumping gold to get tokens before nov21. After that price will drop as they wont be able to buy more.
They will benefit the most.
Less bots = cheaper token in gold value.
Less bots = lower supply of materials = higher price of materials = less time needed to farm gold for cheaper token.
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Why it doesnât count if Bner balance was made with real money?
because you canât select balance as an option to pay for sub only credit card or paypal I believe.