Killing the game even more , oh but wait it's already DEAD just stick a fork in it !
Killing the game even more , oh but wait it's already DEAD just stick a fork in it !
Blizzard can't keep the free market down. It's a tough world out there, gotta find ways to make a buck.
What's a LIVELY MMO to you? WoW still has double the amount of active players of its closest competitors, which are Final Fantasy XIV and Guild Wars 2 (and Runescape if you want to count browser games)
I'm not seeing any more Nightbane carries in the Looking For Group tool, so the banwave must already be bearing fruit.
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It's really not, you don't increase total gold # ingame by buying tokens, you trade token for gold, more tokens you buy - cheaper tokens become. Less buying power people have IRL - more gold you have to pay for a token. Now blizzard made tokens more liquid (by allowing to return 50% of its cost into bnet account) and their cost skyrocketed, now even more gold go away from gold hoarders into auction, more gold gets "cut out" due to tax and it deflates economy quite well compared to what we had in draenor.
It's not about blizzard getting players to spend more money on the game, it's about fixing their ingame economy and reducing amount of scammers
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Couple of guilds i know who do this shit actually didn't learned any lessons. The conclusion they had after getting their GMs and all officers banned was "well we'll have to rise our prices to make up for loss of staff". Fucking ridiculous
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Ow i'm sure they learned a lesson , just not the lesson blizzard and for some reason most of the comunity wanted. Turns out if you mess with someones income they don't react kindly, or sheepishly, who'da thunk? And unless they're willing to do physical adress bans nothing will realy change, it'll just get worse. The good players who were just making some money on the side MIGHT stop, and the people who do this for a living will just get more agresive and raise costs to make up for buying new accounts....
Dunno, maybe re-run stuff because it's game and it is intended to be like that? Since when this mentality became normal that "you have to profit from playing a game"? Why can't people make groups together in mmo for gaming purposes? Why do you have to take someone's money to play a game together with them? If you want profit, go make an online store...
There's a huge difference between gold which we can convert to Virtual "BlizzardDollars" only valid on Digital blizzard products, or REAL money you can buy everything with or make a living from.
Blizz can control/monitor the gold going in and out the game.
Selling virtual property for real life money isn't allowed unless done by blizz themselves. We don't own ANYTHING in WoW, we just buy a license to use their servers.
Banning behavior likes this is short-sighted. I'm sure both the supply and demand keeps people playing and that should be considered a win-win for Blizzard. Trying to prevent those who waste away in-game from making a cent because they don't get a cut is pathetic. As if WoW needed any more reasons for people to stop playing.
I know the situation over there got a bit of a third world vibe but maybe you should get some spelling going before telling others to go to their communist countries
Sounds a bit salty over a lost account. As if those banned would - they'll just come back creating new accounts.
Oh ok your best counter argument in this discusion is that I don't write correcly. What an amazing discusion you bring to the forums. English is not my main language and I took less than a year of classes 20 years ago, I have learned alone english all this years, and although I misspell I'm here discusing ideas, that is the function of a forum. I'm proficient and native in 3 other languages. If you cant stand some mispells and they are your brilliant arguments in discusions you are screwed in the internet.
And if you were selling them at a mark up inside the store you bought them from you would be kicked out, and cut off from buying any more. Which is in line with what happens in WoW. If you're trying to profit off of their property, they have the right to cut you off.
Also, if you're a known reseller, you actually CAN get cut off from buying stuff at stores and selling for a profit. It happens to small restaurants all the time. It's not illegal, but it IS against the stores' "terms of service" and they can and will cut people off if they find out.
I've seen a-holes go into Target before xmas and buy all the Hatchimals and try and resell them in the parking lot before; it took about 5 minutes before the cops showed up and the person was served with a trespass that meant they couldn't be on ANY Target's property going forward.
from blizz's blue posts with some paraphrasing ...
yesterday
"HI GUISE!!! we found bad people so we are going to tear them all apart"
today
"HI GUISE!!! we cant ban all the mythic raiders, so we just banned those we dont care about"
Yeah sure bring me more of your insightful arguments like companies care for money . You should write a book about it and call it conquistador obvious or something.
Pretty sure the biggest part of that particular scandal was the part where they didn't disclose their ownership of the site. Also gambling still is a bit different than buying boosts.
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This is just stupid. If people want to spend their money on YOUR time dragging their sorry arses through a raid then that's our business not blizzards. I see this will have a devastating effect on the game in the coming future people will mass drop because what's the point of even playing now? This is a pretty good side income for us more serious raiders. This is just unacceptable and we will not let this slide.
I'd say it's pretty disgusting wanting people to go to jail or get punished for having opinions on a game's TOS...
I always find it hilarious when people like yourself confuse Blizzard terms of service for their games with laws in every country on this planet where the games are played.
It's against the TOS, they can (and should) ban people for breaking it. But no, nobody's going to jail for it. As angry as I can get from seeing level 1's camping the BMAH and sniping shit for 10 million gold max bid within a second of it appearing, I wouldn't wish jail time upon them or the buyers...
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That's literally the worst comparison ever xD. Blizzard doesn't offer the same service, this is more like you offering to open peoples Pepsi for them once they've purchased it.
That's exactly why I don't get why Blizzard has a problem, long term this is good for them. People expect AotC for invites, buying a run (sometimes for as low as $5 for AotC!) allows you to do SOMETHING in that next tier even if you're not the best player in the world (honestly, even if you're fucking awful AotC + decent Ilvl is enough for an invite), these bad-mediocre players that might eventually un-sub because they can't group finder now that they don't have AotC is going to cost them money, even if it's only a few hundred subs that's still likely thousands of dollars a month (which I understand doesn't matter to them at this point). I just don't see why this would get them banned, I understand it always has (anything to do with selling in-game services for real money is against the ToS) but this specific way of selling in-game services for money shouldn't bother them in the least bit). Honestly can anybody name one SINGLE reason that this negatively effects Blizzard? Something that actually has some merit.