Shadowlands Patch 9.2.7 Update Notes

Who wants to bet despite this new chat channel it will rarely be used and people will still use trade chat because they know everyone will see it.

Originally Posted by Lucetia

Who wants to bet despite this new chat channel it will rarely be used and people will still use trade chat because they know everyone will see it.

If they do, I do hope that A. Players are report-happy, and B. Blizzard actually enforces the call against advertising in Trade proper.

Either way, this is a step in the right direction, though.

Originally Posted by Chilela

If they do, I do hope that A. Players are report-happy, and B. Blizzard actually enforces the call against advertising in Trade proper.

Either way, this is a step in the right direction, though.

Yes report people using trade to trade services. If that’s the case I should be able to report anyone in trade talking about all the dumb crap they do. Anal jokes should be a one month silence

Originally Posted by Chilela

If they do, I do hope that A. Players are report-happy, and B. Blizzard actually enforces the call against advertising in Trade proper.

Either way, this is a step in the right direction, though.

Yeah, it's definitely a step in the right direction. I just have zero hope it'll work out as intentional. I remember when they added the LFG back and people are still using Trade chat until this day for that stuff.

Originally Posted by Cynicalnerd

Yes report people using trade to trade services. If that’s the case I should be able to report anyone in trade talking about all the dumb crap they do. Anal jokes should be a one month silence

I remember at one point, and I could be misremembering, that they said selling services in trade chat is actionable by reports. But yeah the anal spam and a few other things could be removed too and I wouldn't be upset. On my dead server you might see someone chat here and there, but on the bigger more popular realms good luck trying to find someone selling something in it and seeing it.

Originally Posted by Lucetia

Who wants to bet despite this new chat channel it will rarely be used and people will still use trade chat because they know everyone will see it.

I could. It was impossible to remove boosting just like it was impossible to remove gold selling. But placing a vent and moving people there is another story. Similar how twitch dealt with hot tub streams that plagued "just chatting" category.

Originally Posted by Lucetia

Yeah, it's definitely a step in the right direction. I just have zero hope it'll work out as intentional. I remember when they added the LFG back and people are still using Trade chat until this day for that stuff.

Fair enough. Plus, with all the QoL improvements, there isn't a whole lot that trade's usable for at this point in terms of on-topic stuff. The DF crafting overhaul might chew into that even further.

Originally Posted by Lucetia

Who wants to bet despite this new chat channel it will rarely be used and people will still use trade chat because they know everyone will see it.

Right Click > Report > Advertising > "Not using the proper channel"

Granted, most people will probably just get a small bonk for it, its still something at least

Nice, so glad you made boosting the only way to make gold now while pretending you don't like it.

Commodities market 1000000000000000000% dead for anyone except bots, sad state of affairs, professions being made completely worthless is pretty sad.

Now people will just spam both channels…

Originally Posted by Cynicalnerd

Yes report people using trade to trade services. If that’s the case I should be able to report anyone in trade talking about all the dumb crap they do. Anal jokes should be a one month silence

I'm sure your just a blast to play with

Originally Posted by Ilnez

Nice, so glad you made boosting the only way to make gold now while pretending you don't like it.

Commodities market 1000000000000000000% dead for anyone except bots, sad state of affairs, professions being made completely worthless is pretty sad.

I'm not going to be that doom and gloom about it, but it's definitely going to make direct mat sales under a certain load less desirable. Specific older stuff will be easier to get, but the overall price will rise or drop depending on what your specific server/s are used to seeing. Specific stuff like Blood of the Mountain and Arcane Crystals. Most folks aren't going to be greatly effected by this, farmers aside. I find it a tad annoying mostly cause you'll accumulate a lot of mats passively just playing the game and dumping all that on the auction house every week or two is a quick easy way to make some side gold. That's going to be less worth doing if the price is being dictated by every player in the entire region.

Are those 'market control' streamers still around? Used to see them on youtube, guys who were going through and trying to manipulate all AH prices on each server.

Next please get rid of ads in the dungeon tool itself. Ads get put up wednesday after realm start and stay there for 7 days no matter how often you report them. ONE fucking guy with a ban hammer would be all that's needed to get rid of them but Blizzard doesn't seem to care.

So yea, I take it non-consumables were left out so they could collect the $$ from tokens are they scour the AH on all the realms for the prefect gemmed/procced BoE gear.

Originally Posted by Baroclinic

So yea, I take it non-consumables were left out so they could collect the $$ from tokens are they scour the AH on all the realms for the prefect gemmed/procced BoE gear.

Making non-consumables work across all realms would make them way more money actually. It doesn't matter if that BoE you want is on another realm, you can't buy it and mail it to yourself. Unless you are really so fucked in the head that you make a character on that realm, buy a token(s), buy said item, and then pay to transfer the character with that item to your realm. In which case, yeah, you might have some serious fucking issues and thankfully few people are that fucking stupid.

Originally Posted by Lucetia

Who wants to bet despite this new chat channel it will rarely be used and people will still use trade chat because they know everyone will see it.

It likely won't have too much of an impact on advertising because accounts getting banned is considered a cost of doing business for most of these boosting services. But it will help you narrow down legitimate realm-centric services, should that be something you're interested in... something which previously would be drowned out by the aforementioned boosting spam. So it's still a net-positive, imo.

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Originally Posted by Twdft

Next please get rid of ads in the dungeon tool itself. Ads get put up wednesday after realm start and stay there for 7 days no matter how often you report them. ONE fucking guy with a ban hammer would be all that's needed to get rid of them but Blizzard doesn't seem to care.

This is already against the rules; my guess is that a lot of these are posted with compromised legit accounts which could have some collateral "y u ban me Blizz" type damage should Blizzard swing the banhammer too hard.