all of this remind me of the stories of chinese prisoners bieng forced to farm gold. i wonder if something like this still happens.
Definitely happened before that too. I was a bigger fan of the 3D/animated advertisements myself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkEU545SmUE
I remmeber quitting Vanilla WoW for a while because I just could not deal with being whispered by goldseller 0.5 seconds after logging in.
I actually remember prices $200 for $1 k g. back in Aug 2005 (EU). I'm afraid Blizz will introduce token for such lucrative market. And I'm willing to accept it together with updated graph in exchange for pledge to leave the rest intact precisely as it was.
They already told they will use modern tech server-side. We can safely assume there will be single client with "classic" tab.
Last edited by FireVoodoo; 2017-11-07 at 10:15 AM.
Originally Posted by Secret81
IRONY that people want to play vanilla to feel how hard to get gold and how everything was hard
Buying \ selling gold was actually a bannable offense. The fact that it happened, and will happen again, doesn't mean much, that's just the reality of MMO games.
"clean, fast and legit" go to www.imgonnascammyoudotcom or lets talk on our skype account:fordumbgulibblepeople ID. i mean i know they exist but why do people even risk making transactions with these kind of people in the 1st place? :O that has always baffled me
There is a void in my heart. Have you come to fill it?
For an authentic experience, you have to enter account and credit card information on a chinese website and be scammed.
Yes but back then Blizzard didn't have the tools to combat bots properly. Check the most common bot forum and there are tons of people being banned recently.
I do realize it's an arms race and that bot makers also become better to hide it, but bots these days are nowhere near as rampart as they were back then.
I bought the Vanilla WoW collector's edition the day it released in 2004. I absolutely want the classic servers to be as close to their original form as possible (minus bugs), but I honestly think that this is the best answer. No, there weren't any WoW tokens in Vanilla, but gold sellers were a nightmare. They spammed the chat channels and they were responsible for countless account hacks which Blizzard spent a lot of time dealing with. The fact of the matter is that gold WILL be sold on the servers one way or another. I would much rather it be handled by Blizzard. You get rid of most of the spammers, people won't have to enter their credit card info on a shady foreign website, and the money will help support classic servers for the thousands of people that have been wanting them for years.
It would completely destroy the authenticity of the game. Big part of vanilla was the economy and getting enough gold to buy your mount etc. Being able to just buy gold from Blizzard would trivialize all that.
I really hope they understand that and don't do it, but my faith in Blizzard is very low. Either way, it's a deal breaker for me.
The fact of the matter is that people WILL bot on the servers one way or another. Would you therefore also want Blizzard to sell botting capabilities?
WoW token does not belong in vanilla, it would completely destroy the authenticity. With modern cheat detection tech, Blizzard can keep gold selling at such a low level that it won't affect the game.
Not sure what modern cheat detection tech has to do with stopping a level 1 character from logging in and linking their gold selling website. Or stopping the actual transactions from taking place on said website. The gold seller plague is one part of authenticity that I do not want.