Consider the following scenarios.
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* Gold farmer on your server farms 1000g
* You pay gold farmer 15 dollars for that gold
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* Random guy on your server farms 1000g
* You buy a WoW token for 15 dollars
* You trade the random guy the WoW token in exchange for the gold
In both these cases no gold has magically been created on the server, it has been farmed by someone. Can this ruin the economy, if so how?
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Just to clarify I'm not saying 3rd party gold farmers are good in any way, the WoW token along with botting countermeasures effectively killed off the whole "industry". In the case of the WoW token an actual human being has to farm the gold, illegal farmers won't do it since game time added to their account isn't profit.
So my question is really, how does the WoW token ruin the economy if instead of farming the gold myself the guy next to me does it for me?