Last edited by Keosen; 2012-11-06 at 02:51 PM.
There are a lot of people that can buy mimiron head AND spend thousand of k gold in the invite and still be rich, thanks to the Firelands bug, AH farmers, buying gold and buying/selling expansions/game time.
I do agree they need to take gold off the economy, but i dont think selling access to content is the way to go, specially a content that is made as a resemble of a movie were the protagonists were proud of giving no meaning to money.
Same o' same o'.
They're clinging on life rafts, as mommy and daddy aren't going to pay $1500/mon for a WoW crack habit. That's the real anger in all this, they can get $15/mon and enjoy it if they can get it for "free", but as soon as they see "exclusive" stuff on others they can't have...it's cry about unfairness, then.
I hope every snotty "I'm better than you" self entitled scumbag raider (or PvPer for that matter) feels the bite of cold hard cash. And these won't be "welfare epics" (I wonder if that dev is sneering now?).
"Exclusive" content, indeed!
From the #1 Cata review on Amazon.com: "Blizzard's greatest misstep was blaming players instead of admitting their mistakes.
They've convinced half of the population that the other half are unskilled whiners, causing a permanent rift in the community."
From the #1 Cata review on Amazon.com: "Blizzard's greatest misstep was blaming players instead of admitting their mistakes.
They've convinced half of the population that the other half are unskilled whiners, causing a permanent rift in the community."
Brawlers guild wont be instanced gameplay, Blizz said they want people to observe the matches. Now imagine if the whole server would gain acces on day 1. I think this is a smart idea, definitely not the best, but smart. At the start everything will be overpriced like hell, but in 2-3-4 weeks ( just as fast as LFR gets access to every instance ) there will be so many people having it that the price will drop down close to zero.
Some people overthink things.
Time is on our side
Brutal Gladiator Enhancement Shaman *rawr*
However, the cons greatly outweighs the benefits for a RMT game.
Be it competitive players that just can't spend that extra cash, the borderline (or just blatant crossing over it) to a pay to win market.
Putting cash into a game screws over more people than it helps.
And besides flawed but "logical" assumptions about how the real money transactions will develop in WoW, has there been any official info that points to Blizzard eventually going a Pay 2 Win route? :>
Active WoW player Jan 2006 - Aug 2020
Occasional WoW Classic Andy since.
Nothing lasts forever, as they say.
But at least I can casually play Classic and remember when MMORPGs were good.
Honestly, the brawlers guild model is destined to fail. You can't have a non instanced thing like this where only a select few get invited at any given moment. I'm all for being an elitist asshole, but this isn't a game that should promote or even have something like this. I can't see it lasting long, and if it does, blizzard will no doubt bring about some dramatic and fundamental changes that make the future brawlers guild nothing like its initial implementation. Blizzard has a tendency to drastically change their ideas as they progress, brawlers guild will be no different in a few months.
I do hope, since the rewards are nothing really other than "fame and glory" that they tune the fights really hard so actually people with more brain than usual can get somewhere, so lot of people will actually leave after trying few times. My only problem is that i'm afraid some classes ( specially hibridys ) will be way too strong. We shall see i guess
Time is on our side
Brutal Gladiator Enhancement Shaman *rawr*
Hybrids are not the king of soloing, at least not healing hibryds. If they tune the fights really hard, then they completely favor blood dks.
It would be a very bad idea from my POV.
I think this would be the best featue to implement semi instanced content, which is open content that creates a new instances after a certain population in the zone is reached.
From the #1 Cata review on Amazon.com: "Blizzard's greatest misstep was blaming players instead of admitting their mistakes.
They've convinced half of the population that the other half are unskilled whiners, causing a permanent rift in the community."
Why would you even join the brawler's guild in the first place? Does it matter if you join now, the next month or even next year? Or at all?
So you say it's not useful to have your Account Balance shown when you only have WoW and have a credit card (I guess that's what you call 'plastic')? That may be true, as then you can use your Credit Card to pay directly for the things you can buy with the Balance, but you can use different methods to update you Balance, including methods you can't use to directly pay for the services. So you still don't explain what having this Balance visible has to do with RMAH in WoW, as was your point.
One of the possible reasons to use Balance instead of direct pay methods, is the fact you can use prepaid cards from the shop for your Balance, which you can't use directly for services. There are people with money, but without credit cards...
And what do kids have to do with anything? You come across as very condescending... Is that your intention?