Well not surprised.
Anyone who thinks these communities are run by gold instead of "Real money" are lying to themselves.
Well not surprised.
Anyone who thinks these communities are run by gold instead of "Real money" are lying to themselves.
Don't forget, "streamer community runs" are also RMT, due to streamers getting money from subscriptions, likes and follows.
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I think paying for a WoW token to then use that gold to buy a run is just as much RMT as anything else.
The reason for the WoW token existing was to protect players from unsafe gold selling sites that might steal their credit card. But if you have a non-sketchy group like Gallywix doing it, that doesn't really apply anyway. Plus its 2020 and there are plenty of "safe" ways to transfer money, unlike 15 years ago when WoW started.
If they're gonna blow this up, then it ALL needs to go, including the token.
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Now if they could just take care of the other 10 boosting communities.
It's pretty funny seeing people argue which is worse Laissez-faire Capitalism, vs the Communism of China(which really isn't communism), or the Communism of Russia which most people don't know shit about. Newsflash folks they all suck and fuck over the average person. What we all need is a Democratic-Socialist Society. We need to be able to elect our representatives in government(that's the Democratic part) but there needs to be some socialism(a giant social safety net that provides healthcare, housing, and good education for everyone). Capitalism is good and needs to exist but there needs a lot more restrictions/regulations to prevent the 1% from owning 90% of the wealth in the world vs the 99%.
Liking and following costs nothing, no do those alone make a streamer money.
Subscriptions do, and yes that is a paywall. But it's not really a legit one. You can easily join streamers without being subbed, nor are you paying for the run. Your paying to be subbed. With the runs being a benefit. It's not RMT. If a streamer said "buy me 25 gift subs and I will run you through this" then yes. But streamers arnt doing that, they are doing runs. And inviting viewers. And sometimes onto subs, so they can make sure assholes don't get in.
It always leads up to trading for real money when you get excesses of gold.
That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange Aeons even Death may die.
Is anyone surprised?
Of course they were making real money somehow, NOBODY would spend that much time and effort for in-game gold alone. Trade chat has been nothing but Gallywix-spam at times.
Good riddance, RMT = what ruins things like world mount camping and BMAH bidding.
And lol @ idiots trying to make this about the WoW token... Guess ya'll angery that your boosting service is disrupted.
eh i know a lot of people who do it to get their AH mount and similar stuff, and then they rotate out again.
then again i also know a lot of people who have been scammed by boosting communities that don't pay out.
i should probably do some too tbh, kinda afraid what all this boosting is going to do to consumable prices on shadowlands launch, be a good idea to have some gold buffer.
Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon are currently in court for this type of antitrust behavior. Antitrust laws prohibit a number of business practices that restrain trade. Might not happen now but in the future it will.
https://twitter.com/ScripeWoW/status...52868115128322
Hey method simp, what now?
There, nobody would stay alive for long enough to suffer from the fact that a single person or small corrupt group owns 90% of the wealth and resources.
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Democratic Socialism is just Socialism.
If you want to talk about something different from Socialism, like Social policies in a Capitalist framework, then you mean Socialdemocracy.