Originally Posted by
Raelbo
Yes. Absolutely. Because I don't operate using the principles of conspiracy theory thinking. I look at facts, I look at logic, I look at reason. I apply critical thinking to assess how the facts apply to the proposition, and frankly, your proposition is sorely lacking in any of this.
At most maybe 10% of the playerbase can be reliant on tokens for gold - that's entirely a constraint imposed by the design of tokens to be reliant on another player selling the gold. The rest of us make our gold the normal way, with some even making extra to supply the token sellers.
So there is simply no logical, rational or reasonable argument to be made that tokens have any effect whatsoever on the determination of the prices of these things, let alone a significant/meaningful one. It's just plain conspiracy theory logic.
If you look at legendary mats, for example: The cost is completely appropriate given the ease with which one can make gold in the game. If you do the math and consider how much gold you should be making simply as a by-product of doing the things you should already be doing in the game, then it's pretty much trivial to acquire the amount of gold you need for those legendaries within the timescales you have in which to do so.
Not to mention that it's patently absurd to argue that we are forced to resort to tokens to be able to afford such things, because even with tokens, someone still has to make that gold in order to be selling it to you in the first place. If the amount of gold required to buy legendaries was anywhere near as difficult or time-consuming as people like you would like to pretend (that we have to resort to tokens), then no-one would be selling their gold for a paltry $13 worth of Blizzard balance.
Sorry, but if someone is resorting to tokens to get gold, that has absolutely fuck-all to do with need, and everything to do with just being too lazy to bother with doing the bare minimum expected of one in this game. And if someone really wants to give their money to another player who is prepared to do that for them, then I am fine with it. It's a completely consensual transaction in which both parties are getting what they want without any form of coercion that has nothing to do with me, you or anyone else other than the two of them.