I'm calling it now

[Stevedave00]

How long until Blizzard sells gold?
With faction transfers, One has to wonder about quests.
For instance if your level 80, Would you be able to all the quests over again?
So, How long before we can just buy the gold?

 

[Curtmiester]

I'm confused. Buying money?

 

[Flap Jack452]

I don't know... well, that was a good discussion.

 

[Internet Kraken]

Never. I imagine most of their fanbase would complain about this as it would ruin their game.

Well I don't play Wow so I'm probably not the best person to ask, but I imagine this is what would happen.

 

[Stevedave00]

I'm confused. Buying money?

In the world of warcraft, The currency is known as "Gold".
Blizzard won a large legal battle against peons for hire last year or so.
for "Infringing" on their "intellectual" property.

I'm just wondering when they are gonna offer the service themselves. I don't really think they'd be able to track quest completion with faction change as such at max level instead of "Experience" you get money, So it would be in my mind a round about way of gold selling.

 

[quack35]

Never.

Never ever never.

 

[Stevedave00]

Never.

Never ever never.

Never say never.
They said themselves awhile ago didn't they?

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Blizzard creates a program that generates gold at a meager rate. Blizzard then has people pay to play for hours on end to generate said gold.

Why sell the end product and damage potential profit?

 

[Stevedave00]

Blizzard creates a program that generates gold at a meager rate. Blizzard then has people pay to play for hours on end to generate said gold.

Why sell the end product and damage potential profit?

It wouldn't be that meager of a rate.
Imagine it, With some pretty simple planning redoing northrend as a level 80 with all the quests available to you, with others able to do the same, the economy would be down the toilet in less time then you think.

 

[Ibanez887]

Blizzard creates a program that generates gold at a meager rate. Blizzard then has people pay to play for hours on end to generate said gold.

Why sell the end product and damage potential profit?

Hes got a point, selling gold will cause them to lose millions

 

[Stevedave00]

Blizzard creates a program that generates gold at a meager rate. Blizzard then has people pay to play for hours on end to generate said gold.

Why sell the end product and damage potential profit?

Hes got a point, selling gold will cause them to lose millions

What if instead of saying it was "Buying gold"
It was a "Faction transfer"?
There is very little chance if any, of them keeping track of quest completion.

 

[CoverYourHead]

Blizzard creates a program that generates gold at a meager rate. Blizzard then has people pay to play for hours on end to generate said gold.

Why sell the end product and damage potential profit?

It wouldn't be that meager of a rate.
Imagine it, With some pretty simple planning redoing northrend as a level 80 with all the quests available to you, with others able to do the same, the economy would be down the toilet in less time then you think.

They own the entire game, they could just make the gold themselves, why would they bother to pay people to make gold from their game when they could just create it with a simple command?

OT: I doubt they will. It doesn't make much sense for them to sell their own gold.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Never. I imagine most of their fanbase would complain about this as it would ruin their game.

Well I don't play Wow so I'm probably not the best person to ask, but I imagine this is what would happen.

As someone who does play, I agree completely. They will not do this.

Of course, when they never do, people will simply forget about this thread and never call the OP on it. Win-win for them, it seems...

 

[Stevedave00]

Never. I imagine most of their fanbase would complain about this as it would ruin their game.

Well I don't play Wow so I'm probably not the best person to ask, but I imagine this is what would happen.

As someone who does play, I agree completely. They will not do this.

Of course, when they never do, people will simply forget about this thread and never call the OP on it. Win-win for them, it seems...

No,no I'm a shameless self promoter.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Never. I imagine most of their fanbase would complain about this as it would ruin their game.

Well I don't play Wow so I'm probably not the best person to ask, but I imagine this is what would happen.

As someone who does play, I agree completely. They will not do this.

Of course, when they never do, people will simply forget about this thread and never call the OP on it. Win-win for them, it seems...

No,no I'm a shameless self promoter.

A masochist, then?

Incidentally, did anything prompt this calling out?

Oh, never mind. The faction change thing. A doomsayer, then.

 

[Amnestic]

Hey guys is this where we all jump up around the Slippery Slope fallacy and huddle inside our Conspiracy Theorist tents while clutching our tinfoil hats and complaining about how a business wants to make money?


Edit because I actually read a few posts:

But people already buy gold from third party sources - why not cash in on the exchange as the first party? I read somewhere that MMO transactions concerning in-game material (including gold exchanges) were a 1-2 billion dollar industry in China alone. I would imagine it's larger on an international scale, if not just as large. That's a at least several hundred million blizzard could be cashing in right now.

That you would even suggest such a thing shows how little you know about WoW's Economy. This isn't EVE Online. It doesn't have a dynamic player driven economy. WoW players are selfish, entitled assholes who will do anything to get ahead of their fellow player (Yes, I am a WoW player. Yogg-Saron's a wanker.) and if that means buying gold from Blizzard: So be it.

In but a few days the market inflation would be through the roof. You would be seeing Eternal Fires for 500g just because that's what people would pay for them because they have that much disposable income now.

Blizzard put in gold sinks like the Traveller's Tundra Mammoth, Epic flying skill, repair bills and the Mechano-hog materials as a way of helping to curtail mass inflation. Them selling gold would directly go against their own principles.

Think, then speak.

 

[Stevedave00]

Never. I imagine most of their fanbase would complain about this as it would ruin their game.

Well I don't play Wow so I'm probably not the best person to ask, but I imagine this is what would happen.

As someone who does play, I agree completely. They will not do this.

Of course, when they never do, people will simply forget about this thread and never call the OP on it. Win-win for them, it seems...

No,no I'm a shameless self promoter.

A masochist, then?

Incidentally, did anything prompt this calling out?

Oh, never mind. The faction change thing. A doomsayer, then.

No,No Just a good memory.
Back when i used to play Many wanted a "Quest completion tracker" And the response then was "No, We have nothing to track that".
With how very little the game has changed sense then i really don't think they have added anything to that effect yet.

 

[smithy1234]

If it can get profits for Blizzard without causing too much of a controversy believe me, they'll do it.

 

[Stevedave00]

Hey guys is this where we all jump up around the Slippery Slope fallacy and huddle inside our Conspiracy Theorist tents while clutching our tinfoil hats and complaining about how a business wants to make money?


Edit because I actually read a few posts:

But people already buy gold from third party sources - why not cash in on the exchange as the first party? I read somewhere that MMO transactions concerning in-game material (including gold exchanges) were a 1-2 billion dollar industry in China alone. I would imagine it's larger on an international scale, if not just as large. That's a at least several hundred million blizzard could be cashing in right now.

That you would even suggest such a thing shows how little you know about WoW's Economy. This isn't EVE Online. It doesn't have a dynamic player driven economy. WoW players are selfish, entitled assholes who will do anything to get ahead of their fellow player (Yes, I am a WoW player. Yogg-Saron's a wanker.) and if that means buying gold from Blizzard: So be it.

In but a few days the market inflation would be through the roof. You would be seeing Eternal Fires for 500g just because that's what people would pay for them because they have that much disposable income now.

Blizzard put in gold sinks like the Traveller's Tundra Mammoth, Epic flying skill, repair bills and the Mechano-hog materials as a way of helping to curtail mass inflation. Them selling gold would directly go against their own principles.

Think, then speak.

No...

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Nope, The economy of world of warcraft is maintained by blizzard.
Hence the whole "Your banned for buying gold and devaluing WoW's economy" I can't remember the exact terms used however. I think they called it "Exploiting the local economy"

 

[NeutralDrow]

Never. I imagine most of their fanbase would complain about this as it would ruin their game.

Well I don't play Wow so I'm probably not the best person to ask, but I imagine this is what would happen.

As someone who does play, I agree completely. They will not do this.

Of course, when they never do, people will simply forget about this thread and never call the OP on it. Win-win for them, it seems...

No,no I'm a shameless self promoter.

A masochist, then?

Incidentally, did anything prompt this calling out?

Oh, never mind. The faction change thing. A doomsayer, then.

No,No Just a good memory.
Back when i used to play Many wanted a "Quest completion tracker" And the response then was "No, We have nothing to track that".
With how very little the game has changed sense then i really don't think they have added anything to that effect yet.

And what might a "quest completion tracker" be? The quest list?

And if they haven't changed the game much since then, what makes you think they'll make a drastic change in policy and business integrity as gold selling?

I'll only say this once, BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW

On the City of Heroes forums, the standard response is DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! But I've held back. Bad flashbacks to the release of Issue 12...