Didn't need the "Period" on the end for emphasis.
What I found really odd was that prior to may 14th the prices seemed to go up and down on a daily basis. Since the ban wave the prices haven't moved at all. It is as if someone in the office decided to suddenly get a tighter grip on the prices.
Edited the "Period"
On the question - if you take a loot at the whole graph since day one - it gives nothing related to real demand/supply market model, so it is just an poorly drawn "artwork" by some intern in the Blizzard's office, trying to look like a real market graph.
In the first days it was linear, then they gave it some slight curves for a week, since the last 2 weeks before the suspensions, the graph was getting to look much better in the curves, but still the amplitudes
(the top and bottom peaks) was completely random and unreasonable.
Anyway, the flatted-out graph since 13th of may bring just 2 variants:
Either they have hardcoded some real-market data into the graph, probably heavy modified - but this seems very unlikely.
Or they simply want to draw some "message" to the community with it.
Are you fucking stupid?
Less botters with tons of gold -> less demand -> price goes down
Next time, pal,
try to read the essence of the whole thread before throwing out-of-context logic here.
with no botters farming boes, there is nothing to spend purchased gold on. less supply.
ofc if i actually believed that this wasnt artificial supply and demand created by blizzard to justify their selling gold. can you imagine for a moment the shit storm that would explode if blizzard actually announced they were going to sell gold, after they banned gold sellers for the last 10 years. hypocrite much?
I would rather wait for Obama administration to announce that they have contacted with Aliens in the past, instead of Blizzard admit their gold-selling business.
If the last happen, the whole Anti "Pay to Win" hoax Blizzard irradiates us with, will collapse!
It has to hurt their economics banning +160K user accounts so I am sure you guys are onto something. I wonder if they are losing any subscription revenue from the ban, I do know this is a way to reduce the pop on their server farms as I am sure that has to be an added opportunity to drop user counts on heavily loaded population servers. I also read someplace that they lost more than 3Mil user accounts over the past 6 months as well as many have not renewed their subscriptions. Has anyone else noticed anything with the realms since big bust and accounts wound up in WoW jail?
The most top realms used to be Full to High, now they appear as High to Medium - In rush hours vs sleeping hours. The same apply with the Medium realms, now they are Low on the off-rush hours, with all the botting accounts removed.
