wow Bliz needs to open their eyes
I am glad these guys are willing to fight, and if you really want the honest truth about in game econ. You could ask any casual botter that has been around for a very long time to see the tides change. When they mass banned those accounts years ago. Product prices shot up so much because very few people actually spent the time to farm.
You would see, Copper Ore which is outside of every major city almost 10yrds away selling for over 5-10g a piece. No want wants to farm, they rather level other toons, sit in the cities and talk to their buddies, raid. With the actual increased difficulty in obtaining the mats (fighting 3 out of 4 times you wanna loot a node, plus 2-3npcs it's just stressful, not worth it)
If bliz gets their way, (which I hope they don't, cause I do bot but I also actually play the game) they will just break their own econ until another bot program comes out. Not only that, but on a lot of servers 'buy me gold spam' decreased. Because everyone and their mother bots.
Bliz really needs to open their eyes and realize people will not play a game without a stable econ(which bots provide; this is why most competition bliz has fails rather quickly), and new players won't stick around because it takes them 2 weeks to earn enough coin to buy a band aid for their character.
Blizzard also needs to realize most of their long term players that were there in Van bot. Bots bring in the utopia of wow(prosperity for the server, bountiful lootz, gold for all). I really do not want to see this program brought down.
It is the best out there, SO GO GET EM BL!
Btw I have never sold gold I never will, any coin I come across I use to help new players(which keeps them subscribed - cause of the few nice players there are!), friends, and family. So plz shove that in their face, we aren't all out there making money off their game.