i doubt he will even recover his initial investment.
while i really disagree with his one-IP plan, most people recover at-least account costs in WOW (it is not hard to recover 8 eur before ban per account, except if your really unlucky or really stupid, that is 60k gold per account only)
100 battlechests, 1500usd
only real cost and its 8 eur if you buy code or even 4 euros if your into giving Blizzard your credit card number/paypall info, i prefer to pay more for code
33-3session hb keys- 2500 usd
this is one time cost, you pay it only first month so if you deprecate cost over a year or two ... its much lower per month
In addition you can buy used keys for cheaper (a bit risky but option if you trust seller) or ask HB team to quote you custom price since after all with 100 licences i am sure they can give you some discount (significantly lower price)
2 computers, average 2500 usd
this really depends on those computers i guess but again one time cost that you can deprecate over several months/years you don't need to pay every month, plus computer hardware has good resell value
electric bill for 30 days ???usd
approx 7.2 euros for every 100w or around 20 euros/month for 1PC/40 euros for 2PCs
this part of equation is quite insignificant i would say
internet bill for 30 days ???
probably around 50 - 80 euros per month total (two separate ISPs) again insignificant compared to WOW batlechests
says he is using his phone's 3g internet to sell the gold? add the phone bill
he has to have phone anyway (as much as any other person in world really has to have it, i mean they don't but everyone has it)
so bill is there anyway he just needs to add costs of extra 3G traffic and if its only trading it means he login's few times per day 2 minutes each - insignificant bandwidth amount/cost
he lives in a third world country where you can make more than minimum wage with one bot? how long will it take you to earn the money for the initial investment.
he said he is already botting on 10 accounts he will probably reinvest money gained that way to expand his bot farm
learned english from movies and video games, does the OP still live at home with moms and dad?
a lot of people (including me) have learned English from English language entertainment like movies and video games and (to less extent) books, just because someone plays video games and watches movies does not mean he is young basement dweller, fun fact: average age of WOW players is around 30 years old.
by the way Frost, did you stop watching movies and playing video games when you moved out from parents home?
what does his gf say about him laying around the house all day starting and stopping bots for hours at a time.
ugh, i would assume normal person would find girlfriend/boyfriend that they are compatible with, but as far as my experience with girls goes,
most of them lay whole day on couch play games on phone, send SMS/FaceBook and watch TV ( i do tend to date younger girls, and they look like their android is glued to their hands)
so why would she mind if he does something similar?
run 100 bots with 5-6 hours maintenance? sorry no. not going to happen. going to take you a month or two just to get half of them leveled up.
it will be MUCH faster if he uses RAF, and considering he is doing 5man groups anyway, no point doing it any other way
so he COULD spin up and get to 85 on all accounts in day or two since bots will be doing more or less same (random dungeons) as they would when grinding setup will be even shared
computer with 30 gigs of ram for under 1500 bucks, not going to happen.
i don't think amount of ram will be main cost if its DDR3 you can get 32GB for less than 300 euros, probably for 300$ if you avoid EU tax somehow/buy directly from USA Amazon for example, his biggest cost will be CPU, as long as he does not give 1'000 $ for CPU he will be (significantly) under $1'500
In poor countries we don't buy "boutique PCs" that look "so cool" and pay twice as much for them as hardware actually costs because motherboard is blue or it has red lights, here we either buy (cheapest) parts and make our own PC, or buy parts and give store extra $10 to make PC from parts instead of us
OP has no clue what he is stepping into. at my most busiest times i was running 8 bots. 8. and it was consuming my whole day keeping track of what was doing what and how long they had been doing it. the days of running gatherbuddy 18 hours a day are over. sorry bro. aint happening.
false, if you know how gathering still works great, doing it 12h/day accounts survive more than a month already, also requires VERY low amount of maintenance but watching bot is still mandatory
subs alone are costing you $1500 a month, doesn't count the electricity and internet.
go get a real job and buy nice things with your paycheck.
while true, as I already said this is only "running" cost (one you have to pay every month) either new accounts or game-cards, i prefer new accounts, cheaper and safer
as he already said real job pays 500 euros/month and he is already making more with botting, botting in poor and rich country is not same.