Gold selling is not even close to being done. Blizzard does not currently have near real time capabilities to adjust the value of the game time tokens; whereas the various gold seller websites make a few small adjustments - and bam; they offer better exchange rates than Blizzard.
People will always migrate to the better exchange rates. Blizzard will NEVER win against gold farmers; not unless they employ hundreds of folks who do nothing but monitor for botting/gold selling and the like. Since Blizzard now has to cater to stock holders who don't worry about anything but profit margins, I don't see them ponying up the $$$$ to hire enough people to maintain a task force sufficient enough to monitor everything (after all - again - everything's about profit margins now).
Instead - they'll rely on warden changes, which as you've seen - can be worked around very easily if you know how it works.
Excuse me, but have you taken the effort to read the posts in this thread?
It's extremely easy for blizzard to manipulate the gold-token ratio. As it has been told before, this operation is not transparent at all. They could create as much tokens as they want to reduce the price, or simply generate gold and artificially increase demand on tokens to increase the price.Real-time capabilities wtf? One person devoting 20 hours a week to it could do every single server in the game.
Your post is wrong in pretty much every thing you talk about. Warden changed can be worked very easily? Orly? Do you even know the amount of work the Buddystaff has to put through every time they change a line in the code? And they haven't even tried to ofuscate anything so far.
You also state that people will always migrate to the better exchange rates. That's plainly false. Only if people perceive the risk-reward relation is adequate, they will turn to buying gold. And with a medium ratio, (I'll use this as an example as we have no way to guess what the gold price for a token will be) , 50k=15 $, how many do you think a gold seller would have to better that offer to get any gold sold? Twice the gold could be a safe enough approach. That's 100k for 15$ selling to the public, which would mean 7-8 $ per 100k if you are selling gold to an intermediary. (Most of us do.)
Assumming you play 24/7, making 1k the hour, and expecting one day for levelling , that makes your return of Investment on the 5th day of full time botting.
Now you can go to the ban reports section. You'll notice how dungeon farming full time is being banned within the first week, with luck. Even traditionally safer methods like MoP party dungeons are being fucked up now. Heck, they are after Bg botting now. Who the fuck cares about regular Bgs? Nobody.No gold in there. Yet, they are investing people in doing so. They must have taken care of the real issue, dungeon farmers and stonecorer's and so, before sending people to check that, shouldn't they?
Taking all this things into account,and in my opinion, at the current situation botting is not worth it at all. Even being unemployed,havng 24/7 to check it, with lots of computers available, cheapest electric power in the world, and living in a 3rd world country, it is not worth it. The token thing will only make the situation far worse.
