I would think 100k bot accounts out of the picture would make gold prices shoot up like they have in the past, but I guess the stock was so huge that it hasn't effected it too much. That and the wow token
Indeed this is not how the gold business operate nowadays because:I would think 100k bot accounts out of the picture would make gold prices shoot up like they have in the past, but I guess the stock was so huge that it hasn't effected it too much. That and the wow token
Biggest factor when considering gold price is demand.
Now, there is simply 0 demand. lowest activity in 8 years, logging 1 hour a day gives you over 5k due to the garrison, plus Wow oficially selling gold. Dupes? Those were a thing in the past, yet I don't think there are actual dupes. At least I haven't got any info on them, lol.
LOL at hacking as one of the main sources of gold selling . This ain't 2006, brother. People no longer fall for stupid phising attempts. When you wrote that I read it as if it was written in blue.
If I were to buy gold for my RIP main account, and I'm a long-time multibotter, I would do it through the Wow token. Probably you would too, if you cared about the account. That's the main reason.
Gold market companies are trying to maintain gold price at a false high value to make even. Many of them are considering switching games. FFXIV is bursting with player activity, is better than wow (that's what everyone I know that plays/played both says) and is more lenient with botting. And they do updates every month-2 months. Not 9 months . Also Diablo 3 activity is up even though is in a content drought, probably soon there will be an announcement of a new expansion.
PoE, World of Tanks, SWtor, there are many options with a decent gold market. GW2 is gonna launch an expansion soon, and that will bring many players back.
Too many options to still devote to WoW at this point. Several of the well known-highest repped resellers I know are out of bussiness now, and planning a switch. I've heard the same of the biggest asian companies.
Blizzard might have been succesful in destroying the 3rd party gold market. But in doing so, they also destroyed a big chunk of their in-game activity and economy. We'll never heard it from them, but they will /are regretting it even now.
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The Chinese's gold is coming from resellers and from hacking too.
For clarification, this is what I was referring to about hacking and "blue" text.
@Retardman, Well, if anyone in here knew how to succesfully dupe gold or anything, would that person be reading this forum or asking for a Daikiri to an amazing beauty on his yacht?
having an infinite amount of resource that can be traded, at any given price, for real money, will make anyone a rich man. That's until they get your bones in jail, if they do.
how a level 1 with 0 achieves on his account has 8 swift tigers / regular tigers / and tiger cubs on the AH *cough* shoutout to Yangbrothers on Sargeras RIP
I don't know, but one can guess. I would hate to bring Ockham's Razor to the table, even when it makes sense. So, I won't.
There was (still is, I suppose) a strong market for TCG mounts online and offline. There were people who made lots of money reselling those. And , if I had 10 tiger mounts due to cards, considering they apparently don't get bound until you learn it, what would be the issue in creating a low level in a different realm and putting them for sale?
I might be wrong as I never entered the mount metagame. There was a dupe ( or so I was told) a long time ago, but they handled it. But, considering these people who resell mounts still exists, why wouldn't they set several of them for sale if that's their business?
Also, I wouldn't trust every dupe scam and fake screenshot out there asking for a small charge on your Credit Card to show you how to dupe. Just saying.