xwozone
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i was checking reddit, seen this and wondered what you guys thought... he does have a point...
I remember Diablo 2 days when they did 100,000+ banned accounts for chest hack and map hack Pindlebots and such as that. THAT was a banwave...
WoW Token Price set at 30,000 gold : woweconomy
I get your point, but also consider that gold bot-farmers are almost always financed via stolen credit cards or hacked accounts. For every month of subscription that a bot buys via the auction house, that's one less fraudulent credit card billing, and one less issue that WoW CS has to deal with.
Nobody is going to be able to stop bot-farmers from selling gold for real money, but now that there is a white market for gold buying and subscription buying, pinpointing the illegal market is going to be much, much easier. I wouldn't be surprised if Blizzard followed up the launch of the token with a big ol' RMT banwave.
So it's kind of a win-win-win-win-win scenario.
Players win because they can buy gold without getting banned, albeit with a premium.
Players win because they can buy subscription without getting banned, albeit with a premium.
Blizzard wins because every token they sell is an extra $5 in revenue.
Blizzard also wins because gold farmers will likely not use stolen credit cards to finance the bot accounts, and even if they do get banned, they do not have to be refunded, unlike a credit card chargeback.
The botters kind of win because now they don't have to steal CC info to finance bots, they can finance themselves. So I do agree that the tokens might cause an influx of bots due to the above fact, but since the frequency of RMT's is going to crash hard, they'll be easier to pick out from the crowd. It's also why I think Blizzard is going to pull a big banwave very, very soon.
I remember Diablo 2 days when they did 100,000+ banned accounts for chest hack and map hack Pindlebots and such as that. THAT was a banwave...
WoW Token Price set at 30,000 gold : woweconomy
I get your point, but also consider that gold bot-farmers are almost always financed via stolen credit cards or hacked accounts. For every month of subscription that a bot buys via the auction house, that's one less fraudulent credit card billing, and one less issue that WoW CS has to deal with.
Nobody is going to be able to stop bot-farmers from selling gold for real money, but now that there is a white market for gold buying and subscription buying, pinpointing the illegal market is going to be much, much easier. I wouldn't be surprised if Blizzard followed up the launch of the token with a big ol' RMT banwave.
So it's kind of a win-win-win-win-win scenario.
Players win because they can buy gold without getting banned, albeit with a premium.
Players win because they can buy subscription without getting banned, albeit with a premium.
Blizzard wins because every token they sell is an extra $5 in revenue.
Blizzard also wins because gold farmers will likely not use stolen credit cards to finance the bot accounts, and even if they do get banned, they do not have to be refunded, unlike a credit card chargeback.
The botters kind of win because now they don't have to steal CC info to finance bots, they can finance themselves. So I do agree that the tokens might cause an influx of bots due to the above fact, but since the frequency of RMT's is going to crash hard, they'll be easier to pick out from the crowd. It's also why I think Blizzard is going to pull a big banwave very, very soon.
