Tradable game time tokens that you can sell to other players for gold

[Manihack]

What do you think about that ??

New Ways to Play
We’re exploring the possibility of giving players a way to buy tradable game-time tokens for the purpose of exchanging them in-game with other players for gold. Our current thought on this is that it would give players a way to use their surplus gold to cover some of their subscription cost, while giving players who might have less play time an option for acquiring gold from other players through a legit and secure system. A few other online games offer a similar option, and players have suggested that they’d be interested in seeing something along those lines in WoW. We agree it could be a good fit for the game, and we look forward to any feedback you have as we continue to look into this feature.

 

[DrDoctor]

Hm, were did you find this post?

 

[capti]

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[DrDoctor]

I would never believe this when i played vanilla lol, 40g was a lot back then. This must be promising for ppl who sell gold then? Depeneds which way blizzard are taking this.

 

[Blackmonkee]

Good idea, though Blizzard is several years behind this innovation.
It gives players who play the game a lot to have a chance to earn their subscription through gold.
It gives players that don't play the game often but are well off financially to have a chance to earn gold through selling paid tokens.

 

[zeldrak]

I like the idea, but I hope it doesn't open any doors later down the line that will turn this game into a "Pay to Win" type game. I've seen tons of private WoW servers that went down the P2W road, and now they're crap if you don't have real money to buy your gear with. As long as they keep the store selling pets, mounts, and cosmetic gear for xmog then I'm OK with the selling of game time tokens for in-game gold. The only downside to this is for people like me. Those with limited game time to make gold, and those who also have limited RL funds to buy subscription time. So, either way, getting game time is hard to come by. Oh well, Blizzard will just let us fall through the gaps I suppose.

 

[rexutin]

Not good, if you bot your gold I bet Blizzard can somehow track where the sold gold is coming from.