This is your daily reminder that this has been happening all of DF because botters found farm spots of 1.4mill gold per day per character in Burning Steppes and Silithus. Only the Steppes one has been fixed and it's been ongoing since DF pre patch.
Classic exists in a very strange state gold-wise. One of the most inflated WoW economies I've ever seen given that nothing really existed to inflate gold - no garrison, no 4x4 mega-farms. Just sheer raw botting power - the "gliding through the floor" type opening chests and pickpocketing in dungeons, or the dumb open-world type you see every so often, or the automated raid and dungeon farms. But some will still point and say "Well, I just do dailies".I'm in a guild that is opening Shadowmourne bids already, and they're well over a million. A million gold. Maybe that's not even close comparatively to that 200k Gressil that sold, but it goes to show how out of control RMT still is. The WoW token's price isn't going up in Classic, imo, because people buying gold seem confident enough to buy it cheaper from third parties. The punishment is light if any at all.
Seems like its time for Blizz to stop letting the free market determine the price of the token and set a manual range for it.
You know I'll admit I kinda respect those who still farm gold cause man i dont think i can ever go back.
Who controls the Prices`?
This will happen as long as wow token stays as the base bnet balance revenue.Blizzard moving their games to "F2P" MTX hell like OW2, D4 (every week a new shop refresh), D Immoral and also Blizzcon tickets, etc. will just make the price go up and up and up as they increase the price of everything on many regions (base edition of D4 is a really expensive game outside of US). This all started the moment they announced the release date (and the condition to be able to play the closed beta) of D4. It went from the ~150k range to 230k over the night. And every week or month that Blizzard refreshes the WoW shop, D4 shop, OW2 shop, sells tickets, etc. it goes up and up.Just watch what will probably happen when they announce the next xpac and start the pre-order at Blizzcon.Even with all the RMT/bots that shows us how "meaningful" those "130k accounts banned" posts from Blizzard are for Classic, since you can't use that token for anything outside of WoW Classic, the price stays stable and somewhat "low".People still thinking that DF somehow has less players than SL (the all time low), thinking that lowering the demand means price increases (and not the opposite) are just trying to grasp at anything that may give an argument over moving back to one of the worst times of retail WoW (Legion/BFA/SL).
as a proud long boy owner ( bought it with my own gold not like carries like asmongold and the like that gets carried even to get a long boy )id say long boy should make a comebackonly long boy can save us now .
Another major factor is the severe drop in most commodity values due to region-wide auction house pools, as well as scarce local crafting order activity on less active realms. It's unfortunate because, despite its flaws, Dragonflight did more for the profession system than any previous expansion with the intention of reviving the 'craft' in 'Warcraft'.
