WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-Up: Developer Q&A plus Free Weekend Returning Player Resource!

Posted 2019/03/23 at 3:07 PM by Gumdrops

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What are your thoughts on gold as a currency in WoW today? Are you happy with the cost of repairs and the gold gained from completing quests? And what are your thoughts on the prevalence of players offering services in exchange for gold?

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Engadget's 'Gold Capped'Reddit/r/woweconomy subredditCommunity ResourcesDiscordlaunched an official Discord serverStudenAlbatroz for finding groups to farm withReckles aka WTBGold's serverThe Undermine JournalMonelite OreTradeSkillMasterWoW Token InfoTradeSkillMasterAuctionatorLootAppraiserLootAppraiserChallengeAltoholicHave you returned to the game this weekend? If so, when was the last time you played? What you would you advise someone to do to get involved in gold-making for the first time?Further Reading/r/woweconomy subredditDiscord serverstreaming live on Twitch@GumdropsEU

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Comment by IncandioGood to see Altoholic mentioned, but it’s a bit of a buggy mess as it hasn’t been updated since September and the addon author seems to be on an extended break of some sort.

Regarding selling services, I’m against it personally. Now when I see someone with a mythic mount I don’t think “You’re a skilled player.” I just think “Most likely you bought that mount.” I’m also against gearing up through paid services. It’s just pay2win. Anyone who can afford to buy a few tokens can get achievements, gear, titles and mounts. I think it’s better those things are earned through player skill and organisation. I mean, imagine what someone might feel if they did struggle to get those achievements, when they see paid for services in trade.Comment by Pyromonger1978Boosting detroyed the game, its social aspect, aswell as economy wise.

We used to talk and form grps in tradechat, nowdays on a medium+ server 24/7 there are boosters advertising.

Just look at the current player base, its low ... really low.

Blizzard... restore the game to original social standards plz, and another thing... how you gonna prevent all of this in classic.Comment by ticks187how you gonna prevent all of this in classic.Comment by 1961889His attendions should be focused on BOTS in game - they broke economy and cause inflation and the problem is they dont ban them.Comment by Fixi@Ion:
"Right now, the state of the economy is something the developers are happy with."

Well that sums it up. So the incredible fun of a thriving economy from Legion was a "developer mistake" and now that mission boards are gold sinks - and nobody does them - they are happy.

Cool to make content people don't play due to lack of rewards fit for the effort (mission boards, world quests, islands, warfronts) and also cripple professions horribly bad... and be happy. "Fun detected, problem remedied." Carry on.

@Incandio:
" I’m also against gearing up through paid services"

Well you are basically saying you are only "for" a system that would 100% result in the death of the game completely. They need to make money somehow, and selling services/tokens(gold) is the primary way to do it.Comment by MuffpotterI've never been a fan of paying for runs with gold. I can kinda understand if you want to equip an alt or catchup to your friends so you might wanna buy a safe +10 or something, but to pay "for the experience" is just idiotic. If you want to see the fight, go watch a youtube video. You are not experiencing the raid unless you are actually progressing it with a fixed group of people. I could have just bought my Curve for 100k, but I didn't because what would be the point of that?Comment by JavaiI tought of buying one to get the bird mount from Antorus curve but ended up not buying afraid of scams. I couldnt care less about the raid but I liked the mount.
These kind of rewards are pure carrots to promote boosting imo.Comment by DebrashaviNice article gumpdrops. Would like to hear more from Blizzard about the flattening of the economy and the auction house. The construct of supply and demand is deteriorating. Casual guilds are stagnate or waning and more players are looking their for raiding essentials on the AH. With the AH cut increase to posting to deter singles, sellers are understandably posting in larger stacks.Comment by kodora1316Do you sell services in-game? Do you buy services in-game? What would you like to see introduced to connect those two entities?OnlyonlyComment by AnimeLeechso long as blizz keeps releasing "time limited" rewards there will be a market for this. if they don't want it to exist, STOP TAKING AWAY CONTENT!

imagine how dead this game would be if blizz removed ashes of alar, invinceable, onyxia mount, etc all because "oLd CoNtEnt". how many people have you seen riding the original amani war bear? being able to go back to do something that was out of reach when it was current is what has kept this game alive all these years! a lot of us stay subbed just to be able to farm things we never got that we still desire. Mogs, mounts, pets, titles, achieves etc.

the only time they nailed the idea perfectly was with Ulduar's achievement "herald of the titans". which afaik still works to this very day! if you want the title, you roll a new toon to 80, gear him up with gear exclusive to the raid or same ilvl, and defeat the bosses needed for your reward. it's perfect. still has some sense of difficulty, requires community, and is fun! and yet this idea is only implemented ONCE in the entire freaking game.

they need to bring this back for ALL OLD CHALLENGE MODES, MAGE TOWER, AND ALL THE MOUNTS/TITLES/PETS/GEAR THEY REMOVED FROM THE GAME like plagued proto-drake or garrosh's BoE's. this way people don't feel rushed and don't shell out hundreds of thousands of gold to pay someone for the carry. we have communities and discord groups dedicated to helping people with achieves like this. it would foster community, and do away with paid services.

how is this so freaking hard to understand?Comment by SperaticHis attendions should be focused on BOTS in game - they broke economy and cause inflation and the problem is they dont ban them.