World of Warcraft®

10/10/2011 10:17 AMPosted by Asclepius

You would pay $100 for 2k gold?

Some people would, and therefore gain an advantage in game through real life means. That's the main problem with this, when you boil it down its buying gold, whether its from blizz or not is irrelevant.

10/10/2011 10:19 AMPosted by Auctionshark

EDIT: @Cat. Read my second paragraph of this post for a little more clarification. As well, cards don't guarantee an item. This is guaranteed gold, 100% chance.

You would pay $100 for 2k gold?

Examples are examples. The point still stands, you buy an item for real money, you sell it for gold. Therefore, you're trading real money for gold. That's exactly what it is.

10/10/2011 10:25 AMPosted by Toxarís

Some people would, and therefore gain an advantage in game through real life means. That's the main problem with this, when you boil it down its buying gold, whether its from blizz or not is irrelevant.

trust me when this goes live people will be paying a lot more than 200g for the pet, try 2k to 5k

yes it is. This allows the people who have more disposable income get ahead in the game and that's the whole reason people buy gold. These will sell for thousands of gold on some AHs. This has gone too far and Makes me reconsider this game completely now.

How? 391 / 397 gear is all BoP. Most 378 gear is valor or BoP. There are only a few 378 BoEs, and they already sold for obscene amounts of gold, and undoubtedly some of the people who bought them bought gold illegally to pay for them.

So if someone is going to be dumb enough to pay hundreds of dollars for a companion and auction them.. just to get one piece of 378 gear.... well more power to them. It's self-regulating too, you can't just indefinitely sell the pet. Once the couple of people on your server would will actually pay thousands of gold for a pet are done, the market is tapped, and you can't make any more gold off the pet.

10/10/2011 10:26 AMPosted by Catiany

EDIT: @Cat. Read my second paragraph of this post for a little more clarification. As well, cards don't guarantee an item. This is guaranteed gold, 100% chance.

The card is guaranteed gold. How is it anything but? Not to mention, considering this will be in high supply, would it really be worth much gold?

I think this is more about you being angry that someone will be able to sell something and make some extra G that ALREADY EXISTS IN THE GAME ON THE SERVER IN ANOTHER PERSONS BAG. So, no, it's not gold selling in any way.

10/10/2011 10:26 AMPosted by Catiany

EDIT: @Cat. Read my second paragraph of this post for a little more clarification. As well, cards don't guarantee an item. This is guaranteed gold, 100% chance.

The card is guaranteed gold. How is it anything but? Not to mention, considering this will be in high supply, would it really be worth much gold?

I think this is more about you being angry that someone will be able to sell something and make some extra G that ALREADY EXISTS IN THE GAME ON THE SERVER IN ANOTHER PERSONS BAG. So, no, it's not gold selling in any way.

10/10/2011 10:26 AMPosted by Catiany

EDIT: @Cat. Read my second paragraph of this post for a little more clarification. As well, cards don't guarantee an item. This is guaranteed gold, 100% chance.

The card is guaranteed gold. How is it anything but? Not to mention, considering this will be in high supply, would it really be worth much gold?

I think this is more about you being angry that someone will be able to sell something and make some extra G that ALREADY EXISTS IN THE GAME ON THE SERVER IN ANOTHER PERSONS BAG. So, no, it's not gold selling in any way.

10/10/2011 10:28 AMPosted by Squidchin

Probably more, but that's really not relevant to the actual problem at hand. 200g or 2,000,000g its still easy, sanctioned gold selling.

Here's the key quotation from Blizzard,

"we’re ok with it if some players choose to use the Guardian Cub as a safe and secure way to try to acquire a little extra in-game gold without turning to third-party gold-selling services."

So there's no dancing around it, Blizz is coming right out and saying that if you want to buy gold, buy it from them.

It was only a matter of time before they found a way to cash in on the gold buying business while still technically adhering to their stance on "real" gold buying.

The advantage of having more gold is nonexistent? Are you kidding me? All it takes is one Mr. Moneybags to create a monopoly of herbs, or ores, or leather on the AH to screw everything up. The price of everything would go waaay up, screwing over people who don't buy these items and lower level characters.

It doesn't just apply to gear. Your short sightedness is outstanding. It just takes one person on a smaller server to corner the market on one or more things and keep it that way for a very very very long time.

What "THINGS" exactly? The only thing they can sell are pets. They can't stop me from farming, making potions, running Firelands and getting my own BoEs, etc... what are they somehow going to hold guns to people's heads and make them keep buying companion pets?

Are they going to become the companion mafia?

TCG Loot card mounts like the Spectral Tiger have been BoE for a long time now (since patch 3.2), and that was and continues to be well-received, and as far as we've been able to tell hasn't had any adverse impact to the game or economy - despite them selling for sometimes astronomical amounts of gold.

It’s potentially worth noting that no new gold is being introduced into the game's economy with those mounts or the new Guardian Cub pet.

Our goal with the Guardian Cub is to provide alternative ways for players who don't want to spend real money to add these pets to their collection. Even though this has been available a while now with the TCG mounts, this is obviously a new kind of way to deliver Pet Store pets, and we're definitely interested to hear your feedback and ultimately see how this will play out.