WOW game tokens and restrictions

[JohnGabriel]

No matter how many tokens you buy with gold, somebody somewhere had to have paid cash for it. Blizzard got their money for it so from that perspective there is no reason for them to have a limit. The limit must be in place for some other reason, and I cant imagine it would be to stop bots or gold farmers as their accounts don't even last 24 months. I draw a blank.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

The limit must be in place for some other reason, and I cant imagine it would be to stop bots or gold farmers as their accounts don't even last 24 months. I draw a blank.

To further that, I submit that a limit on tokens would be directly antagonistic to the war on gold farmers; more tokens available for purchase = more people buying tokens = more tokens sold for real money = less desire for gold-farmer gold. Unless there's some unannounced dynamic Blizzard isn't talking about, like not enough people are purchasing tokens for sale and they're dumping some on the market as a gold sink. Doesn't really pass the smell test but it's all I can come up with.

[Fat Tire]

Unless there's some unannounced dynamic Blizzard isn't talking about, like not enough people are purchasing tokens for sale and they're dumping some on the market as a gold sink. Doesn't really pass the smell test but it's all I can come up with.

I think you are on to something.

Players earning gold to play the game for free still adds to the game and overall health. People that are paying for their subs are also probably willing to purchase stuff from the in game store and probably wouldn't if the game felt dead.

[Selzmultibox]

The thing is nobody really knows how long the game will last anymore. Blizzard can not sell more than 36 months pr account, and thats a safty system for themselves, be couse one day the game will have to die. Nobody knows if theres 1 or 2 expansions left. If Ligion does not do "very well" I think blizzard is forced to move on.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

The thing is nobody really knows how long the game will last anymore. Blizzard can not sell more than 36 months pr account, and thats a safty system for themselves, be couse one day the game will have to die. Nobody knows if theres 1 or 2 expansions left. If Ligion does not do "very well" I think blizzard is forced to move on.

I would submit Everquest as a counterpoint.

[Fat Tire]

I would submit Everquest as a counterpoint.

+1

UO,runescape,lineage,EQ2+ all still humming along. Some are 20 years old

Warcraft is not going anywhere and will be around for a very long time.