Quote Originally Posted by Renwyk View Post
The Real Reason for this policy change:

It’s not because of bots, it’s not because of the rise in solo-player hate, it’s not because of the WoW economy, nor is it because of their desire as developers to create enjoyable solo content without the pressures of multi-boxing benefits.

Plain and simple, it’s for the subs. Their data-analysis team did the math and realized that the sheer amount of players paying for game time and other services with gold is their largest deficit. Too many people are “technically” playing for free. Blizz makes most of its revenue through subs.

Even if every multi-boxer was refunded for every pre-purchased Shadowlands and canceled all our subs, whether we payed real money or not, Blizzard would still come out making more in the long run when new and old players come back for SL launch paying with real $. It’s the same reason why they took action against the Gallywix discord. Too much gold being made. ActiBlizz wants Tokens to be unobtainable to most.

This is why I’m going to continue multi-boxing in spite, and continue paying for game time with gold. I’ll find a way around it without violating ToS.
Talking about things I have no direct knowledge of - so feel free to correct me if I am wrong, but doesnt Blizzard make more cash off of gold players than they do off of paid subs? In order for you to buy a token with gold, someone had to buy that token for real money (and at an inflated rate), then sell it for in game gold? I have never bought tokens, so I could be wrong.