The reason gold buying should be allowed

i am a fan of gold buying myself and think it should be legal for all!
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A Letter to Blizzard:

The business of gold trading and other types of Real Money Trading (RMT) are often frowned upon by both game developers and the player base. The idea is that gold selling would hurt the server economy and players don't have to earn the gold. This, however, is not the case.

Currently, the money sinks in this game are much more costly than anyone can make through leveling. It will cost a new player 7,500 gold to be able to ride all of their mounts. Many players, especially those who are casual, might never even get enough gold to get their epic flyer. How can you expect someone who only plays a few hours each week to spend them all doing dailies?

The server economies would be HELPED by gold trading. One of the biggest things that have happened in Wrath of the Lich King is the rise of undercutting on the Auction House. This drops many items well below what they are normally worth. For example, on a Saturday at prime time, a Scarlet Ruby might be selling for 55 gold. On a weekday early in the afternoon, the same exact item might be selling for 95 gold. This is because players often choose to undercut by large amounts in order to have their items sell fast. This devalues the work of every profession, making it harder to make gold. On smaller servers, this would have a larger effect than on the high population servers. The prices on these low population servers are normally rock bottom because it can be hard to find someone willing to buy the item. Gold trading would revitalize the low server population economies. On high population servers, the gold pool is so large that the effect would be small. The inflation would probably be offset by the amount of people who are now able to get their epic flying mounts, which would allow them to farm more effectively. This is good however, as instead of prices being low to undercutting, they will be driven by actual supply and demand.

Gold trading is fun for those involved. Those who have bought gold know how much more fun you can have by buying gold. You get to spend your time doing what you enjoy. Daily Quest areas will still be very popular, due to the fact that they reward more than just gold. The Argent Tournament gives seals for gear and pets, and the Sons of Hodir quests give rep that is used for shoulder enchants and a mammoth mount. Maybe you despise dailies and farming for materials for professions, but you absolutely love raiding. Currently, you have to do one of these things in order to supply yourself enchants, gems, and the gold for repair bills. Most guilds won't allow you to raid unless you optimize all of those, which leaves players out in the cold and sometimes causes them to quit because they're forced to do something that they don't want to do.

The other thing to keep in mind is that if Blizzard made gold trading legal and created a forum to discuss which site were actually legitimate, the number of people being disturbed by ads would drop dramatically.

 

Do you honestly think Blizzard is going too allow this..?
Also at the part

Thats WorldofWarcraft for you...
Blizzard will never allow Gold Trading for Real life money.
I like saving up my gold for something instead of spending Real-Life money on something that is easy as pie...

However I see where you are coming from but seriously..Blizzard would never allow legal Gold Trading.

 

7,500 gold to ride all your mounts, I have nearly 10k gold and have yet to buy epic flying.

Why?

Why bother? I can fly 300 feet in 5 seconds with my mount now, why bother making it 3 seconds.

Buying unnecessary things isn't a good reason to think buying gold is okay.

Through leveling you make enough (or close to it) to Dual Spec, get regular flying mounts, and repair gear. Anything other than that is just spoiling yourself.

 

You see, this is my opinion on what Blizzard should do.

THEY, should have a gold buying shop on there website. Make the prices high, $15+ for 1k gold. They will make ALOT more money, ban other websites that have them, thats fair

 

While we are at lets remove:
All gathering professions,JC,Dailies,Any mobs that drop mats,all questgivers that give gold.
Sounds good too me.

 

Just keep buying gold who gives a fuck.

 

Gold in WoW is extremely easy to make...

 

But, come 5 years down the road? Everyone has tons and tons of gold and there will be nothing to replace it.

 

In 5 years, tons of players will have quit, and new ones will have joined.

 

No, i'm just saying. If people want to buy gold, they should be allowed, it's there money. So what if they have everything, its there money

 

It will never be legal... WoW would lose the point of game...

 

Blizzard would also consider this question:
What about those people who couldn't afford to buy gold?
The answer is, those people who could purchase gold would gain an unfair advantage over players who couldn't.

We all know Blizz tries to keep the gain fair and balanced for everyone; i.e Dumbing down the game for people who are too stupid to figure out what all the stats do. Make gear and instances easier to do.

Let's face it. Compared to Vanilla, BC and Lich King have turned into WoW for dummies.

 

Are you kidding? Have you even hit 80? Have you ever even hit level 60?

 

TL;DR

No.

 

Overall, like others have said, for the ones that couldn't afford to buy the gold would be disadvantaged compared to other players that can, thus perhaps lacking in gear at earlier levels while the others are off purchasing blues and epics.

At earlier stages of the game, this will discourage new players and most likely losing them as they get facerolled by someone of a similar class/level in a BG just because they've got muchos better gear >.<

Regarding the money sinks: Its called two gathering professions brah. In most cases, the non-gathering ones (like engineering, blacksmithing, you know the lot) are rarely useful mid-game unless you wanna twink a character out. Just go round collecting herbs and/or ores or skins and you'll be set for all the mounts with a SHITLOAD more to spare.

I wouldn't agree with TBC being dumbed down, but WotLK sure took dumbing down to another level. Naxx was easily done in Northrend blues/greens just as long as you know how to spam more than 4 buttons, and Ulduar was practically the same, it was a walk in the park for most raiding guilds in Naxx epics. Hell that's just a PvE aspect. Wait till you PvP. Depending on what class you play (especially retadins, then again, all hail 3.2), its OMGLOLCRITSAUCE.