tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post4322081664322889089..comments2023-10-25T07:19:08.019-05:00Comments on The Nosy Gamer: The WoW Token Two Weeks LaterNoizyGamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17315716516032999133noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-8187034076174086252015-04-24T05:55:01.099-05:002015-04-24T05:55:01.099-05:00Wait, Blizzard are selling gold? I thought, like P...Wait, Blizzard are selling gold? I thought, like PLEX, this was blizzard selling transferable game time, and no new gold was entering the economy. Inflation is caused by extra money moving in the economy, so any inflation this causes is limited to what people are encouraged to grind that they otherwise wouldn't have.Killfalconnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-35264656508184004772015-04-23T06:33:18.545-05:002015-04-23T06:33:18.545-05:00your missing the entire point, the inflation cause...your missing the entire point, the inflation caused by Wow selling gold will eventually make botting the only viable way to 'earn' gold in the game, The hours required to make enough gold to buy inflated AH priced items become too great for a real player to manage, to the extent that botting becomes the only way to earn significant gold.<br /><br />Unless Wow introduces a bot feature for players, like other MMO's have done, the average player is priced out of the market, leaving only botters or whales left. <br /><br />Wow is shooting their own foot with this one.xyzpflnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-55160783515614153612015-04-22T20:28:15.610-05:002015-04-22T20:28:15.610-05:00CCP isn't fixing the price like some are accus...CCP isn't fixing the price like some are accusing Blizzard of doing. CCP injects confiscated PLEX to do the balancing. People are accusing Blizzard of actually fixing the number. With as opaque as the Blizzard's process is, I don't know how they would prove otherwise.NoizyGamerhttp://nosygamer.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-55845095932128170622015-04-22T13:25:04.802-05:002015-04-22T13:25:04.802-05:00What appears to be happening is that the EU price ...What appears to be happening is that the EU price drift is set at only .5% / hour. At this rate, If the price is "too high" it will take days for the price to drop into the range of whatever equalizes the supply of RMT tokens and the setting of the price for Game Time tokens.<br /><br />It appears that they set the rate of change by selecting the time it takes to change by 1%. It's been as low as 15 minutes on the US servers (near the start, after it peaked) and as slow as 2 hours (Current EU setting.)The Illiteratinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-8506652499630321712015-04-22T11:32:17.609-05:002015-04-22T11:32:17.609-05:00I think the answer to "accuse the game develo...I think the answer to "accuse the game developer of fixing the price" is "Of course they're fixing the price!" At some point, they must fix the price in order to ensure that the RMT tokens in the item shop sell quickly on the market. That's the reason for their existence and the side of the transaction that MUST work.<br /><br />Blizzard can easily do that by setting the Game Time token price based on how many RMT tokens they want to sell. CCP has already admitted they have injected PLEX into the market to stabilize prices.The Illiteratinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-91544534566078447242015-04-22T11:07:27.560-05:002015-04-22T11:07:27.560-05:00hahahhahahWigglesGRNhttp://totaleve.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-1504530391664264692015-04-22T10:43:40.146-05:002015-04-22T10:43:40.146-05:00pass on that ... i guess the US has more disposabl...pass on that ... i guess the US has more disposable income to spend on game time for gold etc?WigglesGRNhttp://totaleve.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-89886799436155322662015-04-22T10:30:49.855-05:002015-04-22T10:30:49.855-05:00that i know and im trying to factor that across to...that i know and im trying to factor that across to people on reddit but sadly its not known, could Blizz have set the price at £12/€€€1`15WigglesGRNhttp://totaleve.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-72193741246525318692015-04-22T10:27:22.621-05:002015-04-22T10:27:22.621-05:00From the poking around I've done through the y...From the poking around I've done through the years, those in the EU were always willing to pay more for RMT gold than those in the States. But since I don't play WoW, I never pursued it.NoizyGamerhttp://nosygamer.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-76320233667282450652015-04-22T10:25:35.308-05:002015-04-22T10:25:35.308-05:00Great read as always on RMT stuff, there seems to ...Great read as always on RMT stuff, there seems to be a lot of people in the EU wondering why the price was set at £15/€20 and a higher starting price of 35k gold. Im sure this was due to blizz doing there homework and checking around what the illicit RMT sites are charging and factoring that in.WigglesGRNhttp://totaleve.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-72347252856502243862015-04-22T10:11:54.769-05:002015-04-22T10:11:54.769-05:00I think it's completely appropriate to conclud...I think it's completely appropriate to conclude that the illicit gold sellers are being ground up by this. Of course, there is no way to determine how badly until they either go belly up or stabilize their price at some equilibrium point.<br /><br />Blizzard, on the other hand, has an enormous war chest at their disposal in that they can adjust the rules and set the price of the Game Time tokens to whatever they want simply by detaching the link from the RMT tokens in the item shop and the Game Time tokens in the AH, and that's assuming they haven't already done so.The Illiteratinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-49298247927651731772015-04-22T09:57:27.669-05:002015-04-22T09:57:27.669-05:00I don't know that CCP had such a strategy in m...I don't know that CCP had such a strategy in mind when they created PLEX in 2008, but they definitely created PLEX to combat RMT. I can say that Darius JOHNSON, when he was working at CCP as CCP Sreegs, openly stated at Fanfest 2011 that his strategy in combating RMT was to make selling ISK as unprofitable as possible.NoizyGamerhttp://nosygamer.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-71564354176525436152015-04-22T07:35:13.507-05:002015-04-22T07:35:13.507-05:00Noizy,
Do you think your top down, bottom up, get...Noizy,<br /><br />Do you think your top down, bottom up, get out analyses reveal a conscious strategy choice by those companies that are utilizing it. To clarify using Eve, do you think CCP was aware that introducing Plex would be a major step in a comprehensive antibotting strategy that also happened to hand them another income stream or, rather, do you suspect that the entire approach ‘gelled’ together after the fact when, one step at a time, CCP stumbled across a surprisingly effective comprehensive strategy?<br /><br />I don’t intend this question as convoluted method of diminishing CCP’s ability since recognizing serendipity when presented is no small skill, rather I’m curious when you started to see the coherent pattern emerging.DireNecessitynoreply@blogger.com