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Battle.net Accounts Becoming Mandatory For WoW
An anonymous reader tips news that Blizzard will be requiring all World of Warcraft players to use Battle.net accounts to log into the game starting on November 11th. After that time, players who don't switch will be unable to play the game. Some time after the transition is complete, players will be able to "participate in cross-realm chat in World of Warcraft, create real-life friends lists, and communicate across different games." More details on the new Battle.net and what it will do are available in our Blizzcon wrap-up and interviews from August. Naturally, the idea that the new Battle.net is getting closer to deployment has sparked speculation that the StarCraft II beta might come along soon.
I fail at economics as much as you fail at reading comprehension.
The gold on WoW servers appears magically as far as the game is concerned. There is no limit on the amount of gold on a WoW server, in any practical sense.
If you want to get all asinine about it; the gold isn't infinite....it's limited by the storage ability of the WoW servers (which is damn near limitless for all practical purposes). There are open source 'rip-offs' of the WoW servers that are completely functional. You can download them and look at the database structure and consider the limitations of your own hardware....
But yes, the gold is, for all practical intents and purposes, infinite. Same with the supply of monsters. When you kill one, it will respawn. The servers constantly respawn monsters. You will never, ever, kill all of the murlocs - no matter how many you kill, they will always come back. When they come back, they will always have gold and various items.
The supply of gold is infinite. That doesn't mean that players have access to all of it at once. It just means no matter how many times they kill and loot something, they can always kill it again, loot it again, and the WoW universe now has more gold.
I'm guessing you are either a jackass who wanted to argue on the internet or someone who hasn't ever played WoW. Either way, your comment is pretty childish.
I'd argue that the intelligent person is able to recognize WoW for what it is; a game. And act accordingly. Since I've yet to hear a compelling argument for how my cheating negatively impacts anyone else, I have no moral objection to cheating. It's simply a trade off.
Regardless, intelligence says nothing of character or morality. Even if cheating *does* hurt other people, being intelligent doesn't necessarily mean a person wouldn't chose to cheat anyway. Intelligent people can be assholes too.