Good for you. Meanwhile, unlike you, the rest of us who actually have real jobs, making real-world money, and who don't have the 40+ hours/week to spend playing video games in his mother's basement will still reap the benefits. As another poster has stated, I have the skill; I don't have the time for the grind.
I play World of Warcraft as a hobby, averaging about 4 hours a day, maybe more on the weekends if I have nothing better to do. I work a 40+ hour job as a software developer, and I certainly don't live in my parents basement. But you wouldn't know that, since theres a very good chance you've never met me. How unintelligent are you that you can only resort to flawed stereotypes rather than make a point? Honestly it's pretty sad.
You mentioned that you, "have the skill; I don't have the time for the grind." Well skippy, I hate to enlighten you to this but if you don't work for something, then you certainly don't deserve it. If you don't have the one or two hours (and two hours is a long shot) to run an instance, or to do quests, then you don't deserve to get gear or the gold. It doesn't take 40 hours a week worth of effort to afford an epic flying mount (the most expensive item in game), but it does help to get it sooner; if you want it now then you're gonna have to spend a bit more time at it. Once again my point: if you don't put in the time and effort, then you don't deserve the rewards. I can only pity you, you'll never know the fun of finally achieving something you spent a long time working for; instead taking short cuts for instant gratification, frankly it's the same result, but my joy is much sweeter.
One thing gold farming does is exploit a weakness in a games economic system. Which can introduce imbalance through inflation. But this is countered somewhat because NPCs don't participate in the free market and have (generally) fixed pricing. But the price for things you can't buy from an NPC just sky rockets as the gold farming persists. the buying power of your gold will just keep going down as long as it is easy to get. just shell out the price of two months subscription and you are set for a good deal of time on gold, at least for normal in-game purchases.
Not really. The only thing that people would buy off of a vendor of any monetary consequence are mounts. The vast majority of the rest of the money is spent in the Auction Houses, things like Primals, Bind on Equip Epic level items, Rare quality gems, and the like. Now if you introduce more money into the system, through farmers and the like, these prices will also rise, making those of us who don't chose to be pathetic cheaters work a lot harder for these items, and causing some people, whether they like it or not, to purchase more gold to buy said items. Thus the vicious cycle continues.
so that means that if he is earning 30c/hour then he is only collecting like 25 gold coins in an hour. Seems to me if he'd work harder he could make a bit more than that. I don't exactly know how common gold is in WoW, but it seems to me that after a month or so of work, his character would be of sufficient level to be making a lot more money than that.
The thing is, the gold dropped by mobs at level 70 (the current max) is directly related to one's gear. As you level and get better items your repair costs increase, and since dying causes a 10% durability penalty , these costs can get fairly high later on, especially if the character is wearing plate armor.
I found this entire article humorous, the author is trying to romanticize gold farmers. The thing is, they don't do quests, they don't PvP unless absolutely necessary, they just farm one zone 24/7. I will continue feeling nothing but contempt toward anyone who buys gold, who needs to cheat because he or she cant cut it, and I'll feel sorry for these Chinese people, but in the end I'll still gank them in game whenever and wherever I find them.
Honestly, this is disgusting. If you sacrifice the truths of history just so some people wont be offended you have doomed your society, one more sacrificed on the altar of Political Correctness. I very much hope that this never happens here in the United States, I'd like to think that we've got a bit more common sense then our friends across the ocean.
We have enough illiterate, moronic ads from Gold Sellers in WoW thank you very much. I can't seem to go an hour or so without getting a whisper from a level 1 character whose name seems to be a random string of chars saying "hi plz meet you, you buy gold, you buy now! sucky sucky ten dollar!" Obviously the last part is fictional, but I'm irritated. I can't wait to get whispers from idiots in game telling me to spend my money on their shitty product.
The only real change that will come of this is that those guilds who require a certain spec or minimum gear level will be able to check that out without having to take someone's word on it and reduce the chance they'll get burned with a new applicant. People make a lot of fuss over how this is supposedly unfair, but if you're not willing to change your play style and talent build to fit the guild you want to join, why in the world are you bothering to apply?
I gotta' agree completely. We had a druid apply to our guild a while back, he said he was in a Naxx guild pre-TBC and had been raiding since release. Well we all said, "Allright lets give this guy a tryout." On arriving to our Khara run we realized something was fairly wrong, the person was wearing mostly blues/greens +healing gear, which I suppose is better than boomkin gear. But we wondered why he wasn't using some Tier 3 or at the very least some decent AQ40 gear (some of it is still viable), after asking about this, he said it was, (paraphrased)"Because I got the Feral Tier 3 but I don't use it because I'm resto now." I tell you, that was the quickest/gremove I've EVER seen.
Most PUGs wont give a damn IMO, they'll take what they can get. If you're trying to join a hardcore raiding guild then be prepared to spec the way that they want to, thats the way things are done. If you want to spec Moonkin fine by me, play how you want to, but I'm damn sure that I wont send you a/ginvite.
Also this helps the upper guilds as well seeing as people now CANT lie about their gear and spec on an application.
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Good for you. Meanwhile, unlike you, the rest of us who actually have real jobs, making real-world money, and who don't have the 40+ hours/week to spend playing video games in his mother's basement will still reap the benefits. As another poster has stated, I have the skill; I don't have the time for the grind.
I play World of Warcraft as a hobby, averaging about 4 hours a day, maybe more on the weekends if I have nothing better to do. I work a 40+ hour job as a software developer, and I certainly don't live in my parents basement. But you wouldn't know that, since theres a very good chance you've never met me. How unintelligent are you that you can only resort to flawed stereotypes rather than make a point? Honestly it's pretty sad.
You mentioned that you, "have the skill; I don't have the time for the grind." Well skippy, I hate to enlighten you to this but if you don't work for something, then you certainly don't deserve it. If you don't have the one or two hours (and two hours is a long shot) to run an instance, or to do quests, then you don't deserve to get gear or the gold. It doesn't take 40 hours a week worth of effort to afford an epic flying mount (the most expensive item in game), but it does help to get it sooner; if you want it now then you're gonna have to spend a bit more time at it. Once again my point: if you don't put in the time and effort, then you don't deserve the rewards. I can only pity you, you'll never know the fun of finally achieving something you spent a long time working for; instead taking short cuts for instant gratification, frankly it's the same result, but my joy is much sweeter.
They do, check the prices on some servers of Super Healing and Super Mana potions.
One thing gold farming does is exploit a weakness in a games economic system. Which can introduce imbalance through inflation. But this is countered somewhat because NPCs don't participate in the free market and have (generally) fixed pricing. But the price for things you can't buy from an NPC just sky rockets as the gold farming persists. the buying power of your gold will just keep going down as long as it is easy to get. just shell out the price of two months subscription and you are set for a good deal of time on gold, at least for normal in-game purchases. Not really. The only thing that people would buy off of a vendor of any monetary consequence are mounts. The vast majority of the rest of the money is spent in the Auction Houses, things like Primals, Bind on Equip Epic level items, Rare quality gems, and the like. Now if you introduce more money into the system, through farmers and the like, these prices will also rise, making those of us who don't chose to be pathetic cheaters work a lot harder for these items, and causing some people, whether they like it or not, to purchase more gold to buy said items. Thus the vicious cycle continues.
so that means that if he is earning 30c/hour then he is only collecting like 25 gold coins in an hour. Seems to me if he'd work harder he could make a bit more than that. I don't exactly know how common gold is in WoW, but it seems to me that after a month or so of work, his character would be of sufficient level to be making a lot more money than that. The thing is, the gold dropped by mobs at level 70 (the current max) is directly related to one's gear. As you level and get better items your repair costs increase, and since dying causes a 10% durability penalty , these costs can get fairly high later on, especially if the character is wearing plate armor.
I found this entire article humorous, the author is trying to romanticize gold farmers. The thing is, they don't do quests, they don't PvP unless absolutely necessary, they just farm one zone 24/7. I will continue feeling nothing but contempt toward anyone who buys gold, who needs to cheat because he or she cant cut it, and I'll feel sorry for these Chinese people, but in the end I'll still gank them in game whenever and wherever I find them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6517359.stm BBC Article on the same topic, on the same date. Good call there skippy.
Honestly, this is disgusting. If you sacrifice the truths of history just so some people wont be offended you have doomed your society, one more sacrificed on the altar of Political Correctness. I very much hope that this never happens here in the United States, I'd like to think that we've got a bit more common sense then our friends across the ocean.
Gold selling and power-leveling ads? Ah wait, thats already there, blast!
We have enough illiterate, moronic ads from Gold Sellers in WoW thank you very much. I can't seem to go an hour or so without getting a whisper from a level 1 character whose name seems to be a random string of chars saying "hi plz meet you, you buy gold, you buy now! sucky sucky ten dollar!" Obviously the last part is fictional, but I'm irritated. I can't wait to get whispers from idiots in game telling me to spend my money on their shitty product.
He's already on his way if the new Fantastic 4 movie is true.
The only real change that will come of this is that those guilds who require a certain spec or minimum gear level will be able to check that out without having to take someone's word on it and reduce the chance they'll get burned with a new applicant. People make a lot of fuss over how this is supposedly unfair, but if you're not willing to change your play style and talent build to fit the guild you want to join, why in the world are you bothering to apply?
/gremove I've EVER seen.
I gotta' agree completely. We had a druid apply to our guild a while back, he said he was in a Naxx guild pre-TBC and had been raiding since release. Well we all said, "Allright lets give this guy a tryout." On arriving to our Khara run we realized something was fairly wrong, the person was wearing mostly blues/greens +healing gear, which I suppose is better than boomkin gear. But we wondered why he wasn't using some Tier 3 or at the very least some decent AQ40 gear (some of it is still viable), after asking about this, he said it was, (paraphrased)"Because I got the Feral Tier 3 but I don't use it because I'm resto now." I tell you, that was the quickest
Most PUGs wont give a damn IMO, they'll take what they can get. If you're trying to join a hardcore raiding guild then be prepared to spec the way that they want to, thats the way things are done. If you want to spec Moonkin fine by me, play how you want to, but I'm damn sure that I wont send you a /ginvite.
Also this helps the upper guilds as well seeing as people now CANT lie about their gear and spec on an application.
If its a ?? no amount of knowledge of their character will help you kill them unless you've got a group.
For Five-mans and heroics this is true, however for Kharazan and Gruul's lair they are being slowly phased out, probably quicker after the next patch.