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Murrdurr
I do not like this idea at all
Post by
Baryetarir
I actually think it's a pretty good idea, in Theory it sounds good anyway, but what about actually applying it to the game, have you had like a trial period or something just to test it out?
Post by
Magician22773
Look, Im going to give you credit for a well written and (at least in your mind), a well thought out idea.
However, at least from my point of view, I don't think it would work for a few reasons.
1. I don't think you would get enough people involved to ever get it off the ground.
2. The prices in the AH are not directly related to gold buying or selling. The inflated AH prices are due to the fact that the player base in WoW has been around quite a while now, and even without being a farmer or an AH player, having tens of thousands of gold is not uncommon.
For example, I have been playing since Vanilla, and I have more than 20k gold across my toons, all have epic flight, CWF were needed, and all the little trinks and toys they want. I rarely ever post auctions or farm. My gold has just gathered over time....maybe an epic BoE here...and the glyph boom,,ect....but by no means is farming, professions, or AHing a major part of my play.
3. Most of the WoW society wants "instant" gratification....if they want to level a profession, or have some gear crafted ect, they want it right then and there. Don't believe me....try and sell something and tell em you will mail it. Most players won't wait an hour for the mail, let alone a day for you to gather up some mats for them.
If you really want to combat gold sellers....get an authenticator, and encourage all your firends and guildmates to have them. Without stolen accounts to feed their supply, gold sellers will go away.
Post by
Badguy
You can help get rid of gold farmers!
Stop being a !@#$ and buying gold, then they have no reason to farm and advertise it!
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TheReal
You can help get rid of gold farmers!
Stop being a !@#$ and buying gold, then they have no reason to farm and advertise it!
Here is what OP
meant to
should have said.
Edit: You can't outfarm them. They have bots gather mats and then dump them on the AH for less than the going price no matter where the lowest price is. When someone not on board with you sees you selling Saronite Ore for 14g/stack in trade, they're going to put it up in the AH for 13.5g. Then the gold farmer takes back manual control of his bot and posts his Saronite Ore for 13g/stack.
Kudos for putting some critical thought into it, but I don't believe your system will work.
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Biosphere
If you're tired of the Gold Farmers spam then Might I suggest a very effective tool to use against them? An addon with 2 very simple and easy to use modules.
Badboy (Removes Gold Farmers spam in Trade and Whisper with an auto report function)
Badboy_Levels (Prevents Characters below a certain level whispering you)
Badboy_CCleaner (Blocks unwanted words from Trade Chat)
Badboy is constantly being updated by the author to combat the Gold Farmers. With the auto report feature the more people that use it the more effective it becomes.
As to the rest of your suggestion, that sure is one helluva lot of work, and then you'd be hurting the small players who don't play a lot and want to do the same thing without having to commit to a guild with rules and regulations. Also, good luck on people being truthful as to whether or not they've purchased Gold/Power leveling services.
But good luck to you with your endeavor.
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Azazel
If people didn't buy gold this wouldn't have been a problem to begin with.
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ElhonnaDS
My problems with this post:
1) The OP starts off with these people take great pride in attacking
us
unfortunate few that decide to buy from these sales people
Meaning that he buys gold, and is now upset that he got hacked. Also, anyone who ever feels that they needed to buy gold has a pretty poor grasp on the economy of WoW, because gold isn't that hard to make- even on low level alts on new severs, it takes only a little farming and AH posting to get rolling to be able to pay for whatever you need.
2) In-game grammar and spelling exams are also conducted for further security.
Blatant racist comments =/= a good way to draw people to supposedly altruistic causes. Hate to break it to you- many people play wow don't have English as a first language, and still are not gold farmers. And, based on the number of spelling mistakes in your own post, you might not pass your own test.
3) One of your major complaints about the gold farmers is that the trade spam is annoying. Then you list 2 paragraphs of trade spam you plan to use. How is that less annoying?
4) I've read the post very carefully, and I cannot, in my mind, see how this is anything better than the Auction House that rips you off. On the AH, real players farm mats and items, and sell them to other players to make gold to play the game. What you are suggesting is that they spend the same time farming, then sell the items through you instead, at whatever low prices you arbitrarily set, and then only get to keep a fraction of the profits. Sounds like you've found a good way to get naive players to do all the work, and let you keep most of the gold. Why would they make more gold, if for the same gathering time invested they sell it for less and then give you a cut for no reason other than you spam trade chat for them?
5) I don't think you quite understand how inflation works in the WoW economy. In a normal economy, people make X dollars a week from a job with a set salary, and as prices go up the buying power of their dollars go down. In the WoW enconomy, as prices go up, every player can take advantage of that to make more gold because every player has access to the products to sell and an easy means by which to sell them- the Auction House. If low level greens and copper ore are priced through the roof, it's because there are alts out there whose main is sitting on a Chopper, a Traveler's Tundra Mammoth and 30k of unneeded gold and doesn't feel like farming for their level 10's professions or gear. This actually benefits new players, who are the ones who are putting most of the low level greens and low level mats on the Auction House. If your low level toon needs to spend 10 gold on a piece of gear, but can easily farm 150 gold worth of copper in an hour, then it's exactly the same as if they pay 20 silver for the gear and can only make 3 gold off the same amount of copper. The thing driving these prices isn't the gold farmers, it's the end-game accumulation of gold now that so many people have very little to spend it on, and still have it coming in from high level dailies and instances.
6) You note that the reason people feel like they "have" to buy gold is that they're lazy or don't have time, and so cannot farm the mats themselves, and would rather spend real money. People who are too lazy/too time-constrained to farm mats are also too lazy/time constrained to farm gold, so it doesn't seem like it will take away many gold seller customers, anyway. If your're trading one in-game commodity for another, you're still trading time-played. Gold sellers make money off of trading time played for money earned IRL.
7) My understanding of your concept falls apart there at the end- help me follow. If you use the excess gold stripped from your members for the work they do to buy items off the AH, how does that not keep the prices the same on the AH?
Also, you say auctions are bought to help characters get the gold they need for whatever reason (the item(s) are typically later sold to vendors as they are not proffession materials and have no use within the system).
What does this even mean? Will you buy random auctions, and then give them the items to make gold with on the AH? Or you will buy items from the AH to vendor? (not sure how that would MAKE you money- not too many people will post an item below what they can vendor it for) I can't get anything from your "Outgoing Funds" that looks anything like a logical plan on how to use the money you are being given by all of the guild members.
TL;DR= If you don't buy gold, you won't get hacked. If you need to buy gold, you have no idea how to play the game in terms of making money. This sounds like a good way for a GM to make himself a lot of gold for very little work off of the backs of players who don't know any better. Scam.
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