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Gold farmers ahoy: BC: Normal flying mounts 1000g, "epic" flying mount 5000g
docminus
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okay, so I don't know how much gold one will earn in BC, but considering how difficult it is for the avarage player to get 800-1000g for an epic horse mount (besides everything else that costs), getting 5000 for the epic flying mount is simply a pre-programming for gold-farmers and gold sales services, something that is heavily battled by blizzard.
do they really think these type of money sinks will help????
unless the calculation is: 2 years in wow, waiting for the expansion, will have given people enough time to accumulate gold they don't know what to do with....
oh well, what can you do.
*shrugs*
do they really think these type of money sinks will help????
unless the calculation is: 2 years in wow, waiting for the expansion, will have given people enough time to accumulate gold they don't know what to do with....
oh well, what can you do.
*shrugs*
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I whole heartedly agree.
When you base a game around coin, when you make it ABOUT coin then not only are you inviting this kind of behavior but you are fascilitating it and almost making a priority.
Anyone who isn't an idiot knows this is a cheap ass attempt to make flying mounts some sort of end game goal but we also know all this is going to encourage.
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So they want me to spend my gold on what? A flying mount for one zone? Umm, no?
Consider my 60 Rogue:
His skills allow for very easy farming of loot and gold, even in PvP zones against those eurofarmers, because it's really sad when they try and fight a monster like myself. But really, I have a lot of gold, but not anywhere near what these new mounts will cost. It can only be seen as a trap laid by Blizzard, to net those hardcore players willing to spend another year at 70 waiting for the next expansion. I'm betting they actually run businesses on the side that sell gold. Would make sense for Blizzard.
i have 2 gold and 4 silver right now....
Considering the normal epic mount also cost a 1000 gold I would say it's very doable. As for the expansion mounts, I wouldn't worry. A typical lvl 70 humanoid drops between 10-60 silvers per kill. That's not counting the cloth drops and the randoms green/blues/epics. Blizzard had to increase the amount of gold dropped by mobs, not because of their mounts but because of the skyrocketing repair bills of players in TBC.
i'm guessing he didn't wait to use the usual "chinafarmers".
and according to my beta playing friends (no key and i do enough beta testing at work, thank you very much
), gold is VERY easy to come by in BC as you level, to such extent that making 3k gold without a single minute spent farming between levels 60 and 70 is very common (that's 3k assuming you don't do unreasonable expenses like buying new gear every 5min)
MMORPG addict since 1995.
Gamer V17 is correct. In leveling to 70 on the beta server, I made about 1500 gold. In addition, at the beginning there will be high demand for items such as motes of water/fire/mana/etc, and their primal counterparts (10x mote = 1 primal). I do think it will take a bit longer to save up 5k gold then 1k, however. Who cares, though. It's all up to the individual. If their pleasure is in grinding gold and working the economy, they'll make enough money to get their mount. If they don't wanna waste time with that and would prefer to just buy their gold so they can pvp/instance grind/etc, then that's cool too. I don't care if someone buys gold, and anybody who does has personal issues they should attempt to resolve.
Also note that there are two different flying mounts, just like regular mounts. One low cost and slow, the other higher cost and fast.
Buying gold is simply a poor excuse for being lazy. I don't have a lot of time to play myself, but I've been able to make/save enough gold to purchase the items I've wanted.
The intended goal for making epic mounts so 'expensive' was to keep them rare. Instead of 'earning' the mount, players, both casual and hardcore, took the lazy route and just bought the gold. You can't blame Blizzard for players being lazy.
Some of you act as if this is something unique to WoW. Gold Farming existed long before WoW was released.
Ico
Oh, cruel fate, to be thusly boned. Ask not for whom the bone bones. It bones for thee.
and, btw, ICOgames, this thread was not about the farming being unique to wow or not, it is (was) about opening up to even more farmers.