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LOL @ "gold-seller" ads on official WoW forums...
Anthony3187
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So today I got on the wow forums to see if anything interesting was going on.... and I notice the bright gold selling advertisement banners on the forums...... They were only there for awhile and I haven't seen them since.. but pretty hilarious still.
Anyway checkout these screenshots for proof.
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LAWL !
That's **epic** Fail !
LOL!
I also can't believe people still make posts on those lame forums about Molten Core. Seriously, WTF? MClawl.
A blue even responded to someone who posted about it. Basically said " yeah, it was a major mistake. Blizzard never has, and never will support gold buying. the problem has been fixed".
I'm totally against gold-buying.. but you gotta admire the balls of the gold-selling company to buy advertisment space on the official forums. My guess is the lawyers are Blizzard are going to go after them hard now.
In this case - I'd say it's the middle man to be blamed for being negligent.
(Middle man = advertisement agency)
1. gold selling company put ad to this agency
2. blizzard strikes a deal w/ this agency to put some sort of 'ad feeding'
3. the ad-feeding algorithm may not be smart enough, and thus the embarassment
I don't know if anyone has visited wowmine.com, but they have an interesting statistics for each realm/faction which gives the average amount of gold a player buys. For my ex realm it was 3000g, which seems the average average.
Paying a monthly fee for a game is dated now, most of the models look towards item shop games. The western market is "slowly" warming to the idea. Pretty soon the majority of games will be subscription free, but with added extras at a nominal fee.
Unless a game is designed from the ground up with a stable economy there is little that can be done. EvE online has this philosphy and is doing rather well thank you.
It still makes me boggle in amazement when someone pays REAL money for nothing (which a virtual item essentially is).
Oh and it also makes it easier to evade tax when games have item shops, because of the smaller mounts involved.
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/MMORPG
You are a little nieve if you believe the statistics from a gold-selling site.
1. They inflate the number to make you think it is safer than it is. " Look, we've sold 10 billion gold on your server, nobody gets caught"
2. The inflate the number to make you feel like you are behind. " You have to buy gold to keep up with everyone else who is buying it".
Gold is basically worthless in the game any more. The real 'currencies' of the game are things that are bop. Arena ratings, emblems, stonekeeper shards, honor, marks, reputations etc.
You could very easily do a little poll on this forum and ask " what are the next couple thinks you are looking forward to acquiring".. and I bet the items would all have a 'bop' type requirement and the gold component would be negligable. Once you get epic flying, the only gold-purchasable things are mostly cosmetic.
Another easy test. Go to the AH and sort things by cost, and put the most expensive things on top? The most expensive things aren't very expensive. 1200gp for a chopper perhaps?
It will never fly in the west. If ever it would have, it would have done so a very long time ago. I will write it down to culture differences.
We are always going to go by the XX/month model with few exceptions.
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Well to anyone who is mildly familiar with how ads work this is obviously not blizzard fault, if a specialized ad company buys the space they will use something like googleadsense and put up an advert depending on the type of content you are seeing, this is not controlled by blizzard directly, there was a list around of "banned" sources you could ask your ad company not to display but the list is so big and there are so many ways around it its virtually impossible to just block all gold selling ads, you can regulate them but only after they have been shown.
That is true... but also it was just a nice funny coincidence to see the gold ads on the official forums..
something like that was bound to happen sooner or alter after blizzard started displaying ads on their forum..
anyone notice the massive across the board nerfs to difficulty after activision started calling the shots this summer after the merger? They really are trying to milk wow for all it's worth these days.. just look at all the COD and Guitar Hero games they are releasing now to try to rake in as much money as possible... though it will just make these games die out faster... including WoW imo
It will never fly in the west. If ever it would have, it would have done so a very long time ago. I will write it down to culture differences.
We are always going to go by the XX/month model with few exceptions.
*looks money from wow loot card he sold on ebay*
Really now? Very long time ago.....don't suppose about 2 years ago when the WoW TCG came out counts? Only difference between that and a normal cash shop is you have a "chance" to get some fluff item instead of a sure thing. (and you get a fairly entertaining card game if that interests you but mostly it's for spectral tigers)