World of Warcraft a big hit in China

Im hoping that will eliminate all these damn gold farmers from screwing with the ingame economy so things on the AH are not 1400g when they should be 300g. When people buy gold online from them the result is 1400g for items like Glowing Brightwood Staff, but in all actuallity its a 300g weapon maybe.

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could this be the reason that all of a sudden everything has gone to crap on our server?? the mail lag is outrageous, the instances crash all the time, you never know.. and just out of the blue.. oh hey, we are shutting the server down .. what is up with that??? (they should at least be throwing in a few purple items to the instance when your in the middle of it and it shuts down and you gotta start all over because they rest it!!! )

 

Unfortuately, this will do nothing whatever to stop Gold Farmers. Have you looked at the prices for stuff? Only we in the "Western World" can afford it.

US $30 for 150 Gold. Something like $60 for 500 and on up. Decked out 60 lvl toons for $700!

So the farming WILL continue on our server (and every other US server) as that's where the items and gold have to be in order to deliver it to the ones who will buy it.

The buyers are the real people that we should vent our ire on. I just hope Bliz develops a good way to catch and delete their accounts. It's like anything else, if there is a market for it, someone will supply it.

 

No, because those servers are located in a completely different place (or so I believe) so if all the Chinese servers exploded in awe of my imp's amazing powers no U.S. server would be affected.

As for gold farming, Blizzard needs to start shutting down the sites before it gets completely out of control (which it may already have). Gold farming really messes up MMORPG economy, for example FFXI right now is having a huge problem where items in the AH are selling for millions of gil (gil = name of currency). If Blizzard doesn't start taking action now WoW will be in the same boat.

 

i honestly don't think blizzard cares about the farming...just do a search for wow gold...there are so many...and if some young kid starts wow and needs money..he goes and buys it...and will just play longer... if people are buying the gold...means people are playing the game...they make their money regardless of how people get the cash...

 

What you say I believe may be true, gold farmers will not significantly reduce Blizzard's profits compared to the resources they would need to spend on preventing the selling of gold. I am surprised Blizzard did not follow in SOE's footsteps and offer to auction off characters and gold for real cash since it is such a large market.