• filister@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I used to play WoW back in the days and am mildly interested in the game development afterwards, but somewhere I read that currently some players are able to buy in game time with their game money, so I presume not everyone is actually paying this price. And their most dedicated hard-core players are probably not paying it either.

    In reality I don’t know how easy it is and probably casual players are mostly paying subscribers but even back then the game was plagued by a lot of micro transactions.

    Additionally we don’t know how much it costs Blizzard to support the servers and run them, as they run a lot of them for sure.

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      3 months ago

      You can buy wow tokens with in-game gold, however the tokens are ‘created’ by someone buying one with real money to sell for in-game gold.

      So all the wow subs purchased with gold were actually paid for by someone else.

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        3 months ago

        And its $20 instead of $15. So its actually MORE money for blizz to buy via in game gold

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      3 months ago

      I haven’t really played mmos since around 2010. But as far as i know, there was always pay for gold and items for sell. It was waay more sketchy though. I played wow and a bunch other when i was a teen. I played with my older sister, and she paid for shit in every game we played. Underground selling had been a thing since the beginning of online games. Btw microtransactions have stolen money from farmers and botters that sold items and gold for profit.