Out-of-game currency sellers.Follow

I apologize if this is (terrifyingly enough) already a dead horse, but I'm having a lot of problems finding a true and clear answer to this elsewhere and I'm unable to register for the WoW official forums. Now, as any avid FFXI player can tell you, gil sellers have pretty much ruined the economy in that game beyond repair and I'm absolutely terrified that if I jump ship to WoW, I won't be alone and my good friends such as the *envoys and Zoo* will be joining me as well...

What is Blizzard's official stance on this, and what are they planning on doing if it DOES happen? The most popular MMORPG is inevitably going to get flooded with these currency selling companies...so does Blizzard intend to give them the ole' Heave-ho, or pull a SE and close their eyes while spinning around in circles whistling?

Again, I apologize if this has been asked before (I did scroll through the previous forums, but without a search function I can only accomplish so much :P).

Thanks in advance to anyone who answers this ^^

yea man that is a problem it ruined swg and i hope it doesnt ruin wow

It's really not that easy money wise since the last patch. If you need to use the spirit healer you items durability drops to zero and you need to dish out large amounts of cash to repair it.

One thing I will say though is all good items bind when you equip them (can't give them to someone else) so they will be worthless to people who want to sell them for real money and should keep the price down on money as a whole. Most really good items are bind on pickup.

heehee, kind of hard not to respond when the servers go wonky.

Well, I disagree that currency sellers ruined FFXI. FFXI's screwed up gameplay where groups refused to let you in without uber-loot ruined the game. The currency sellers were the only thing that made it playable. Yes, I did ebay about 1M gil, and no, I'm not ashamed- I have better things to do than spend weeks farming, that isn't fun.

That said, I don't see much risk of gil sellers here. I'm easily making more money than I need, my 21 shaman has all the spells for lvl 20, enough money for 22, and about 50% of level 24s. THe number of nice items retrievable from quests helps immensely. So long as you aren't the type who always insists on the absolute best gear, you'll be fine.

Like you needed to buy it. If you sold your soul and jumped on the armor/buff bandwagon, you could make over a million an hour easily, as much as I'm sad to say.

I just found out when i hit lvl 12 how much money is a issue in wow. I haven't wasted much at all just a few copper on empty vila for alchemy and as of right now I cannot afford but 2 of my spells the rest I will need in the area of 20 silver for. By the time I get that i will be lvl 14 and need the monet for those spells too. Until now I thought I was doing well on money.

What I've found in WoW to keep money in the bank (so I can get the mount at 40) is that it's best to get equipement at intervals of about 10 levels or so, and just replace old stuff with things from drops/quests. Equipment in the early game is not a deciding factor really (at least I don't think so) and I think it's more important to keep the money you would spend on equipment and save it for repairs/reagents/abilities. Best way to make money IMO is to take up one of the tradeskills. Tradeskills in WoW scale nicely with your level if you start early, and aren't as worthless as tradeskills in other games, nor do they cost a bundle to level.

100 gold for $80 sounds reasonable, but that's beta money. I wouldn't dream of spending money on a character that's gonna go bye bye. Right now I'm trying to level each class that interests me to 10 or so so I can get the "Grass is always greener" syndrome out of my system. The first 3 years I played EQ my highest was 33 because I kept constantly making, twinking, and deleting alts. Finally I had to make a promise to myself that I would stick with one class and not make anything new. Then I made it to 63. :)

well ive been playing this game for only like a few weeks (stress test) and iam a 24 warrior...

i have had some promblems with money when i do i just go farm humans for about a HOUR at the asbosulute most!

unlike ff11!!!!! and all the others

little guide
kill differnt enemys and sell there drop whatever one sells best start with that

my 2 cents

always kill humans lvl 3-7 drop linen cloth sells for like 5-10sliver and are very easy and abundent

more humans higher lvl the better they drop soon wool cloth then silk cloth

or do quests, fight things, or do quests

or do first aid make linen into bandades and sell for souble lienen price

fishing sell the fish or turn into food then sell food

basically this game if you think hard enough its very easy to make money YES YOU WILL/ OR MIGHT HAVE TO FARM but! maybe 1hour and your set for all your new equipment :p

The official Blizzard stance is that they own all in game content and you are not allowed to sell it in any way.

However there will be many sellers of gold. Especialy with all of the new money sinks put in the game. Many people will prefer to buy gold in order to get their level 40 horse for sure. I know I had to work very hard with my first char to earn enough for my mount.

I have found that I do not need to farm in the classic sense. I always have a bunch of quests...there seems to be an endless supply of them...and while I am working on those quests I am getting a bunch of good copper and loot.

Also, work on trade skills. I have a miner/smith and a skinner/leatherworker. In both cases, I am now making money from my efforts, especially the smith. Leather you have to buy thread and so it has a cost. At the early levels smithing only requires the ore or stones...free if you take the time to mine. I look for minerals so I get the little indicators on my map and then take quests that require me to travel. I mine and kill along the way. Usually the quest will send me back or to someone else...more killing and mining.

I bought armor on my Pally but have since wished I had not. My smithing is such that I can now make pretty good armor and save my money for spells, etc. Drops are usually pretty good at keeping you equipped too.

As for using spirit callers...don't. Just run and get your bod. That is free and you are right back where you were fighting to begin with. Usually when I die I am questing. I want to be right back where I was when I died. I paid for the repairs on armor for a spirit caller once. Not worth it. You run as a ghost so you are safe, and you can pick a safe spot to resurrect.

Unfortunately...to get to the main topic...I do believe that there will be money sellers with WoW just like the others. People will WANT to have the best gear and biggest fastest mount. Even EQ and SWG...buying money was not about need. You could easily earn and loot enough money to satisfy needs. It was about want...and that will not be any different in this game.

And...I can understand buying money online. If you played EQ for 5 years and found that you needed a bunch of new and uber gear to be able to raid...well, you do it. You invest all of that time only to find that you need to spend major plat for items to keep going. Farming for that amount would be a waste and a drain so you buy 100K and continue to enjoy the game...without concern for the economy. But that is the way it goes. Supply demand, want need. It will be the same with WoW, I can almost guarantee.

- I earned all of my plat though, and intend to earn my own in WoW.

Heh, its pretty hard to camp mobs in this game..seeing as how the mobs that would SEEM like they drop good loot, are for quests. They spawn fast for a reason, they don't drop anything that a non quester would want, and why make someone wait for a quest?

Theres no way to camp soulbound items.